58: Always On Vacation In California
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2014
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and cultural rigidity.
- Facebook buying Oculus:
- Outrage from Oculus' Kickstarter backers, including from Minecraft creator Notch, and the expectations that Kickstarter creates in "backers".
- Why did Oculus sell? How far into the future did Oculus' "vision" extend, and what will happen to its vision now?
- Why did Facebook buy? Does Mark Zuckerberg have a clear vision for Facebook's future?
- Facebook's Hack language extension to PHP:
- PHP is poorly designed but very practical.
- The risks of using Hack (Marco's two posts).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can I go on a completely unrelated rant? That'll be less exploded-filled. |
| 0:05.6 | Are you even still here, you jerks? |
| 0:07.5 | I thought it was a rhetorical question. |
| 0:12.8 | Oh, I'm telling you, so I'll tell you right now that I'm using headphones instead of |
| 0:17.6 | canal phones, earbuds, whatever you call them for this week's show, and you're going to hear this. |
| 0:23.2 | You're going to hear that all day and night. |
| 0:24.4 | Is that your head hitting the microphone? |
| 0:26.0 | Yes. |
| 0:26.5 | Nice. |
| 0:27.2 | Like an amateur. |
| 0:28.0 | You're going to alter your microphone technique if your head hitting it is a problem. |
| 0:32.2 | Well, because I turn to one side, because so for example, like the mic is kind of coming in |
| 0:38.5 | from my left hand side, and I have an external monitor on the right hand side, and so I'm turning |
| 0:43.6 | and smashing into things. |
| 0:45.3 | They're all messed up. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm a disaster. |
| 0:47.1 | So the mic in front of you, but the screen in front of you. |
| 0:49.7 | I have two screens. |
| 0:50.6 | There's one screen in front of me, one screen to my right. |
| 0:52.8 | You heathens that use only one screen, I don't get it. |
| 0:55.8 | So really quickly I was at or Aaron and I went to |
| 0:59.6 | target today, and there was a woman who was getting into her car in front of us. |
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