130: Technical Countermeasures
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2015
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- IBM's TrackPoint study
- More on [self-proclaimed] Tap-to-Click Wizards
- Apple SIM
- Apple's documentation
- Lady Whimsy's summary 1 2 3 4
- Carrier Performance
- Carrier plans
- Notebook Xeons
- G is for Google
- Ad-Blocking Ethics
- John's preemptive follow-up on his Star Wars reference.
- Post-show:
- How's not-reviewing going for John this summer?
- Marco's new Sony A7R II
- Phase-detect autofocus
- Contrast-detect autofocus
- Focus Pixels
- The key factors to a high keeper rate:
- Phase-detect autofocus with continuous subject tracking
- In-body image stabilization
- Programmable auto-ISO with high shutter speeds
- A sensor with low noise at very high ISOs
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| 0:00.0 | I was working on something right before the show started and I paused for the show and now I'm like in that annoying mode where I'm thinking about that thing I was working on and not thinking about what I should be thinking about. |
| 0:12.5 | Now when you say pause Jason Scyther everyone. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, we should all like kiss our fingers and plan up to the sky now or something. |
| 0:21.0 | Oh God. |
| 0:24.0 | Is this a reference I'm not getting? |
| 0:26.0 | In Casey the reference getters and Casey. |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah, totally. |
| 0:30.0 | No, that's among other things you could call that a sports ball reference. |
| 0:33.0 | I couldn't even tell you which sport you're talking about. |
| 0:36.0 | No, it's every sport Marco every single sport and the Grammys and the Oscars. |
| 0:42.0 | Everything it's a reference to everything it's a reference to life. |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | A while back this is easily two or three months ago. |
| 0:51.0 | I was fiddling around and tried to teach myself react not react native just straight up react and wrote a show bot in react. |
| 1:01.0 | It is that show bot hyphen R on the web if you'd like to see it probably die in a terrible awful fire. |
| 1:08.0 | But it is presently working which is exciting. |
| 1:11.0 | Now John I assume you're going to have an opinion on the different placement and coloring of the upvote arrows on the show. |
| 1:18.0 | Our compared to the regular show bot. |
| 1:21.0 | Everything was not correctly aligned like along the center line of the page so I had to close the window. |
| 1:26.0 | Also, you know, if any web application framework should have an exclamation point at the end of its name in the grand duration of Yahoo. |
| 1:35.0 | It's react should be react. |
| 1:38.0 | So it's 165 lines that's including white you know blank spaces comments etc. |
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