Accidental Tech Podcast

58: Always On Vacation In California

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  • Follow-up on discussing sexism in technology, Anil's experiment, empathy, ad hominem tu quoque, and cultural rigidity.
  • Facebook buying Oculus:
    • Outrage from Oculus' Kickstarter backers, including from Minecraft creator Notch, and the expectations that Kickstarter creates in "backers".
  • Why did Oculus sell? How far into the future did Oculus' "vision" extend, and what will happen to its vision now?
  • Why did Facebook buy? Does Mark Zuckerberg have a clear vision for Facebook's future?
  • Facebook's Hack language extension to PHP:
    • PHP is poorly designed but very practical.
  • The risks of using Hack (Marco's two posts).

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      Accidental Tech PodcastBy Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa