71: Security By Guilt
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2014
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show:
- Casey's Showbot returns.
- SPOILER ALERT: The Gist Casey mentioned
- Casey breaks Marco's brain with consulting terminology
- Is "!s" pronounced "bang-S" or "exclamation-point-S"?
- Hat colors
- Google I/O
- Overview
- Material Design
- Android Auto
- Moto 360 Watch
- Lock-in by visual affordances
- Gmail API
- The API doesn't replace IMAP
- Marco's prediction about IMAP support
- ART Runtime
- Are web APIs still necessary?
- Post-show:
- "Follow-down" on Swift and openness (Lattner's comment on Mike Ash's Friday Q&A)
- More silly business metaphors
- Casey's Showbot: web sockets, error handling, and developing for work vs. "play".
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you'd only put feet on the fast-tech logo that would have been your ticket to financial freedom |
| 0:08.4 | You know it's so obvious now that Casey's error was making fast-techs have too many features if it just simply sent the word |
| 0:14.2 | Yo to everybody he'd be a millionaire now little did I know you thought too big you're like oh |
| 0:18.6 | I got to have a way to configure different messages and send them all on buttons. No |
| 0:22.5 | Just send the word yo push notification done and done |
| 0:28.1 | Seriously, how can the valley take themselves seriously? I mean what that was a product of the valley I assume right? |
| 0:33.1 | Yeah, I think Mark I was don't have compared it to million dollar homepage |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, million dollar homepage still wins because that venture capital money like yes |
| 0:41.2 | I actually spend that to try to like grow the business or whatever the million dollar homepage guy |
| 0:44.8 | I just got the money and it's his free and clear |
| 0:46.9 | Like he does not have to invest it into a business |
| 0:49.3 | He's not expected to hire employees to get office base like the venture capital money |
| 0:53.5 | This guy got comes with massive strings attached and he will never be able to fill the the but these people want because he's stupid in his business is stupid |
| 1:02.0 | So the million dollar homepage guy still wins for the best business plan of any business the entire universe |
| 1:08.1 | I continue to try to think of |
| 1:10.1 | uh some equivalent many have tried |
| 1:13.4 | God that guy he's the smartest person in the world |
| 1:15.9 | Oh |
| 1:19.3 | It case he had to have the idea he would have tried to do with web sockets, and then it wouldn't have worked |
| 1:25.4 | It's just a web page that's it |
| 1:28.3 | You your your financial investment risk is even when he did it like a 1995 like his total financial investment in a static web page |
| 1:36.6 | Like hosting it and paying for bandwidth |
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