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The Talk Show #74: Glenn Fleishmann explains Bitcoin
Follow-up:
iPhone 6 Plus Scaling (mostly thanks to Hendrik's research)
Dev Forums
Hendrik's video
Test patt...
Follow-Up:
John defends his derision about the load-bearing finger
Thumb commercial
Accidental Build and Analyze about iOS 8 size classes and adaptive UI
Write-up by Justin Williams (the "???" square in the grid is the iPhone 6 Plus in landscape)
iPad resizable-apps vid...
Follow-Up:
Jason Snell on iPhone 6 CPUs
Upgradeable Apple Watches
Apple S1
How do you sell a $10,000+ watch in an Apple Store?
Apple Watch Edition's special box
Apple Pay and banking
The hidden meanings of Apple "tv"/"WATCH" text styling
Trade names and the NFL
If Steve...
Pre-Show: Inexpensive tablets
Follow-up:
More on Retina displays for the Mac
Thunderbolt 2, Thunderbolt 3, and Skylake
iPhones 6 and 6 Plus
Optical image stabilization
Matt Panzarino's awesome iPhones review
Barefeats benchmark
Marco teaches Casey about photography
...
Follow-up:
TiVo service charges and OTA channels
Frayed Lightning Cables on Tumblr
Google allegedly dropped out of buying Twitch
Anand Shimpi retires from AnandTech to work for Apple
Anand's announcement
Tom's Hardware Guide and the 1133 MHz Pentium III
Hackers stea...
Follow-up:
iTunes on Windows uses Objective-C
Lightning cables
Advice from Geniuses at the Apple Bar
When to ask for a replacement
Strain relief design
USB icon on the cable
There's still a Mac with an optical drive
CD-ROM nostalgia
CD caddy
Math co-processor
Kenwoo...
Pre-show: Relay FM and Casey's new show about feelings
Follow-up:
Rumored Lightning cable with reversible USB end, too
Lightning cables breaking at the strain-delay cuff
PVC
Apple's official cable
Amazon's knockoffs
Monoprice's knockoffs
Cables' Springy Bits
TRRS conne...
Pre-Show:
Casey's New Podcast
Follow-Up:
USB Type-C connector finalized
Peter Bright's comment
xkcd
ARM Macs
Summly
WIMP
_DavidSmith's Version Stats
More on Jared Sinclair and the App Store economy
Jared's new job
Release Notes #65
_DavidSmith's Developing Perspec...
Casey wants to be the pre-show DJ
Journey Soundtrack
Transport Tycoon
TT Original MIDI Music
TT Remastered MP3 Music
OpenTTD
Follow-up:
Mavericks, Gmail, and Mail.app
Apple and IBM
John's review status
Synergy
Overcast status
Mixing server roles for burst capacity
nic...
Follow-up on Overcast:
Debug
Downloads, accounts, conversions, server load
Pixar and Ed Catmull get involved in wage-fixing
Previously on ATP
The Incomparable
Top Gear Series 3 Episode 4
Sega Saturn
Yosemite Public Beta
IMAP
VPN woes of the past
Radar
SuperDuper...
Pre-Show: John visits Six Flags
Follow-up:
Overcast week one update
Server side vs. local feed crawling
XML wonkiness
XPath
XSLT
UI Changes in 1.0.1
What should the rewind and fast-forward buttons do in a podcast app?
Episode 1 of the Debug Epic with Nitin Ganatra
Mo...
Follow-up:
Showbot status and pull requests
Older phones still being bought today, like the iPhone 4S
Long-term device limitations and upgradeability, RAM, spinning disks, and Mac/iOS purchasing strategies
Vindictive but self-defeating defections
Screen size, small hand...
Follow-up:
Why would someone switch from iOS to Android? Is it because of software updates?
Framily
Google I/O Inclusiveness
Penny-farthing bicycle
RAW editing in iPhoto
Alarm fatigue and how it relates to notifications on our phones
More on health monitoring by Ben Gr...
Pre-Show:
Showbot is back, and it has Zarro Boogs.
Follow-up:
Don Lodsky points us to a sample of Google's new web design for desktop
A brief meta-discussion about what we cover, how we cover it, and what being an "expert" is
Feedback on potential wearables from Ben Gri...
Pre-show:
Million Dollar Homepage (more on Wikipedia)
Alex Tew's Twitter Account and new venture
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...
Follow-up:
It's OK if you got two T-shirts. Keep them both.
Marco was wrong about CloudKit limits.
Casey's broken Showbot.
Abusing new App Bundles and Complete This Bundle to achieve upgrade pricing in the App Store.
The WWDC NDA is mostly gone.
WWDC 2014 videos
Marco...
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 ...
The modern Apple-store experience
Follow-up:
Marco reneges on his recent praise of Beats headphones, then receives the saddest real-time follow-up ever
Headphones mentioned:
B&O BeoPlay H6: Great comfort, but not sound.
Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro (32-ohm version; Case...
Hurry if you want an ATP T-Shirt! Just $19, and the sale may be over by the time you read this!
Follow-up:
Who plays video games vs. self-identified "gamers"
ComiXology
Is Apple's 30% cut of in-app purchases the same as net neutrality?
Vihart Video
Internet2
Who should b...
ATP T-Shirts: $19 each, available for only 1 week!
Follow-up:
Average age of gamers (more here and here from the Entertainment Software Association)
Your favorite game genres going out of fashion
Apps and games Mentioned:
Metal Gear Solid
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time...
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?
Second C...
Follow-up on Photo Stream Web Sites
Follow-up on vinyl, including how Marc Edwards thinks it's evil, and the difference between pleasing and accurate sound. (Marco's open and closed headphones, amp, and DAC)
The Apple insight attained by way of documents released in the Sa...
Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em while you sunset Dance Jam
WWDC
How to make a lottery work, like Shmoocon does
How to write a live blogging system for keynotes
Our winnings and losses in the WWDC Don't-Call-it-a-Lottery
Levels of randomness and Apple's discretionary pool...
After-show: We tried to predict WWDC dates, not knowing that Apple would announce them 12 hours later, then discussed ticket lotteries and how Apple probably wouldn't build one. (Yeah.)
Sponsored by:
Warby Parker: Boutique-quality, vintage-inspired eyewear at a revolutionary price.
Pixelmator: Full-featured image editing app for the Mac.
2Checkout: Control your checkout experience from pixel to payout with our Payment API. Visit for your free sandbox account.
Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and cultural rigidity.
Facebook buying Oculus:
Outrage from Oculus' Kickstarter backers, including from Minecraft creator Notch, and the expectations that Kickstarter creates ...
Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's SICP class (9:00–10:45).
The death of the iPad 2, the use of sapphire in Apple devices, sapphire versus Gorilla Glass, and the flexible LG phone.
Haunted Empire, the Jony Ive ...
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