1. Press app icon from home screen.
2. It makes a ringy-dingy noise.
3. It asks to use my location.
4. Regardless of answer, crash.
5. ???
6. Profit!
(Apparently this is because S3 is down. Why does S3 being down crash the app? I thought an S3 outage largely meant “oops no icons” for, like, every app made.)
So here’s a still from Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, the greatest achievement of the human species.
I now have the sexiest paperweight ever! This is so cool. And what’s even better is, I can’t restore it because it just sits there at “Accessing iTunes Store” when I plug the phone in.
K-W-A-L-I-T-E-E.
(Apparently this is a common problem, still, I know enough about capacity planning to do simple math and say, “well jesus fuck, whatever it is the we think is the max, add in 10%, or maybe double it, or whatever”.)
I’m waiting on Boss LB to finish writing some email, so I guess I’ll use the time wisely:
Or not.
“Bug Tracking Systems as Public Spheres” cites numerous examples of … well, bug-tracking systems as public discourse, but somehow manages to completely omit the Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers problem, which is one of the biggest elements of any big open-source project …
(Can I have an “A” in the class now?)
Srsly, AAPL, could you be any more douche-y? No? No. You can’t.
Fix the fucking bug.
Yours,
everyone
“Windows 7” to debut tonight; literally dozens of people are expected to seriously give a shit*. Mostly the ones that love Vista.
Seriously, other than technology pundits and the occasional Windows fanboi, who honestly thinks that somehow a new version of Windows will improve their computing life?
Who, other than technology pundits thinks that yet another moving platform target is the best thing for their lives and their career?
We’ve got the Open Web, Firefox (and friends), and the Next Big Language. Does the operating system really matter when you’re at Sand Hill Road? Do any of those guys even want to seriously fund a big Windows thingee when they could be funding iPhone, Android, or some goofy SMS thing?
Whatever. I guess it matters because they have enough money to buy God. That makes them ‘relevant’.
* not counting the intense masses of punditry who will pretend that what they see tonight will in any way resemble what ships
Here’s a challenge:
On Mac OS X, find a “biff” that doesn’t suck. C’mon. I dare you.
I tried:
I ruled out X Window, that’s too much overhead for a mail checker. Likewise scripting Growl is right out (although it’s probably what I’ll end up doing).
Here’s my use case, to illustrate what I’m thinking, here:
So it became apparent to me that I needed to get really good at JavaScript, so I basically abandoned Mail.app, NetNewsWire, Safari, and the rest of my Happy Mac-Ness for the Open Web (ie, I switched to Firefox and the Mozilla platform). This may sound strange, but I must now write JavaScript every day to make my environment even remotely comfortable (all praise Greasemonkey), so it’s sorta working.
One of the things I’m doing is using webmail. The webmail we use pretty much sucks; it has a timer-based biff but it’s insanely unreliable (it might as well not exist) and for reasons I don’t understand, I can’t get Prism to work; so I have to use a pure Firefox instance to read mail.
So obviously, I’d rather have a nice desktop biff so I only need to log in when I actually have mail, instead of futzing about with leaving it open (since their biff sucks and my attempts to override it merely make their biff suck at an interval I have defined).
The above items are of course the canonical widget platforms for the Mac. A survey of the biff widget universe reveals the following truths:
In short the biff world sucks. Like I said, I’m going to have to write my own, which is just sad. I remember on Linux having a zillion different really great biffs. Is this just one of those weird cultural differences? No one but weirdos like me care about this sort of thing?
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