4: They'll swing into action and accidentally wipe their hard drive

We talk about Hyperlapse, delve into what it means to be a computer user, and take wild guesses as to the nature of the giant building involved in Apple’s September 9th announcement.  Also,  a card trick.

Follow Up: 

• Fire phone does use cameras for tilt gestures

• Only 35K sales so far

• Tivo HD & Tivo Romeo

• Console Sales are up

• Forza 5

• Mario Kart 8

• Pixel Junk Shooter

Hyperlapse:

• Instagram’s Hyperlapse

• Microsoft’s Hyperlapse

• Accelerometer vs gyroscope

Computer Literacy:

• Article : Kids can’t use computers… And this is why it should worry you

• Mark’s early computer: Commodore PET

• Richard’s family's early computers: Apple 2e, Apple 2GS, Macintosh 128

• The asteroids game Richard modified with Resedit, Maelstrom

• Applesoft BASIC programming reference manual. (It looks so much easier now that I’ve been programming for more than 20 years...)

• qBasic

• FutureBASIC

• Gorillas

• Nibbles

• Computer Usage vs Administration vs Engineering

• What a person should know to be considered a computer user

• A car analogy, because every debate has to have a car analogy

• What skills administration and engineering can teach us

• Does Sandboxing and jailing make life better?

• Who is responsible for maintenance

• Legislating technology

• Negative perception of people who work with technology

• I have MASTERED life

• Robot Turtle

• Sokoban

• Apple “Say” command

• Carmack twitter account hacked

• Logo

• PEEK & POKE

Apple: 

• Building for Apple’s announcement

Post Show: 

• Penn & Teller - Fool Us

• The specific trick discussed

3: Orange Finger Software LLC

In Episode 3 Mark and Richard discuss what it’s like to be an independent developer and how to survive in a market where good free or cheap software is getting more prevalent.  Also, the word “Microbolometer” is used during follow-up.  We think that’s a pretty cool word.

Pre-show: 

• Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock

• Topcoder swift challenge

• Audacity

• CMU Speech to text

Follow-up: 

• Pronouncing Hearthstone

• Germanium

• Cooled vs Uncooled thermal cameras

• Microbolometer

Being an independent developer:

• Our history with it

• Loneliness

• Custom code for clients

• Pros & Cons of bureaucracy

• Solo work’s impact on code quality

• Getting stuff done

• Spending money on hardware

• Wearing many hats

Indiepocalypse:

• Unread’s sales numbers

• David Smith’s diversification

• The Stuart Hall experiment

• HODOR & I am Groot Android apps.

• Finding a niche

• Effect of cheap & free on the market

• How big companies deal with the cheap/free issues

• Indie movies/books

Misc:

• Amazon Fire TV

• Amazon Fire Phone

Post-Show: 

• Our new pop filters (Nady MPF-6)

• Audio with & without pop filter. I am fully aware this is not how the poem goes.

2: They aren't interested in the VR, they just want the apocalypse

We talk about our RSS addictions, Richard’s new FLIR_ONE, Oculus DK2 and Google Cardboard, Mark’s new headphones and microphone, and the kragle!

Pre-Show: 

• Podcasts Richard listens to: Accidental Tech Podcast, Core Intuition, Debug, Developing Perspective, Garnett on Games, The Incomparable, John and Garnett Podcast, Neutral, Pragmatic, Release Notes, The Stack Exchange Podcast, The Talk Show

• RSS addiction

• Mark’s RSS reader, Reeder

• Richard’s RSS reader on the desktop, Feedly. On the iPhone, Byline

• Feedly pro account

Follow Up:

• Coda troubles

• Youtube developer API

Mark’s new microphone:

• Mark’s microphone, the Blue Yeti

• Richard’s microphone, the Blue Snowball

• Microphones and perceived professionalism

• Toastmasters

Mark’s new headphones:

• Mark’s new headphones PSB-M4U 2 Noise canceling headphones

• Mark’s old earbuds, Senheiser OCX 685i

• Richard’s sound canceling headphones, Bose Quit Comfort 15

• Richard’s normal wear headphones, Sennheiser HD 380 Pro

• Don’t test headphones with this song. (Nine Inch Nails, Hurt)

• Wub Wub Wub Wub

• The effect of listening to music while working on performance, ala Peopleware

• Noise canceling and the feeling of pressure you get in your ears

FLIR_ONE: 

• The FLIR_ONE product

• FLIR systems similar to what Richard worked with at General Atomics.

• FLIR camera similar to the one Richard used at Axion Racing

• Other FLIR consumer cameras

• Example FLIR one video with swirling water

VR:

• Oculus DK1

• Oculus DK2

• Google cardboard

• Why smearing happened on the DK1 & Google cardboard

• Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus.

• Oculus collaboration with Samsung

• Oculus using Samsung note 3 display

• Richard’s favorite Oculus Demo, Titans of Space

• Mark’s favorite Oculus Demo, Dumpy, going elephants! (No DK2 support yet)

• Snowcrash

• Ready Player One

Post Show:

• Eclipse

• IntelliJ

• Android Studio

• The Kragle! (Possible spoiler... Maybe)

• Fix it Felix at Disneyland

• Fix it Felix on iOS appears to have been removed from the app store.

1: Can we land in your ears?

Intro:

• History of the name Aliens Land Here

iOS 8:

• Handoff

• Jobs & Dropbox

• Metal

• Swift, including pseudo-plans for Swift in Simple Lift Log

• Size classes

Next iPhone:

• Fate of the 4 inch phone

• Same chip in all sizes?

Mark’s new laptop:  (15 inch, GeForce GT 750M, 2.8GHz i7, 1TB flash)

• Process of transferring things from old to new laptop

• Boot time

Monitors:

• Comparisons of Retina to our current monitors.

• Longing for 5K to not lose screen real estate

• iMacs as monitors

• Touch screens at Axion Racing

Cars:

• Touch screens in cars, including Tesla Model S

• Tesla battery upgrade

• Car Play

• Maserati Quattroporte and its wonky sensors.

• Subaru BRZ

• BMW M Cars

• ATS-V At the Nürburgring

• Mercedes SL

• Audi R8

Post Show:

• Fake sponsor reads, including those on the Stack Exchange Podcast.

• New york is the Borg.

• Testing software.

• Source control using Subversion & Git.