Accidental Tech Podcast

54: goto fail;


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  • Wolfram Language.
  • The "goto fail" SSL bug and the chances that it was nefariously introduced by an NSA effort, possibly as part of their $250 million annual budget for such operations.
  • Apple's warrant canary.
  • Casey's and Marco's hard-to-find bugs and language misfeatures. (Perl protects John from writing bugs.)
  • Whether language-interpreter warnings should be treated as errors in production.
  • The Scriptnotes episode with the Final Draft CEO, the follow-up in the next episode, and Kent Tessman's response.
  • After-show: Google lobbying against Glass bans while driving, and Objective-C exception conventions.
  • Next week will be the Software Methodologies show. For real this time!
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      Accidental Tech PodcastBy Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa