for some reason that reminds me of Jobs using OpenStep on a Thinkpad when he returned to Apple because he thought their laptops were garbage
maybe a fierce G4 (G5?) hater was on the iPhone team
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Thursday, 27 March 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
I still shed a tear for all those children who were laid off from their jobs in the Motorola factory in 2006. You couldn't meet a stauncher group of PowerPC/OS 9 nationalists.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 27 March 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
good link coming in
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 02:34 (ten years ago) link
http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Windows-Azure/Learn-how-Vesper-built-offline-sync-using-Azure-Mobile-Services-
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
watch it
at least a little
so basically they needed an app cloud service. they don't mention any built-in synching merge tools, so presumably they made their own or used some other off-the-shelf library. from the code shown, it seems like there's minimal platform-specific code going on (it looked like javascript from what I watched) so it remains pretty portable.
IMO they're getting a promo deal backed by the video, and if their app gets large enough that they need to reevaluate their needs they could jump to any other cloud platform in a heartbeat
idk if this is apple dropping the ball on iCloud sync (which they have) as much as people not wanting to be locked in, in case they want multiple platforms for their app.
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
i'm not sure why they chose this really. br3nt s1mmons does leave in seattle.
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
he's the one who knew stuff about azure for some reason i think.
ugh, if you click that link make sure you manually add the "-" to the end of the url or you won't get the video
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
at least i didn't
there are limited app cloud options, really
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
And is a worthy partner for Gruber. Christ, his dev blog is so painful to read I had to unsubscribe. Endless "do my homework for me", obvious mining of dead-ends, NIH all over the place, unsubstantiated resistance to the right solutions and manic over-engineering. Explains a lot about why NNW performance was so awful, and definitely explains the horrific state of its nib files.
― stet, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
lol
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
you've brought actual developers with axes to grind in on this now, markers
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
damn true
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
as I said to someone recently, no one hates software developers more than other developers. and if you don't, then you're probably part of the problem.
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
the funny thing about talking about software dev and vesper is that i actually wrote a notes app for the ti 83 plus back in the day
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
you can store ten strings on it. i stored all the notes as a series of numbers in a matrix instead of storing them in the strings.
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
you convert each number back to a character, and each character back into a number, to go from what's stored to what's displayed. something like that.
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link
p.s. ticalc.org existed long before the app store did
your notes application was probably better implemented than vesper
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Friday, 4 April 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
too bad you can't make a living off writing shit in ti basic
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/pschiller/favorites
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 18 April 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
is it just me or has grubby been a lot more friendly towards micro$hit since his azure coming out video
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 18 April 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
microsoft is pretty clearly doing better work as of late imo
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 April 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
good comp sci for sure
that's always been true
would work at microsoft before google 100%
would never work at apple
― caek, Friday, 18 April 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
Microsoft's got heart, just having fun out there.
― the slow death of America's rich pastoral heritage (silby), Friday, 18 April 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
http://bit.ly/1kJ5hqf
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 16:59 (ten years ago) link
developersdevelopersdevelopersdevelopersDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERSDEVELOPERS
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 April 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
i would be friends with steve ballmer
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.” ….
http://battellemedia.com/archives/2005/09/ballmer_throws_a_chair_at_fing_google.php
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
i hope that really happened
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 17:03 (ten years ago) link
fing_google
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 18 April 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
what the hell that link isn't even working.
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
i am renaming myself to that hoos
― markers, Friday, 18 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Every picture of Steve Ballmer looks like it was taken a few seconds after or before he threw a chair across the room.
― brimstead, Friday, 18 April 2014 18:30 (ten years ago) link
http://instagram.com/p/nJuoFMw5Ew/
― markers, Friday, 25 April 2014 03:54 (ten years ago) link
-happy 18th Birthday, marco's son-thanks mr gruber. you know I love cake!*grubes dramatically launches instagram*-I hope you also love this delicious can of VINTAGE CLAIM CHOWDER!!
― sktsh, Friday, 25 April 2014 07:35 (ten years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, 25 April 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
― purposely lend impetus to my HOOS (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 25 April 2014 17:06 (ten years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/05/16/heathrow-samsung-translation
haha good one
― caek, Saturday, 17 May 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
pass the ginsy winsies
― sktsh, Saturday, 17 May 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
Someday, you’re going to want to be able to say, “I’ve been using Vesper since back when it was only for iPhone.”
― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
lol at UPDATE
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/06/16/buckyball
― caek, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:51 (ten years ago) link
― sktsh, Friday, April 25, 2014 7:35 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think of this post often
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
ha yeah so good
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― sktsh, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link