154: A Rich Toddler’s Toy
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2016
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- Audiobus used MIDI SysEx, not loopback networking
- Inter-App Audio on iOS offers Audio Unit extensibility
- Could Apple make a universal Lightning-headphone replacement cable?
- John's Destiny Heads-Up Display
- Pirate Eye Patches
- VESA mount iMac serial numbers
- Audiobus used MIDI SysEx, not loopback networking
- Apple Earnings
- More graphs from Kieran Healy
- iPod graph
- Trucks vs. Cars
- All-product-lines performance graph (Posted after the show by Kieran Healy)
- Will the next iPhone be waterproof?
- Post-show: Inductive iPhone charging
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, looking at text manipulation in JavaScript just makes me sad. |
| 0:03.4 | Of course. |
| 0:04.2 | We got a for loop with an iterator. |
| 0:06.0 | That's great. |
| 0:07.6 | Good next language. |
| 0:08.6 | For for I equals zero, I less than words.lang.i++. |
| 0:12.2 | Seriously. |
| 0:13.0 | That's every C-based language, John. |
| 0:15.4 | Come on. |
| 0:16.2 | No, wait, no, no, not necessarily. |
| 0:18.2 | Iterating, even, even Objective C has been iterating over collections without an explicit |
| 0:23.1 | iterator for many, many years now. |
| 0:24.6 | In fact, there's been like seven different versions of the iterating over collections. |
| 0:27.8 | Even PHP has that. |
| 0:29.4 | It's just depressing. |
| 0:30.6 | Every single JavaScript library implements their own each thing. |
| 0:33.6 | In all the ES6 and all the other, maybe even the later versions ES5 have stuff like this, |
| 0:41.1 | but then you got to go back down to just the very bottom. |
| 0:44.6 | JavaScript is the new PHP. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm saying it. |
| 0:47.1 | Don't forget to use triple equals. |
| 0:48.8 | To avoid those coercions. |
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