Aliens Land Here

Mark and Richard talk about the fall iPhone event.

Wait, what happened to Season 2 Episode 1???

Apple Watch Series 4:

• Store

• Larger screen & thinner

• Improved Cellular

• Verizon ending 2G

• Edition watches discontinued

• Has an ECG built into the crown

• Fall detection and discussion of false positives

• Waterproof rating

iPhone Xs, Xs Max, Xr:

• Puns

• Apple’s Payment plan

• 7nm A12 Bionic chip

• New 10X faster Neural Core

• Demos

  • Blades (Bethesda demo)

  • Basketball analysis

  • Galaga AR

• Digression to talk about the Switch and Xbox One

  • Mario Party

  • Family Share

  • Nintendo’s upcoming program

• Prices

• New Camera

• Google Pixel

  • Reference Videocards

• Battery

• Can it play Crysis

• Dual Sim

• Better Call Saul

Misc:

• Speculation about upcoming Mac Pro

  • Bootcamp

• Where are all the circles/round things?

• Airport Express

• Ubiquiti

All the things we’re sad about not getting updates yet

• Everything but iPhones and watches

Mark and Richard talk about the Tesla P85D, car automation, and the DARPA Grand Challenge.

Tesla P85D:

• Announcement

• Specs and Pricing

• Build your own

• Updated Interior - (Topspeed review says no)

Supercharger stations

• Information on Supercharger stations

• Swap Battery - Video

Top Gear / Tesla Controversy

• Roadster Review

• The Controversy

Tesla Roadster

• Battery Upgrade

Tesla Automation

• Test Run

• BMW's Competing OCR

• Autopilot Retrofit

Automation Talk - Waypoint finding

• Traveling Salesman Problem

• D* Search

• A* Search

DARPA Grand Challenge

• Axion Racing Paper

• Darpa Rules

• 10 year reunion

Hardware

• Lidar

• Serial vs USB interfaces.

Mark and Richard give very brief impressions on the October 16th Apple event a couple minutes after it ended.  Come back to this post in a few days if you'd like to listen to an audio overlay track that you can play on top of the Apple stream to hear our impressions as the event happened. 

We speak briefly about the Shell Shock bug before moving on to Oculus Connect and our impressions of the current state of DK2 software. 

Shell Shock: 

• How it works

• Fixing Shell Shock

• Heartbleed

Oculus Connect: 

• Brendan Iribe

• Nate Mitchell

• Michael Abrash

• John Carmack

• Palmer Luckey

• DK1 Open Source

• Pentile display

• Creative Commons attribution 4.0

• Realspace 3d audio

• Crescent Bay

• Oculus Share

• LIDAR

• Racing the beam

• Tripple Buffer

• Time warp

• Interlacing

• Dumpy, Going Elephants

• Smell-o-Vision

• McGraw Effect and other audio illusions

• Don’t let go

Post Show: 

• What we think of our new phones

• Guy who traded his 6+

We talk about why we pre-ordered the iPhones that we did, Apple Watch pricing, the state of Microsoft as a company (including their purchase of Minecraft), and Ballmerman!

Follow-Up: 

• Mark and Richard both ordered an iPhone 6+

• The pocketed shirt Richard uses when running

• 6/6+ cutouts

• Apple Pay leveraging POS upgrades

• Gruber and expensive Apple Watches

• Watch guy’s thoughts on Apple Watch

• Rumored next Apple event

• Paypal’s swipe at Apple

• Google passwords leaked

Minecraft:

• Mojang’s confirmation of sale

• Notch talks about why he’s leaving Mojang

• More on the purchase.

• Minecraft realms

Microsoft:

• Layoffs

• Closing XBox Entertainment Studios

Misc:

• Quake Live released on Steam

Supporting the iPhone 6:

• Getting H.265 & 3x working

• 6+ simulator is too big to fit, even scaled to 50%

Alienware:

• Alienware Area 51

• The brotherhood of Nod

Postshow: 

• Poor poor Mercedes AMG GT

• Steve Balmer teaching at Stanford & USC

• Bomberman

A special edition Aliens Land Here.  We moved up our schedule to talk about the recent news.

Intro: 

• Silver and Gold

• Feed troubles

• Japanese & Chinese audio…

• Feed jumping around between parts (Possibly HLS?)

• Denny’s parody

iPhone 6 / 6+:

• Product Site

• Form Factor

• iDevice Size reference

• Aesthetics

• Dual domain pixels

• A8 speed improvements

• Battery

• Has barometer for elevation

• Phase detection auto-focus using “focus pixels”

• Optical image stabilization

• “cinematic video stabilization”

• Continuous autofocus

• H.265 support

• Landscape mode on the 6+

• Double-touch the touch-id to bring the top of the screen down

Apple Pay:

• Introduction Commercial

• Use

• Security

• “Secure element” chip

• Compatibility:

• NFC payments

• Problems

Apple Watch:

• “One more thing”

• Form Factor

• Rounded rectangle

• watch (custom steel alloy frame, sapphire front, ceramic back)

• sport (aluminum frame, glass front, “composite” back)

• edition (18k gold, sapphire front, ceramic back)

• 6 straps (sport band, leather loop, leather modern, leather classic, steel, milanese loop

• Rotary side-interface “digital crown”

• Haptic feedback

• Force Touch

• Photo sensors detect pulse

• Range of watch faces

• Communicator

• Apple TV remote

• Simple Lift Log for Watch?

Misc: 

• U2

• No Hair Force One :(

• New Presenter, Kevin Lynch - Ex Adobe CTO

• The giant building revealed (Demo area)

• Apple watch: The musical

Also Topical: 

• Mojang purchased by MS for $2 billion?

• *Grumble*

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

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

Follow Up: 

• Fire phone does use cameras for tilt gestures

• Only 35K sales so far

• Tivo HD & Tivo Romeo

• Console Sales are up

• Forza 5

• Mario Kart 8

• Pixel Junk Shooter

Hyperlapse:

• Instagram’s Hyperlapse

• Microsoft’s Hyperlapse

• Accelerometer vs gyroscope

Computer Literacy:

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

• Mark’s early computer: Commodore PET

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

• The asteroids game Richard modified with Resedit, Maelstrom

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

• qBasic

• FutureBASIC

• Gorillas

• Nibbles

• Computer Usage vs Administration vs Engineering

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

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

• What skills administration and engineering can teach us

• Does Sandboxing and jailing make life better?

• Who is responsible for maintenance

• Legislating technology

• Negative perception of people who work with technology

• I have MASTERED life

• Robot Turtle

• Sokoban

• Apple “Say” command

• Carmack twitter account hacked

• Logo

• PEEK & POKE

Apple: 

• Building for Apple’s announcement

Post Show: 

• Penn & Teller - Fool Us

• The specific trick discussed

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

Pre-show: 

• Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock

• Topcoder swift challenge

• Audacity

• CMU Speech to text

Follow-up: 

• Pronouncing Hearthstone

• Germanium

• Cooled vs Uncooled thermal cameras

• Microbolometer

Being an independent developer:

• Our history with it

• Loneliness

• Custom code for clients

• Pros & Cons of bureaucracy

• Solo work’s impact on code quality

• Getting stuff done

• Spending money on hardware

• Wearing many hats

Indiepocalypse:

• Unread’s sales numbers

• David Smith’s diversification

• The Stuart Hall experiment

• HODOR & I am Groot Android apps.

• Finding a niche

• Effect of cheap & free on the market

• How big companies deal with the cheap/free issues

• Indie movies/books

Misc:

• Amazon Fire TV

• Amazon Fire Phone

Post-Show: 

• Our new pop filters (Nady MPF-6)

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

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

Pre-Show: 

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

• RSS addiction

• Mark’s RSS reader, Reeder

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

• Feedly pro account

Follow Up:

• Coda troubles

• Youtube developer API

Mark’s new microphone:

• Mark’s microphone, the Blue Yeti

• Richard’s microphone, the Blue Snowball

• Microphones and perceived professionalism

• Toastmasters

Mark’s new headphones:

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

• Mark’s old earbuds, Senheiser OCX 685i

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

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

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

• Wub Wub Wub Wub

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

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

FLIR_ONE: 

• The FLIR_ONE product

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

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

• Other FLIR consumer cameras

• Example FLIR one video with swirling water

VR:

• Oculus DK1

• Oculus DK2

• Google cardboard

• Why smearing happened on the DK1 & Google cardboard

• Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus.

• Oculus collaboration with Samsung

• Oculus using Samsung note 3 display

• Richard’s favorite Oculus Demo, Titans of Space

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

• Snowcrash

• Ready Player One

Post Show:

• Eclipse

• IntelliJ

• Android Studio

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

• Fix it Felix at Disneyland

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