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Accidental Tech Podcast

15: Cat, Modifier Cat

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2013

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0

All your data is out there and you have no idea if any of it's valid. You're just propagating

0:06.1

single bit errors into all your backups at Infanitum.

0:10.4

You don't worry about that. You don't think about that. How

0:13.7

terrible it is. I choose not to worry about that. Wow.

0:19.6

Explain me when your wedding pictures are corrupted and there's a giant pink pixel on your face should be.

0:23.8

Please. Well firstly, a pink pixel where my face should be would probably be an improvement.

0:27.6

But secondly, I have like 35 backups of that, including the original. Yeah, they're all corrupted because once they go bad in the original

0:32.8

disk, you're just corrupting your backups. You're just propagating the corruption because you have no idea it's there.

0:36.8

Oh, I have the original DVD. The original dog DVDs. Those will keep you up. Oh, gosh.

0:43.4

Little bird spots on ink under plastic. That'll last forever.

0:47.7

And it's organic dye so it decomposes. Yeah. I hate you so much.

0:52.0

So what are we talking about today? Well, this is turning into the accidental Marco podcast because you've

0:59.9

you've gone and sold stuff again. I'm waiting to be told that I've been replaced or sold or

1:05.7

I don't know. Somebody else is my daddy now. So a big week. Yeah, a little bit.

1:11.0

At least this is the last one. Like I'm out of stuff. Oh, sure. Right. Yeah. Well, you just got to make new things to sell.

1:17.4

I saw so many jokes about how your next app has already been sold and nobody even knows what it is yet.

1:22.2

Yeah, that's that's pretty because I don't know what it is yet. That's pretty good. Actually, at this point, I do know what it is, but

1:27.3

we'll see. If you just pay attention to what sessions I go to during WBC, you'll probably be able to guess it pretty easily, but

1:34.5

it doesn't really matter.

1:37.3

I don't I'm really excited to finally have like basically I mentioned at some point before the magazine sale was public and and I should mention too.

1:45.8

Like we glad and I were arranging this almost a month ago. And it just so happened that you know, we did arrange it after the

1:52.8

Instapaper thing, but it was before the Tumblr thing. And so and as the Tumblr thing was going on, glad and I were

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