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Chris and Jeff catch up on Apple updates (or lack thereof) after a long hiatus, and Chris talks about releasing a sticker pack. swappa [https://swappa.com/] to make a little bit extra over middleman-phone-selling services like gazelle [https://www.gazelle.com/] micro-abrasions [http://www.apple.com/iphone-7/] see footnote 2 discoveryd-ecommissioned [http://www.macrumors.com/2015/05/26/apple-discoveryd-replaced-with-mdnsresponder/] Moving to the iPhone 7 also leads to going back to headphone adapter dongles, a problem Jeff thought that he’d left behind in 2008 [http://pcmicrostore.com/roocase-black-35mm-earphone-headphone/cat-p/c/p10505921.html] Third parties can access iPhone notifications with Apple Notification Center Service [https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/CoreBluetooth/Reference/AppleNotificationCenterServiceSpecification/Introduction/Introduction.html] Reconfigured arrow keys on the macbook [http://www.computershopper.com/var/ezwebin_site/storage/images/slideshow/first-look-apple-macbook-2015-unboxed/apple-macbook-2015-arrow-keys/1195437-1-eng-US/apple-macbook-2015-arrow-keys_slideshow_main.jpg] Buy Chris’s sticker pack: NYC Subway Stickers [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nyc-subway-stickers/id1155239603?mt=8] NYC Subway W train [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_(New_York_City_Subway_service)]

Chris and Jeff casually chat about some of their small, everyday life hacks and tangent into mass transit and random Apple tidbits. The MTA in NYC turns off the emergency door alarms [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/nyregion/exit-alarms-in-the-subways-are-silenced-by-the-mta.html?_r=0] in subway stations Exit strategy [http://www.exitstrategynyc.com] is the app that optimizes your exit out of the NYC subway Space taken up [http://blog.cellbikes.com.au/2012/09/australia-re-creates-world-famous-transport-photo/] in a city street for cars, bikes and buses A more efficient alternative [http://www.wired.com/2015/09/real-plan-replace-londons-tube-moving-walkways/] to trains in the London Underground London does have a 24 hour tube [https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/the-future-of-the-tube/night-tube] The museum-like MTA subway switching system [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx3S3UjmnA] and the need for an upgrade Keyboard text replacements guide [https://www.yahoo.com/tech/how-to-use-the-handy-text-substitution-feature-in-mac-88370315199.html] in Mac OS X Apple’s 1970 bug [http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/15/apple-to-fix-january-1-1970-date-bug-ios/] iOS 8.0.1 broke users’ phones [http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/24/apples-ios-801-update-breaks-cellular-connectivity-touch-id-support-for-many-users] iOS 7 does not work [http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/144514/why-cant-i-download-ios-7-on-my-iphone-3gs] on the iPhone 3GS Meh fukubukuro [https://meh.com/deals/fukubukuro]

After technical difficulties with the first attempt of this episode, Chris and Jeff talk about all things streaming media! The long-awaited AppleTV 4 has finally arrived, and Jeff breaks down why you can’t watch your favorite sports team without jumping through hoops. AppleTV 4 [http://www.apple.com/tv/] Chris used to have a crappy Linksys router, but ended up purchasing the Apple AirPort Extreme [http://www.apple.com/airport-extreme/] router. 802.11ac has multi-station WLAN throughput of at least 1 gigabit per second and a single link throughput of at least 500 megabits per second. The AppleTV doesn’t have gigabit ethernet [http://www.apple.com/tv/specs/] Best new app for the Apple TV? Plex [https://plex.tv/appletv] The AppleTV remote [https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205305] is pretty great. A walk down TiVo [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo_digital_video_recorders]memory lane. Jeff prefers to watch The Daily Show on his MythTV [https://www.mythtv.org/]setup because he can skip the commercials… until they added copy protection! Copy Control [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control_Information] bits encrypt the channel streams, and don’t let you record without the decryption key. John Oliver [http://www.hbo.com/last-week-tonight-with-john-oliver] may have stolen our hearts. And he posts the long videos on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight] for free! Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption [http://www.ourladyofperpetualexemption.com/] “The Goal Is to Become HBO Faster Than HBO Can Become Us” [http://gizmodo.com/5980103/netflix-the-goal-is-to-become-hbo-faster-than-hbo-can-become-us] HBO uses MLB’s streaming infrastructure [http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/4/9090897/mlb-bam-live-streaming-internet-tv-nhl-hbo-now-espn] Andy Samberg [http://www.ew.com/article/2015/09/20/samberg-hbo-go-password] and the HBO CEO [http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattlynley/hbos-ceo-doesnt-care-that-you-are-sharing-your-hbo-password#.vp38XBjjm]love giving out HBO GO passwords! To binge [http://gothamist.com/2016/01/22/netflix_binge_blizzard_guide.php], or not to binge? That is the question.

On the heels of launching his new service, CTO of Maple [http://www.maple.com]Daniel Cowgill sits down with Chris and Jeff to discuss the tech that went into launching a vertically integrated food delivery service. The website is down [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU] The financial district in Manhattan [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Financial+District,+New+York,+NY/@40.7088151,-74.0079341,15z]is the current delivery zone for Maple Maple uses Go [http://golang.org] and MongoDB [https://www.mongodb.org] Dan’s only prior restaurant experience [http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef] I don’t want to taco ‘bout it [http://i.imgur.com/RmoxmQw.jpg] Other food delivery companies are trying different spins on delivery.Sprig [https://www.sprig.com] has surge pricing andMunchery [https://munchery.com] delivers food cold Casper delivers mattresses by bike messenger in New York City [http://www.buzzfeed.com/iknowkayleen/slumber-party] Maple’s javascript frontend is using React [https://facebook.github.io/react/]and some Mithril [https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/] internally Deciding how to deliver their food in the most efficient way possible is more complex than just the travelling salesman problem [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem] Maple ruled out using scala [http://www.scala-lang.org] early on Leaving node [https://medium.com/code-adventures/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e52b] Go doesn’t have generics [https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics] Nginx uses round-robin for load balancing [http://nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/load-balancer/#method] by default Maple is using Linode [https://www.linode.com] for now

Chris and Jeff are back from Montreal Canada where they attended PyCon 2015! This episode they are joined by two very special guests Mary Nagle [https://twitter.com/maryknagle] and Karina Runziov [https://twitter.com/kruzinov], two software engineers in the industry. We’re totally (not) live from PyCon 2015! [http://us.pycon.org/2015/] Our collective favorite, one of the keynotes by Jacob Kaplan-Moss [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJdFxYlEKE] Guido van Rossum [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum] the founder of the Python programming language doesn’t really like keynote speeches [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wDvzy6Hgxg] Ruby is really old [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_%28programming_language%29] Does Guido do tickets? Running Python without an OS [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQ_lq5dcvM] David Beazley talks about Python Concurrency [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4] and the crowd goes wild. Mary tells us what happens when you type ‘python’ and press enter [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVhSjZYwZJo] Chris learns about the inner workings of python, and his mind is blown Strange behaviors in Python [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH4XF6pKKmk] and jumping into the C part of the interpreter Hash functions [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGwNQfjLTp0], and the best ways to use them! DOCKERIZE ALL THE THINGS! Demystifying the mysteries of docker [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVtR_hrdKI] CoreOS and containers [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCor69OeR0g] are fun! An empty repository [https://github.com/joetastic/ansible-coreos] for our docker and ansible work Python profiling [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uJWWXYHxaM] for better optimizations, and how mongo and node [http://java.dzone.com/articles/mongodb-facts-over-80000] are really fast To Python, or not to Python. That is the question [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoWG0lavg9U] Strace [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v6o-VsLAew] is pretty awesome, apparently. pgcli [http://pgcli.com/] is amazing Mary loves standup, but only in Canada Going to portland next year? Will Jeff do a talk? We shall see!