indefensible: john gruber

anyone who doesn't delete that stupid default signature moments after getting a new device is a disgusting savage

i changed my ipad's signature to all caps

SENT FROM MY IPAD.

iphone 5 review from john 'my hands are at least somewhat larger than average' gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/iphone_5

hah that jumped out at me too, at least, so coy come on tell us just how larger than average your hands are john

All his reviews lately have a paragraph like "I didn't like this change at first, but right now I don't really mind, I'm sure the old way will seem weird in a few weeks" which just seems sadly appropriate.

Yours Truly on Charlie Rose Tonight ★
With David Pogue. No idea what we’re going to talk about.

ew

going to start ending pronouncements with ★

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/24/postpositive-adjectives

This is more elegant, but it sounds pretentious to my ears. ★

so elegant

stunning

★

passersby with their iphones 5

enjoying their macbooks pro

"I miss William Safire."

good luck to the tories

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/british-prime-minister-david-cameron-letterman-373870

Sounds like a pile of horseshit from Instagram, considering that the whole reason they gave for replacing their original not-live but aesthetically superior filters with the current crop was that live filters were an important feature. If they bring back the old filters, I’ll say hip-hip-hooray. If they stick with the current meh filters and remove live previewing, I say boo-hiss.

Remember the Gotham filter?

i know being a tech pundit means you have to care a lot abt a lot of inconsequential things but Remember the Gotham filter? is killing me

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/hughgr/pouring_beer_out.png

Another typographic boner: the Kindle still lacks hyphenation but yet insists upon full-justified text.

indefensible

he's right about the buttons

And the hyphenation

and the but-
tons

and the
differe-
nt feel
of rea-
ding o-
n Kind-
le

 justify my boner

Oh I mean of course any e-reader would be drastically improved by the TeX line-breaking algorithm, but on the other hand, where the fuck does "but yet" come from?

I guess it does seem strange to force justification without hyphenation. They could have made that an option, right?

I wonder why they haven't nabbed TeX's H&Js, like you say. InDesign 1 was doing that in real-time on a 500mhz G3; there's surely enough power and time to do it during a page refresh on kindle. I must be missing something.

just dont justify, so uptight, be easy kindle

people who prefer full justification are disgusting savages fyi

tbf p much every book in the world is justified

was gonna say, have you never read a printed book or

but at the same time i support fully dayos right to dream

thats where im a viking

books are typeset by professionals. never really seen a kindle, do they do it nice or is it just all computerized?

Books are typeset by professionals. There are good algorithms for doing justified line-breaking with hyphenation. eReaders do not implement them because someone is lazy.

basically the Kindle people should be reading this (pdf)

Link doesn't work for me but I bet I'd say OTM.

Don't we have a Kindle person on here? /crosses fingers

tbf p much every book in the world is justified

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was gonna say, have you never read a printed book or

― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

so I thought maybe I just hated only a certain type of justification but then I read the wikipedia entry and man justification sounds so !complicated, perhaps all the fonts in the world should just be monospaced

even w/monospacing you need hyphenation.

Link doesn't work for me but I bet I'd say OTM.

Don't we have a Kindle person on here? /crosses fingers

― stet, Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:12 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not any more! Joined a start-up a couple of weeks ago.

The hyphenation thing is hard, but I'm not sure, knowing how crazy-obsessed with typography Jeff B is, why the reader guys have not gotten proper hyphenation into the devices.

Sorry for broken link above.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fspe.4380111102

OTM

i really hope they wise up and put page-turning buttons back

beautiful buttons that are a delight to press

LOL @ knuth's paper being fully justified

I don't know why that is lol

beautiful buttons that are a delight to press

― stet, Thursday, October 11, 2012 12:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes! want

Kottke figures that Daring Fireball brings in $650,000 a year: http://kottke.org/12/11/stay-small-or-go-big

* If John Gruber manages the Daring Fireball’s Syndicated Feed Sponsorship he’ll earn $8,500 per week. If 52 sponsorships were available per year, he’d earn $442,000 per year. He’ll also receive $19 per year, per Daring Fireball member.

* Daring Fireball is a member of the Deck ad network. The Deck’s standard rate is $8,600 per ad, per month. However, a “roadblock” ad is available for $8,600 per ad, per day. Revenue is shared between Coudal Partners, Inc. and the Deck’s members.

* John Gruber is an Amazon.com associate. If he’s in Amazon’s top-tier, he receives an 8.5% commission per product shipped or downloaded. He’d also receive an additional commission for qualified categories (e.g. he’d receive an additional 4% per “electronic product” shipped).

* John Gruber is the host of The Talk Show, a podcast on Mule Radio Syndicate (a podcast network managed by Mule Design and Caleb Sexton). Each episode features two sponsors. A sponsorship costs $2,500 per episode. If 104 sponsorships were available per year, The Talk Show would earn $260,000 per year.

I agree with every single word, including his idea to draw the “wealthy” line at $500,000, not $250,000.

lol just came here to post that.

Congratulations to the Tories.

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/38517352