00:00:00 ◼ ► You're under some fall. OK sounds great. There's hardly any is there any kind of not really. [TS]
00:00:09 ◼ ► Yeah I'm lumping something that probably isn't by the strictest definition follow up in the follow up [TS]
00:00:23 ◼ ► and said hey guys have you seen this wall from language thing that's going to be the next big thing that will replace [TS]
00:00:34 ◼ ► Oh it's cause hell I have no idea what I would use a floor if anything I think I'm not smart enough to use it actually [TS]
00:00:40 ◼ ► but every day all kidding aside it is very very cool but it's serving a completely different purpose [TS]
00:00:46 ◼ ► and I don't see a mechanism by which that's going to be the way in which we build apps [TS]
00:00:55 ◼ ► Oh well but didn't you watch the whole video they had sliders on there another U.I. Elements and blah blah blah. [TS]
00:01:03 ◼ ► You know it's not it's not the sort of thing you'd build an app with it's the sort of thing that you would do some [TS]
00:01:14 ◼ ► but for some heat build an app with the the money you don't have to use Mathematica in school I did [TS]
00:01:19 ◼ ► and I've long since forgotten all that I don't know I use Matlab I'm sorry about that Mathematica I think I was [TS]
00:01:26 ◼ ► and still more from Mathematica is to him the max is the Stallman basically like separating this crazy person who made [TS]
00:01:36 ◼ ► an environment where he can where he can sort of fill his dreams of computation has just added to it over the years. [TS]
00:01:43 ◼ ► Only well for me as a little bit more successful a little bit more determined and not quite as afflicted with R.S.I. [TS]
00:01:49 ◼ ► and They hired a bunch of other people to do things that I had a business that made money to let him indulges his taste [TS]
00:01:56 ◼ ► to this type of thing so he's built this amazing thing for him self that works the way they want to. [TS]
00:02:01 ◼ ► That is basically like start with Mathematica and just expand out to fill the universe [TS]
00:02:10 ◼ ► and insert word here because it's not just a anything like what it does is very impressive it's like it's a life's work [TS]
00:02:18 ◼ ► but I think it's an application an application that you can program with more than a programming language regardless of [TS]
00:02:26 ◼ ► what you think it can apply to everything and that demo shows that it's good at doing the stuff in that demo. [TS]
00:02:33 ◼ ► But Apple of course would need a language it's going to doing the things that I'm going to do and what is happening. [TS]
00:02:37 ◼ ► Do they need to let developers write applications they need to write applications themselves [TS]
00:02:41 ◼ ► and they need to write in the US and for all of those purposes this language is not useful. [TS]
00:02:46 ◼ ► Right and you don't don't let me you know kind of shrugging it off as a replacement for Objective C. [TS]
00:02:53 ◼ ► To take away from the fact that you're absolutely right it is unbelievably impressive that things can be done with it [TS]
00:03:00 ◼ ► and that's the only point I'm trying to make I'm not going be writing the next you know Instapaper killer. [TS]
00:03:08 ◼ ► Yeah one of the aspects that it has going against it as the fart computer languages that leans heavily on it like that [TS]
00:03:15 ◼ ► like in the sort of cloud of what are you closer to that sort of start grouping towards the math side of things while [TS]
00:03:28 ◼ ► but so far the ones that tend to be more math like have not caught on as much as the ones that are less math like [TS]
00:03:34 ◼ ► and you know I don't know why that is the only you know for example Haskell as another of those languages that looks [TS]
00:03:40 ◼ ► more like you're doing math or is more math like are you even sort of like Lisp kind of sort of [TS]
00:03:47 ◼ ► and this definitely is towards the math side I mean it's all intervals with it like language with all the symbolics I [TS]
00:03:54 ◼ ► mean start from Mathematica now going to be math. But yet so far. Language is like that. [TS]
00:04:00 ◼ ► I haven't caught on with the masses no matter how cool they are for the people who use them for the things they're good [TS]
00:04:05 ◼ ► One problem I think I'd have trying to trying to use this for anything is that kind of similar in this one only one way [TS]
00:04:15 ◼ ► I think it would be hard for me to get started into this and to even know the kinds of things I could do [TS]
00:04:29 ◼ ► It's very broad and you're presented with like here's here's this shell basically this command shell [TS]
00:04:40 ◼ ► and like the demos that he was showing off in the video look amazing really cool I don't know that is really how useful [TS]
00:04:48 ◼ ► But I was looking at the kinds of syntax he was using the kinds of commands using the kind of structures he was using [TS]
00:04:58 ◼ ► and I had a same problem ever using will from Alpha as well where every time I've tried to go from Alpha I've I've [TS]
00:05:04 ◼ ► tried phrasing things in a certain way and every I never guessed the correct syntax and never does what I want [TS]
00:05:13 ◼ ► but it's really hard just to get started it's really hard to know like OK what can I do here [TS]
00:05:21 ◼ ► I think like a list I think the language itself is probably super simple I figured only a few things that exist you [TS]
00:05:29 ◼ ► and a couple other symbolic things to write math in ASCII to convert it into symbol representations that is the [TS]
00:05:37 ◼ ► but the language is pointless like if you look at the big paging through those page after page a little rectangle [TS]
00:05:46 ◼ ► You know I wonder what functions can I call what things can I type that's not part of the language per se. [TS]
00:05:51 ◼ ► None of those are key words like if and you know the loops and function declarations like the language syntactic loop. [TS]
00:06:00 ◼ ► Very simple to its discredit I think it would be both be very cumbersome to do anything remotely complicated [TS]
00:06:06 ◼ ► but the whole the power of the thing is look at all these basically libraries that we have look at all the different [TS]
00:06:11 ◼ ► functions we have to look at what the options of those functions are look at how those functions can be composed with [TS]
00:06:16 ◼ ► each other and so it's it's kind of weird to call it a language other you know it's more like an application [TS]
00:06:26 ◼ ► Surely there is some function that does the thing that you want to have the operas that you want [TS]
00:06:30 ◼ ► and if you can't find it exactly you can build it by composing it out of other really powerful pieces [TS]
00:06:37 ◼ ► Lots of cool stuff in there but I think it's more like an application it's more like an A.P.I. [TS]
00:06:45 ◼ ► Then it is a language and whatever it is it's not to write their operating systems for phones or desktops. [TS]
00:06:52 ◼ ► So I had the same thought that this would be in a potentially extremely powerful add on or you know processing unit. [TS]
00:07:01 ◼ ► But I guess like a dynamic library for first something in Objective see if you could get some sort of interface into it [TS]
00:07:09 ◼ ► but I don't see it replacing Objective C. or Anything like that. Very cool though very very cool. [TS]
00:07:34 ◼ ► and it was useful once it was once it became a thing. I don't know if I have all that much to say about this. [TS]
00:07:47 ◼ ► This was a deliberate act happy for you to convince me that I am wrong but I'm not saying it is it wasn't deliberate [TS]
00:07:55 ◼ ► but it to me didn't recall of being deliberate like you seem to think you want to. A recap. [TS]
00:08:00 ◼ ► What leads you to believe that I'm sure I mean I think I'm not saying this was definitely an N.S.A. [TS]
00:08:22 ◼ ► but I think it's reasonable to look at these events that this one a duplicated line was inserted into this as a cell is [TS]
00:08:36 ◼ ► or a common name checking Paro than it it was that the step the checks of the common names match [TS]
00:08:43 ◼ ► I believe so it was some part of the verification step so that you can make sure that the S.L. [TS]
00:08:54 ◼ ► and not I'm in the middle who you know like mannitol attacks I mean even qualified to explain them in all their you [TS]
00:09:01 ◼ ► know everything properly but somebody who could like intercept your network traffic and I a spear [TS]
00:09:11 ◼ ► or whatever the case may be your school your workplace somebody who could intercept your government somebody who [TS]
00:09:16 ◼ ► intercept your your network traffic normally as a cell's designed if everything's done right so that to so that the [TS]
00:09:28 ◼ ► when you connect to the server you can verify it through the series of cryptography steps you can verify that the [TS]
00:09:35 ◼ ► and nobody else in the middle is listening in a way that they can decode your data. [TS]
00:09:40 ◼ ► This this bug broke that assumption. And so that somebody could have been listening in and breaking S.S.L. [TS]
00:09:47 ◼ ► and Watching your traffic and the operating system was just skipping that verification step or part of it. [TS]
00:10:01 ◼ ► Not every revision is open source but you can see like the version that shipped in ten [TS]
00:10:11 ◼ ► So the difference not entirely convincing because there could have been a lot a lot of intermediate revisions between [TS]
00:10:18 ◼ ► you don't know what happened between those two all you see is the getting point and ending point. [TS]
00:10:23 ◼ ► But if you look at the Do Not a lot in the file has changed between the two releases. [TS]
00:10:29 ◼ ► There is this context parameter to some of the security calls that was removed. Basically it was at the A.P.I. [TS]
00:10:36 ◼ ► I just changed mine early so that you know this one argument and I want to say or something like that. [TS]
00:10:41 ◼ ► So most not even some of the calls had this very this very basic change to them that just like remove this argument. [TS]
00:10:59 ◼ ► and so if you look at this if you just look at the death looks pretty bad like it looks like wow there like no edits [TS]
00:11:09 ◼ ► Just this one line was inserted kind of the middle of nowhere and it looks pretty bad. [TS]
00:11:18 ◼ ► I think what what worries me and what makes me think that this could be this could have been the Ferias [TS]
00:11:27 ◼ ► and I want to say to my tweets I don't necessarily believe that that Apple itself you know officially knew about this [TS]
00:11:33 ◼ ► or introduce this intentionally or was working with the N.S.A. I think it's much more likely seeing how the N.S.A. [TS]
00:11:39 ◼ ► Works knowing that they have a program where the New York Times reported hard to find the link [TS]
00:11:43 ◼ ► but I believe it said they had an annual budget of two hundred fifty million dollars to go do things exactly like this [TS]
00:11:51 ◼ ► Will kind of get to an engineer who works who works at one of the tech companies or they will. [TS]
00:12:00 ◼ ► In standards bodies trying to argue for different standards to be subtly weakened or have have these back to just [TS]
00:12:09 ◼ ► or the people who work in tech companies will you know become an essay. I don't know. [TS]
00:12:15 ◼ ► Supporters Asians whatever they're called. So we know that that kind of thing happens. [TS]
00:12:21 ◼ ► We know all that from the Edward Snowden leaks and from these from the associated important common sense [TS]
00:12:38 ◼ ► and again another little piece of circumstantial evidence this bug was inserted in I believe it was fall of two [TS]
00:13:01 ◼ ► and we don't know yet at least we don't know what happened and we probably will never know what happened. [TS]
00:13:06 ◼ ► It could have been an innocent mistake an innocent you know blind patient of a buffer or a weird merge artifact [TS]
00:13:20 ◼ ► when you try to rule out a kind of Farias tinfoil hat conspiracy theory kind of thing you do it by saying well the [TS]
00:13:31 ◼ ► and I think in this case looking at the environment we're in looking at the kinds of things that we now know go on with [TS]
00:13:40 ◼ ► And you look at exactly I mean for a one line bug like this this is a hell of a line to take. [TS]
00:13:49 ◼ ► Like if you look like what I did in the way it did it was so subtle it was subtle enough. [TS]
00:14:03 ◼ ► and we can talk about that they probably had insufficient review and sufficient tests [TS]
00:14:07 ◼ ► but any kind of internal review it would it might it might skip by because it looks it's it blends in. [TS]
00:14:15 ◼ ► It's not obvious it's not even obvious that it is a bug once or even once you spot it. [TS]
00:14:20 ◼ ► You kind of have to notice and oh wait a minute like you think about it for a second. [TS]
00:14:25 ◼ ► and it could be explained away if somebody was caught inserting it it can be explained away by saying Oh I must've hit [TS]
00:14:33 ◼ ► you know hit paste wrong or merged wrong so there's like a plausible explanation if you get caught and it's [TS]
00:14:39 ◼ ► and it's exactly at the right point where it wasn't breaking all S.S.L. It wasn't making all S.S.L. [TS]
00:14:46 ◼ ► Validate but is making this one particular class of thing validate that the N.S.A. Has been known to do so. [TS]
00:14:55 ◼ ► It's just a little too convenient in so many of these ways. The timing the kind of thing it is. [TS]
00:15:01 ◼ ► The perfection of like exactly the right part of the file to cause a very convenient backdoor for the N.S.A. [TS]
00:15:08 ◼ ► and In a way that looks really subtle and hard to find and hard to blame for what you do find it because then they can. [TS]
00:15:16 ◼ ► I'm sure they can look at their version history and they can see which employee in sort of that [TS]
00:15:21 ◼ ► Oh it was much of a mistake during the merger some might that you know so it's just a little too convenient to be a [TS]
00:15:33 ◼ ► What it did the results it had and what we now know about what our government does. [TS]
00:15:45 ◼ ► but I would say it would be naive to brush it off and say Oh it probably wasn't that. [TS]
00:15:50 ◼ ► I think the chances are better than that that it was that you know like I can't really argue with any of that [TS]
00:16:07 ◼ ► but to be honest that's me to keep my head my head in the sand so I don't John what do you think about all that for the [TS]
00:16:21 ◼ ► Knew that this bug was in there and joining the program basically means the N.S.A. [TS]
00:16:25 ◼ ► Now has the capability to intercept traffic to Apple devices because of this bug that it knows about [TS]
00:16:29 ◼ ► and how would they know about the bug well through its own testing through trying to do man [TS]
00:16:34 ◼ ► and then all attacks perhaps having someone working at Apple who look at the code before its release to tell them of [TS]
00:16:39 ◼ ► this isn't there. So that would explain the timing and that doesn't require the N.S.A. [TS]
00:16:47 ◼ ► So the timing I think of the wash for it if I had to put money on it I would bet that it's a merge error [TS]
00:16:57 ◼ ► Wasn't exploiting it to do what they do because it seems like they knew about it based on the timing [TS]
00:17:07 ◼ ► The reason I think is a merger is because I don't think it's all that subtle I think if they were going at the N.S.A. [TS]
00:17:12 ◼ ► We're going to intentionally plant on like this they would do it in a less discoverable way because once a disco is [TS]
00:17:22 ◼ ► This is not a you know it's if you glance at it you might miss it you know casually visually inspecting it. [TS]
00:17:32 ◼ ► and in terms of the massive effect it has like if they planted one you would hope they would plant one that isn't so [TS]
00:17:42 ◼ ► and it just accept everything like except any garbage it skips that entire Like if I carefully constructed a [TS]
00:17:48 ◼ ► certificate with a particular thing early you know like it's not exploding in subtlety it's the type of thing it's [TS]
00:17:53 ◼ ► amazing that it went underscored for as long as it did because of apparent Apple's apparent total lack of testing of [TS]
00:18:03 ◼ ► and the thing about plausible deniability this is the really creepy part is that I can imagine that Apple has automated [TS]
00:18:10 ◼ ► merge tools for bringing bills together so if you were to find a commit that did this I I would imagine there's a good [TS]
00:18:16 ◼ ► chance that it could be attributable to an automated merge too and then how do you blame. Right. [TS]
00:18:21 ◼ ► Bio phone was really clever and set up the series of dominoes such that they knew and [TS]
00:18:36 ◼ ► and passes are apparently clearly inadequate test suite then that will let it go here too. [TS]
00:18:41 ◼ ► So I think we all agree that it's it is entirely entirely possible that the end as I did of the government is because [TS]
00:18:52 ◼ ► but I think this is a this would be below the level of competence and sneakiness that I would expect from them. [TS]
00:19:03 ◼ ► More than fifty percent chance that it was done unintentionally at almost a hundred percent chance of the N.S.A. [TS]
00:19:10 ◼ ► I mean you know overall I agree John like I agree that that these things like all of these factors could be explained [TS]
00:19:24 ◼ ► when you add it all together the end again like it's sort of happened a year ago before we knew so much about you know [TS]
00:19:31 ◼ ► from the Snowden leaks before we knew all this stuff a year ago I would have looked at this [TS]
00:19:43 ◼ ► and because of how convenient it would be you know yeah you're right that that was you know disabling his entire steps [TS]
00:20:00 ◼ ► I think I'm sure they don't just try one thing and maybe the other things they tried got caught or didn't chip [TS]
00:20:13 ◼ ► Sleep well tonight or are still there and and you know I'm sure they don't just leave themselves one option you know. [TS]
00:20:21 ◼ ► So again I think by by looking at just the the fairly you know broad strokes of this bug used I wouldn't for the same [TS]
00:20:32 ◼ ► reason that you wouldn't rule out the timing because there's you know there's always like I wouldn't I wouldn't rule I [TS]
00:20:38 ◼ ► wouldn't rule out the possibility of I'm doing this just because of how fairly hamfest it is because in many other ways [TS]
00:20:52 ◼ ► and I'm sure they tried many things and some of them are handwritten and some of them are really clever and the [TS]
00:20:58 ◼ ► and the really clever ones maybe didn't work for me they're still there but this one we happen to find. [TS]
00:21:02 ◼ ► Well none of the ruling it as if you're over fifty percent for thinking it was intentional and I'm under. [TS]
00:21:07 ◼ ► But that's basically it we're all around the middle you know. Yeah and I'm like I'm not too far over fifty percent. [TS]
00:21:15 ◼ ► but normally conspiracy theories really well there are just too many coincidences to believe your conspiracy theory. [TS]
00:21:36 ◼ ► So you think Apple will ever say anything publicly about the investigation that undoubtedly is taking place inside the [TS]
00:21:48 ◼ ► And the second question is will they use their disclosure canary thing you know like where the previous disclosure they [TS]
00:21:55 ◼ ► said we have not been contacted by government agencies to blah blah blah blah blah for you with the word. [TS]
00:22:00 ◼ ► But as someone in the chat room a look at up but they put that in there so they can so that [TS]
00:22:04 ◼ ► when you see that message disappear you will know that they have been contacted by the government told not to say [TS]
00:22:15 ◼ ► or that's actionable The next time they do one of those security disclosure statements. [TS]
00:22:19 ◼ ► If the whatever canary statement is not there again we can't directly connected to that incident [TS]
00:22:23 ◼ ► but at least you know for example if we see the statement again we'll know that Apple is investigated internally [TS]
00:22:38 ◼ ► I don't see why they wouldn't make that public because the base will be saying hey in essence you know our government [TS]
00:22:46 ◼ ► You know they'd be angry they'd talk to Congress about it all sorts of stuff like that if that if they determine that [TS]
00:22:52 ◼ ► to be the case but if it was just an internal error they probably won't say anything [TS]
00:22:57 ◼ ► and if they're little canary statement is still there. Then we also know that N.S.A. [TS]
00:23:01 ◼ ► Is not the one making them not say anything she wants all to the Canary statement was more about getting user data. [TS]
00:23:10 ◼ ► I thought that the canary statement was something about how we you know we haven't been [TS]
00:23:14 ◼ ► or we haven't received any requests from the N.S.A. To do crap. We didn't want to do. [TS]
00:23:19 ◼ ► I know but this will be a request to you're not allowed to say anything about the N.S.A. [TS]
00:23:28 ◼ ► I guess you're right it's different categories thing like we've never given them user data and blah blah blah [TS]
00:23:36 ◼ ► and like they can't they can't to state what they may be forced not to say anything about it [TS]
00:23:42 ◼ ► but I would imagine they would remove that they would just simply not put that statement in there because it's not an [TS]
00:23:50 ◼ ► and that's their sort of signal to the outside world that government people have come [TS]
00:23:55 ◼ ► and told us not to say anything and we can legally just simply not say anything and you can interpret. [TS]
00:24:00 ◼ ► As a as a sign that we're being told not to say something about something. Yeah maybe but it is two different things. [TS]
00:24:07 ◼ ► It says you know I have it here the very last line of this is thing from Mattapan Serino the very last line of Apple's [TS]
00:24:14 ◼ ► report today states quote Apple has never received an order under section two fifteen of the USA Patriot Act we would [TS]
00:24:20 ◼ ► expect to challenge such an order if served on us which to me sounds like something separate than what we're talking [TS]
00:24:28 ◼ ► Well I mean that's a look at what was Section two fifteen of the Patriot Act says doing a very good actor Paul because [TS]
00:24:33 ◼ ► the government can do whatever the hell you have no rights and some something some sort of vague language as broad [TS]
00:24:48 ◼ ► and honestly I don't know how they would ever determine it is like Marco I said if the best case scenario that it [TS]
00:24:53 ◼ ► actually is an individual developer What are they going to waterboard to God like knowledge on a stake. [TS]
00:25:01 ◼ ► but if you did intentionally of course he's not going to tell you that he did and you can't force him to tell you [TS]
00:25:06 ◼ ► and you just you'll just never know because it is one hundred percent plausible as a bug like people are abuzz all the [TS]
00:25:12 ◼ ► Just you know the winds get pasted twice like Marcus that like there is no literally no way to force someone to. [TS]
00:25:19 ◼ ► You'll never know that I thought you could talk to him to death and he dies and he never said that he did [TS]
00:25:36 ◼ ► Biggest slot machines which is a weird and odd story that's not worth explaining right now [TS]
00:25:47 ◼ ► and because it was done in DOS The bugging in the traditional sense wasn't really a thing. [TS]
00:25:54 ◼ ► So you basically had to put out a bunch of print out a bunch of log statements and so on and so forth. [TS]
00:26:08 ◼ ► and what we were noticing all of a sudden is that after some arbitrary amount of time of going into a game you go into [TS]
00:26:15 ◼ ► them and you go on to the game going to them and you go to the games on the menu at like thirty forty fifty times. [TS]
00:26:20 ◼ ► All of a sudden you get a hard crash and we couldn't figure out what it was and we had some really really good C. [TS]
00:26:31 ◼ ► But there are some really smart guys there now I'm straight out of college so I don't know what crap I'm doing. [TS]
00:26:36 ◼ ► But after a while it was on me to try to figure out and a co-worker actually to try to figure out. [TS]
00:26:48 ◼ ► and you know some of my room much more experience much better coworkers had looked through diffs they'd look through [TS]
00:26:53 ◼ ► check ins nobody could figure out what it was and eventually I figured it out I can't recall if I just spotted it [TS]
00:27:00 ◼ ► or if I looked through the version history of some of all the files that have been changed lately [TS]
00:27:06 ◼ ► but it ended up being was a fall through in a switch statement and in the switch statement [TS]
00:27:14 ◼ ► and in in each case we were instantiating an object that was fairly big I forget exactly what it was [TS]
00:27:21 ◼ ► but is big so what that means is we would create this new object and allocate a bunch of memory for it [TS]
00:27:28 ◼ ► and then there was an accidental fall through that we didn't mean to have and so we would create another one [TS]
00:27:34 ◼ ► and that first object all that memory got leaked and it took us for ever to find it it took it seriously. [TS]
00:27:45 ◼ ► and a co-worker just digging through code for two straight weeks trying to figure out what it was. [TS]
00:27:53 ◼ ► It looked very similar to this go to fail issue there was what appeared on the surface to be. [TS]
00:28:02 ◼ ► and it just so happens that we had forgotten to put the word brake with a semi-colon after it. [TS]
00:28:07 ◼ ► We were leaking memory and after thirty to fifty times going back out to the menu. [TS]
00:28:12 ◼ ► That's because the air they've got instruments you wouldn't know that because you couldn't run the little graph that [TS]
00:28:18 ◼ ► You're absolutely right and I know you're slightly being snarky but that is absolutely true [TS]
00:28:23 ◼ ► and that's part of the reason why I think none of us are necessarily that excited to get rid of a check to see. [TS]
00:28:28 ◼ ► But I bring this up because here was a situation where we had a handful of really good C. [TS]
00:28:33 ◼ ► Post plus developers now we didn't have a lot of process you could say our methodology was not very good [TS]
00:28:45 ◼ ► and nobody could find it because it wasn't something that was visually almost a static Lee obvious [TS]
00:28:57 ◼ ► Now just food for thought is examples of language misfeatures that lead to bugs the language you cite is the fall [TS]
00:29:04 ◼ ► or you need a break statement language misfeature I think in this bug was you know that you can have single single [TS]
00:29:13 ◼ ► and some people say the language misfeatures the white spaces significant in the by them people tell you others will [TS]
00:29:23 ◼ ► or not like bugs happen all the time that aren't security related to displaying bugs and cause things to crash [TS]
00:29:34 ◼ ► and I don't I would love to see some stats on like bugs that are attributable to human error that it could potentially [TS]
00:29:44 ◼ ► have been influenced by language feature so that the single clause if they had that is probably probably pretty high up [TS]
00:29:53 ◼ ► This is just so easy and I feel I put a line underneath it or to indent things wrong in a misleading way. [TS]
00:30:02 ◼ ► Statements for getting the break I mean I can't count how many times I've done that I like it I do it. [TS]
00:30:07 ◼ ► You know usually it's so obvious because there's nothing works at all but if you get on like enough [TS]
00:30:10 ◼ ► and things happen to sort of appear to work you won't notice it because you just write it out [TS]
00:30:15 ◼ ► and the looks is all invented the way you want to be news forgot the put the word on who doesn't forget to put the word [TS]
00:30:19 ◼ ► that's like a rite of passage when you learn the things you will forget the put in break [TS]
00:30:25 ◼ ► and you know your things don't work right. Man I found a nasty bug this week in my P.H.P. [TS]
00:30:44 ◼ ► Arrays are all hashes slash dictionaries it's all like you know arbitrary key to value it can be strings or numbers. [TS]
00:30:55 ◼ ► and you want to do instead be indexed by one of the values on each one like say go ID to object instead of just like [TS]
00:31:02 ◼ ► zero through and add a function to assign the key of each object to be that that property the specified [TS]
00:31:17 ◼ ► The speech we have defined semantics for what what the cars trucks allow you to modify the thing you're into writing [TS]
00:31:24 ◼ ► over and place and which ones don't. He's not really P.H.P. You can generally modify things as you read over them. [TS]
00:31:40 ◼ ► But yeah so as a result I was and I'm going through you know going to be in the numeric indexes [TS]
00:31:47 ◼ ► and I would say All right well I have this property value of this one so unset in America index said that it was that [TS]
00:31:53 ◼ ► and set it to the string index. Cool so what happens when the value of one of those things is like what. [TS]
00:32:00 ◼ ► Happens at the value of the one it was previously an idea zero is two then you go to ID one do that your ID to it [TS]
00:32:09 ◼ ► and that one gets on set and so the resulting a ray can clobber certain elements to base an error value [TS]
00:32:15 ◼ ► and can actually have fewer elements in it than an input of what I was getting I will say you pulled off the first one [TS]
00:32:26 ◼ ► when you were later on fine years of iterating over seventy seven because the iterations I now see the new entry down [TS]
00:32:33 ◼ ► but it's a fact that I can't I don't even know that for sure is a problem with self modifying code here [TS]
00:32:39 ◼ ► and you can in theory get yourself into like an infinite loop of credit where you think his keep getting shoved to the [TS]
00:32:44 ◼ ► end and make a new entry that you then enter eight over the cause and to be shown to the end of the end [TS]
00:32:50 ◼ ► and so yeah that was an obvious like if you looked at the code it looked reasonable legal of course [TS]
00:32:59 ◼ ► and I this was this was a utility function in my framework that's been there for about seven years. [TS]
00:33:13 ◼ ► and maybe all the time to use it so far I like most of the time it just never it never had a situation so I didn't [TS]
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00:35:42 ◼ ► but he he had a site before that that I was I was socialized them a bit while he was working on that through David Karp [TS]
00:35:49 ◼ ► a Tumblr we were all we would go out to dinner a few times here and there and that guy. [TS]
00:36:05 ◼ ► and he really really knows his stuff so I would I would certainly trust us right now to go back for him before the [TS]
00:36:11 ◼ ► sponsor break it would it would be wrong of me not to mention that in Objective C. [TS]
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00:36:23 ◼ ► There are interesting language features that would prevent both of the bugs that Marc and I are talking about. [TS]
00:36:29 ◼ ► Firstly you can't have a full through in any case in a switch statement unless that case is completely empty. [TS]
00:36:37 ◼ ► So you would literally have one line case one Colin the next line case to call one [TS]
00:36:42 ◼ ► and if there's anything in between without a break statement that's a compiler error [TS]
00:36:49 ◼ ► and numerable collection in place you get a I believe that's a runtime error not a compiler error. [TS]
00:37:02 ◼ ► and they think they were just Simla now doing a crawl requires braces on single statement if it doesn't let you do it [TS]
00:37:10 ◼ ► without them. The numbers intentional to avoid this feature because the people who wrote Perl were writing Perl in C. [TS]
00:37:23 ◼ ► but counts up our language well as modifying sets if you integrate over the keys of a ray you can actually modify the [TS]
00:37:34 ◼ ► array because they get sick us out of time and doesn't make reference to the thing. [TS]
00:37:48 ◼ ► They should just deprecate getting the keys and values the same time anyway because I don't go to Perl details [TS]
00:38:02 ◼ ► So that should be deprecated but I think that this is one of those things too like you know the go to fail bug. [TS]
00:38:19 ◼ ► and then a bunch of lines of code below it will those those lines will never be reached because that return statement [TS]
00:38:24 ◼ ► unconditional return will execute and then everything else in the function will never be reached. [TS]
00:38:30 ◼ ► It's if you have this unconditional goto statement which is what the bug line was that skips over that big block of the [TS]
00:38:36 ◼ ► function then that that code is unreachable and so compiler there's a warning for that. In honor of his in G.C.C. [TS]
00:38:48 ◼ ► All option that that a lot of nerds use it's not part of the all mornings default set because I think I was reading a [TS]
00:38:56 ◼ ► little of this I think the main reason why is because there's a lot of like you know libraries [TS]
00:39:05 ◼ ► and so in that's you know it's always it's always a tricky balance of warnings and [TS]
00:39:11 ◼ ► Framework I I always had for the last few years I've used what I call trick development mode which is [TS]
00:39:20 ◼ ► when you're in the development Vironment everything even the notice the lightest level of P.H.P. Warnings. [TS]
00:39:30 ◼ ► and I don't care if it's going to be littered with with is set statements all over the place. [TS]
00:39:47 ◼ ► and on any minor error in development that for I think good reasons why should I be more lenient in production. [TS]
00:39:54 ◼ ► In reality if things are failing anywhere I want to know about that so I can stop it so I can fix it. [TS]
00:40:02 ◼ ► If you don't control your own service which a lot of people don't like this sort of deploying to they have some [TS]
00:40:10 ◼ ► but they don't control every single detail like they don't have their machines basically they're not the one who [TS]
00:40:14 ◼ ► For example they're not the one controlling Apache in the upgrade cycle stuff like that [TS]
00:40:18 ◼ ► and you don't want to run with all the warnings turned on especially with warnings turn into fatal errors in that [TS]
00:40:31 ◼ ► But in your case since you control all of the you control the version of everything is not going to get upgraded behind [TS]
00:40:37 ◼ ► So it is slightly more reasonable to do that I think I would disagree on that I think I think I will I will want that [TS]
00:40:46 ◼ ► and if the if the people who are controlling the servers do any kind of testing like if they you know maybe deploy it [TS]
00:40:52 ◼ ► on film and server or if if you deploy to production you know with stuff like P.H.P. [TS]
00:40:58 ◼ ► Update at least like you do it on one server first and see what happens if you give it that Fluffy you know [TS]
00:41:08 ◼ ► and burn immediately you know it's like to fail early and completely or often whatever the statement is fail [TS]
00:41:14 ◼ ► or the warnings are always going to be something like this language feature is going to be deprecated sometime in the [TS]
00:41:20 ◼ ► and it's like that should not cause your app to go down in production like that did it you'd be mad that it went down [TS]
00:41:29 ◼ ► and you'd be mad because you know they upgraded something and it broke your stuff or whatever [TS]
00:41:32 ◼ ► but like historically in my working career the reason warnings get turned off from production is privileged to the [TS]
00:41:40 ◼ ► when we do control the entire stack merely because a different department in the same company controls like the upgrade [TS]
00:41:47 ◼ ► and the other department doesn't want that department possibly screen them up by you know changing something that [TS]
00:41:53 ◼ ► causes a warning that is totally bogus and immaterial and stupid and really does not have any. [TS]
00:42:00 ◼ ► Do with a functioning application is practically like the developers is like waving at you [TS]
00:42:03 ◼ ► and saying we made a new message here look at our message Hi How you doing message a message [TS]
00:42:11 ◼ ► I'll see it finally go to patch up that things that doesn't emit the warning any more like it'll be invisible [TS]
00:42:26 ◼ ► Well it's when you want to throw a one man shopping controls everything yeah that's fine [TS]
00:42:37 ◼ ► I completely agree with John and I think that comes from the fact that John and I have real jobs [TS]
00:42:43 ◼ ► and it's just you by yourself so it's not easy it's not easy to deal with those sorts of issues and even consulting. [TS]
00:43:09 ◼ ► or may not really have the talent in the house to figure out when some esoteric warning happens [TS]
00:43:15 ◼ ► and what to do about it and we're not necessarily contracted with this client anymore so they're on their own [TS]
00:43:22 ◼ ► and not to say that we you know silently squash or exceptions or anything like that [TS]
00:43:35 ◼ ► The Sutil chain is better about doing this as a bridge is basically why miners wall doesn't print so many areas because [TS]
00:43:50 ◼ ► Because the wall is not you know historical baggage like that whereas in the much looser higher level languages in the [TS]
00:44:00 ◼ ► No problem throwing out the next version the next minor version of like Ruby or node or something like that [TS]
00:44:05 ◼ ► and adding a bunch of warnings because because they're trying to influence the people who are using the language [TS]
00:44:10 ◼ ► because they're trying to warn about deprecated features because they think they've decided that this could potentially [TS]
00:44:14 ◼ ► be a problem like you know because their warnings like we don't know this is wrong otherwise you wouldn't have compiled [TS]
00:44:26 ◼ ► or that says don't worry about that they like you were saying with the like a lot of other legally put pragma as an [TS]
00:44:31 ◼ ► lexically scoped warnings restrictions they look I know normally and more warning would be emitted here [TS]
00:44:36 ◼ ► but I know what I'm doing let the thing go past me to write that right into the code. [TS]
00:44:43 ◼ ► and oh you see compiler is not going to suddenly add a bunch of things to minus wall. [TS]
00:44:54 ◼ ► and eventually just the fatigue of the organization keeping up with these things is like you know politically speaking [TS]
00:44:59 ◼ ► they'll be like Can we just not make the warnings into exceptions and production and just look at the logs [TS]
00:45:04 ◼ ► and we've seen or expects them that will very quickly go through once production is down a few times and bosses [TS]
00:45:16 ◼ ► or his boss's boss why it actually really is good a good thing that production went down because now we know right away. [TS]
00:45:24 ◼ ► I think this is a lot like ending a Lisp program with a bunch of clothes in parentheses just you know just in case you [TS]
00:45:28 ◼ ► make a mistake which was actually the recommended thing for in my eye com site you will want to run every class [TS]
00:45:35 ◼ ► The professor actually instructed us to just put a bunch of these in the file to make it easier for her [TS]
00:45:43 ◼ ► but from a profit from a practical perspective if your company is a twenty four seven online company [TS]
00:45:48 ◼ ► and they you they lose let's say five thousand dollars in revenue for every sixty seconds your servers are down. [TS]
00:45:54 ◼ ► It is much harder to make the argument that Margo is made like it really depends on the situation and some reason. [TS]
00:46:00 ◼ ► Stupid like institutional reasons where there's you know kingdoms within the company that are fighting each other [TS]
00:46:08 ◼ ► and they don't control the deployment like those are sicknesses within the company [TS]
00:46:11 ◼ ► but then there are legitimate reasons like will say it is a company where the Embry works together [TS]
00:46:29 ◼ ► and so yeah like sometimes you just you just practically speaking don't have the luxury of turning all warnings into [TS]
00:46:34 ◼ ► exceptions I think this is everything you've just said like you know like really critical that it is having production [TS]
00:46:43 ◼ ► That's all the more reason why you shouldn't be recklessly playing updates in production to your critical code like [TS]
00:46:49 ◼ ► your language interpreter like the hip if you're deploying a new version of P.H.P. [TS]
00:46:58 ◼ ► and you have the kind of situation where you're going to lose tons of money every minute that your site is down the [TS]
00:47:05 ◼ ► and like any of the weight of your programmer like that's to me that's that's like a pretty there's a number of things [TS]
00:47:18 ◼ ► and unexpected warnings not just because they're going to the version of the anagrams interpreter [TS]
00:47:22 ◼ ► but simply because they could bethen have coverage and you know it's like the runtime they're basically runtime [TS]
00:47:27 ◼ ► or things like that that exist as a thing in the hammock language especially for web programming that if you don't [TS]
00:47:46 ◼ ► and because that turned into a fatal exception there's there's always between you know with with any kind of non error [TS]
00:48:00 ◼ ► You know convenience of easiness and tolerance of edge cases versus trying to be correct all the time [TS]
00:48:10 ◼ ► and it's you know kind of like security it is like it is a balance between convenience and easy and ease [TS]
00:48:18 ◼ ► and you know if if you're to the point where you're permitting lots of warnings to happen in production unexpectedly I [TS]
00:48:26 ◼ ► think that's a sign that something is wrong that well you know you're not permitting them you just don't want to be [TS]
00:48:31 ◼ ► fatal errors you'll address them as soon as you see them because one of the could be data driven for example value [TS]
00:48:35 ◼ ► comes in and it's undefined and how I was value undefined it OK for it to be undefined [TS]
00:48:39 ◼ ► but there's some warning that if you use an undefined value as one function it says this is unexpected [TS]
00:48:46 ◼ ► but please don't give me warning about undefined values I pass them because OK for it to be undefined [TS]
00:48:51 ◼ ► but you never get that coding testing and it gets like warnings aren't necessarily. [TS]
00:48:55 ◼ ► I know people like to turn them on development so they can just get things clean because it's that much easier to [TS]
00:48:59 ◼ ► verify that there's nothing there because once you let any leak through then you just it becomes an avalanche [TS]
00:49:08 ◼ ► and Mabel ing these things isn't necessarily saying we are telling you there's something wrong with your code in fact [TS]
00:49:16 ◼ ► and it's just really hard to be at the whim of these messages that don't actually tell you anything useful about your [TS]
00:49:22 ◼ ► code in production turning him into pillars leave them on a production log them immediately address each one of them so [TS]
00:49:29 ◼ ► that you get the volume of those warnings down to zero again but turn them into fatal exception. [TS]
00:50:00 ◼ ► Situation you don't need to if you don't need an hour you'll know exactly what line it came from you can get a stack [TS]
00:50:04 ◼ ► trace a bit like you like it's usually so easy to address because your media look at the warning look at the line of [TS]
00:50:13 ◼ ► and you just put in the pragmatist don't emit that warning from this line anymore. Done and done. [TS]
00:50:17 ◼ ► If it's not an acceptable condition in Congratulations you've been alerted to potential bugging you need to change your [TS]
00:50:22 ◼ ► Both of those situations one of these are dispensed in two seconds and so there's not a barrier to entry that [TS]
00:50:27 ◼ ► and the second one is you found a legitimate bug I think developers will want to fix that as well I don't I don't think [TS]
00:50:35 ◼ ► when the fatal error is mode because that will ensure that their volume is zero in development it's just [TS]
00:50:39 ◼ ► when you get to production that you want to crank it back one notch to basically to make yourself not go down to reason [TS]
00:50:46 ◼ ► but again I guess I think the human behavior like the reality of of human nature is such that if you tolerate those [TS]
00:50:59 ◼ ► In practice that's going to lead to a lot of messy code staying there indefinitely. [TS]
00:51:09 ◼ ► They were innovations are going to one thing it's making policies annoying policies so I actually have more faith in [TS]
00:51:16 ◼ ► the large corporations ability to make a stupid policy that requires their who are not stupid [TS]
00:51:22 ◼ ► and to be able to make a policy that people don't like following gives us human nature to not want to deal with those [TS]
00:51:28 ◼ ► I mean it goes the other way like the policy that says you gotta have all warnings on when you [TS]
00:51:32 ◼ ► when you build your application a lot of individual developers won't like that because they find it tedious to go [TS]
00:51:39 ◼ ► and indie developers tend to have to psych each other up to say I know I should be running with everything but I'm not. [TS]
00:51:45 ◼ ► And like they can have to encourage each other to do that because they know it's good for them [TS]
00:52:02 ◼ ► Whenever anything goes wrong it's almost like a positive event of a rabbit again which eventually leads to a gigantic [TS]
00:52:15 ◼ ► Make a policy sort of happen again like they wouldn't deposit we must have zero warnings by the Tuesday after the build [TS]
00:52:25 ◼ ► and like that that is I think something that they were they are good at right now I think. [TS]
00:52:30 ◼ ► MARCO What would your maybe losing sight of is that as a lot of times going to having a production failure it just [TS]
00:52:43 ◼ ► but you were you're coming from the position as you should of someone who is not only V.P. [TS]
00:52:50 ◼ ► On coder but is also the boss and so if if overcast is out in the wild and it goes down who do you have to answer to. [TS]
00:53:02 ◼ ► Default time zone said well you know you're modifying other collection monitoring over these know that you shouldn't [TS]
00:53:13 ◼ ► but you don't I mean like you have to answer yes you have to answer your customers and that is kind of crummy [TS]
00:53:18 ◼ ► They could walk away and OK we can go and we can go down that rabbit hole if you really want to [TS]
00:53:22 ◼ ► but in a direct sense they can't fire you they can't not give you a bonus that year they can't impure Rickly hurt you [TS]
00:53:33 ◼ ► and it's very different for I think I speak for John and saying it's very different for he [TS]
00:53:36 ◼ ► and I because if we make some sort of decision that we think that dying in production is better somebody many many many [TS]
00:53:46 ◼ ► rungs up the ladder from us may not agree with that and I guarantee you the bigger the company the more. [TS]
00:53:54 ◼ ► Well in my experience the bigger the company the the happier they are to find a head to chop off and what role. [TS]
00:54:00 ◼ ► Well the big thing is you will not be able to convince them even if you're one hundred percent right because there are [TS]
00:54:07 ◼ ► nor where they were talk about warnings like this was a legitimate reason it is actually better that this happened that [TS]
00:54:12 ◼ ► Good luck convincing somebody three levels up in the org chart of that even if you were just so right [TS]
00:54:17 ◼ ► and everybody who has a sibling to you in your time below you agree that they all signed a petition they all got on the [TS]
00:54:29 ◼ ► and that's the harsh world that we live in you know let me let me challenge our listeners here. [TS]
00:54:33 ◼ ► I honestly curious I would like to know if you work at a company that has a big important online infrastructure. [TS]
00:54:45 ◼ ► And isn't google stuff like that you know big important companies that where you do things well online [TS]
00:54:57 ◼ ► and you can write us on the feedback form honestly you can use the early Twitter accounts. [TS]
00:55:02 ◼ ► We don't need this to be like you know on the record I'm just curious to know what what do the big companies do in [TS]
00:55:13 ◼ ► Generally you know well run companies I think at that scale it's kind of different I think Google and Amazon half [TS]
00:55:20 ◼ ► and Netflix although it has a design for expected failure so they have to have basically instead of an organism that is [TS]
00:55:28 ◼ ► Cell death is expected and they just have little busy robots going through cleaning up the dead cells [TS]
00:55:35 ◼ ► and I'm thinking of like of the medium term ones where you're not that big every human in the world is not hitting your [TS]
00:55:42 ◼ ► It just absolutely asked me like stock trading or banking things whereas only a few computers in this network [TS]
00:55:50 ◼ ► and into I forget the trading are they doing something about doing bank transfers but these three [TS]
00:55:55 ◼ ► or four computers have to always be up otherwise people whose millions of dollars you know. [TS]
00:56:00 ◼ ► But he can like that's more reason why you should be really careful what code runs on them [TS]
00:56:07 ◼ ► Well you're not you're not ignoring what is going around circles it's like the question of do you want something that [TS]
00:56:13 ◼ ► or to cause a piece of work to be put into someone's been to fix that with a deadline because that's the policy [TS]
00:56:19 ◼ ► But anyway if people defend a feedback on what are they the policies I think you'll be horrified to find that people [TS]
00:56:28 ◼ ► or even they're not even enabled like if we just took a mass survey what we'd find out be like warnings now we turn [TS]
00:56:34 ◼ ► those authors unless you're absolutely right you have the right the other thing I should point out is that you saying [TS]
00:56:41 ◼ ► Well I shouldn't say that the way you phrased the question was if your livelihood your company's livelihood is based on [TS]
00:56:51 ◼ ► But what you're losing sight of is a lot of times my clients at the job in which I work. [TS]
00:56:58 ◼ ► We often times but not always do like a corporate Internet you know same sort of thing that igloo does [TS]
00:57:03 ◼ ► and a lot of times we're told this cannot go down when in reality nothing will go broke in. [TS]
00:57:12 ◼ ► If the internet is down you don't I mean so a lot of times from on high they say this Internet will be up always [TS]
00:57:21 ◼ ► And so we have to make decisions because as consultants based on the requirement from the client even if we think it's [TS]
00:57:28 ◼ ► ball and I think that John was alluding to that earlier and so a lot of times even if you could say [TS]
00:57:36 ◼ ► So a lot of times clients will say well it's better for going to be up or work come in and call on you guys [TS]
00:57:41 ◼ ► and we're going to be asked and I hope you know you want to tell me about some cool yeah. [TS]
00:57:46 ◼ ► And before that so that I think that you're right that for your situation where you know if if it's consulting a [TS]
00:58:00 ◼ ► Effectively it's going to have a zero maintenance for a while whether that's weeks or years [TS]
00:58:07 ◼ ► and that's a different environment where you expect the software to just tolerate existing [TS]
00:58:12 ◼ ► and whatever upgrades happen on its server which probably won't even be a whole lot honestly. [TS]
00:58:19 ◼ ► But you know this thing has to operate with no programmer intervention indefinitely. Right. [TS]
00:58:26 ◼ ► Then I completely agree that you know you're already doing something that's by software development standards pretty [TS]
00:58:32 ◼ ► bad. If you're going to have and maintain software in production use for a long time right. [TS]
00:58:41 ◼ ► and so you're right that like you know in practice in a lot of places you have to accommodate for that [TS]
00:58:45 ◼ ► but that's typically not the kind of place as you said it's not the kind of place where it's super important that there [TS]
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01:04:08 ◼ ► Are you really going to be that if you really want me to abandon software my set all Jews even though it perfectly fits [TS]
01:04:14 ◼ ► the thread of this episode. Then we can move on. John what do you think about this. He changed so much. [TS]
01:04:23 ◼ ► CAVE You know yourself you know I thought I would say though that over the time I think it deserves to be kind of like [TS]
01:04:30 ◼ ► in the prime spot with more time. I leave it up that I am abstaining from this vote. [TS]
01:04:39 ◼ ► I'm prepared for both I kind of feel like that already has a big enough topic that we would want to jam into the into [TS]
01:04:51 ◼ ► but I'm I'm going to agree with John's non-vote and say that I am not trying to avoid it. [TS]
01:05:00 ◼ ► and God help you trying to edit this episode because now I've turned it into a complete cluster. [TS]
01:05:09 ◼ ► It's all and I'm excited about that this is this is what Bill Clinton for Casey this is this the show right. [TS]
01:05:26 ◼ ► and told us oh you should really was in the script episode in script notes is a pod cast by two screenwriters [TS]
01:05:32 ◼ ► and I can even tell you who they are off to my head. John August and some other guy. [TS]
01:05:40 ◼ ► And I only know John all this is because he was another part guess that I listen to [TS]
01:05:44 ◼ ► and once I have I've seen his movies and I like them and I'm like oh he's the guy who did that. [TS]
01:05:49 ◼ ► But yeah I don't know that guy sorry. But now that other guy knows exactly how I feel anyway. [TS]
01:06:00 ◼ ► Apparently the defacto industry standard for screenwriting is called What what is called the final draft. [TS]
01:06:08 ◼ ► Thank you I have wanted to say Final Cut final draft and so it's a screenwriting application [TS]
01:06:32 ◼ ► but this past episode at the time we recorded this they had actually had the C.E.O. [TS]
01:06:38 ◼ ► Of the company that makes final draft as well as what a proud duct managers I write product [TS]
01:06:44 ◼ ► or project I don't know the difference I live in my own little world here with some other guy would just call that [TS]
01:06:57 ◼ ► So the two of them came on the show which I really respect because it was clear from the get go that this wasn't going [TS]
01:07:09 ◼ ► and started telling them all the things that they don't really like about Final Draft [TS]
01:07:14 ◼ ► and why they feel like they've been wronged by not only the high purchase price of what two hundred fifty boxes are [TS]
01:07:23 ◼ ► Some like that some with two hundred fifty bucks or so for final draft but also the slow updates [TS]
01:07:28 ◼ ► and it was a really fascinating view of both sides of the coin of software development both as the company [TS]
01:07:43 ◼ ► and how they don't entirely understand what we go through in the same way that the C.E.O. [TS]
01:07:50 ◼ ► and That other to the long suffering employee don't really understand what their customers go through either [TS]
01:07:55 ◼ ► and I have some takeaways from this but let me let me open the floor to you. You guys and see us. [TS]
01:08:01 ◼ ► MARCO What did you think about all this. Well first I think. So I I listen to the podcast. [TS]
01:08:14 ◼ ► and all that was before I had read this follow up article from there's a guy named Kent Testament who writes a [TS]
01:08:34 ◼ ► and that's one of the reasons why he started writing his own because he hated soundtracks so much so he started writing [TS]
01:08:50 ◼ ► He broke down exactly some of the problems with with final draft technically like for instance that it still doesn't [TS]
01:09:04 ◼ ► and that one of the reasons why why they had so much trouble going Retton was not necessarily because it was using [TS]
01:09:11 ◼ ► carbon if you can do right now with carbon it's because they were using a quick draw which was deprecated what twenty [TS]
01:09:19 ◼ ► years ago ten years ago a long time ago at any rate they thought of quite some technical debt. [TS]
01:09:30 ◼ ► Basically seems like they wrote this application you know in the eighty's and ninety's and have not [TS]
01:09:37 ◼ ► and have been kind of sitting on it and not doing the really hard migrations and not modernizing all this time [TS]
01:09:44 ◼ ► and then all of a sudden they were forced to by the customers with things like retina [TS]
01:09:52 ◼ ► And so it's a pretty typical story of pretty severe technical dead being. No word for way too long. [TS]
01:10:02 ◼ ► I think what I got out of what out of the C.E.O.'s comments attitude was that you know he wants to make all of his [TS]
01:10:12 ◼ ► and this is something you know the reason why I think it's important for developers to hear this is because you can you [TS]
01:10:27 ◼ ► and then you can see the customers arguing that well you know your business stuff is your problem [TS]
01:10:32 ◼ ► and it's not serving us at all and you're kind of treating us badly in your product needs a lot of work [TS]
01:10:39 ◼ ► So you can see both sides of it and you can kind of see like as as a as a programmer or as a as a. [TS]
01:10:52 ◼ ► and It should scare the crap out of you because that's a plausible outcome for somebody software developers. [TS]
01:10:58 ◼ ► I think developers should listen to this because it's people with technical knowledge of both sides of the software [TS]
01:11:08 ◼ ► or into the into development thing will have the unique experience of listening to a podcast with two camps of angry [TS]
01:11:14 ◼ ► people both of whom are just massively wrong at the fundamental level about the major points of their arguments like [TS]
01:11:23 ◼ ► and how hard is it to do this is like you know from the outside they think everything is easy [TS]
01:11:29 ◼ ► and Apple gives away the Oh as for free why can't you give away final referee like that just so I don't feel like you [TS]
01:11:34 ◼ ► know where they're coming from but it's like man they have no idea whether I was a software and as Mark I'm going out. [TS]
01:11:41 ◼ ► Is being defensive in ways that are not appropriate for his job as it's all like it's his job to figure out a way to [TS]
01:11:51 ◼ ► Those are all your problems you have to figure out a way that's that's called being a software entrepreneur. [TS]
01:11:55 ◼ ► Like you have to print stuff out you can't throw it back in customers faces and say you don't realize. [TS]
01:12:02 ◼ ► Doesn't have a lot of technical knowledge so he doesn't even know the detail things like I thought I want to jump into [TS]
01:12:07 ◼ ► the podcast and explain to each one of them why they want why they're both wrong new customers. [TS]
01:12:12 ◼ ► But things can't be free in your crazy let me explain why you're reading the wrong [TS]
01:12:15 ◼ ► and you see you know you don't even know why this is hard but it is really hard if you had a clue how hard it was. [TS]
01:12:20 ◼ ► You want to start on these transition years and years ago and yes they might have discerned your company [TS]
01:12:24 ◼ ► but like look how many other companies have been left in the wake of like not being able to keep up with the changes [TS]
01:12:28 ◼ ► and I was ten and I was like that's your job but you want to you want to be a big boy in the software world. [TS]
01:12:33 ◼ ► It's not easy like the I think there was something which started in classic macro us [TS]
01:12:38 ◼ ► and it had to go through some of these attacks that had to go through all these things. [TS]
01:12:41 ◼ ► They had quick draw they had to get rid of that they were carbon they had to find a way to you know go on modern Then [TS]
01:12:47 ◼ ► they had to adopt unit code they had they went through like you know these are like at sui and like or taxed [TS]
01:12:53 ◼ ► and whatever the hell they've gone through multiple different underlying text engines you have to do that otherwise [TS]
01:12:58 ◼ ► you're dead and you know some other nimble competitor who doesn't have your legacy concerns makes a new application [TS]
01:13:03 ◼ ► and the only reason you think the sessile is because you're an entrenched interests [TS]
01:13:06 ◼ ► or whatever like we've all seen this play out a million times so those two guys those two camps of people were just [TS]
01:13:15 ◼ ► and is both fundamentally wrong about about their complaints about the other person [TS]
01:13:20 ◼ ► and you know you can't have an app that has a code base that you can't write an app in one nine hundred ninety [TS]
01:13:31 ◼ ► and not have to have gone through a few really painful transitions in that time unless you coast on like well we're [TS]
01:13:37 ◼ ► just so entrenched where the big really we can afford to like even if you do that your time you have a longer time [TS]
01:13:44 ◼ ► and you're like Well now I guess is the time we have to move quicker it's like nope sorry too late now you dead. [TS]
01:13:49 ◼ ► Like I don't think final draft is in that situation yet because they are such an entrenched interest. [TS]
01:13:53 ◼ ► How look at Adobe Look how long it took them we mentioned the look last show look how long it took them to go. [TS]
01:14:00 ◼ ► Photoshop you know we are Photo Shop we are the image editor we ate up all the other ones you know we bought Macromedia [TS]
01:14:25 ◼ ► We sell and maintain a software application like that's a dynamic business you can't just keep making the same thing [TS]
01:14:37 ◼ ► and to make it so that your have to your company doesn't have to do the hard things and I don't know. [TS]
01:14:45 ◼ ► Only a handful that I'd like to quickly go over that that just really stuck out to me. [TS]
01:14:56 ◼ ► Well this is John and Craig will will give us an entire operating system away for free. [TS]
01:15:03 ◼ ► No that wasn't them that was the C.E.O. Citing that as I was a problem that they had. [TS]
01:15:12 ◼ ► but I think it was the the complaining customers who are saying it wasn't us it was something about like look how cheap [TS]
01:15:19 ◼ ► software is like software has been devalued therefore your thing should be one dollar it's like selling it telling [TS]
01:15:25 ◼ ► Adobe that for a shop should be free or like ten cents because Angry Birds are things [TS]
01:15:36 ◼ ► From what I gather they were complaining twofold both that it is not a high end of quality product to be worth the high [TS]
01:15:44 ◼ ► and that the upgrades are not worth the upgrade price because of how little progress is made relatively speaking in [TS]
01:15:51 ◼ ► each upgrade that would that seem like they're bigger complaint not that the app should be free or very very cheap. [TS]
01:15:56 ◼ ► It seems like they be very happy to pay two hundred fifty dollars for the. If it was a better app. [TS]
01:16:01 ◼ ► Well but even then they want to pay two hundred fifty dollars ten years ago and never pay again and just [TS]
01:16:08 ◼ ► and I didn't get that impression I don't I definitely got that impression that that's like yeah I did not that they [TS]
01:16:12 ◼ ► would that I think that I had the impression that they would have hated to spend two hundred fifty dollars way back [TS]
01:16:17 ◼ ► when and then I just want that app to work forever and continue to be updated with the O. S. [TS]
01:16:22 ◼ ► and to get Unicode support never They all for free like they seem to have an entitlement complex that was not not [TS]
01:16:33 ◼ ► and it was kind of like compounded by the fact that this is crappy software that hasn't been updated so they feel [TS]
01:16:40 ◼ ► I guess mostly because they have it revenge like they feel like they have to have this program because like everybody [TS]
01:16:45 ◼ ► uses it I think that's that's the core of their dissatisfaction is like it's like an abusive relationship with like [TS]
01:16:51 ◼ ► well you have to get final draft everybody used graph and then you're already better at this thing [TS]
01:16:56 ◼ ► and if it's not the most amazing program that does everything perfectly and then you just can be pissed [TS]
01:17:02 ◼ ► and they seem to be a lot wrong with this program I think Marco's is right though that I don't think they were [TS]
01:17:08 ◼ ► embittered necessarily about paying for it it just seems that they they thought that it was an order of magnitude too [TS]
01:17:17 ◼ ► but instead a two hundred fifty dollars it should be one hundred dollars up front for the first release. [TS]
01:17:32 ◼ ► and even I would probably agree to this a heck of a lot of money from really not that much. [TS]
01:17:36 ◼ ► Update right now it was cited several times I think it was one hundred dollars for the retina upgrade update whatever [TS]
01:17:45 ◼ ► but who is that there's an application that I use for my livelihood I would pay eighty dollars for an upgrade like I do [TS]
01:17:51 ◼ ► I wouldn't blink at that because like I say you use Photoshop to do your work you're a graphic artist [TS]
01:18:02 ◼ ► and at eighty dollars the upgrade I mean I would pay it would wouldn't any of you pay it. [TS]
01:18:07 ◼ ► Yeah I mean I suppose I was like maybe we have different I guess we probably value software differently because we kind [TS]
01:18:15 ◼ ► but it's not like it's like fifty grand I mean it's not you know it's not a site license the CAD program like they just [TS]
01:18:24 ◼ ► Like that's why I think they just they're getting used to the world where everything is like cheap or free and [TS]
01:18:32 ◼ ► and I think it all gets back to it's because they don't like this till they feel like they're forced to use it if they [TS]
01:18:36 ◼ ► had their choice they would use something different and better and it's like if you're going to force me to buy it [TS]
01:18:45 ◼ ► and you needed it for your work like this like say you hate Microsoft Word you have to get it because you deal with [TS]
01:18:49 ◼ ► or they insist that you send him everything in doc format right then you'd be pissed that the only you going to do like [TS]
01:18:56 ◼ ► an eighth grade office in the only change was that it was red and incompatible with Mavericks then you'd be best [TS]
01:19:02 ◼ ► but it's mostly mostly just because you hate words so much that any money you put towards continuing this charade of [TS]
01:19:07 ◼ ► having to use this program to have other people like that's where I feel like they're coming from you I think it's that [TS]
01:19:13 ◼ ► but it's also that what was once a decent product has stagnated the impression I got and I've never used final draft [TS]
01:19:20 ◼ ► but the impression I got was that it was at one point a good thing like what they were saying about how based on the [TS]
01:19:29 ◼ ► or The printed document you could take a guess at about how long the script was that was very quote apparently [TS]
01:19:34 ◼ ► something that the C.E.O. Seem to think that that was unique to them. Twenty ways. [TS]
01:19:39 ◼ ► The product started pretty solid and pretty good but kind of never really went anywhere and [TS]
01:19:47 ◼ ► and Craig were for example really I'm bitter that it took so long to get retina support in there [TS]
01:19:55 ◼ ► You knew this was coming you knew this was coming how did you not figure this out how did you not do it. [TS]
01:20:00 ◼ ► At first I was like well you know it's hard I still have my fast text update for I was seventeen I'm a slacker [TS]
01:20:07 ◼ ► and I have better things to do with my time but you know I can understand that well then the C.E.O. [TS]
01:20:13 ◼ ► You know we're forty people and I think to myself OK so how did you not get retina done with forty people [TS]
01:20:35 ◼ ► and showed it to us if that's how you learn to read then shows you're not engaged with the platform on which you deploy [TS]
01:20:40 ◼ ► your software or even trivial. You don't even subscribe to MacWorld like you do nothing. [TS]
01:20:45 ◼ ► You know forget about going to see which of course you should do if your if your job is that you write software product [TS]
01:20:50 ◼ ► for the mag for crying out loud. Right. Yeah this is kind of pressing like the C.E.O. [TS]
01:21:01 ◼ ► and saying oh it seems because every word out of his mouth was like Mark I said it's like the answer to every single [TS]
01:21:10 ◼ ► But you know I mean it may be the natural way of things is that you've now painted yourself into a tactical corner [TS]
01:21:16 ◼ ► and it will be a blessing for the industry because we can all give our money to the other hungry [TS]
01:21:20 ◼ ► or developers who if they're on like people go through exact same cycles you get big become popular not update their [TS]
01:21:25 ◼ ► software for a decade to crumble under their own weight and the cycle will continue. [TS]
01:21:33 ◼ ► and so like it's I don't I guess he doesn't have people telling him don't go on to a program [TS]
01:21:38 ◼ ► and tell even what your customers are actually wrong about like everything should be free [TS]
01:21:42 ◼ ► and you know it's not like you can click onto a program and and tell them about all your woes and [TS]
01:21:49 ◼ ► and now it's like I guess maybe he was hoping for empathy like that they would put themselves into his shoe as the [TS]
01:21:55 ◼ ► non-technical C.E.O. Of a company that made terrible strategic decisions for the past. [TS]
01:22:01 ◼ ► and I feel bad for you it's all right if I hear software I mean one of the one thing I noticed case you have this in [TS]
01:22:10 ◼ ► One of the one of the more interesting parts of of this dynamic I thought was that the C.E.O. [TS]
01:22:22 ◼ ► and I believe it was ninety two percent of the of the people said that they are very happy with Final Draft [TS]
01:22:35 ◼ ► and Craig briefly mention like well you know that's like that only people who responded to the survey which is [TS]
01:22:46 ◼ ► or you know like it's that's so not a random sample of what people think of your product. [TS]
01:22:52 ◼ ► And the C.E.O.'s entire attitude seem to just be that well we keep hearing from people who like it [TS]
01:23:02 ◼ ► and we don't have to like his attitude from the very beginning was we're fine because some people like us [TS]
01:23:07 ◼ ► and therefore we don't need to make any changes at all and it's so easy for people to fall into that trap. [TS]
01:23:13 ◼ ► You know if you select what you're listening to and I've been I've never seen this app [TS]
01:23:22 ◼ ► Like I know I've heard about this app for four years now about how much people hate this random you know Edge [TS]
01:23:28 ◼ ► conversations here and there and not even being in the business I know people hate it. [TS]
01:23:37 ◼ ► and it's so easy it's so easy to surround yourself only by the the inputs that you want to believe. [TS]
01:23:44 ◼ ► I'm sure there's a term for that like there's it's so easy to fall into that that this guy honestly I think he honestly [TS]
01:24:00 ◼ ► and aggressive in his response I don't know if I really believe that he was sincere that he really believed that [TS]
01:24:06 ◼ ► but like it's possible the Nile is pretty strong but I think the reason you heard about it [TS]
01:24:10 ◼ ► and I have as well even though we're not screenwriters is because we travel in software development circles [TS]
01:24:16 ◼ ► and you can you can smell like death on it you know even if even if you don't know if you think you're like oh jeez [TS]
01:24:23 ◼ ► this program has not been updated for a while you see old I began I don't know years works [TS]
01:24:27 ◼ ► but I bet we could pick up like it's using older controls that should be using newer ones like maybe for a long time [TS]
01:24:34 ◼ ► or looks like was rendered different exists Quickdraw unlike you know we could tell that that there are problems with [TS]
01:24:40 ◼ ► and the reason I think he may be right if you took a random sampling of their customer base is because their customer base [TS]
01:24:46 ◼ ► are not technical people and they view this as kind of like especially since it's such an institution. [TS]
01:24:51 ◼ ► They view it as if you want to become a screenwriter. This is what you get and this is the tool you deal with. [TS]
01:24:58 ◼ ► but like you know you might as well complain about the weather because to do your job you have to use Final Draft in [TS]
01:25:03 ◼ ► the same way that you might say you have to use Photoshop if you're a graphic designer [TS]
01:25:10 ◼ ► but they're non-technical people so they're not equipped to to understand what's wrong with this program and why. [TS]
01:25:15 ◼ ► And they're more willing to accept it like whatever's wrong just the way it is what can you do so in that respect they [TS]
01:25:25 ◼ ► but the thing that makes me think of in the worst case scenario is I will bet you in two thousand [TS]
01:25:32 ◼ ► If you were to survey all Black Berry users they'd say they love their Blackberry. [TS]
01:25:38 ◼ ► and you can thank all the people have Blackberries love it it's like yes but the time has passed that by [TS]
01:25:43 ◼ ► and customers may have it and may love it and may be Stockholm Syndrome or the maybe not know better [TS]
01:25:54 ◼ ► Yeah I think I found interesting about this and it's the only other quote that I that I want. [TS]
01:26:00 ◼ ► Bring up is apparently there was a feature called they called a collaborator which I guess was some sort of [TS]
01:26:06 ◼ ► collaborative writing thing where you can work on a screenplay two people can work on screenplay at the same time [TS]
01:26:22 ◼ ► when it was on a peer to peer technology with no security. It would still work like that. [TS]
01:26:29 ◼ ► when they built this feature that was designed to be used between two people probably not colocated they did it without [TS]
01:26:38 ◼ ► even thinking about firewalls and I mostly wrote it in ninety six. Are you kidding. Like how is that OK. [TS]
01:26:47 ◼ ► And that just completely sealed the deal in my mind that screenwriters don't have firewalls care if you think they have [TS]
01:26:53 ◼ ► There are lonely people in their apartments with internet connection slaving away in the next great script [TS]
01:26:59 ◼ ► and every router since nineteen since two thousand and one hasn't included a firewall in it [TS]
01:27:09 ◼ ► and that's the thing is even if that is such an obvious technical hurdle that you would have to get over to do that [TS]
01:27:20 ◼ ► and I guess they've pulled it since they shipped it without even thinking about that like how is that possible. [TS]
01:27:30 ◼ ► or if these developers are good just on believably indescribably out of touch management or both. [TS]
01:27:36 ◼ ► If I was on a podcast I would have also brought the MET a point which is that the screenwriting format is ridiculous [TS]
01:27:48 ◼ ► and it is held aloft by the collective you know by tradition basically this is the way it's always done this is what a [TS]
01:28:03 ◼ ► Like it can continue to be held aloft by that like sort of oral tradition and indoctrination of new people [TS]
01:28:09 ◼ ► and it is true that this is what a screenplay looks like. But the format is dumb it is not like it's my space font. [TS]
01:28:15 ◼ ► It's formatted crazily lots of things are in all caps and everyone who enters the industry and I really get used to it. [TS]
01:28:24 ◼ ► but bottom line objectively wipe out all the people who've ever seen a screenplay. [TS]
01:28:28 ◼ ► Show them this for a show the new people. This format they'll be like is like it is it is not of this time. [TS]
01:28:33 ◼ ► It is of a different time of a time of typewriters and one is based on an all caps and not you know it's dumb. [TS]
01:28:42 ◼ ► The ideal thing to happen for the entire industry would be to not only for a final draft to be disrupted [TS]
01:28:52 ◼ ► Any group of people who is not not raring for you know amazing disruption innovation is screenwriters [TS]
01:28:59 ◼ ► and entertainment is true they just want their format they want to be the way it is. [TS]
01:29:01 ◼ ► They just want slightly better tools to work on and they will consider that a big victory [TS]
01:29:09 ◼ ► Well and to be fair in the fall of episode of their pod cast John and Craig did address that a little bit [TS]
01:29:15 ◼ ► and talking about things like how the one paid for minute thing is this kind of elementary assumption that you know [TS]
01:29:21 ◼ ► it's like three paragraph essay you're taught in middle school it's you know it's like it's a very basic thing that you [TS]
01:29:26 ◼ ► know in practice once you get once you're a real professional It doesn't really it's not that simple [TS]
01:29:32 ◼ ► or it's not necessary to rely on things you know assumptions like that are these tenets like that [TS]
01:29:37 ◼ ► and there's also this thing called Fountain which from what I gather is like a markdown like [TS]
01:29:42 ◼ ► or markdown based plain text format that doesn't weigh with manual pagination or stuff like that [TS]
01:29:50 ◼ ► and the problem really seems to be that that final draft is not his final draft has this this position. [TS]
01:30:03 ◼ ► or at least they have to date where they were the standard of they have their own file format [TS]
01:30:08 ◼ ► and there they are like you know they're relying on these invariants that OK well pagination matters above all else [TS]
01:30:22 ◼ ► Just like so many other technical industries where now there's a whole lot of other apps coming out some of them cheap [TS]
01:30:29 ◼ ► and terrible but some of them good that are doing things more in a more modern way [TS]
01:30:45 ◼ ► and replaced by one thing I think is going to end up being diverted and replaced by a few standards [TS]
01:30:58 ◼ ► but again I think by now all three of us are talking us and we all know nothing about [TS]
01:31:04 ◼ ► and we're going to get all the e-mail people explaining the various features of the screenplay format that were created [TS]
01:31:10 ◼ ► and I'm sure like the formatting in the layout Everything has had a purpose originally [TS]
01:31:14 ◼ ► but some aspects of it are really just artifacts of the technology that was available at the time specifically you know [TS]
01:31:22 ◼ ► The layout being done basically by serious spaces of the model space finally all those things are done because that's [TS]
01:31:27 ◼ ► what you had that's how you know you were going to typeset it like a book because that's not efficient for the [TS]
01:31:34 ◼ ► It's kind of the same way that you see like the the opening parentheses used to make ASCII art to make the little boxes [TS]
01:31:43 ◼ ► but I don't like the fact that so it doesn't really matter as much in legal arguments like whatever lawyers everything [TS]
01:31:50 ◼ ► But screenplays could benefit from a farmer that took advantage from of modern technology keep all the good stuff about [TS]
01:32:06 ◼ ► but the bad things are just being carried along like those parentheses on legal documents [TS]
01:32:11 ◼ ► and they just they just ridiculous at this point. OK thanks lead to our three sponsors this week. [TS]
01:32:25 ◼ ► Now this it was accidental accidental because it was there until today. Except that the Michael Casey. [TS]
01:33:34 ◼ ► and Margo could have we're going to months you know Casey had insisted I would have gone along with it. [TS]
01:33:38 ◼ ► He didn't really and stain I did I'd say I gave my thing about abstaining from the vote. [TS]
01:33:44 ◼ ► I was what I was trying to convince Casey was that not getting it done today does not mean it will never get done [TS]
01:33:50 ◼ ► and in fact it may be done better in the future but he still kind of insisted and I would not have opposed him. [TS]
01:33:54 ◼ ► What would you do next week will say right now next week we saw from mental methodologies and nothing will happen. [TS]
01:34:09 ◼ ► and if it results in Apple buying Nintendo you're your sacrifice will have been noble you are you saying that we will [TS]
01:34:19 ◼ ► do it next week. Whether or not you're serious has pretty much absolutely prevented that from happening ever. [TS]
01:34:26 ◼ ► That's that's the equivalent of saying well this will be short show. If Apple doesn't send. [TS]
01:34:34 ◼ ► And there's no John Syracuse a podcast to talk about it didn't really happen on this my third part cast in like three [TS]
01:34:42 ◼ ► days comparable to command space now we're doing this as a how to just take a rest. [TS]
01:34:54 ◼ ► I know that we didn't even talk about driving with glass there was not another remark [TS]
01:35:01 ◼ ► I just want to say that I have looked into the zero amount as is my way for the show but what I assumed [TS]
01:35:07 ◼ ► when I saw the headline about storing flying blind Twitter was that they were only lobbying to allow you to wear it in [TS]
01:35:15 ◼ ► and you need them to see to drive they didn't want they want to make it illegal so you didn't want to be illegal for [TS]
01:35:22 ◼ ► I didn't think they were lobbying for it to be legal for you to to have it turned on and using it [TS]
01:35:27 ◼ ► but since I didn't read any article that is there I don't know did you know did you read them [TS]
01:35:30 ◼ ► and you can tell me I don't think we I don't think we know that much to that much detail. [TS]
01:35:44 ◼ ► and brief in my position is that for Google to to lobby to actively lobby against states that want to prohibit glassed [TS]
01:35:53 ◼ ► use while driving. I think that's incredibly irresponsible by Google and you know it. [TS]
01:36:00 ◼ ► I think it's you know pretty much all reasonable people agree that texting while driving is dangerous [TS]
01:36:11 ◼ ► People will do it anyway but I think I think even people who do it know that it's unsafe [TS]
01:36:15 ◼ ► and wouldn't really argue that strongly that it that it was safe and I think texting while driving [TS]
01:36:25 ◼ ► Like I don't think there's a huge difference in safety in a car between doing those two things I don't think one is [TS]
01:36:34 ◼ ► It's both like it's engaging your visual attention in a way that like us like interact with like a multi-step process [TS]
01:36:46 ◼ ► and well actually now that I've thought about it for the five minutes they've talked. [TS]
01:36:50 ◼ ► What about if they are envisioning something like that why don't your in five there in arguments that people have made [TS]
01:36:57 ◼ ► that say things like well this is just like looking at an afternoon or it's just like looking at a heads up display [TS]
01:37:08 ◼ ► and heads of displays are designed very very carefully and conservatively to be like maximally safe [TS]
01:37:15 ◼ ► and also to minimize how long you have to look at them in ideal cases some of them go as far to be like you can even [TS]
01:37:23 ◼ ► like some of them or even let you enter an address in navigation if you're moving for instance. [TS]
01:37:37 ◼ ► Players like sometimes there are be these D.V.D. Players that will complete video in the front seat. [TS]
01:37:41 ◼ ► But you can only totally play while you're parked and yes some people will will pack then disable it [TS]
01:37:45 ◼ ► but like there's all these things in place for for things that are installed in cars especially things that come stock [TS]
01:37:50 ◼ ► from the manufacturers. There's all these safety in place to to try to make them as non distracting as possible. [TS]
01:38:03 ◼ ► Well that's you know that's no more distracting than a speedometer you don't have a lot of reasons to like stare at [TS]
01:38:09 ◼ ► Well what are the heads up display in your glasses showing now overlaid on the street in front of you. [TS]
01:38:16 ◼ ► but I think again this is like a human nature human behavior kind of thing the reality is like we've banned in most [TS]
01:38:28 ◼ ► Now you could also say well what if you're using the cell phone in your hand looking into navigation screen [TS]
01:38:39 ◼ ► and I think is one of those cases where you know the reason why that's banned is that yeah maybe you might be doing [TS]
01:38:45 ◼ ► but there's also a very good chance that a lot of people who do that are also going to like you know sent a quick text [TS]
01:38:53 ◼ ► and there's all this all this potential for these multipurpose general computing systems like smartphones like glass. [TS]
01:39:03 ◼ ► and so common that they should probably ban it out right because they know that like you might be using for navigation. [TS]
01:39:13 ◼ ► or there are so many other things to do with it there are navigation that you know in reality people would like be [TS]
01:39:22 ◼ ► or reading Twitter reading e-mail just came in are like like they're like there are so many potential abuses there [TS]
01:39:28 ◼ ► and is so it is so much more distracting than in the car systems because you're interacting with a computer at that [TS]
01:39:41 ◼ ► and takes more than a split second of your attention and so I do think there's a significant difference there. [TS]
01:39:49 ◼ ► and some people also said like oh well what of glass is you know what if you can where you have to keep it off again. [TS]
01:40:02 ◼ ► and say oh well you know I was going to leave it on because you know I'm responsible I'll be OK [TS]
01:40:07 ◼ ► Well that's why I'd like to know what Google was lobbying for like basically where they're lobbying for you're allowed [TS]
01:40:11 ◼ ► to wear but has to be offices you're allowed to wear it and use it like I'm pretty sure was the latter [TS]
01:40:15 ◼ ► and I'm pretty sure they didn't distinguish between on and off that they just want you to be able to wear. [TS]
01:40:22 ◼ ► but is that augmented reality as they call it is probably the future of more or less everything [TS]
01:40:26 ◼ ► but I think you're right that if that is the future thing we are unfortunately going to have to wait for it to be built [TS]
01:40:36 ◼ ► and even if it's the exact same technology the exact same kind of display were like overlays that have on top of the [TS]
01:40:41 ◼ ► and shows you where you should term of the wire like you can imagine lots of really cool features like this I think [TS]
01:40:46 ◼ ► and looking down at an ab screen like to see the little arrow in your little picture of your car going if you could [TS]
01:40:51 ◼ ► just continue to look out the window and just look like a little red line was painted on the road turning to the right. [TS]
01:40:58 ◼ ► If that comes from your glasses though chances are good even if you have like a driving mode [TS]
01:41:03 ◼ ► and that the glasses have to be certified by a like the Highway Association like it's so much safer [TS]
01:41:10 ◼ ► and because car technology moves so slowly that they're super conservative everything sucks there anyway [TS]
01:41:14 ◼ ► and B if it's built into the car the car maker is extremely motivated to make sure that you can't read text on it right [TS]
01:41:20 ◼ ► like in the car the car maker could not ship that they're more liable with that kind of stuff like like you could you [TS]
01:41:27 ◼ ► could plausibly sue the car maker for designing a very threatening system a lot more easily than you could sue Google [TS]
01:41:34 ◼ ► Built into the cargoes going to say you shouldn't have been doing that while you're driving [TS]
01:41:43 ◼ ► when you're moving because the car makers like we allow them to do this they will they'll crash [TS]
01:41:47 ◼ ► and also us for what it's worth I can actually read text messages on my i drive in my B.M.W. [TS]
01:42:03 ◼ ► All right so part of my position on this was was a pretty severe condemnation saying like you know if Google Google is [TS]
01:42:11 ◼ ► actively lobbying for something that I believe is pretty clearly very unsafe for driving [TS]
01:42:18 ◼ ► and car accidents are are no joke like it's a really car accident or a serious problem. [TS]
01:42:29 ◼ ► And for the most part you know things that we pay a lot of attention to like plane crashes [TS]
01:42:34 ◼ ► and terrorism like that end up killing way fewer people than car crashes car crashes are a big problem. [TS]
01:42:41 ◼ ► It's a really big deal and car safety should really be taken very very seriously and not at all lightly [TS]
01:42:49 ◼ ► And so for Google to actively lobby against car safety basically to actually lobby for their own self interest in a way [TS]
01:42:58 ◼ ► that's that pretty clearly unsafe in general use for cars like people are probably going to die as a result of that. [TS]
01:43:07 ◼ ► And if Google Glass becomes really popular which you know it probably won't in all honesty but I suppose it does. [TS]
01:43:17 ◼ ► and how many people might unnecessarily die because Google fought safety legislation. [TS]
01:43:23 ◼ ► That's a really that's that's serious. You know that's not a joking matter at all. [TS]
01:43:27 ◼ ► So a lot of people said well isn't Apple at fault for people texting while using their phones and crashing and. [TS]
01:43:35 ◼ ► No that's a completely different situation because Apple has not to my knowledge actively fought against anti texting [TS]
01:44:00 ◼ ► When both sides can potentially do more to prevent people from using their phones while driving. [TS]
01:44:06 ◼ ► You know now you can you can think OK Well Apple has this new M seven processor that can supposedly detect [TS]
01:44:17 ◼ ► when you're in a car make you show some kind of warning or something you know there are things they could do [TS]
01:44:30 ◼ ► Like who is doing I think is actively harmful whereas the inability to try to prevent people from texting in a car is [TS]
01:44:40 ◼ ► you know like like inaction is is not as bad as like actively harming safety actions I think. [TS]
01:44:46 ◼ ► Well Google also in a position to potentially bring the largest safety increase in car transportation ever which is [TS]
01:44:52 ◼ ► through their soft riving cars assuming that continues apace and does not fade away [TS]
01:44:59 ◼ ► I'm not saying that balances out like Therefore you're allowed to do something is going to kill more people now that's [TS]
01:45:07 ◼ ► If history goes out every More forget that briefly they killed a bunch of people less I think what they're thinking is [TS]
01:45:15 ◼ ► on the glasses that they also believe that all humans in reality is the future just look at their crazy whatever there [TS]
01:45:23 ◼ ► and they're in like the tech for doing that are going to realize stuff is getting better [TS]
01:45:28 ◼ ► and Google is like if we wait for the car makers to do this it will take forever to get here it will be crappy [TS]
01:45:34 ◼ ► but I think they just have to like the alternative is they should either make their own car with this built [TS]
01:45:42 ◼ ► but trying to put it into a general purpose computing device that you wear in your face [TS]
01:45:49 ◼ ► and be like they would have they would have to sign up for all of the sort of liability type concerns that the car [TS]
01:46:03 ◼ ► and just don't bother us because eventually we're going to get to this awesome auger into reality it's coming [TS]
01:46:08 ◼ ► eventually anyway and we're going to get there first because we can move faster but that's playing a little bit fast [TS]
01:46:13 ◼ ► and loose with with people's lives I agree. And that also that also seems like almost a childish and naive. [TS]
01:46:22 ◼ ► Exactly I think that's a problem it's like well that's what that's what we love about that's what I love about Google. [TS]
01:46:27 ◼ ► Like the self-doubt in cars is the same type of thing that's what we love about it [TS]
01:46:30 ◼ ► but in the same time it gets them into that like that's why I always think of Google's corporate mindset not as evil [TS]
01:46:37 ◼ ► more as like a naive hacker type of you know like Dan is in a Reddit like technology is cool we can do cool things with [TS]
01:46:45 ◼ ► technology and I just go do that cool things because it's cool and let's not think too much about the consequences [TS]
01:46:50 ◼ ► or whether all make money or anything like that you know that's what we love both love and hate about Will. [TS]
01:46:57 ◼ ► Titles go to fail the house the title might go to fell some put in all caps this isn't basic. Have you seen the code. [TS]
01:47:06 ◼ ► Oh yeah that's one point we didn't dress about the goat isn't that on your dress. All the people who've never seen a C. [TS]
01:47:11 ◼ ► Programmer Unix C. Programmer like goto who uses that if you are a C. Programmer and you come from the. [TS]
01:47:22 ◼ ► Look at Linux or wherever you find go to everywhere because they didn't really have exceptions [TS]
01:47:27 ◼ ► and the control flow necessary with lots of nested it's to get you out of an if you end up having to make like Flag [TS]
01:47:37 ◼ ► Go to is actually the cleanest solution in those situations where you want to get out of the normal flow of the program [TS]
01:47:48 ◼ ► and the only thing you've heard about programming is the GOTO is evil because there's a paper that you never read that [TS]
01:48:00 ◼ ► There is purpose and it has all the same problems and this is not what the paper about goto was against really [TS]
01:48:19 ◼ ► and continue especially break like that's really not a whole lot cleaner than goes here like if you think about it like [TS]
01:48:27 ◼ ► but you knew like if you had like a very contorted logically condition a condition a condition you want to break all [TS]
01:48:32 ◼ ► the way out of it then you even break doesn't save you then you didn't have a flag variables [TS]
01:48:36 ◼ ► and it makes the code in comprehensible to the people who read up the functional a bit [TS]
01:48:44 ◼ ► Pretty sure if you knew what that was you were not surprised to see the go to the flick that's that's like you know if [TS]
01:49:04 ◼ ► and so if you want to do that's like you know eight step process Recall is a different functions [TS]
01:49:09 ◼ ► and you have to have Eric check in code around every single one of them if any of these return non-zero fail that's [TS]
01:49:15 ◼ ► what this was that's exactly what this was and and and fail in this case but the fail label didn't mean it has failed. [TS]
01:49:24 ◼ ► The Fair Labor was the destination of where to jump to if it had if it had failed looks basically like go to the end [TS]
01:49:34 ◼ ► That's another object to see a thing that we could have talked about and I hope and point and shows the convention [TS]
01:49:39 ◼ ► and basically cocoanuts want to receive a Coke which not use exception exceptions for control flow is that correct. [TS]
01:49:46 ◼ ► Yeah yeah I mean except like injective see objections like bye bye like policy and. And like the A.P.I. Norm objects. [TS]
01:50:00 ◼ ► In running code most of the time like it's not meant to be control flows easily gets They're meant like you're probably [TS]
01:50:06 ◼ ► not meant to catch an exception I got to see and it's not like so much a language feature as it is an A.B.I. [TS]
01:50:12 ◼ ► but still that that type of thing leads you to these like the tedium of of you know you know write parameter conditions [TS]
01:50:27 ◼ ► or any other type of thing that type of thing is frowned is seen as slightly barbaric in languages that do allow you to [TS]
01:50:40 ◼ ► and then of course there's the pathological case of like you know checked exceptions and all the java crap [TS]
01:50:49 ◼ ► That other languages do differently that people find cumbersome tedious and error prone [TS]
01:50:55 ◼ ► and lead to these type of situations where you find yourself needing a go to as far as I know it might get to see code [TS]
01:51:02 ◼ ► written so far. Instapaper buckshot. The magazine and overcast of the ever written a try catch block. [TS]
01:51:12 ◼ ► Yeah because in Cocoa they're not you're not you're not supposed to like exception is supposed to be exceptional like [TS]
01:51:16 ◼ ► that that policy is there not for control flow it's not just to get me out of this mess that block it's like something [TS]
01:51:22 ◼ ► has gone wrong and maybe you can put up a dialog and exit your app or do something like that [TS]
01:51:26 ◼ ► but you're not supposed to use it as a form of flow control even if even though I assume you can if you want to. [TS]
01:51:34 ◼ ► Yeah I think that's how the tire more supposed to use it like if I think certain failures might even throw exceptions I [TS]