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Accidental Tech Podcast

234: Everybody Has Asterisks

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

when we last saw our heroes, they were doing all the things they normally do.

0:05.6

But today they do something different. This is the Q&A episode.

0:11.2

All right, so it is still in ATP time Friday the 4th of August. But most of you listening are

0:17.7

probably listening somewhere on or around the 9th of August. And we did this because as we covered

0:22.6

last episode, we didn't plan our vacations well. And in any case, so yeah, we're going to do a

0:27.8

Q&A episode. So we had solicited had being the keyword solicited questions via Twitter.

0:33.6

Are you telling our audience to please stop asking questions now? Is that what that means?

0:36.9

Well, you can certainly continue to ask questions, but we are not planning another Q&A

0:41.8

episode for at least a year. So you can ask, but they're pretty much going into the ether.

0:48.0

But what about the escapee segment that we're going to have to the show?

0:51.0

Yeah, I would I would like to keep the questions going.

0:54.4

Oh, I mean, they don't have to be many questions because we're just like two of them, but

0:58.6

all right, the the hosts have spoken. We have a we have a just two or three people ask a question

1:05.2

every week. You figure out how to mix yourselves to coordinate. And then all right, fair enough.

1:10.4

So we are going to do this in quasi chronological order. We have selected questions.

1:18.4

Because this here's the thing, they were going into the spreadsheet, but I was afraid if I tried

1:22.0

to sort them that it would like mess with the automate, I don't know, like whatever.

1:26.4

Yeah, we're going to go from top to bottom in this document.

1:29.2

You can't say the document you can't say. I think it turns out that adding every single tweet

1:35.4

with this hashtag to a giant spreadsheet and having no way to like filter or upvote or

1:41.4

sort them at all might not be the best tool for this job turns out.

1:45.8

Well, I am happy for you to coordinate the replacement, my friend, because this seems

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