indefensible: john gruber

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

oh gruberpaws

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/27491871
https://twitter.com/gruber/status/5913161
https://twitter.com/gruber/status/3821543

via @jwherrman