67: Tim Said, Man

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2014

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

We'll be guests on the WWDC live episode of The Talk Show: Tuesday, June 3, 6–9 PM. Get tickets here ASAP! John will be taking a plane... for you.
Follow-up:
- Which is faster: installing Showbot or reimplementing it?
  - Casey's open-source Node version
- PHP isn't faster than Javascript, voiding Marco's accidental argument in the last episode.
- Node.js uses CommonJS, not AMD. ECMAScript also adds formal module support, which es6-module-transpiler lets you use today.
- To the great surprise of nobody except John, iPhones come with earbuds, and those earbuds come with clickers.
- To the great surprise of nobody, including John, the Bluetooth-pairing interface in a car was terrible, and both Marco and Casey missed an obscure reference.
- iOS games that support physical game controllers must also work without them.
If the "iPhone 6" comes in two sizes, which do you buy?
- Possibility of resolution scaling modes.
- Would the cameras be different? (Marco on The Talk Show, starting around 01:26:00).
WWDC product-announcement predictions:
- New MacBook Airs or a 12" Retina MacBook Air? (Intel's Broadwell delay)
  - Macworld's slow SSD speeds in the new Airs may just be from different SSD manufacturers.
- New Apple TV hardware or software?
  - The Apple TV 3's CPU was originally a dual-core A5 with one die disabled, but not anymore.
- The iPod Touch still has an A5 LOL.
- There may not be any new hardware announced at WWDC, just like previous WWDCs in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2011.
- New sensors to be taken advantage of, like Pedometer++ did with the M7 last year.
- Craig Hockenberry on Apple wearables
- Wearables, sensors, and watches in fashion and reality.
- Bringing the new Mac Pro's dark-glossy-aluminum finish to more Pro hardware?
- Retina Thunderbolt Display?
- The Magic Mouse. Yes, we really talked about this.
Drawing conclusions from the "To Be Announced" sessions in the WWDC schedule.
WWDC predictions for Mac OS X 10.10:
- Just a visual refresh, or notable improvements to the core OS as well?
- Apple shuffling engineers around to work on the new hotness while neglecting its established platforms and applications.
- Modernization or replacement of AppKit, possibly by bringing the relevant parts of UIKit to Mac?
- Is there any hope for a new filesystem, possibly by evolving Core Storage?
WWDC predictions for iOS 8:
- Better inter-app communication:
  - A system like Contracts or Intents?
  - Involving remote view controllers?
  - Side-by-side iPad multitasking?
- Springboard enhancements?
- Please kill Newsstand. Please. Just make them normal app icons.
- Could Remote View Controllers and Background Refresh be used for widgets, live tiles, or dynamic icons?
- Customizable default browser, mail app, etc.?
WWDC predictions for new or improved web services:

Transcript

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0:00.0	Global branding strategies.
0:02.3	Did you just wait together a showbot in 20 minutes?
0:06.7	Yeah, the only thing is I can't get Ajax to work.
0:09.3	Yeah, I saw that you used forms with the buttons.
0:12.0	Yeah, if I had like 10 more minutes, I could get Ajax working, but I don't, so here we are.
0:16.9	But did you find IRC code somewhere or did you actually write that too?
0:20.1	Oh, there's no bot. There's no bot. It's literally just a form.
0:22.7	I have no idea how to make an IRC bot.
0:24.8	And that was probably not going to fit in my 20 minute budget to build this thing.
0:29.2	I was really starting to doubt my own self-worth when you said, oh, my, I had to whip this together
0:35.6	in 20 minutes. I'm thinking, how the hell did he get an IRC bot in 20 minutes?
0:38.9	Node is like the king of have or queen or whatever, what have you of having packages to do everything
0:46.0	under the sun. And I doubt I could put together an IRC bot node in 20 minutes.
0:50.1	You could. I could just download the IRC bot library and you just instantiate it,
0:55.6	give it a channel and a nickname and then tell it what to look for.
1:00.4	Like it's the library does everything for you. You know what I mean?
1:02.4	It's just a question of finding that library.
1:04.2	Yeah, and try to find it for PHP.
1:05.6	You know, the show bot code is open sourced, I think.
1:08.9	You could have just, it's one to use that.
1:10.8	I was racing. I was racing people in the chat, seeing who could, who could finish first.
1:15.3	Me rewriting it or them trying to get this installed because it's a Ruby thing and it's full
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