165: ‘I Do Feel the Pea’ With Guy English
The Talk Show With John Gruber · Daring Fireball / John Gruber
August 28, 20162h 8m
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Show Notes
Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Tim Cook’s five year anniversary as Apple CEO, Steven Levy’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s AI and machine learning efforts, Apple’s decision to change the pistol emoji from a realistic revolver to a toy squirt gun, and the demise of Vesper. Also: our favorite Looney Tunes characters.
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Links:
- WASD 6-Key Cherry MX Switch Tester.
- Tim Cook's excellent interview in The Washington Post.
- Jan Dawson: "Five Years of Tim Cook's Apple in Charts".
- Steven Levy: "An Exclusive Inside Look at How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Work at Apple".
- Levy's excellent books, The Perfect Thing (about the iPod) and In the Plex (about Google's inner workings).
- Andy Hertzfeld's book on the development of the original Macintosh, Revolution in the Valley, and the website with much of the same source material, Folklore.org.
- Yours truly: "Vesper, Adieu".
- Brent Simmons: "Last Vesper Update", "More Notes on Vesper", and "Why Vesper Didn’t Start as a Web App".
- Yours truly: "Apple and the Pistol Emoji".
- Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
- “The High and the Flighty” — classic Looney Tunes Foghorn Leghorn short.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.