62: Journey Would Be Wasted On You
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2014
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up on pCell and database scaling, including horizontal sharding schemes, tiered data layers, and taking a stand against the "premature optimization" tautology.
- When and why do developers learn something new, and why does Marco keep using PHP for everything?
- OS X Beta Program for End Users
- Casey and Marco make John proud (spoiler)
- New third-generation Thunderbolt details
- Overcast update
- Are iPad sales leveling off? Why?
- How we use our iPads today
- Limitations in modern iOS
- Are iPad apps stagnating?
- Jean-Louis Gassée's take
- Gruber's response
- Casey on T-Mobile's Free Internet (relevant T-Mobile info)
- Apps mentioned:
- Will tablets be marginalized by bigger phones and smaller laptops?
- After-show:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You think we weighed another decade, this 90s musical wrap round and become awesome, like |
| 0:06.1 | the 80s music did, or will that just never happen? |
| 0:12.2 | As I always do, I listen to the show last week, and I kept waiting for myself to make a |
| 0:16.1 | point that I meant to make during the show, and it's conceivable that I stop paying attention |
| 0:22.0 | for three seconds and missed myself saying this, so if I'm repeating, if I'm repeating |
| 0:26.4 | something, I said it in the very last show, I apologize. |
| 0:29.2 | So to be clear, you are following up with your theoretical past self. |
| 0:33.1 | Yeah, I mean, I don't have notes or anything, but when we were talking about peace, I'm |
| 0:37.6 | like, this is one of the major points I want to make, and it's about scaling, which we also |
| 0:42.0 | talked about in the last show, and I don't know how I could possibly manage to miss it. |
| 0:46.8 | But just in case, anyway, one of the innovations that the company that makes the peace |
| 0:52.9 | self thing, is supposedly bringing to the table, is the ability to solve this problem |
| 0:57.5 | that we discussed in the last show, or sort of solving for what signal needs to be sent |
| 1:04.5 | out by all the various towers, so that the interference combines to make exactly the |
| 1:09.9 | right signals and exactly the right place. |
| 1:12.0 | So not just for one phone, but for two, ten, five, a thousand, whatever, every single one |
| 1:17.1 | of those, all the towers that are transmitting that could possibly be overlapping and interfering |
| 1:21.5 | with each other, need to do so in such a way that every individual phone gets exactly |
| 1:25.8 | the signal that's meant for it, and exactly the spot that the phone is. |
| 1:30.1 | And that, as you can imagine, requires fast communication between all the nodes, but also |
| 1:35.1 | a lot of processing power. |
| 1:36.8 | And the supposed innovation that the company is bringing, I think Artemis is the name |
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