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Grumpy Old Geeks

227: Bots & B.S.

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Lone gun developers; hunks of glass & metal; snoozing social influencers; bad Bodega; our Amazon carts; Tesla range; Riot Fest; Star Trek & Orville; Equifax; Apple’s puzzling approach to security; habits of mediocre people; RIP Cassini; it’s complicated. Show notes at http://gog.show/227 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

0:06.8

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and

0:10.5

who's to blame.

0:15.6

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

0:20.8

Couldn't talk, yeah Brian. How you doing? Yeah, sleepy. Been a long week, long

0:26.8

long week. But you know, I've heard more podcasts this week talking about what kind of

0:33.3

iPhone they're going to get than I ever need to ever again. But we all know you're going to have

0:38.5

you're going to spend a thousand dollars on a phone with an I'd say two months over on

0:42.3

the what's the what's the give me a bet on that? I can't bet against you because you're the one

0:46.7

doing it and you'll just like you'll wait a day longer past the bet point. I'm on Apple net

0:52.6

our AT&T next. I'm not buying an X. I don't need one or 10 or whatever the five. We've been doing

0:57.7

this show for enough Apple cycles now that I know this is complete nutter bullshit and you will

1:01.6

end up one you will you will deny that you're going to get one you're going to deny deny deny deny

1:06.1

deny deny and then all of a sudden you're going to have it. So I'm not going to be able to afford it

1:10.1

because I'm going to be wearing my swanky new Apple watch. Oh God. Now Brian, I think the time of

1:17.6

the loan developer is over finally. Is that that spin off X file show? I thought that was off the

1:23.3

air ages ago. Yeah, those guys are gone. That was that was the loan gunman. Okay. Now we were the

1:28.2

loan developers back in the day. That's true. We would you know from start to start to finish.

1:34.0

People would come to us. We would cut the graphics, make the graphics, make the code, make

1:38.3

everything, not get paid. And I think going down the line you will be seeing some unicorns where

1:44.2

it's like one guy or just a few guys making something that gets just a little bit of heat. But

1:48.3

things are becoming just so complex that it takes huge teams to build anything world changing

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