Aliens Land Here

5: Secure by default!


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Mark talks about his trials and tribulations with PHP.  Also, we get excited by the prospect of 5K displays coming soon, talk about Celebgate and the state of password management, and discuss the recent Samsung/Oculus announcement. 

Follow-Up: 

  • Dell’s new 5K display

  • NVIDIA Quadro K5000 driving the display during the demo.

  • Advantages of CRTs

  • The hdmi passthrough latency is about 150ms. (However, this reduces to about 30 if the connected device is set to 720p)

  • Geometry Wars

  • Hyperlapse Tech post

  • Microsoft Hyperlapse tech paper

  • Microsoft Courier (Unreleased tablet from Microsoft)

  • Celebgate

  • Multi-Factor Authentication

  • CNN is not helping here…

PHP:

  • PHP: a fractal of bad design

  • Rebuttal

  • Actual PHP hammer

  • Exceptions and PHP

  • Raymond Chen on exceptions

  • Dealing with fatal errors in PHP

  • Strict vs forgiving

  • XHTML

  • Register Globals

  • Markdown

  • CommonMark (was Common Markdown was Standard Markdown)

  • Standards

  • JPEG and how it has a good specification

  • Facebook’s PHP runtime (HHVM) and PHP-based language, Hack

  • Mysql

VR Update: 

  • Samsung Gear VR : Powered by Oculus

  • Interview with Carmack about the Gear

  • Half-life 2 VR training

  • Razer Hydra

  • Sixense

  • Stephenson sword fighting game kickstarter

Misc: 

  • Anand leaving Anandtech and going to Apple

  • Blade spoof

  • ALH’s show notes

Post-show:

  • Mark’s Fracture and its replacement

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Aliens Land HereBy Richard Kalling, Mark El-Wakil

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