Episode 295: I’m Not Talkin’ for Clapping
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2016
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
- Dan's still a little under the weather
- What home automation is good at right now (and what it mostly isn't)
- Updates on Hiya and call-blocking apps not working so much
- Merlin is getting pretty good at making Trump hands
- Hey! Follow-up and listener questions!
- Listener Greg wisely reframes the communication problem
- If you want to help people: offer something specific
- John Siracusa just wants toast in a reasonable amount of time
- Listener Johnathan has trouble getting timely responses from his busy manager
- Tip: It pays to ask around and maybe escalate
- Everybody feels vulnerable about something
- Listener Brian doesn't want to pester people about his side project
- Tip: Scale up and act like a magazine editor
- Ooooo…The Monty Hall Problem!
- Listener Matt needs tips on being a new dad
- Tip: You're not as bad at this as you think (or fear)
Links for this episode:
- Jamie Buck on Twitter: "@hotdogsladies Thanks for the white gaffers tape shout out. A cool surprise on my drive to work."
- John Wayne Drunk Speech.wmv - YouTube
- Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia
- Birthday problem - Wikipedia
- Wonder (Palacio novel) - Wikipedia
- Wonder: R. J. Palacio: 9780375869020: Amazon.com: Books
- Reconcilable Differences #37: A Useless Angle for Swordfighting - Relay FM
- Runa | Guayusa
- Flammable vs. Inflammable: What's the difference? | Merriam-Webster
Both words mean the same thing, but one of them is bound to confuse most people.
- Hiya: Caller ID, Call Blocker & Protection for a Better Phone Experience
- 5by5 | Hypercritical #18: Worse and More Diverse
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin put the TV technology and PHP topics to bed, touch on SSD reliability again, then discuss what's wrong with Twitter and why toaster ovens are worse today than they were a few decades ago.
- Occam's razor - Wikipedia
- PrivacyStar
- Huge phone scam targeting Americans leads to 700 being detained in India | World news | The Guardian
- Carl Weathers Got Stew Going - YouTube
- Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit - YouTube
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:01.9 | Good morning. |
| 0:02.8 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:03.8 | Good afternoon, Dan. |
| 0:04.8 | How are you? |
| 0:05.8 | I'm pretty good. |
| 0:06.8 | You don't sound good. |
| 0:07.8 | Yeah, it sounds great. |
| 0:08.8 | Oh, you're talking. |
| 0:09.8 | Oh, you sound great. |
| 0:11.8 | Yeah, no. |
| 0:12.8 | I had my little girl brought home a cold and for some reason out of the 20 that she's |
| 0:17.4 | brought home since the beginning of the school year of the zone. |
| 0:19.8 | First one I got. |
| 0:21.2 | You were just on the very beginning edge of this last week. |
| 0:24.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.8 | It's taking its final form. |
| 0:27.2 | Yeah, it went in there. |
| 0:28.4 | I got a mess around through to everything up and now it's now, you know, I'm not, I'm |
| 0:32.7 | not coughing and hacking anymore, which is good. |
| 0:34.9 | Oh, you were hacking? |
| 0:36.4 | Oh, it was a mess. |
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