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The Talk Show With John Gruber

97: ‘Copious Software Projects’ With Guy English

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2014

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Guy English returns to the show to talk about iOS 8 quality concerns, and whether Apple’s annual software cycle is stretching the company too thin. Then things devolve into a bitter argument over the merits of file name extensions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, man, how's the game?

0:01.8

Well, you know, it's funny watching baseball

0:04.1

and you don't really, you don't really have

0:05.7

a vested interest in any of the particular teams.

0:07.9

And then I get like, I develop a little mini interest

0:10.5

in one of the teams and, you know, it's like,

0:14.1

I don't know, it's how we were talking about

0:16.0

it during the World Cup, where like two teams

0:17.7

who you don't really care about, it's our point.

0:19.6

And then one of them will do something

0:21.5

and it's like, that's my team.

0:23.5

And then you're like invested for like,

0:25.8

you're like a fan for an hour.

0:27.8

Yeah, until the duration is over.

0:30.5

And then there's penalty kicks

0:33.2

and you don't give a crap anymore.

0:34.9

Right, now I became a temporary fan

0:38.2

of the Los Angeles Dodgers simply because their manager

0:42.5

is Don Mattingley who was on the Yankees when I was growing up.

0:45.9

He was my boyhood.

0:48.9

That is a very, you think to do.

0:50.4

That is so arbitrary, it's crazy.

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