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64: It Never Died Because It Never Lived
8 mei 2014 · 1 uur 35 min
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Follow-up:
Who plays video games vs. self-identified "gamers"
ComiXology
Is Apple's 30% cut of in-app purchases the same as net neutrality?
Vihart Video
Internet2
Who should blink, Apple or ComiXology?
AppLinks
App.net sunsets its employees
Brianna Wu's Post
Tent
Chrome experiments with removing URLs from the omnibox
Casey open-sourced his Camel blog engine
After-show:
Casey's flower boxes
John's code on CPAN
Rose
Marco's bastardized K&R style wedged into his Objective-C code
Brent Simmons on Javascript integers
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63: I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
2 mei 2014 · 1 uur 51 min
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Follow-up:
Average age of gamers (more here and here from the Entertainment Software Association)
Your favorite game genres going out of fashion
Apps and games Mentioned:
Metal Gear Solid
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Flight Control (iTunes)
The Incident
Letterpress
Tiny Wings
Ramp Champ
Threes
Total Annihilation
Supreme Commander
Facebook App Links
MacStories
Rene Ritchie
ComiXology removes in-app purchase
Back to Work
Office for iPad/iPhone
After-show:
Burstly acquired by Apple, which brings TestFlight with it.
Casey's new website
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62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You
25 april 2014 · 2 uur 13 min
Follow-up on pCell and database scaling, including horizontal sharding schemes, tiered data layers, and taking a stand against the "premature optimization" tautology. Lees meer
When and why do developers learn something new, and why does Marco keep using PHP for everything?
Second Crack
Fast Text
John's blog
OS X Beta Program for End Users
What's coming on June 2nd?
Casey and Marco make John proud (spoiler)
New third-generation Thunderbolt details
MagSafe vs. MagSafe 2
Overcast update
Are iPad sales leveling off? Why?
How we use our iPads today
Limitations in modern iOS
Are iPad apps stagnating?
Jean-Louis Gassée's take
Gruber's response
Casey on T-Mobile's Free Internet (relevant T-Mobile info)
Apps mentioned:
Tweetbot
Twitterrific
1Password
Fantastical 2
Threes
Monument Valley
Year Walk
The Room
Will tablets be marginalized by bigger phones and smaller laptops?
After-show:
Sega CD, 32X, CDX (which Marco thought was codenamed Jupiter, but that was something else), Saturn, and Dreamcast.
Casey and Marco's video game history and why they don't bother anymore. What do the three hosts do during our free time, anyway?
Apps mentioned:
Ridiculous Fishing
Letterpress
Dots
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61: Perfectly Neutral
18 april 2014 · 1 uur 55 min
Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites Lees meer
Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil, and the difference between pleasing and accurate sound. (Marco's open and closed headphones, amp, and DAC)
The Apple insight attained by way of documents released in the Samsung trial
Creativity, Inc., the book about Pixar by Ed Catmull
Is Greg Christie's departure a contentious story or not?
This, too, relates to Pixar
Ken Ferry on getting ideas approved at Apple, as heard on Debug #33
Artemis pCell (demo video)
Scaling servers and how to use MySQL effectively
Marco's preferred book (but he prefers the second edition)
Perhaps not use MySQL?
A long list of MySQL gotchas
How FriendFeed did crazy schema-less MySQL
After show: why Casey hates his car, thanks to a trip to the movies.
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60: The Great Odwalla Flavor Change of 2013
11 april 2014 · 2 uur 24 min
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WWDC
How to make a lottery work, like Shmoocon does
How to write a live blogging system for keynotes
Our winnings and losses in the WWDC Don't-Call-it-a-Lottery
Levels of randomness and Apple's discretionary pool of tickets
What's the right way to distribute tickets?
Is today's WWDC really tenable? What could be done?
AltConf and "CDWW"
Heartbleed
Dropbox's Announcements
Condoleezza Rice joins their board
Carousel, a new photo sharing app.
Some potential trademark issues with some friends of Marco and Casey's
Does this leverage Everpix IP?
How the UI is similar to Oldsmobile speedometers from the 80s
Lightroom Mobile
In an unusually angsty after-show, John takes Marco and Casey on:
Where do crashes really come from?
John on Debug #32
Is Vinyl really better than CDs?
IRL Talk #19
Casey on IRL Talk #21
Christopher “Monty” Montgomery's excellent video explaining audio sampling
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59: The Little Puck That Could
4 april 2014 · 1 uur 41 min
Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus. Lees meer
Amazon Fire TV — no fan!
USB-IF's renderings of their proposed new connector
The giant anti-poaching collusion between Google, Apple, and dozens of other companies (Facebook apparently refused)
Google checking with Steve Jobs first before making a hiring decision
After-show: We tried to predict WWDC dates, not knowing that Apple would announce them 12 hours later, then discussed ticket lotteries and how Apple probably wouldn't build one. (Yeah.)
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58: Always On Vacation In California
28 maart 2014 · 2 uur
Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and cultural rigidity. Lees meer
Facebook buying Oculus:
Outrage from Oculus' Kickstarter backers, including from Minecraft creator Notch, and the expectations that Kickstarter creates in "backers".
Why did Oculus sell? How far into the future did Oculus' "vision" extend, and what will happen to its vision now?
Why did Facebook buy? Does Mark Zuckerberg have a clear vision for Facebook's future?
Facebook's Hack language extension to PHP:
PHP is poorly designed but very practical.
The risks of using Hack (Marco's two posts).
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57: Smorgasbord of Pronunciation
21 maart 2014 · 1 uur 34 min
Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's SICP class (9:00–10:45). Lees meer
The death of the iPad 2, the use of sapphire in Apple devices, sapphire versus Gorilla Glass, and the flexible LG phone.
Haunted Empire, the Jony Ive book, the Jony Ive interview, access to Apple, and hiring hacks for tech stories.
Sony's Project Morpheus VR headset and initial impressions
The Oculus Rift
Michael Abrash's blog posts:
Two Possible Paths into the Future of Wearable Computing Part 1
When it comes to resolution, it's all relative
Latency – the sine qua non of AR and VR
Raster-Scan Displays: More Than Meets the Eye
Game Developers Conference and space-time diagrams
Why virtual isn't real to your brain
Down the VR rabbit hole: Fixing judder
John Carmack and his latency mitigation strategies
Casey's birthday party as a child
Why Oculus hopes Project Morpheus is good
The GitHub hubbub, sexism, and how to get better (such as App Camp for Girls).
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56: The Woodpecker
14 maart 2014 · 2 uur 5 min
Follow-up on software complexity: The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet, the original Agile manifesto, and what Agile has become. Lees meer
What we found most useful from our computer-science educations.
Marco's impressions of his new Mac Pro.
External disks, PCI-Express SSDs, and cable management.
John buys a home-theater AV receiver. (The newer version he didn't need)
Stereo vs. surround speakers, and integrated vs. external subwoofers. (Marco's tiny, buggy amp and great speakers).
After-show: Pono, ABX tests, mp3ornot.
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55: Dave, Who Stinks!
6 maart 2014 · 2 uur 10 min
Follow-up on Final Draft and treating warnings as exceptions in production. Lees meer
Software methodologies. For real this time.
Why don’t software development methodologies work?
Evidence-based scheduling.
Marco plugs FCModel, Casey plugs his Debug appearance, and John plugs bleeps and boops.
After-show: CarPlay, and £1,600 audiophile Ethernet cables (via Dalton).
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54: goto fail;
28 februari 2014 · 1 uur 52 min
Wolfram Language. Lees meer
The "goto fail" SSL bug and the chances that it was nefariously introduced by an NSA effort, possibly as part of their $250 million annual budget for such operations.
Apple's warrant canary.
Casey's and Marco's hard-to-find bugs and language misfeatures. (Perl protects John from writing bugs.)
Whether language-interpreter warnings should be treated as errors in production.
The Scriptnotes episode with the Final Draft CEO, the follow-up in the next episode, and Kent Tessman's response.
After-show: Google lobbying against Glass bans while driving, and Objective-C exception conventions.
Next week will be the Software Methodologies show. For real this time!
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53: There’s Gonna Be Some Flapping
21 februari 2014 · 2 uur 6 min
Follow-up on why Flappy Bird was successful. Lees meer
Kieran Healy's excellent article with science.
John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW '09.
Goofball Jones' anonymous criticism of John's "shtick", and John's defense including many links:
An explanation of John's "schtick"
Some podcasts where John talks about things he likes:
Goodfellas
I Like My Coffee Like My Evil Sith Lords
Death Star University
Darth Vader's Office is Really Weird
Jedi Weekend
Wind is the Enemy
Skywalker's Eleven
Also Known as Endor
Journey: Then We Touched, Then We Sang
Professor Siracusa's Anime 101
Hangin' With the Totes
Masterpiece: Ico
The Incomparable #100: Who Cares What We Think? - Why we do podcasts about what we think of things, good and bad.
An ATP episode about how we deal with criticism
The massive WhatsApp acquistion by Facebook, the huge value of mobile messaging, and the web giants' chilling effect on competition.
The "Copland 2010" argument that Objective-C needs to be replaced:
John's original "Copland 2010" article from 2005
Copland 2010 Revisited (in 2010)
We Need to Replace Objective-C (Ash Furrow)
Replacing Objective-C and Cocoa (Steve Streza)
Objective: Copland 2010 (Guy English)
Separating language shortcomings from API shortcomings.
Casey got us to talk about LINQ briefly.
Long-term evolution of programming languages.
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52: Necessary But Not Sufficient
14 februari 2014 · 1 uur 48 min
Facebook Paper's gesture usability, in-app tutorial videos, and the design challenge of gestural interface. Lees meer
RootMetrics testing real-world wireless speeds.
Despite constant effort to improve usability, what if computers just aren't for everyone? (There's a similar long-standing debate with programming. See 4GL.)
The Flappy Bird saga: Whether it's a good game and why the developer pulled it. (See also: Super Hexagon.)
Is free-with-in-app-purchase ruining the game industry?.
Comcast buying Time Warner and the implications on U.S. broadband competition.
The stupid new top-level domains (TLDs).
iBeacons and Bluetooth LE in stores and .museums.
After-show: Bionic on new TLDs (at 26:50) and whether the TLDs are just a scam by ICANN, Patreon, and yet more on the Mac Pro.
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51: Maybe We’re Just Dinosaurs
7 februari 2014 · 1 uur 57 min
The FiOS net-neutrality non-story and last summer's YouTube-throttling story. Lees meer
More FU on iPads going pro, giant-tablet-desk ergonomics, trying to understand John's theory again, and a train analogy from Casey.
New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Bill Gates' new wildcard role, and Microsoft's likely future direction. (Marco's post, John Gruber's post, Brent Simmons' post)
Paper, Paper, Paper, Fifty Three, and Figure 53.
Responsibly naming things by first searching for trademark conflicts and potentially applying for your own trademark.
Apple's role in App Store name conflicts.
Facebook Paper's opportunity cost to the world.
After-show: More on Microsoft and some Retina MacBook Air speculation.
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50: Disk Light Observer Effect
31 januari 2014 · 1 uur 54 min
Follow-up on why an iPad "Pro" needs to be larger and why iOS is "better for people". Lees meer
Can iOS add more power-user functionality without harming its simplicity or usability?
Whether Macs should ship with ARM CPUs, how such a transition would be challenging today, and whether Casey should just buy another power adapter.
The 30th anniversary of the Macintosh and the experience of using its power switch (photo from iFixit's awesome teardown).
Disk-ejecting usability.
Using iStat Menus to monitor your performance and assist future hardware decisions. (Or not.)
Lenovo buying Motorola's pillaged carcass from Google, and whether they ruined the IBM ThinkPad.
After-show: What will we reflect on in 20 years as being the obvious sore spot with computers today?
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49: Roamio and Siracusiet
24 januari 2014 · 2 uur 6 min
Follow-up: Genius Bar employee reports of how most people deal with iCloud backups, photo backups, and storage limits, iExplorer for exporting iMessages. Lees meer
iOS' storage model is a leaky abstraction.
Google may have wanted Nest for its smart-home project as well as the more obvious reasons.
TiVo may be exiting the hardware business, or maybe not.
Nintendo continues to hurt.
Why was the first Wii really successful, and what really held back its long-term usage?
Matt Drance, Fred Wilson, and Nilay Patel on the net neutrality news.
After-show: The Prompt looks back on the iPhone keynote, The Prompt on an iPad Pro, The Talk Show on crossing iOS and OS X, Not Playing podcast.
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48: Marco Bought Four
17 januari 2014 · 1 uur 29 min
Follow-up: whether iMessage problems are widespread, reasons behind flattening the Mac Mini, and HDR TVs. Lees meer
The storage costs of Casey's emoji.
Google buying Nest for $3.2 billion.
Ben Thompson on Google's business model.
Nest has over 200 employees, including many ex-Apple employees.
The Target-pregnant story.
Marco's critical reading of Nest's statements.
Maintaining a skeptical but pragmatic relationship with Google.
Stephen Hackett's pants and regrets.
Modern expectations of privacy.
Potential for privacy laws like HIPAA applied to consumer technology.
Google's public opinion is turning, but stories like this will never be in USA Today.
Thought experiments with Apple buying Twitter, Dropbox, or Intel.
After-show: Marco's house is filled with LEDs, John's house is filled with CFLs, and Casey's house is filled with apathy.
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47: Better Pixels
10 januari 2014 · 1 uur 47 min
Follow-up: IBM AS/400 (aka System i) and single-level store. Lees meer
Marco's Retina theory.
PS4 and Xbone sales.
Trying to care about CES.
Who "needs" the Mac Pro? Justifying toys and improving quality of life with smart purchases.
Panasonic’s new LCD TVs compared to great TVs of the past.
4K on Fox Sports, 4K's color space, and the chances of 4K catching on quickly.
A Steam Box (its controller) as a replacement for a gaming PC.
Three old men reminiscing about their teenage gaming years:
Null-modem cables, modems, and special networking software.
Modem initialization strings and SLIP.
What killed LAN parties? Perhaps it was great 4-player N64 games.
Three Moves Ahead Podcast.
Voodoo 3D cards, their silly cables, and Sound Blasters.
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46: A Compromised Machine
3 januari 2014 · 2 uur 3 min
Mac Pro follow-up: socketed CPUs and potential upgrades, and the benefits of only using stock Apple parts. Lees meer
Scoring Apple's performance on John's 2013 to-do list.
Concerns about Apple's recent Mac apps, including iWork '13 and Messages/iMessage.
AnandTech's Mac Pro review.
The Mac Pro's 4K/Retina monitor situation.
The iMac vs. the Mac Pro, and the hardware needs of developers.
Why do John and Marco care so much about Retina?
What the next big computer-hardware shift may be.
After-show: our future as old men, saturating USB 3, and the often-neglected Mac Mini.
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45: Give Up On The Retina Dream
26 december 2013 · 1 uur 39 min
Explaining our podcast artwork. Lees meer
Facebook Likes in the App Store and ad-banner blindness.
Dual-input displays and how they enable the 5120x2880 display that John and Marco want.
Turbo Boost and the Mac Pro's CPU options.
Using a laptop on a stand with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
The benefits of desktops and ECC.
Mac Pro configurations for best value and future-proofing.
Building separate gaming PCs, switching to iMacs, or trying to wedge PC gaming into Mac Pros.
Mac Pro price stratification over time.
Outlook 2011 for Mac complaints and John's multiple-selection-invalidation bug.
Casey said some stuff at the end.
Special holiday theme song by Jonathan Mann.
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44: A Plague With Very Minor Effects
18 december 2013 · 1 uur 51 min
What if the new USB connector is too similar to Lightning? (John Gruber on Lightning) Lees meer
Potential for 5120-wide Retina displays to overcome Thunderbolt bandwidth limits by using "dual-input displays"?
John's "quick" tips for TV calibration. (THX TV-calibration app)
"Rate This App" dialogs:
The Talk Show's excellent discussion.
Marco's post.
Underscore David Smith on App Store quality standards.
How Apple could process "report as inappropriate" at scale.
The effects of web popularity on Casey and Marco's respective unpopular apps (Fast Text and Bugshot).
5 Whys exploring why developers use "Rate This App" dialogs.
What could Apple do to improve this?
App Store discoverability vs. search, and how search could be improved.
How much developers should be responsible for their own app marketing, and the uncomfortable reality that many apps just aren't compelling enough to sell well.
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43: Brilliance Enhancer
13 december 2013 · 1 uur 54 min
Accidental Fountain Screenplay: The Case of Liss by Joe Steel. (And Bionic.) Lees meer
Desktop 4K/Retina resolutions hitting bandwidth limitations of Thunderbolt 2 and DisplayPort 1.2, and the Sharp/Apple non-news.
John's Squarespace-reseller idea already exists.
Why aren't iOS App Store purchases available for purchasing and management in the App Store app on the Mac?
John's new TV:
Technological progression from CRT to plasma and LCD, and the many hacky tricks used by modern TVs to overcome limitations and look better in stores. See also: Hypercritical 16: The Soap Opera Effect.
The new John Siracusa TV.
John's TV-calibration regimen.
Why we're not talking about the iOS notification sync in OS X that never shipped.
Merlin's response to our criticism discussion, and how Casey reacts to little worms.
After-show Neutral: the new M3/M4 and John's dead pedal.
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42: The Ultimate Vanity Search
6 december 2013 · 1 uur 44 min
FU on PrimeSense. Lees meer
Apple's acquisition of Topsy and speculation on why.
Apple's possible difficulty in getting and keeping enough engineering talent, and how they might make bigger strides in web services.
Which group wears the pants in a company?
Marco's embarrassing FiOS support calls.
How Apple's release and marketing schedule affects their web services.
Methodologies and vocabularies.
USB spec group will add a reversible connector, the history of terrible USB connectors (see also: Hypercritical #5 from around 45 minutes, Hypercritical #6 from around 9 minutes, and the entire rest of the series, too), Lightning epitomizing Apple.
Dell renews hope for desktop Retina with the new Mac Pro, single big monitors vs. dual smaller ones, and higher-than-native resolution scaling on the Retina MacBook Pro (see also: Eye-Friendly).
Waiting for a new technology to fully mature before switching, or adopting it earlier with tradeoffs and hacks.
Texas.
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41: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
29 november 2013 · 2 uur 16 min
David Chartier's clarification on Photo Stream limits. Lees meer
Space Monkey, Transporter, Box, and Xdrive.
Results of John's Disk Utility repair survey. (John on Debug)
Xbox One launch sales.
Apple buys PrimeSense.
Apple's potential expansion into the TV business.
Penny Arcade's job posting, Marco's reaction, and the outgoing employee's description.
Extended after-show: how we deal with criticism, trolls, and our own flaws when facing our audience.
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40: The Compliance Shark
22 november 2013 · 1 uur 48 min
Follow-up on Cisco VPNs on Mavericks and [photo backups] to SkyDrive on Windows Mobile Phone Series Metro Not-Metro Phone Windows. Lees meer
Why enterprise software is so hard, and the barriers to entry for small companies targeting the enterprise market.
Game-console sales by generation, Nintendo In Crisis, and AnandTech's Xbox One and PS4 mini-review.
Casey's new Retina iPad Mini, Marco's accidentally popular image-retention test, DisplayMate quality analysis, free data with a T-Mobile SIM, and choosing between the iPad Air and Retina Mini.
A7 thermal throttling in iPhone 5S, iPad Air, and Retina iPad Mini, and deeper analysis of the A7.
John's disk-corruption adventure and why you should "repair" your HFS disks. Take John's disk-repair results survey!
Ending Theme Song 2.0 by Jonathan Mann. (We still like the old one, so we'll keep it but rotate this in sometimes.)
After-show: Fraser Speirs producing his podcast on an iPad, Back to Work 146 with Dan possibly going iPad-only, SimCity 2000 on SNES, Lex's Logitech Ultrathin Mini keyboard review, Apple refurb discounts, and the Casio B.O.S.S., which can even exchange data with a PC!
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39: Desperation Mode
15 november 2013 · 1 uur 22 min
John's new Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices. Lees meer
The confusing Photo Stream limits, and all of these links in the show notes.
Stephen Elop's If-I-Were-CEO Plan.
A story about enterprise software.
The four big assumptions about using enterprise software, why it's usually so terrible, and why big companies buy it.
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38: Auto-Update My Parents
8 november 2013 · 1 uur 14 min
Thanks to Jim Pierce for extending John's dog. (Also mentioned: AntiCrop, Glide) Lees meer
Everpix's failure and impending shutdown:
The Verge's profile of the failure
Shutdown FAQ
Staff tweet about compression and average usage
Staff tweet about "3x userbase" needed
Somewhat similar services: Loom, Picturelife, Adobe Revel
Everpix's critical strategic error, and how tech business and funding strategies should resemble Puerto Rico game strategies).
Revisiting the challenges of online photo storage and why Apple isn't offering something like Everpix with iCloud.
Answers to the last listener questions about John's Mavericks review.
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37: A 3,000-Word Digression
1 november 2013 · 1 uur 50 min
Some light Mac Pro waffling and the red one. Lees meer
iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion" mode.
Little tidbits and windows into the life of John Siracusa buried in his OS X Mavericks review.
Noodling John with random questions.
Dragon Drop and Cocoapods don't suck.
The big potential section of the Mavericks review that John omitted.
Choosing high-level and low-level details to include in the review.
Tags and the filesystem.
Publishing the review ebooks, and relative sales between iBooks and Kindle.
Marco's postmortem on his past Kindle efforts. (Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices, CueCat)
Mavericks' theme and the Mac's constant battle between power users and ease of use.
Will John keep doing OS X reviews?
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36: A Weird One
24 oktober 2013 · 1 uur 27 min
The John Siracusa Mavericks review is up! Lees meer
Apple's event, the presenters' pacing and enthusiasm, Casey's bag of hearts, and yet another showing of the dots video.
The Retina MacBook Pro update.
The Mac Pro base price, CPU options, and speculation on SSD pricing.
The iPad Air, Retina iPad Mini, iPad 2 (LOL), and iPod Classic.
Apple's prod of free software.
John's high-level summary of Mavericks and recommendation on upgrading.
Listener homework: Read the review before next week's episode.
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35: Sea-Level Executives
18 oktober 2013 · 1 uur 22 min
Ebook-publishing woes and trying to coordinate a specific release date. Lees meer
Apple hiring the CEO of Burberry to head their retail division, and the Louis Vuitton logo.
The challenges of retail leadership.
Touch ID impressions after a weekend of heavy use, and whether you should keep your phone secure for other people's benefit.
How Touch ID could be used in Macs, and whether ARM MacBooks would be worth the transition costs.
Speculation on next week's product announcements.
Where a potential 12" Retina MacBook Pro could fit in the lineup.
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34: Made The Dot Smaller
10 oktober 2013 · 1 uur 7 min
Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture. Lees meer
Can Apple ever dramatically improve their web services, and how much pressure do they feel to do so?
The sorry state of online payment processing before Stripe, and improving the current sorry state of money transfers (especially in the U.S.) with services such as Dwolla and Square Cash.
The Mavericks GM.
Drawbacks of a Readability-like model for paying podcast producers in Overcast, and Instacast's 2012 rejection for Flattr integration.
Different priorities for podcast playback and management.
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33: A 30-Minute Skip Button
4 oktober 2013 · 1 uur 13 min
When we expected the Mavericks GM (recorded two hours before this). Lees meer
Apparent new E5-1680 Mac Pro in Geekbench and what CPU tradeoffs to expect in the new Mac Pro.
Speculating on the new Mac Pro's fan noise, rotating cable management, and intended desk location.
FU on John's podcast-scrubber idea. (Spoiler: he knows about the vertical speed-scaling that's been in Apple's scrubber for years, and it's not what he wants.)
Experimenting with new UI controls and behaviors: some end up being cool and useful in practice, but many don't.
Marco's brief adventure in designing a custom binary sync protocol.
The potential conflict of interest of avoiding automatic ad-skipping features in Overcast since Marco gets income from ads on this podcast, and the ethics of publishing all podcasts' subscriber stats on the site.
iPhone 5S cases.
Laptop battery health and potential automatic battery conditioning.
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32: It Doesn’t Bother Me
27 september 2013 · 1 uur 43 min
Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S. Lees meer
Low stock levels of the gold 5S and Apple's potential motivations.
How good the iPhone 5 (and therefore the 5C) still is today.
John's review of iOS 7.
Locking your kitchen.
Marco's upcoming podcast app, Overcast, as announced at XOXO 2013, and why he preannounced it.
The parallels between Portland and the Hofbräuhaus.
John's logarithmic-scrubber idea. (and Marco's logarithmic calendar)
Dr. Drang on parallax.
Post-show Neutral: the F80 M3/M4 specs.
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31: Swimming In 16 GB Gold
19 september 2013 · 1 uur 22 min
Casey goes to an Apple Store. Lees meer
FU on SnappyCam, Synology and ZFS, and the likelihood of a new Mac filesystem.
The 16/32/64 GB iPhone capacities may be overstaying their welcome.
Each host's planned iPhone upgrades.
How to get an iPhone on launch day.
Long Island Lexus trim.
Who's fabbing the A7? Intel? Probably not.
iOS 7 adoption stats so far from Mixpanel and _DavidSmith.
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30: Full Frontal Thumb
13 september 2013 · 1 uur 23 min
iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s. Lees meer
The possible Sherlocking of SnappyCam and the 5s' two-tone flash in practice.
AnandTech's Touch ID hands-on video.
Economics of iPhone cases.
64-bit in practice.
Speculation on what the M7 does and its potential.
White iOS devices.
Apple secrecy.
After-show: "non" vs. "hon" and the Micro-USB 3.0 connector.
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29: Computerized Garden Gnome
6 september 2013 · 1 uur 38 min
John's Mavericks review progress. Lees meer
iPhone event predictions.
Design and security tradeoffs of a theoretical iPhone fingerprint lock.
iPhone 5S colors.
Will the 5C be the mainstream, best-selling model?
Cell towers near rich people.
The Apple TV shipment rumor.
Tim Cook's "new product categories" statement earlier this year: What might that be that could plausibly come this fall "and into 2014"?
Our Synology experiences and disk-layout strategies so far.
The OmniKeyMaster Mac App Store saga.
Microsoft and Nokia: Stratechery 1, Stratechery 2, Asymco: Who's buying whom?
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28: The Pit Of Irrelevance
30 augustus 2013 · 1 uur 38 min
Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa. Casey was right! Lees meer
The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault?
Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's enterprise business.
Should Microsoft pull an IBM and/or spin off its consumer business?
What could Microsoft do to regain momentum and marketshare in phones and tablets?
John on the Nintendo 2DS announcement. (Side-by-side with 3DS, 3DS XL, the Kid Icarus: Uprising stand).
After-show: Jeff Atwood's CODE Keyboard, Truly-Ergonomic, and Marco's initial thoughts on the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop keyboard vs. the Kinesis Freestyle 2 for Mac and the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000.
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27: Overflow Gallery In The Bathroom
23 augustus 2013 · 1 uur 33 min
Querying Florida. Lees meer
Photo storage follow-up: whether people even want long-term photo storage anymore, using web services as backups, and Ogg-encoded tinfoil hattery.
The Time Capsule's tough sell.
Casey's helpful fans.
IFTTT and Twitter.
The gold/"champagne" iPhone, not getting a larger iPhone this year, and the future of the Lightning connector.
The new TiVo.
After-show: John's ebook-testing setup, the awful Kindle Previewer, and technical ebook woes. (See also: Serenity Caldwell at Cingleton 2012.)
Plus, a very special after-after-show Neutral loosely about the M4.
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26: Three Phones Ago
15 augustus 2013 · 1 uur 43 min
Instapaper's web redesign beta. Lees meer
Rewriting a codebase from scratch.
Understandable code and writing for maintainability.
The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks.
The horrible mess of smartphone photo management and backup.
How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: John's old two-hard-drives article.)
Technical and economic challenges of Apple automatically backing up all of your photos and videos.
Non-nerd backups.
After-show: OS X Ivericks, Gruber on interface familiarity, Edge Cases on filesystems.
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25: Thrustmaster Joystick
9 augustus 2013 · 1 uur 35 min
Marco's new-new-new app for aligning double-ender podcast tracks. Lees meer
Economic considerations and options for releasing an app that's extremely helpful to a very small number of people.
Why Marco has been procrastinating from the big app by making small apps.
Good app names as motivation.
Desktop Twitter distraction and measuring desktop productivity with RescueTime.
Casey's sales of Fast Text since last week's promotion, Marco's sales of Bugshot, and the potential economic upside of promotion for niche apps.
The fashion longevity of iOS 7's default UI.
Chrome's controversial plaintext-password feature and Chrome security leader Justin Schuh's defense of the design.
Lakes.
An epic, half-hour Siracusa rant on the state of finding and installing Minecraft mods.
Kali.
caseyrumors: Is this the future of Fast Text?
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24: Double Meta
1 augustus 2013 · 1 uur 40 min
Non-developers might want to skip the first 35 minutes: a technical discussion of FMDB, SQLite, and implementing your own generic "model" class. Plus: Casey finally gets to talk about .NET. (Note from Marco: The day after recording, I rewrote my model class to rely on KVC instead of runtime tricks and reflection. Please email Casey.) Lees meer
The types of programmers who can and should write their own low-level classes.
Casey's app, Fast Text, and why he wrote it in 2010.
John's unfulfilled app idea and name.
Getting yourself moving on an iOS app.
Victory Lap for Ask Patents.
A 29-minute after-show extravaganza about lazy input sanitization and parameterization, extremely difficult games, eggs, and beaches.
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23: The X Or The X
25 juli 2013 · 1 uur 18 min
FU: iSCSI and network Time Machine. Lees meer
iFixit teardown of the new AirPort Extreme.
Apple's extended Developer Center downtime. (Note: we recorded this before we knew why it was down.)
_DavidSmith on Logic X's pricing and what this might indicate for future App Store upgrades.
Whether upgrade pricing is best for consumers, and the upgrade-pricing train.
iOS developers acting like the RIAA in 2002.
The complexity of modern software business models.
The Wal-Martization of app pricing and how Marble Madness formed the modern Marco.
Are Apple's policies really at fault for falling app prices?
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22: Full Brichter
18 juli 2013 · 1 uur 33 min
Marco's new-new app, Bugshot, and some of its design decisions. Lees meer
Cutting features from 1.0 and trying to keep Bugshot from taking too much time.
Bugshot gets the John Siracusa treatment.
Exploring NAS options and initial impressions of the Synology DS1813+.
Economics of FreeNAS or Mac Mini alternatives.
iSCSI on Macs: the free $89 globalSAN initiator and the $195 ATTO initiator, which comes recommended by storage expert Dave Nanian.
NAS backup options, since Backblaze doesn't do network drives: CrashPlan (with widespread upload-speed issues), or Arq (with potentially expensive Amazon Glacier or S3 costs).
Backing up Mac filesystem metadata, Backup Bouncer, and current scores of online backup apps.
Data hoarding and falling into John's backup vortex.
The Apple Keynotes podcast feed.
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21: The Transitive Property of Nerdiness
12 juli 2013 · 1 uur 34 min
iWatch follow-up. Lees meer
Alex Eckermann on Bluetooth Low Energy and iWatch.
Eric Welander's thoughts on Siri for iWatch.
iWatch as a means of identity.
How regular people use iOS devices, as witnessed by John.
Multitasking-switcher implications in iOS 7.
iCloud's priority within Apple.
Dropbox Datastore API, including its JavaScript API.
Does the Datastore API obviate the need for a web service?
Nerd-targeted products.
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20: A Box and a Strap
5 juli 2013 · 1 uur 16 min
Apple's Yves Saint Laurent hire and the difficulty in predicting an "iWatch". Lees meer
Technological Conservatism.
Panic's Lightning-to-HDMI-cable discovery.
Chris Harris on iOS 7 icons.
"Free-to-play" games.
Coding for practice, and learning new APIs or languages.
Overly specialized apps.
Glympse (Casey's road-trip-tracking app).
Feed Wrangler by _DavidSmith as a Google Reader replacement that's compatible with Reeder for iPhone.
Lex Friedman's RSS-sync roundup.
ReadKit for Mac as a potential NetNewsWire replacement.
Dr. Drang's branch of Marco's RSS-subscriber-count script.
Why is OS X version adoption slower than iOS, and could Mavericks be free?
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19: Designed by App in Cal
27 juni 2013 · 1 uur 28 min
John's review progress and show-duration predictors. Lees meer
The WWDC 2013 intro video. (Siri's WWDC 2012 intro)
Apple's "Making a Difference, One App at a Time" video.
"Designed by Apple in California".
"Jobs" (Ashton Kutcher) trailer.
Why developers should (or shouldn't) require iOS 7 this fall.
"The Transporter" series.
iOS 7 Calendar app UI.
Cool-looking vs. well-designed.
Our iTunes reviews.
"Better" and "worse" programming languages.
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18: Aluminum-Colored Aluminum
21 juni 2013 · 1 uur 15 min
Casey's fans at WWDC. Lees meer
Mac Pro followup. (John's halo-car post)
The Xbox 180.
Revisiting the potential for a larger-screen iPhone after having seen iOS 7.
Predicting iOS 7 adoption.
Neven Mrgan on iOS 7's icon grid and a rebuttal.
New Mac Pro appears in Geekbench
parallelize.c/xargs parallel processing
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17: Can’t Innovate Anymore
11 juni 2013 · 1 uur 12 min
Special early WWDC episode this week: Lees meer
Reactions to the keynote.
New Mac Pro
Initial iOS 7 design impressions.
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16: John, We Don’t Play Games
7 juni 2013 · 1 uur 44 min
Opening theme by Larry King (@laking). Lees meer
The case for a modernized AppKit in OS X 10.9 a la Chameleon/TwUI.
The lack of official Apple Objective-C wrappers around old C APIs such as Keychain and Address Book.
Springboard #10
SMOP
Underscore
Should Apple add type inference to Objective-C?
Haswell Retina MacBook Pro predictions and the possibility of having only the integrated GPU in the 15".
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The first unibody 15" with high-res, matte LCD
Haswell integrated GPU explained
Mac Pro speculation.
John on Ad Hoc
Larrabee
Intel's custom CPU for the first MacBook Air
Thunderbolt problems on Xeon boards
Marco's Mac Pro post this week
Scaling down the Mac Pro/"xMac" challenges
Thunderbolt 2
Asus' 4K monitor
The first 27" iMac's panel economics
Major iOS 7 API wishes: better inter-app communication mechanisms, "default app" associations, and periodic background updates.
Quick WWDC tips.
Casey's WWDC predictions
Casey's WWDC tips from last year
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15: Cat, Modifier Cat
31 mei 2013 · 1 uur 28 min
Why Marco sold The Magazine. Lees meer
Teasing apps before they're out, building hype, and Pit Pass.
Tim Cook at AllThingsD.
Cook's presence and speaking style.
What Cook implicitly said about future Apple products.
WWDC predictions for OS X.
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