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Back to SearchIt Never Died Because It Never Lived
Episode 64
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 …
Published on 11 years, 7 months ago
I Hold My Children To A Higher Standard
Episode 63
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 Ap…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
Journey Would Be Wasted On You
Episode 62
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 lear…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
Perfectly Neutral
Episode 61
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,…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
The Great Odwalla Flavor Change of 2013
Episode 60
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'…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
The Little Puck That Could
Episode 59
Follow-up on vocabulary and Michael Abrash joining Oculus. Amazon Fire TV — no fan! USB-IF's renderings of their proposed new connector The giant anti-poaching collusion between Google, Apple, and d…
Published on 11 years, 8 months ago
Always On Vacation In California
Episode 58
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 fro…
Published on 11 years, 9 months ago
Smorgasbord of Pronunciation
Episode 57
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 ver…
Published on 11 years, 9 months ago
The Woodpecker
Episode 56
Follow-up on software complexity: The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet, the original Agile manifesto, and what Agile has become. What we found most useful from our computer-science educations. M…
Published on 11 years, 9 months ago
Dave, Who Stinks!
Episode 55
Follow-up on Final Draft and treating warnings as exceptions in production. Software methodologies. For real this time. Why don’t software development methodologies work? Evidence-based scheduling. …
Published on 11 years, 9 months ago