jgruber

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by jgruber 10y ago
Exactly. And if it's in your hand frequently, what it feels like in your hand, what it feels like coming out of your pocket, matters.
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by jgruber 10y ago
Thanks man. That's exactly what I try to do.
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by jgruber 10y ago
Exactly.
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by jgruber 10y ago
I didn't say it was noble, only that it took courage. It takes courage to rob a bank.
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by jgruber 10y ago
I shouldn't have included the font licensing fee (and in fact have since edited the article to remove it). Our annual server fees are 15-20x the cost of the font license. What I was thinking about was opening sourcing the app. If we do
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by jgruber 10y ago
No promises, but we are looking into open-sourcing what we can.
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by jgruber 11y ago
Apple doesn't buy commodity components for things like iPad displays. They're all custom-designed, custom-built.
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by jgruber 11y ago
Which reviews of mine do you think this applies to?
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by jgruber 11y ago
OK, let me confirm: browsing the web on iPad Pro feels noticeably faster than browsing the web on a MacBook (the new 2015 Core-M).
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by jgruber 11y ago
My take here is not about magic ARM dust. I do remember the magic RISC dust days -- and I, as a lover of the elegant -- was on the losing side of that one. I think the basic threat to Intel and x86 is this: - Intel operates as a high-margin
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by jgruber 12y ago
Yes it has a speaker.
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by jgruber 12y ago
Better to say I expect to prefer the 4.7 over the 5.5-inch phone, personally. But I would never say I won't buy a product before I've actually seen it in person. (I have seen other 5.5-inch phones, though, and none seem like somet
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by jgruber 12y ago
Here's what I wrote two years ago, when the iPhone 5 shipped: > There is no argument that some people really do like these big > closer-to-5-than-4-inch Android and Windows phones. I was in a > Verizon retail store yes
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by jgruber 12y ago
Not at all. I would only argue that iCloud is not a good fit for all apps, and Vesper is one of them.
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by jgruber 12y ago
As the other posters have remarked, Brent's sync diary provides some of the concrete technical reasons why we rolled our own. Big picture, though, we consider sync so essential to Vesper's long-term success that we wanted to contr
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by jgruber 12y ago
We hash the password using pbkdf2. The actual code looks like this: crypto.pbkdf2(text, salt, ITERATIONS, BYTES, function... ITERATIONS is 1000, and BYTES is 32. Our code is descended from the code on this page: http://www.thejoy
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by jgruber 12y ago
There is not, but it is on our list. We will get to it eventually, but it didn't make the cut for 2.0.
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by jgruber 12y ago
Vesper is a simple, elegant notes app for the iPhone.
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by jgruber 12y ago
Image attachments are the biggest difference. Another is that Vesper allows you to reorder notes by drag and drop -- move unimportant notes down, move important ones up. But the biggest difference, we hope, is that Vesper is just plain nic
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by jgruber 15y ago
Droid Sans was, by Google's own admission, designed for low-resolution screens. It's like Chicago on the classic Mac OS. Looks good on low-res screens but looks cheap on high-res ones.
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by jgruber 15y ago
Exactly.
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by jgruber 16y ago
Funny, I can't seem to find the article where I said much of anything about Lala, post- or pre-acquisition by Apple, let alone the one where I claimed they were "revolutionary". Please let me know the URL for that piece.
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by jgruber 16y ago
That's an astute point. Never thought of that, but it's probably true.