indefensible: john gruber

heavens

I sometimes lift my cat up and tell him he's a baby

― brunch technician (silby), Monday, April 6, 2015 11:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

I try to make this about fitness by lifting my parents' morbidly obese cat but she just gets angry and is gross

crossfit is really bad

my friend who seems to want this watch the most is in ~advertising~

so my question about WATCH is whether or not it will show the watch face while it idles. every smart watch i've seen so far looks like a dumb black square on a wrist most of the time

it does not show the face is my understanding but rather notices when one points it toward ones damn stupid head and turns itself on

yeah no this is a good thread r.n., it's not like there's an #ilx irc channel somewhere right? (If there is why am I not on it)

― brunch technician (silby), Tuesday, April 7, 2015 1:14 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is an ilx slack! slack is an excellent product.

steve jobs was a good product guy.

ilxor.slack.com i think mh has the invites

the last post was me on feb 10?

also remember when iPods didn't have sudden motion sensors and the hard drives would fail because the read head would smack the platters

Click of death!

― mh, Tuesday, April 7, 2015 5:21 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

man I went through like 5 click of death warranty replacements. Fuckin jobs, I'd think, then I'd shrug and put it back on top of the non-shielded speakers where it lived.

lol

mh invite me to the slack you can figure out my email

i wish to be in the slack thank u

dude you got invited and never responded mr. lag∞n
will message silby

If I can, I'd like to be in the ilx Slack too. I use it for work all the time.

oops the invitation went directly into one of my many folders!

i am on this chat now

Slack me

would luv to slack thank you (cwsmith at gmail I don't think my ilx mail works)

just want to warn u guys we r talking 100% "product" over there

Can somebody give me an update on the slacking

meanwhile over on the thurrott thread it's non stop yammer invite reqs

plz to have a slack invite email in profile

sorry guys I will work on this

plz ilx message me your email address, except for Clay, he will be getting one shortly

Oops...

It looks like you're trying to accept an invitation, but the invitation has been revoked. Sorry!

Contact your team administrator if you think this was done in error.

i reinvited u clay

i made us a special cannel to hang out in and gossip

got the same error

sry guys I unclicked some things I clicked due to some dissension in the ranks but it'll be cool shortly

sorted xp :)

i made us a special cannel to hang out in and gossip

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 7, 2015 11:52 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol how did this take like years to get running, this could be the endgame

this has prompted me to get off my backside and set up slack for a couple of my projects at work. fedoras off to u all

Do I dare

Do I dare

Do I dare read Gruber's review of the APPLE WATCH

5490 words including footnotes

the verges is comically long and strange too

How many of these reviews feel like writers trying to convince themselves that the product is good and not bad

NB I haven't read any of them but I imagine it is all of the reviews

You’re 16. You’re in school. You’re sitting in class. You have a crush on another student — you’ve fallen hard. You can’t stop thinking about them. You suspect the feelings are mutual — but you don’t know. You’re afraid to just come right out and ask, verbally — afraid of the crushing weight of rejection. But you both wear an Apple Watch. So you take a flyer and send a few taps. And you wait. Nothing in response. Dammit. Why are you so stupid? Whoa — a few taps are sent in return, along with a hand-drawn smiley face. You send more taps. You receive more taps back. This is it. You send your heartbeat. It is racing, thumping. Your crush sends their heartbeat back.

You’re flirting. Not through words. Not through speech. Physically flirting, by touch. And you’re not even in the same classroom. Maybe you don’t even go to the same school.

i feel like people are going to be using their watches to send crude drawings of dongs to each other 95% of the time

龜
Posted: April 8, 2015 at 11:55:14 AM
How many of these reviews feel like writers trying to convince themselves that the product is good and not bad

the verges (only skimmed) seems to be trying to make the argument that its simultaneously bad and amazing

is there a cockring version of the watch band

you're 16. you're at home. you have no friends. it's midnight. for some reason you have two apple watches. you put them both on and start tapping

xpost lol

you're 16. you're at home. you have no friends. it's midnight. for some reason you have two apple watches. you put them both on and start tfapping

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 12:07 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark

FTFY

I feel like there are lots of real cool things that can be done with it and these writers are brainstorming so they can look visionary if any of these things stick

Literally the only use I can think of for this thing now is measuring your fap speed

There's a really cool book "authored" by Bill Gates from 1995 or so where there's only passing references made to the usefulness of the internet and they had to print a second edition a year later with all these internet predictions, then they claim it was all in the original book

theres a thinkpiece to be written abt how visionary brainstorming has nothing at all to do with how actual innovation happens

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_%28Bill_Gates_book%29#Content_differences_between_hardback_and_trade_editions

I guess what I'm saying is to aim a little high, you will at least make it on to lists of silliest predictions or w/e and not "this guy reiterated for the millionth time how cool encyclopedias on CD-ROM are"

something to be said about how science fiction writers write about the now but with subtle differences and they're more right than visionaries who think up stupid crap

doubt the hit rate is too high for either

yeah, but science fiction doesn't claim predictive powers, they just gloat when that happens to happen