lol
― sktsh, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/joshuatopolsky/status/245199223715409920
― stet, Monday, 10 September 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
Gruber is just the most middlebrow piece of shit.
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 10 September 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
i wrote him a "not angry just disappointed" email about how utterly useless he's become, but he didn't reply.
― caek, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
really? lol. can we see?
― stet, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
according to that bloomberg piece, he's making $500,000 a year off daring fireball now. shit.
― joe, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
kudos tbf
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's impressive how he's managed to turn journalism's economics on its head - do nyt columnist even earn that much? - although it's pretty obvious he's a one-off for all sorts of reasons that don't have much to do with his writing.
― joe, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
I hope you'll accept this unsolicited criticism in the spirit that it's intended:
Linking to Gizmodo comments is like pointing at someone taking a shit on the sidewalk.[*]
It's your site, and you certainly owe me, an Adblock-running reader, nothing. But you used to do better than this.
[*] zing i think i may have started to overuse, and have certainly used before on ilx
― caek, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Caek,
Thank you for your thoughtful letter. I unfortunately was unable to read it due to my eyes being all clogged up with tons of money.
Yours,Gruber
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Sent from my iPhone
― stet, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
― caek, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
anyone who doesn't delete that stupid default signature moments after getting a new device is a disgusting savage
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
i changed my ipad's signature to all caps
SENT FROM MY IPAD.
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
iphone 5 review from john 'my hands are at least somewhat larger than average' gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/iphone_5
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
hah that jumped out at me too, at least, so coy come on tell us just how larger than average your hands are john
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:34 (eleven years ago) link
Yours Truly on Charlie Rose Tonight ★With David Pogue. No idea what we’re going to talk about.
ew
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 September 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
going to start ending pronouncements with ★
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 21 September 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/24/postpositive-adjectives
This is more elegant, but it sounds pretentious to my ears. ★
― caek, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
so elegant
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
stunning
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
★
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
passersby with their iphones 5
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
enjoying their macbooks pro
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
"I miss William Safire."
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
good luck to the tories
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/british-prime-minister-david-cameron-letterman-373870
― caek, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/hughgr/pouring_beer_out.png
― schwantz, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Another typographic boner: the Kindle still lacks hyphenation but yet insists upon full-justified text.
indefensible
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
he's right about the buttons
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
And the hyphenation
― stet, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
and the but-tons
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
and thediffere-nt feel of rea-ding o-n Kind-le
― stet, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
justify my boner
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― stet, Thursday, 11 October 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
just dont justify, so uptight, be easy kindle
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 October 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
people who prefer full justification are disgusting savages fyi
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 11 October 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
tbf p much every book in the world is justified
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 October 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
was gonna say, have you never read a printed book or
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
but at the same time i support fully dayos right to dream
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 October 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
thats where im a viking
― barthes simpson, Thursday, 11 October 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
books are typeset by professionals. never really seen a kindle, do they do it nice or is it just all computerized?
― j., Thursday, 11 October 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
basically the Kindle people should be reading this (pdf)
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2012 04:26 (eleven years ago) link
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, 11 October 2012 07:12 (eleven years ago) link
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― 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
― 乒乓, Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
even w/monospacing you need hyphenation.
― stet, Thursday, 11 October 2012 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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.
― schwantz, Thursday, 11 October 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link