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Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by Steko »

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 sure told him.

May sound funny coming from a typography-obsessive whose website has used Verdana as the text face for its entire nine-year existence, but I just don’t care much for Verdana for anything other than use on relatively low-resolution displays at small sizes. (E.g. Verdana’s uppercase I and J. Ugh.) Interesting expansion of the two families, though.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/11/16/georgia-verdana

Ikea Switches From Futura to Verdana

Horrible decision. Baffling, really. I have never seen Verdana look good in any way other than in small sizes on-screen. (Via Adam Lisagor.)

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/08/26/ikea-futura

Re: Pixel Perfect

#102

Post by epsylon »

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…

> 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

Can you detail how you would achieve that ? 3000 $ seems insanely low to me.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by pooriaazimi »

rglullis wrote: post #63
arrrg wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. And? What’s your point? Apple met separately with loads of journalists. I don’t see anything special about how they treated Gruber.

How many of these journalists are known to be critics of Apple, or write about them in a more direct, non-ass-sucking way?

They invited correspondents from The New York Times. Don't tell me the iEconomy articles wasn't the biggest blow to Apple this year (after the ruling that they had to say Samsung wasn't cool enough to copy them, of course!).

Re: Pixel Perfect

#104

Post by pooriaazimi »

mcantelon wrote: post #43
msutherl wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people make a point of appreciating the small joys of life. Others do not. Much effort and attention is lost on the latter.

Some people focus on the substance rather than the style. Others do not. Much effort and attention is lost on the latter.

I find myself a million times more "productive" in Sublime Text 2 with a "light" theme (Soda Light) than previously when it had a dark theme (the default one). I do look for substance, but we are all machines and can't fight over our limitations. My eye thanks me when it can visually see an "orange" function instead of having to look for a "black" (i.e. misspelled) fuction in code. It's not my fault - eyes appreciate semantically color-coded (or typeface-coded) blocks of code/article/etc (my last sentence is poorly phrased, as a non-English it's hard to articulate what I want to say but I'm sure you understand what I tried to say).

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by gavanwoolery »

epsylon wrote: post #102
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…

> 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 Can you detail how you would achieve that ? 3000 $ seems insanely low to me.

http://i.imgur.com/Gy9GU.png

Just priced it out on Newegg.com (see screenshot above) -- does not include shipping, power supply, etc...but gives you a general idea of the price range -- overall, you could probably do it for around $3.5k-$4k, or easily 3k if you dropped 2 processors, which would still be a beast of a machine...

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by cageface »

pazimzadeh wrote: post #60
cageface wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah you're right. An exclusive, face-to-face meeting with the senior vice president of marketing is nothing special. I'm sure things like that don't influence his writing about Apple at all.

That meeting happened in 2012. Gruber's been writing Daring Fireball since 2002. http://daringfireball.net/archive/

I've been reading him on and off the whole time. Once upon a time he was actually worth reading but I don't even bother now because I can practically write his tech-Pravda pieces in my head.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by drchiu »

cageface wrote: post #51
arrrg wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. And? What’s your point? Apple met separately with loads of journalists. I don’t see anything special about how they treated Gruber.

Yeah you're right. An exclusive, face-to-face meeting with the senior vice president of marketing is nothing special. I'm sure things like that don't influence his writing about Apple at all.

I agree.

Also, I wonder how many more rMBP are sold as a result of people reading this? (assuming the would-be buyer is sitting on the face between a regular non-retina vs retina macbook)

The thing reads like a praise-review hidden beneath a veneer of typography fetish.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by timthorn »

> Dots were how computers rendered everything: pixels on screen, dots of ink/toner on paper

The writer seems to ignore the world of X-Y plotters and vector graphics workstations, which have been around since the very early days of computing.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by dfischer »

My 2009 MacBook pro just died and I'm debating which Mbp to get. I'm leaning on the non-retina display because of the reports of FPS sluggishness. I'm very aware of frame rates.

Also, I keep hearing programs like photoshop and so on aren't optimized for retina yet. As much as I'd like to be bleeding edge, and even help develop for it... I can't help but feel it's at least another year before its more viable to go retina.

I don't want FPS lag. I'm probably going to pick up the 1,700 model and add 3rd party ssd + 16gb ram.

Re: Pixel Perfect

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Post by foxhill »

ZeroGravitas wrote: post #99
mturmon wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are of course not truly alone , but you must be unusual. As an example, consider the upvote/downvote arrows on this site. They have very fuzzy boundaries on my laptop (128 ppi). It almost looks smudged. They are perfectly clear on my new iPad (264 ppi). This is not surprising, it's 2x the resolution in each direction.

It surprises me. The upvotes and downvotes are gif images, so all you're seeing is a blown up gif. I'm just in the process of replacing similar triangular gifs with near identical looking Unicode characters precisely so that it will look better on mobile devices that make more use of zoom. And in my experience (on iphone, iPad and Android phones and tablets, though admittedly not the new retina MBP) the current gifs…

you can include "hi-dpi" versions of images, which a retina-display device will search for, before searching for the original image, e.g upvote.gif will cause safari to check for upvote@2x.gif (or something like that - i can't remember the specifics)

assuming HN follows this convention (and given the number of iOS/OS X users on here, i would be surprised if it didn't), then he will be receiving the high-resolution image, and hence it will look "pixel perfect".

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