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One of my favorite companies in the Mac industry here is Boink Software and I'm here with Oliver Breidenbach who's a great friend of the Mac community and he adores me so we're going to have a chat we're going to have a chat about his products here. What are you showing at the show today? We're showing our live video production system MemoLife. It's able to switch multiple video camera sources, add graphics, social media, twitter feed, what have you and stream it out to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, anything that takes an RTP live stream. You can also record it to disk so if you want to do quick video production like for example record a presentation or something editing while it happens, live editing saves you a lot of time because you don't have to do post production. Very cool so this is this is software that replaces expensive hardware switchers correct? Yes absolutely everything that's in a TV truck that costs a million dollars is available in your laptop with MemoLife. So I am going to confess that we had breakfast with Oliver and his brother Akim just last week and he we started talking about MemoLife and he said well let's just go back to your house and we'll go set it up for you. So they did a private lesson for us which was that's quite the way to really learn a product. We're going to try to use this for the live show so that's why you guys care about this product if not to buy it for yourselves to see what we're going to be able to do with it. One of our goals is to move the production from me over to Steve because he's on a high-end iMac and I'm on a laptop and it doesn't make sense for me to be doing all the juggling while I'm creating the live show so why don't you start showing us what MemoLife looks like. So MemoLife is basically very structured very easily so you're on the one end you have your inputs on the other hand you have your outputs so the workflow is pretty easy from from left to right you have your inputs you have your mixing you set up the parameters of all the graphical elements that you can position you have a multi-view with overview of all your video sources and there's your outputs your streams your recordings your anything so it looks very intimidating because there's a lot of information on the screen but actually it's quite easy to follow and to configure once you've mastered the these basic principles. So when we first saw you doing this it was really intimidating but when after you left we start poking around on our own and we were able to put up a pod feet logo we put a clock on to on to the presentation so we started getting the hang of it a little bit pretty quickly. Yeah I mean this is one of the core philosophies of our company is we want to make software that's very very powerful so we have very big brand names and professionals using MemoLife but we wanted to make it accessible to kids so a lot of our most favorite users are children in schools and they are able to operate it by themselves and they figure it out and configure it and whatever and probably easier and faster than than their teachers and that's kind of the exciting thing you know enabling those kids to be like real broadcasters. Yeah so this is Becca I'm old enough that this was the equivalent of the intercom system that you'd say today at four o'clock there will be a festival in the Quad area right but now it's a video they're watching it on tv they're doing like little news shows and stuff it looks like it looks like a news show like two anchor people you know they have green screen and and like the b-rolls they play inserts and all the kinds of you can all do all of that in MemoLife.  Yeah that's let's hope that they are smarter so the future is bright. Yeah that's great so MemoLife for a home user what what kind of pricing are we talking about? So we have a yearly cost of 199 if you buy three years you get one free so it's two three for the price of two years you can do also a monthly license that's about I think 1999 something and you can also only purchase the months you want to use so you can you know only pay per use basically. That's a great way that's kind of a pretty flexible model that's good is there a free trial? Yes you can download free trial it will have a watermark overlay but you can play around with it and see if it's for you and if you want to do more production level testing then we'll be happy to give you a month or two free. So what I like about this is it allows you to progressively increase the level of madness of what crazy things you start doing and right now my production is real stable and working regularly so we need to change it up that's what we're looking for yeah we've spiced it up a little. Exactly now you also wanted to show us something else we have running on the iPad here. Yes called PhotoPresenter it's an app that we developed for Bastion actually so the idea is that you can school through your photo library pick photos and they will show up on your TV show so for example you're showing your grandparents your vacation photos you don't want to see them all of the photos right there's some photos in there they want don't want them to see so you can just scroll through your photo library and pick the ones you want them to see and they will show up so that's the basic idea useful also for non-linear presentation the business environment for example we have an aquarium and they do presentations talking about the fish that swim up to the to the fish tank glass and you can't tell the fish to swim up in a certain order and so the shark comes along and the person wants to talk about the shark so they find the shark images click on the shark image and it shows up and so this is a non-linear form of presentation where you don't have like a like a keynote or power point set up that you follow through so you just pick a photo and it will show up so you just tapped a photo on the iPad screen and that's been connected up to his to this monitor and I can tell it's going through MIMO live because I recognize that clock on the side and it's got some lower thirds actually actually we're showing what we're showing here is the NDI technology which is basically a software replacement for a hardware cable so your HDMI cable you know that from hooking up your TV to to your video right NDI tries to replace that so you don't have to hook up your TV and your your device with a special cable you can just use the internet or internet IP connection basically wireless or network oh really wireless or hardware yes and so this is wirelessly sending this NDI signal to our MIMO live and we use it as a video source here so we got this photo here you can zoom in zoom in to the photo that's the one one so kind of hard to press the buttons when you're doing this sideways like sideways and then we can highlight you know the important he's got a picture by the way for those only listening this is Oliver and Akim with Steve Wozniak with Wozniak yeah and what are you guys holding there that's that's an apple one computer wow so the raw board yes the Woz was kind enough to sign one for us so we've got a signed apple one board oh my gosh that's fantastic yeah so what's cool is if you look Steve over at the at the iMac Pro the beautiful dark gray iMac Pro you can see that he's set up at that the picture that's coming from photo presenter is in as a video source over on the left this one this is the this this is the incoming video source and this is the signal that goes out so this is called the program out this is the same image you see on the on the screen over there this is the same image that will go to facebook youtube live stream so this is the the program out and these are the sources you can see and you can quickly switch to a different source here so yeah we got a couple of cameras here and we can switch around and I think this one is he's clicking and just choosing different video sources as as the inputs and it's switching live one of the things that I really liked in the home tutorial that you did for us was you set me up with my iPad where I could actually do some of the switching from my room even though the software is running in Steve's room what was that call that's the remote control surface it's an it's a web service that we built into mimo life so you can use it on any other computer with the browser your ipad your iphone android device your laptop your mac so that actually solved the last piece of the puzzle was I want to give Steve control but I couldn't figure out was I going to have to say on the air okay Steve switch to my video source for my laptop screen you know because I want to switch between me and my screen and now I can just tap a button on my side and it's doing it but all of the hardware work is over on Steve's Mac so that's a really cool cool feature yes yeah with that what should I say yes I agree yes I agree approved thumbs up now do you charge extra for that no no it's all included in the basic package so see that's the beauty of I mean you know subscription models are very controversial but the beauty of it is on the other hand we don't have to charge you know all the nitty nitty pretty things there are some add-ons you can buy for mimo life which is additional content additional layers different kinds of lower standards and stuff like that but the basic functionality we when we update it if you have a current subscription you just get all the stuff for free that's fantastic okay if people want to find more about this where would they go points comm slash me more life boinx.com is the the website of course and and there's a big section about me more life very good thank you very much for for talking to us today thanks thanks for having me on the show it's a it's always a 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Hello friends. I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate you how you can create your own apps in Salesforce classes so that you can place your tabs that we created for custom objects. I'm clicking on login. As it logins, I'm showing you how you can search me on YouTube. You can type my name, my channel will be available there. Here you can find various programming related videos. So do watch them. So now we need to create apps for the tabs we created. So to create custom apps, we need to type apps here. So you can see the option here. And let me show you these options. So here you can see these are the standard apps which are provided by Salesforce. So now I'm going to create one more application whose name will be university and we are going to place this student tab that is right now available in service application. So in my previous video, I placed that tab in service app because we didn't have a custom app. So right now we will be having custom app and I will show you how we can place that in custom application. So I'm clicking on this option that is apps. So here you can see it is showing all available apps. So if you want to create new app, you can click on you. And if you want to reorder these apps, you can click on this reorder option. So we need to select a type of app that we want to create. So it is showing two options. Custom app and console app. So right now we are going to create custom app. But in console app, it is something different which shows various windows so that we can view various things together in a single screen. So for sales and service console, we basically prepared this type of app. But right now we are going to create custom application. So I provided app label as university and the unique name of this app will be university as well. So here I need to put the information related to description. So this app is for university to maintain details of students, books, vehicles, etc. And I'm clicking on next. Now here you can see we can pick a logo related to any organization for which we are creating this app. So by default Salesforce is providing their own logo. And if you want to place custom logo, then that size will be smaller than 20GB. Right. And other descriptions are written in another statement like image dimensions should be maximum of 300 pixels wide by 55 pixels high for best results. So this image will be available at top left corner. As you can see Salesforce logo is available here. So we are picking Salesforce logo as of now. Now here you can see this list available tabs is providing all the available tabs that we can use for our application. So now let me search for that tab that we created in previous video. Yeah, here it is student. So I'm choosing that tab. Right. And all these other tabs are standard because right now we created only one custom tab and these are standard tabs. So if you want to pick any standard tab also you can select and add it. You can change the orders like if you click on up so it will move up. If you click down it will move down. Then we have another option like default landing tab. So as you select your app, so which tab you want to open by default. So you have all the options that are available here. So I'm selecting home as default landing tab. So as I select university app, this home tab will be opened automatically. Then this is the last option which is related to profile. So in my previous video while I demonstrated you how to create tabs. We also discussed about the profile. So here we need to select a particular profile also for which this application will be visible. So we have all standard and custom profiles available here. So we need to choose a particular profile for that profile users. This app will be available. If we click on checkbox as true. So right now I'm having system admin profile for my user. So I'm clicking this one. Now how to check that for which profile you are logged in, like for which profile your user is assigned. So after creating this app, I will also show you so that you can check for which profile your user is related to. So I'm related to system administrators. So I'm choosing that option and clicking on save. So first here you can see your app is available. So you can add it or delete this app because you created but for rest of that you can only add it. You cannot do them because that are standard applications provided by Salesforce. And if you check this list, so here you can see your application is available as named university. So if I click on this, so you can see this is showing three tabs only home, student and accounts. If I click on students, so it will show information related to students, all the records. Right now we don't have any records, so it is not showing anything. If I click on account and click on all accounts go, so it will show all the accounts. We can choose one object or we can choose one tab for various applications also. So this account type is available in this university app as well as it is available in this service application. Right. So create any object create tap for that and you can use that tap into various applications. So now I hope you understood how we can create objects, tabs and applications. So if you watch these three videos back to back to create object to create tab and to create applications. So you will get to know all these things. Right now. Let's check the users profile. So if you want to check your user, you can type user in the setup quick find click on users. So here all the available users for the org will be available. So this is my user. So you can identify your user by your email ID or your name. Right. And at right, you can see the profile. So for my user whose username is this Sanjay Gupta dot tech school at the Gmail dot com. My profile name is system admin. That's why I chose system admin profile so that I can view that application. The rest of the profile users cannot view that application because I didn't provide the permission. Right. So I hope you understood all the things. I will also prepare one video where I will sum up all these things. Like in that video, I will be creating one object and tab and then application. So together you can learn all these things. So I hope you understood all the things. Again, I'm trying how you can search me on YouTube. So thank you for watching this video. Keep watching other playlists related to Salesforce so that you can know how things goes in Salesforce by following these playlists. So thank you for watching this video.


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Hello everyone, I'm here with Joy Marine Man and Patrick Cote. They are the authors of the upcoming book titled The Yoss Queen Chronicles, coverage of the first annual resistance forum and pre-orders are now available. They're here to talk about this amazing new book. Thank you both for coming on the program. Thank you so much for having me back and for having Kat. Yeah, yeah, I'm very excited about this book. I think that if you have a Twitter account and you are in lefty circles, there's about a 95% chance, based on my research, that you have argued with one of the people that they are satirizing in this book. So tell us about the book because we know about Pat's last book. I have it with me. It's called An Inconvenient Douche. Absolutely hilarious book. It was a parody of Peter Dow who has since had a change of heart. So we know that the book's coming out soon. Pre-orders start today as I mentioned. What can we expect with this book, Patrick? So we wanted this one to be a little more, I guess, fun and cathartic in a way than the last one. So this one is the concept is that there's a panel of pundits, media personalities, people we know. Joanne Reed is Joanne Reed. Nancy Pegosi is Nancy Pelosi, obviously, and they're just having a resistance forum somewhat and discussing politics. So that was a good setup to bring in all the issues we wanted to talk about. Now, Joy, tell us a little bit more about some of these characters because Patrick kind of touched on some of these names and I already like what I'm seeing. Like, who are we going to see in this book? I'm guessing it's going to be an all-star cast, but tell us a little bit about maybe your favorite character and some others that you think people will find hilarious. Well, I mean, we have some special appearances that we're not going to give away, but my favorite, and it seems like my husband's favorite character is Alyssa Shilano. He is very accurately a total mess. So she's extremely entertaining. We have Nira Tantrum. We have James Scarville, Tom P. Rez, Jennifer Puben, really all your favorites, but then we also have Nina Burner because we need someone representing us who is strong and amazing and can stand up to all the shit lives. Absolutely. Now, I have to ask, I don't know if you guys are able to reveal all of this yet, but Pat, you're managing the Nate's liver account. Do we hear from Nate's liver at all? Nate is not in this one, but we did, hey, I don't want to give too much away, but Peter Douche does make an appearance. Okay, okay, that's interesting because I was wondering how you handled that character because, you know, the parody came out and it was very representative at that time, but he's on our side now. And I think that all of us, even though we were skeptical at first, have kind of embraced Peter Douche, so I'm curious about that. So does his character evolve in this book? Absolutely, yeah. And like you said, he did a full 180 in the last few years, and you were one of the first people to call that. And I remember we actually talked about that at one point, and you and I agree on almost everything politically. You're one of the few people, but I had a hard time seeing his conversion as authentic, and I'll give him credit. He's stuck to it. So anyway, back to 2016 and Peter Douche, I just didn't feel like it was right to keep it up, keep the parody going for a guy who's now at least saying the right things for our side. So that's why I abandoned it. So he does have a come to Jesus moment, sort of appear in this book as a good guy. That's awesome. That's awesome. And Peter follows Nate's liver and Bay. So I think he's kind of like opening up to the sense of humor of everything. You know, and one thing about Peter Douche that I love is that he made a comment that made me laugh out loud. He said something about like 2016, Peter Douche would have blocked 2020 Peter Douche. So it's nice to kind of look back and grow. And I love that, you know, his evolution is reflected because the first book was absolutely hilarious. So just in terms of like satire, I kind of have a sense of like what I'm getting. But I have yet to read the book. So, you know, the general setup is that they're all at this forum, they're talking. So overall, are there any more details that you can discuss? I know that one of you, we're going to share a passage from the book as well. So what should we expect from the book? I mean, if you are not like on Twitter, like we are, is there still something for you? Because I would argue yes. But like from the author's standpoint, what is your sense of like what to expect if we're going into this and we haven't read the previous work from you, Patrick? Right. Well, we definitely wrote this not in, you know, we didn't, we didn't want you to have to come from Twitter land to understand this. So, you know, even if near a tantrum is near a tandem in real life, hypothetically, you don't need to know that. You don't need to know her Twitter habits. You know, basically we're covering electoral politics, the Orange Man in the White House, trickle down resistance is covered. We've got lots of little themes of different segments. That's how we broke the book up, where they discuss, you know, just what's happening in politics, essentially, where the Democratic Party is going. Okay. Okay. That's interesting. One thing that I wanted to ask you guys, because you wrote a book that's a satire, and you know, one thing that I heard is that satire during the Trump era is dead, because life itself is so strange that it's basically like we're living through a parody. So, Joy, how do you write a satire during a time that is basically literally satirical? Like how do you make it more absurd than it is? Or do the characters kind of just write themselves? Like what's your take on this? There is definitely a lot of quotes that maybe we don't use quotation marks for.  I mean, they really are, it's one of the things that we kind of have toad the line with is that Pat and I both find like literally nothing offensive. So it's been difficult to be like, okay, is this too far though?  And I think it's been so therapeutic for us. And there is not a single burner who will not absolutely identify and crack up. Yeah, I wanted to ask you about Bernie Sanders, actually. I mean, we're all clearly Bernie Sanders supporters, people who read this book from the perspective of a Bernie Sanders supporter, they're going to get it. Like all the criticisms that we've been railing against for years now, you know, you see that in this book.  Like if you can summarize basically, what are the ingredients that make them hate Bernie Sanders? Like what is it specifically from a character standpoint?  Right?  Where I don't think in 2016, it kind of hit a lot of people by shock by a storm shock. I don't know what the right word is, but a lot of people trusted MSNBC in 2016.   And if they do, they, they, they think it's more important to just win regardless of what those problems are. They don't want to discuss those problems. They think discussing those problems hurts our chances. Yeah. And I want you to touch on something that I was thinking about in terms of like some of the characters in this near a tantrum. Alyssa Shilano, no, I don't know who you guys are basing these characters off of. I have no idea. But let's say, you know, they're reading this book, is this like, is this intended to just be therapeutic for Bernie Sanders supporters? Or do you actually think there is the capacity to kind of get these types of people, not necessarily the tantrums of the world, but the followers of the tantrums of the world to maybe think a little bit more deeply, be more introspective and think maybe, you know, my thinking is a little flawed.  Right. Like, is there that potential to change hearts and minds? Do you think for the average reader, like the non, the non person who's like in a position of power, but like the MSNBC viewer, for example? Right. I mean, I would say this book on its own has no chance of doing that. But collectively, it adds to the narrative out there, you know, when, when you read this book, and then you see the protest in the streets and the police violence against protesters, but then you turn on MSNBC and you, you don't get any of that information. So I think all of it adds up and has a chance. I think in a way, satire and parody sort of smack people in the face sometimes, their cognitive dissonance and their, you know, their group think a way of thinking and, you know, all their confirmation bias when they, when they hear things about progressives. You have a shot when you mock people to get them out of that because they might laugh at the joke and then that gets them thinking, why was that funny? You know, what was it about that? So there's a chance.  I feel like, you know, we've made some strides after 2016. I kind of feel like the left like coalition is broadening because I think that everything that we've been saying has kind of been proven correct, you know, during the COVID-19 era, all of the Black Lives Matter protests. So it's almost like we keep getting vindicated. It's just a matter of people realizing that what we were saying was right all along. Like it's about Bernie, but it's not all about Bernie. Like he was kind of the spark that ignited this movement. But I mean, I think the underpinnings were already there. You know, the, the material conditions that led to his rise were already there. But I want to ask you, so this is kind of, I don't know if you guys can answer this.  What do you think your character would be like, Joy? And is there a name that maybe they'd come up with? I'm kind of putting you on the spot. But I've been thinking about this myself, like reading your book.  And I was thinking like, what would my Bernie Bro character be? So I'm curious, what is what is your ultimate Bernie Bro character that you would think if they wrote this, that they would name you if they if they wrote this hypothetical book? Well, I think they would definitely call me a fan, because I make jokes about like seeing Bernie 17 times and meeting them like a dozen times and, you know, crying when I, you know, watch his speeches and things like that. So I'm sure they would say, I make him a deity. And, you know, I probably have some kind of like crush on him or something like that. But, you know, I don't care. I can, I mean, bring it. I don't care. I'm all good with myself. You can take it or leave it. I have no qualms talking about Bernie and criticizing him. And I think our last show together was one of the best shows I've ever done.  So if they really want to come at me and make me seem like a fan girl, I'll just show them receipts that, you know, I'm not. Yeah, we were very critical of Bernie Sanders. And I've been critical of Bernie Sanders. And, you know, I think that's kind of proving that this isn't like a cult of personality, because we have the capacity to be critical. You know, it's more than Bernie Sanders, as I stated, you know, the movement was already on the cusp of, I think, emerging. It just needed someone to kind of like help push it in that right direction. But same question for you, Pat. I'm curious.  I mean, what I would go for would be that we're never happy. We're purity bros. And if we had a list of 10 demands and they gave us nine, we would still be in the streets asking for their heads. And, you know, there's some truth to that. But mostly it's hyperbole because it doesn't really apply. It's like, we really get one out of the 10 of the demands. And they claim in that sense that we're still asking for too much. It's unreasonable. But really, we're not even asking for all 10. We're asking for them to fight for all 10, because at the end of the day, we're still going to have to negotiate with the Republicans. But most of the time we're coming to the table with nothing hard left to to to barter with. We're not, you know, we're not we're not negotiating from a position of strength. So so they would mock us for that, for sure. Yeah. I wanted to ask you guys logistically, because you guys, the audience might not know this, haven't actually met each other in person, to my knowledge, right? And so you live on, you know, different sides of the country, and you wrote a book together. How did that work out? Like in terms of like coordination, are you guys in constant contact? Do you kind of just like write a chapter and then you like compare notes? How does that work? Because I like can barely write a book myself, like I'm one just too lazy.  It's been, you know, it's had his challenges, but it's kind of crazy because I asked him to do the book because I was just so disgusted with all the tar read treatment, you know, and stuff like that. And I just hit him up and I said, look, I know we live like, I'm in Pennsylvania, he's in California, and it's I know you're working on another book, but let's do something together. And he's like, okay, let's talk this weekend. And it just kind of works out. So the internet has been amazing. Email, conference calls, things like that. And we've gotten our stride for a while, we were like, all right, chapter one, and you write chapter two. But then we just got to the point where we were kind of finishing each other's sentences and kind of, you know, combining our statements into paragraphs and things like that. And it's, it's almost like we got each other's hand, which is kind of creepy. Having never met. But yeah, it's worked out really, really well. I think like, we've, we've written equal amounts in the book. And it's just kind of float if we have, you know, questions or any kind of qualms with anything, we just highlight it. And then when we talk on the phone and say, hey, I'm not sure about this, why don't we say it like so and so.  Yeah, I'll add that because of the structure of the book being a panel forum and not primarily plot driven, we didn't have to coordinate so much of that stuff that you normally would if you're writing a book. So, you know, if we had a chapter, for example, on trickle down resistance, we would plug in there the concepts we wanted to hit. And then we would just start filling in the narrative with the dialogue with who says what to who.  So that part, it was easy. And then the editing part, we would just go through together line by line and tweak and change. And it's really been easy. And with the lockdown, we're both stuck at home. So it's been a great use of our time, really. Yeah, I was curious about that because I've seen your guys' streams together. And like, it seems like in terms of sense of humor, you guys are definitely compatible. So I know that like the humor will be consistent. Like you won't be, you know, yanked back and forth in terms of narrative, depending on the chapter. But, you know, it still is a lot of work. Like, it's a tremendous amount of work that you guys did in a couple of months, which I think is just insane. And I give you guys so much credit for that. But here's the thing, I haven't read the book yet.  But can we get a passage from the book? I know you guys said it's possible. So can we get a little bit of a demo, if you will, of the book? Yes.  We sent you the first chapter and you gave us a quote. That's true. I did. And it is on our website. So yeah, shout out to like Ron Placone, Graham Ellwood, Mike and all the amazing people who we sent a chapter to who gave us a quote. It was incredible. But yeah, so here's just, you know, it's kind of, it was difficult to pick just one, you know, a little passage out. But Nancy Pagosi, before we begin, I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the movement in the streets and the challenging years so many Democrats have endured. Please join me for 2016 seconds of silence as we take a knee together in a show of solidarity. James Garville, is this a bad joke, Nancy? Are we really doing the Black Lives Matter thing straight out of the gate?  This is an exercise to mourn Hillary's stolen 2016 presidency. It was her turn again. We were still with her in 2016, and now we're still withering. Alyssa Shilano, oh my God, I brought the perfect cap for this. All colors matter.  Nina Burner, put that down.  Nancy Pagosi, would you just stop it already with the purity test, Nina? No one's perfect. Let's begin. Nancy begins to lean over wobbles and then stops abruptly. Soledad a lion. Everything okay, Nancy? Nancy Pagosi. Actually, so dead. I think in the spirit of independent women and partially in the spirit of the wonderful martini I had backstage, we should probably have people perform the moment of silence when they get home.  So perfect. Joanne Green, excellent. Let's get this party started with a quick look back at happier times. That's good stuff, good stuff. Okay, okay. And I will say that just based on my preliminary reading of the first chapter, I would so far rate it a 10 out of 10. So we'll see, we'll see. Okay, so tell us what we can do. You mentioned pre-orders, we'll have links down in the description box. When does the book come out, Pat? So we put up pre-orders starting on the 30th and then the book should be shipping in August. Exact date, we're not sure because we have to get it back from our book provider. But if you go to savage and pat.com, that's where you can get the book. I did want to make sure and do a shout out for the guy that did our cover. He's a fantastic illustrationist. He does comics and political cartoons, Danny Hillman. He's on Twitter at just Danny Hillman, hell man. And he was great to work with on it, fantastic guy. He did some illustrations for the inside of the book as well. That's exciting. I look forward to that. So once again, the title of the book is the Yas Queen Chronicles, coverage of the first annual resistance forum by Joy Marie Mann and Patrick Cote. Pre-order it today. Thank you all so much. I'm definitely looking forward to it. If there's anything that's going to be cathartic after what we dealt with throughout this year, I think it's going to be this book. So everyone check that out and tell them that I sent you when you pre-order it.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with 2017-18, Panini Donner's Optic Basketball Super Value Rack Pack, a little cello pack right there. Break number 10, and at the very end of the break, we'll re-randomize your names, and the top 10 will get a spot each in that opulence break, which is coming up in a little bit. Big thanks to these folks for getting into the action. As always, we're going to do the break itself first, so let's roll it, let's randomize it, two and a four, six times for each list. One, two, three, four, five, and sixth and final time. Six times, right? Yeah, after six, we got Danny down to Blake for the break. Let's get that in here. Two and a four, six times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, and sixth and final time. After six, we've got the Toronto Raptors down to my Lakers. We're playing in about an hour. Is it about an hour? Is it now? Stand by on a Tuesday, the 22nd. They're six o'clock Pacific, so yes, a little under an hour. What a game two from them on Sunday night. That was exciting. That mama mentality from Anthony Davis. All right, there you go. There's the first half of the list right here. Remember, this is 17-18, so I guess Celtics are really one of the big teams right here, but there's some other names in this class that can be pretty good as well. Danny with the Jazz. All right, so no trades in these little quick filler breaks. Remember to always look out for those filler breaks, ladies and gentlemen. They can get you a spot and a really expensive break for the fraction of the price. What's this pink parallel here? Amir Johnson? I thought a 25. I don't think I've seen one of these pink parallels here. That's pretty cool. That goes to the Sixers. That'll be for Robert Runkle. Frank Mason. We've got Hall King's Julius Irving. I thought it was going to be numbered for a second. That's another one for the Sixers. And we've got a Rated Rookie, Jonathan Isaac, not bad. Ben Macklemore and Harrison Barnes. And back here we've got Blue Velocity, LeBron James, nice. And De'Aaron Fox, Rated Rookie. What a pack in Russell Westbrook. That's pretty cool. We've got a Fox, not in the box, but a Fox in the pack, De'Aaron Fox, going to Oliver, Soria, and with the Kings. There you go, Oliver. Oliver likes the Kings. And we've got LeBron James for the Cavs. Cavs Edition going to Blake. Nice. So there you go. All right, now let's give away some opulent spots. So let's grab everybody's names from Sean Maddock down to Daniel Graham and everybody in between. It's going to be top 10 after five, two and a three, five times. Top 10 after five. One. Good luck. Two, three, four, and fifth and final time after five times from 11 down to 30. My apologies. We'll get them next time. Congrats to the top 10. Sean, Robert, Raymond, JC, David, Danny, Blake, Sean, Roger, and Nicholas. There you go. Congrats to the top 10. We'll put a optic, I guess we'll put optic cello 10 next to your name or something like that. We'll make a distinction there. So congrats to you guys. Thanks to everyone else for giving this a shot. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Scientists have discovered a way to create an entire artificial respiratory system. That's amazing, but you have to admit that their apparatus looked a little bit cobbled together. Talk about hacking up a lung. This past December, video game developer Steve Gaynor gave everyone an amazing gift by asking his fellow programmers what crimes they committed while struggling to get their games to ship on time. The thread is a non-stop roller coaster of hilarious and sometimes horrifying confessions that show a little of how the sausage is made in video games and what sort of bizarre gymnastics are sometimes necessary to get these things to work. Every character, object, and bit of scenery in Wolverine's Revenge, including Wolverine himself, contains a variable with the sole purpose of indicating whether or not it's a helicopter lifting off. Instead of creating logic to handle the grammatical differences between singular and plural nouns, Seed Ship's random damage engine will always kill colonists in groups of two or more. Scooby-Doo, for the Game Boy Advance, would crash if you happened to collect one Scooby snack before a different one. So rather than figuring out what was causing the crash, one programmer wrote code to switch the two collectibles if a player got close to collecting them in the wrong order. Now, you might not be a programmer, but you can probably appreciate the particular flavor of these solutions. In classic computer parlance, they're hacks. Improvised, fiendishly clever, usually equal parts appalling and resplendent. The same flavor of problem solving can be found on the There I Fixed It and Redneck Engineering subreddits, a collection of duct tape and bailing wire bodges just barely hanging together, but still doing the thing they need to do. The primary factor that distinguishes a hack from other kinds of problem solving is an almost criminal vacuum of design. The careful, deliberate planning and architecture necessary not just to achieve some desired result, but to achieve it in the best way possible. In many ways, design is the opposite of hacking. It takes time, it's iterative, while hacks are the quickest and dirtiest answers that immediately spring to mind. Sometimes the fruits of that approach are brilliant, even heroic, but we probably share the sentiment that with enough time and resources, a solution that seems hacky leaves something to be desired. So why are designed solutions considered better? Better based on what criteria? It's not like thinking hard about an answer automatically makes it good.  There's something that you're trying to work into the character of that answer. Some set of traits or attributes you're trying to grant by being thoughtful about what form it takes, rather than just piling on duct tape until it works. What is it exactly that we're trying to gain through the act of design that's better than a hack? Let's think a little bit about what sorts of complications you get with hacks. First and foremost, hacks tend to be fragile, a slight breeze and unexpected input, and all the complex machinery around the quick fix explodes in a catastrophic fashion. They can be inflexible, requiring just as much work to repair when the parameters of their operation change slightly, often more work than it would have taken to do it properly the first time. Because they're tailor made to patch one specific problem, they're not really reusable, can't be easily generalized to other contexts, and worse yet, reinforce whatever error or oversight led to their creation in the first place. If you ever want to fix the original problem, you can't just fix it. You also have to strip out the hack and fix everything that was attached to it. Okay, let's try flipping those traits on their heads to see if we can't identify some of the key benefits of design. Hacks are fragile, so good designs must be robust. They must accept suboptimal operating conditions with ease and keep chugging away even when other parts of the system have failed. The classic example of robustness in operation is the AK-47 assault rifle, a weapon which you can literally fill with pumpkin pie and continue firing without issue. Many designers, myself included, would roll our eyes if we were given that as a specification, but you've got to admire it when you see it. While hacks can be rigid, good designs are generally flexible and adaptable. Many real-world examples of hacky-type solutions can be ultimately attributed to a design that continues to work well in situations the creator never even imagined. Take this infamous Excel spreadsheet called arena.xlsn, a fully functional role-playing game built entirely in a tool intended for accountants and bookkeepers. The Excel programming team certainly didn't intend this usage of their software, but the design is so good that it can be abused this way without issue. Hacks tend to be single use and non-generalizable, so good design should probably be widely applicable and useful in many different contexts. The Microsoft Xbox controller was built for video games, but its ergonomics, interface, and easily adapted programming libraries have made it a useful tool for inspection robots, research labs, underwater drones. It's even used in the Navy to control submarine periscopes. It's a controller, and it turns out that it's very useful for controlling things because it's well designed. Similarly, as hacks can cause calcified dependencies on the bits and bobs they're attached to, good designs don't rely on anything in particular to continue working in a certain way to keep functioning as they should. For most 3D printers, a power failure means a print failure.  The Prusa Mark III on the other hand, when it detects a power failure, will write its current location to memory so it can just start up again when the power comes back. Now I don't want this to come across as an indictment of hacking. Obviously, those who confessed their grievous game developer sins to Twitter knew they were doing something shady when they were doing it. They didn't need some pithy catchphrase and needlepoint over their monitors to remember how to code properly rather than slapping together something functional through brute force. Most were making the conscious decision that it was worth sacrificing all the benefits of good design to get something that worked quickly, using whatever spaghetti code was necessary to make it happen. Looking through the sometimes surreal creativity on display there, this obviously isn't the result of stupidity or lack of vision. It requires serious brilliance to enact some of these ridiculous clutches. And it's worth noting that, sometimes, through laws of probability, one may accidentally stumble onto a hack that turns out to be a solid solution, something that a team of designers couldn't improve on after years of careful thought. You might be surprised to learn that the vast majority of the entities in World of Warcraft, everything from turrets and traps to quest credits and cutscene triggers, is classified in the game engine as an invisible bunny. There are over 1,000 bunnies in the game's database, and only a handful are actual rabbits. Every other bunny on the list is invisibly performing some vital function in the game's world, quietly making every raid mechanic and boss fight work. That probably sounds like the most absurdly entrenched hack imaginable, but you might be more surprised to learn that it's a fairly common practice in video game development. In WoW, it's bunnies. In League of Legends, it's minions. In Fallout 3, it's NPCs with giant tram-shaped helmets. It turns out that characters are often one of the first programming categories created when making a game, and tend to have everything that a programmer needs to make something happen. Just about any variable or trigger or event can usually be handled by creating a character, making it invisible so it doesn't appear on the screen, then hanging whatever code you might need on that character, rather than creating a unique class for every little thing. It may sound crazy, but the invisible NPC method is fairly robust, flexible, generalizes to numerous types of games, and only really relies on one essential part of the game engine. What started off as a fairly hilarious hack is now a perfectly workable design solution. It's a fairly rare occurrence, but sometimes a really brilliant designer can look at something that's clearly hacked together and find good design in it. What's the most embarrassing clues that you've ever put together? Please leave a comment below and let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching. Don't forget to ball the subscribe law share, and don't stop plunking.