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Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by cageface »

delackner wrote: post #73
cageface wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started reading him in the mid-2010's but his utter lack of objectivity lost him a place in my RSS aggregator long ago. If I want to read perceptive analysis of Apple products I prefer to read real, objective journalists like John Siracusa.

You are welcome to your opinion, but on your suggestion I just went and looked at John Siracusa's blog and for this entire year we have: 1: a discussion about various ways you can read his Mountain Lion Review. 2: How to cook pasta. 3: summer movies. 4: summary of 2011. That's it. He writes also on Ars. In 2012, he has posted a single article, his review of Mountain Lion. Might I ask, and I am being completely sincer…

To be honest, since I work all day writing iOS apps on a Macbook and have numerous iSquare devices I'm mostly content to form my own opinions.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by ghshephard »

[deleted] wrote: post #70
gavanwoolery wrote: post #38

Unfortunately, a laptop is still a laptop. Small keyboard, inferior mouse (or lack thereof), single display, performance constrained by battery life. The performance margins are getting slimmer, but for a little over the price of the high end MacBook Pro (about $3000 with tax), I could build you a 64-core AMD G34 with 64 gigabytes of RAM, that would utterly destroy the Macbook performance-wise. Obviously, to each the…

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Well, HN isn't "the internet", it has its own traditions. I didn't down vote you, but, if I vehemently disagree with you, I'll certainly do so, regardless of how thoughtful and considerate your comment is. Likewise, if I see something in the grey that I agree with, I'll go out of my way to upvote it back to at least neutral.

In general, the vast majority of comments on HN fall within the bounds of good taste, so consider ones aggregate karma as a reflection of what the community here assesses the validity of your contribution as.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by ghshephard »

bitcartel wrote: post #72
cageface wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could quote specific claims from the piece but it's just too annoying to enumerate all the breathless reasons he gives why this is yet another Apple product that makes everything that came before it trivial and irrelevant. I'm fed up with this kind of PR masquerading as tech journalism. He's not a journalist. He's part of Apple's third-party marketing arm and he gets compensated for writing this kind of trash with…

+1 How many of these blogger/journalists have broken real stories? Future of Mac Pro anybody? Sure, they like to name drop and whisper about 'informed sources' but the truth is they have nothing of substance to report. Everything is gossip, speculation, or parroting of press releases.

I don't think Gruber would ever claim that he's a journalist. Nor that he's in the business to break stories.

He brings a certain wit, and skill at writing, to observe all things Apple. His article are traditionally read by those who love the platform - it's unclear to me why people who aren't enthusiasts for the Apple platform would read his blog - as that is the audience his articles are targeted at.

Back when he started 10 years ago, he was writing about the Apple-the-underdog, and there was a certain quixotic element to his articles. Nowadays, with Apple being the 2-ton beast that it is, that sense of rooting for the challenger has gone, and with it a bit of the ideological purity that comes with being a member of the downtrodden class.

I for one, appreciated the longer essay that he wrote on the MacBook Pro. I think his essays are his greatest strength, wish he did more of them.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by [deleted] »

[deleted] wrote: post #70
gavanwoolery wrote: post #38

Unfortunately, a laptop is still a laptop. Small keyboard, inferior mouse (or lack thereof), single display, performance constrained by battery life. The performance margins are getting slimmer, but for a little over the price of the high end MacBook Pro (about $3000 with tax), I could build you a 64-core AMD G34 with 64 gigabytes of RAM, that would utterly destroy the Macbook performance-wise. Obviously, to each the…

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Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by angrycoder »

jcampbell1 wrote: post #27

I find it quite surprising that the author is so passionate about typefaces, but serves his own blog in Verdana. Good thing it is not called JaringJireJall.net [1] That being said, I really think the days of sans fonts are close to over. 10 years from now, we will all be reading on 300 dpi screens and taste in typography will return to being the dominate feature of design. I can't wait until I can read the Economist…

You mean like the site you are looking at right now?

    body {font-family:Verdana; font-size:10pt; color:#828282;}
    td   {font-family:Verdana; font-size:10pt; color:#828282;}

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by chj »

sbierwagen wrote: post #40
jmduke wrote: post #30

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I'm interested in this. As someone who doesn't pay that much attention to typography (beyond the obvious 'Papyrus is bad' stuff) what makes individual typefaces preferable over a standard typeface for all similarly structured content? (Besides branding, that is.)

It's pure marketing. There's no objective, measurable difference.

I remember reading a post several days ago, mentioning that particular font face could help a paper score higher.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by lazugod »

niels_olson wrote: post #20
SCdF wrote: post #15

So more pixels is great. Is it really that great? I feel like there are people who look at their devices and people who look at what's displayed on their devices. For me, text is text is text. I'm looking at it, not so I can enjoy how crisp it is (or isn't), but so I can consume those words and get them inside my head. I find (I've played around with high DPI devices) that while they do look nice, the niceness is qui…

Anyone who has used one of these knows they're awesome, and that words do not do it justice. I think at this point, Grubber just needed to commit that entry to the historical record as a member of the top tier of Apple reviewers/fanboys/critics.

gruber

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by danbee »

kenjackson wrote: post #55

I'm probably just blind, but I have trouble seeing the difference in display quality based on resolution. And I don't think I'm alone. When I was at the Apple Store after they launched the new iPad, there were several people who confused the iPad 2 for the new iPad. And even after being shown they were looking at the wrong one didn't go, "Oh... this one looks much better!", rather I heard from multiple people a line…

Your eye sight must be terrible. The retina iPad is a vast improvement over the iPad 2 for me.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by shellehs »

reedlaw wrote: post #66
panacea wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Un-anti-aliased (aliased?) Verdana at a certain size (11 or 12 point? Can't recall) was the very best pixellated optimised font for the web when Gruber designed his blog. He hasn't redesigned since.

His blog is nearly unreadable on my non-retina display. I can only imagine how small the font looks on a Macbook Pro.

I use readability to convert the content to be readable on my devices(computer, kindle, mobile phone...) .

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by saurik »

angrycoder wrote: post #85
jcampbell1 wrote: post #27

I find it quite surprising that the author is so passionate about typefaces, but serves his own blog in Verdana. Good thing it is not called JaringJireJall.net [1] That being said, I really think the days of sans fonts are close to over. 10 years from now, we will all be reading on 300 dpi screens and taste in typography will return to being the dominate feature of design. I can't wait until I can read the Economist…

You mean like the site you are looking at right now? body {font-family:Verdana; font-size:10pt; color:#828282;} td {font-family:Verdana; font-size:10pt; color:#828282;}

Neither this site nor its operator claim to be passionate about typefaces.
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