278: Best Worst Influence
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- WWDC Intro Video
- It was Stephen Fry channeling David Attenborough
- A perspective from Jen Simmons
- Feminist Frequency
- It's Road Trip!
- WWDC Intro Video
- RIP, other chat networks in
Messages.app(via Sam Gross) - APFS snapshotting and iOS Simulator parallel testing (via Renaud Leinhart)
- How's the iOS 12 beta?
- Stereo HomePod pair review
- Jeff Foxworthy
- Paradigm Atom
- Zac Hall provides RTFU 1 2
- More on iOS 12
- MeasureKit
- FaceID & "Alternative Appearance"
- macOS 10.14 Mojave: Possibly The John Siracusa Review
#askatp- What are essential Mac apps for novices? (via Rodrigo Palau)
- Could iMessage for Android exist? (via Jack Johnson)
- Streamed gaming is the new hotness; are consoles going away? (via Mustapha Hamoui)
- Post-show: Casey quit his job
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sorry, I borrowed you John |
| 0:03.2 | That's great hopes who he's gonna summarize but |
| 0:08.6 | So let's start with some follow up Stephen Fry was the narrator for the migration video one of us had said it was |
| 0:15.2 | Oh God, what was his name David Ann Burrow? Thank you. It was not David Ann Burrow. It was Stephen Fry |
| 0:19.9 | Stephen Fry doing David Ann Burrow impression basically. Oh, yeah, definitely |
| 0:24.2 | Jen Simmons who is a designer advocated Mozilla had |
| 0:28.1 | Contrary thoughts about the migration videos. This is a video the same one we were just speaking of at the very beginning |
| 0:33.5 | Which I loved I thought it was hilarious about how you know developers basically never come out to the sunshine and they never travel |
| 0:38.6 | They never talk to people etc |
| 0:40.1 | So Jen said I can't get past the opening video with the long quote-unquote joke about how developers are not regular people |
| 0:47.1 | They're a special kind of nerd only certain human qualify as special enough |
| 0:51.1 | I'm I simply am so utterly done with this myth that only people who act male |
| 0:55.6 | Why act white act nerdy dress badly? |
| 0:58.0 | Eat junk food have poor social skills are qualified to be developers. There's a special insiders club |
| 1:02.3 | Which most people can't join or that there's a special |
| 1:05.4 | Insiders club that most people can't join them utterly sick of that idea simply saying quote |
| 1:08.7 | Oh girls can join now people of color can join now you just have to act like this dress like this |
| 1:12.8 | Eat like this talk like this think like this here's your hoodie join the cult slash club quote |
| 1:16.2 | That's not being inclusive. That's enforcing a monoculture |
| 1:19.5 | I can't disagree with this that is not the read I got from it |
| 1:23.4 | But hey, I'm a white nerdy guy. So what do you expect? |
| 1:26.6 | But I thought the video was funny and I think it's because I am I don't know if we've met |
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