54: goto fail;

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Episode: 54: goto fail;
• Website: Accidental Tech Podcast
• Feed URL: http://atp.fm/episodes?format=rss
• Duration: 01:52:04
• Published: 2014-02-28 18:59

• 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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