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I got a silver Pebble Steel about a month ago and I'm completely in love with it. Small, discrete, smart and elegantly designed, it gives me notifications witho

by sundvor 12y ago

I got a silver Pebble Steel about a month ago and I'm completely in love with it. Small, discrete, smart and elegantly designed, it gives me notifications without ever becoming too much. So yes, functionality is limited, but more to the point it is focused. If I want something more I can always just reach for my phone - so I don't have to contend with the overlap. The Pebble allows me to have my Android phone on silent, displaying who's calling without having to pull the phone from my pocket, as well as emails, hangout and sms messages. Oh and by default it displays the time. This is perfect for my usage. As opposed to the new batch of "Gear" products, the epaper display is always on, looks razor sharp, and the battery is fantastic lasting from 5 to 7 days. When my watch gets a low battery warning, I have what must be a full charge of a Gear device remaining!

bignaj 12y ago
Discreet = careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage. Discrete = individually separate and distinct. This one always gets me, especially in a mathy/technical audience that should have seen "discrete" mathematics or photons or something before.
- twic 12y ago
  Maybe he means it looks like this: http://www.jzmic.com/vintage/wp-content/gallery/transistors/img_1717.jpg http://www.jzmic.com/vintage/wp-content/gallery/transistors/... (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_circuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_circuit, see)
  - bignaj 12y ago
    Upvoted for the laugh/nerd-out. Great post :)
- gone35 12y ago
  Homophones with shared etymology are quite rare, though; so it's a reasonable mistake to make. "Discreetion", anyone? Besides, in every other Latin-deriving language there is no such distinction. English is the exception, not the rule --and for rather obtuse reasons, at that [1]: Spellings discrete and nativized discreet co-existed until after c.1600, when discreet became the common word for "careful, prudent," and discrete was maintained in philosophy, medicine, music and other disciplines that remembered Latin and made effort to obey it. [1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=discreet http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=discreet
- sundvor 12y ago
  You are of course completely right; my language sensor tingled, but not enough. Thanks for the heads up, that would be the last time I made that mistake! I'll eat my humble pie now.. I'm a programmer, and, despite the evidence to the contrary, I do value precision of language.

by sundvor 12y ago

bignaj 12y ago

Discreet = careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage. Discrete = individually separate and distinct. This one always gets me, especially in a mathy/technical audience that should have seen "discrete" mathematics or photons or something before.

twic 12y ago
Maybe he means it looks like this: http://www.jzmic.com/vintage/wp-content/gallery/transistors/img_1717.jpg http://www.jzmic.com/vintage/wp-content/gallery/transistors/... (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_circuit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_circuit, see)
- bignaj 12y ago
  Upvoted for the laugh/nerd-out. Great post :)
gone35 12y ago
Homophones with shared etymology are quite rare, though; so it's a reasonable mistake to make. "Discreetion", anyone? Besides, in every other Latin-deriving language there is no such distinction. English is the exception, not the rule --and for rather obtuse reasons, at that [1]: Spellings discrete and nativized discreet co-existed until after c.1600, when discreet became the common word for "careful, prudent," and discrete was maintained in philosophy, medicine, music and other disciplines that remembered Latin and made effort to obey it. [1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=discreet http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=discreet
sundvor 12y ago
You are of course completely right; my language sensor tingled, but not enough. Thanks for the heads up, that would be the last time I made that mistake! I'll eat my humble pie now.. I'm a programmer, and, despite the evidence to the contrary, I do value precision of language.