55: Dave, Who Stinks!
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2014
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up on Final Draft and treating warnings as exceptions in production.
- Software methodologies. For real this time.
- Why don’t software development methodologies work?
- Evidence-based scheduling.
- Marco plugs FCModel, Casey plugs his Debug appearance, and John plugs bleeps and boops.
- After-show: CarPlay, and £1,600 audiophile Ethernet cables (via Dalton).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Insert music here. Oh, you're not going to play it for me. I want to hear the music. I'm not set up. You'll hear it. Damn it, man |
| 0:09.5 | Okay, so the first item and follow-up is when we talked about final draft and the script notes podcast last week |
| 0:16.2 | We got a lot of feedback on that also directly from the two hosts of that podcast and |
| 0:21.8 | As it turns out, I definitely and perhaps also Casey misattributed to the two hosts statements, which were not theirs |
| 0:28.8 | In particular discussing their stance on software pricing after listening to the podcast |
| 0:34.8 | I was under the impression that they thought software if not should be free should definitely be much lower priced |
| 0:41.2 | And I cited an example on the podcast of them saying well apples operating system is free |
| 0:46.0 | That was not the host of the podcast that said that that was Joe Jarvis. He was the |
| 0:50.3 | Product manager from the final draft who was on the podcast now |
| 0:54.2 | I know people feel when they say they can't identify our voices as separate things |
| 0:57.7 | Is it really the podcast for the first time and you're you know 15 20 minutes into it you lose track of who's speaking I didn't lose track |
| 1:03.8 | So I think Casey said that in last show and I said that and Marco tried to correct us and none of us could remember for sure at the time |
| 1:09.8 | But Marco was right. I could |
| 1:11.8 | Yes, well you are you aren't all that insistent |
| 1:14.6 | I've said I thought that was them and Casey said yeah, I thought that was them too |
| 1:17.4 | And you said I thought it wasn't but none of us had the podcast in front of it and speaking of that |
| 1:21.8 | There is actually a transcript of this podcast which Marco will put in the show notes |
| 1:25.9 | That will give you a text version so you don't have to listen to the podcast |
| 1:29.8 | I know people sometimes don't want to listen to audio and scrub to the parts |
| 1:33.0 | You can just look at the text version which is much faster to read and find the discussion of this topic |
| 1:37.4 | So I apologize to both of those guys for making it sound like they thought all software should be free |
| 1:41.5 | And in fact John August sells some software off his own |
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