128: Blue Ring Stud
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2015
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show:
- Invisible formatting
- Chapter markers and Germany
- Follow-up:
- Satya Nadella on Microsoft's iMac
- Samsung SSDs and TRIM
- Marco's cellular-option dilemma
- Reddit
- Reddit is no longer owned by Condé Nast
- John slacked off for 46 days
- What makes Twitter marginally less crummy?
- Q&A about policies
- El Capitan's Rootless Mode
- Mac App Store... still stinks.
- Post-show:
- All three hosts learn something new about life as adults.
- Neven Mrgan's CocoaConf talk
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Was it John that fixed my bullet issue? Yes, and I said snap. What magic did you use to do that? |
| 0:07.1 | I don't know. Haven't you learned by now that when dealing with rich text editing applications |
| 0:13.2 | Where you have a kind of a what you see is what you get? |
| 0:16.7 | Output that even though this is not probably technically the case although it used to be in some things |
| 0:21.5 | You can conceptualize it as there being individual |
| 0:25.3 | Invisible formatting |
| 0:27.5 | Characters zero with invisible formatting characters attached to text that you can't delete |
| 0:35.2 | And that when things touch them they infect the thing that they touch |
| 0:39.6 | All formatting and rich text editors like word or any of these types of things |
| 0:43.9 | Involves manipulating |
| 0:46.4 | What you can conceptualize as invisible zero with formatting characters |
| 0:50.5 | What was the one that actually had them? Was it word star one of the old text editors that one of the old word process is really old |
| 0:56.2 | Actually had invisible formatting characters and you could make them visible those are the days |
| 1:00.9 | You could do that in word I believe and I thought Claire's works would do that |
| 1:04.4 | I don't know if any of them still have it, you know |
| 1:07.6 | Well the old days the word process actually were done that way these days is on behind the scenes |
| 1:10.9 | I have no idea how it works. I'm sure it's much more complicated than simple invisible formatting characters |
| 1:15.2 | But anyway, yeah, you just have to learn how to bump the invisible |
| 1:19.0 | The bump the conceptual and visible formatting characters up against each other to infect their neighbors |
| 1:23.9 | Get their infection and move it down. It's just well that was the problem is I was trying to indent |
| 1:28.6 | Just the red it related follow up and I was |
| 1:32.2 | Unfortunately indenting all of the rest of the topics and I couldn't figure out how to uninfect them |
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