54: goto fail;
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2014
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
- Wolfram Language.
- The "goto fail" SSL bug and the chances that it was nefariously introduced by an NSA effort, possibly as part of their $250 million annual budget for such operations.
- Apple's warrant canary.
- Casey's and Marco's hard-to-find bugs and language misfeatures. (Perl protects John from writing bugs.)
- Whether language-interpreter warnings should be treated as errors in production.
- The Scriptnotes episode with the Final Draft CEO, the follow-up in the next episode, and Kent Tessman's response.
- After-show: Google lobbying against Glass bans while driving, and Objective-C exception conventions.
- Next week will be the Software Methodologies show. For real this time!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, do you want to do some follow-up? |
| 0:03.0 | Okay, sounds great. |
| 0:06.0 | Is hardly any, is there any today? |
| 0:08.0 | Kind of, not really. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah, I'm lumping something that probably isn't by the strictest definition follow-up into follow-up. |
| 0:15.0 | And that is after our discussion about what comes after Objective-C. |
| 0:21.0 | A lot of people have come out of the woodwork and said, |
| 0:24.0 | Hey guys, have you seen this Wolfram language thing? |
| 0:26.0 | That's going to be the next big thing. |
| 0:28.0 | That will replace Objective-C, and it's not. |
| 0:31.0 | So, anything else? |
| 0:32.0 | It is pretty cool though. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, it's cool as hell. |
| 0:35.0 | I have no idea what I would use it for if anything. |
| 0:37.0 | I think I'm not smart enough to use it actually, but it's really cool. |
| 0:41.0 | I mean, all kidding aside, it is very, very cool, |
| 0:44.0 | but it's serving a completely different purpose. |
| 0:46.0 | And I don't see a mechanism by which that's going to be the way in which we build apps. |
| 0:52.0 | And of course, somebody will say to us, |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, well, but didn't you watch the whole video? |
| 0:57.0 | They had sliders on there, and other UI elements and blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, but that's not really the point. |
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