Episode 140 - Talking about the Olympics, Firefox Servo and China's new bus

TechCraft Podcast

This week Hrishi and Sergey discuss the Olympics, Firefox going multithreaded and China's new bus. - Hrishi’s mobile phone contract coming to an end. He will get out of the bill contract - Sergey against bill pay and has a month-to-month contract - Best time to upgrade is early next year - Olympics have started: Where do we watch it? There are no live streams as such. - The media is a very critical of Brazil -Hrishi is boycott the olympics since is a corporate money splurging - Hong Kong based bitcoin exchange got hacked - Bitcoin has been out of the news, it is a good thing. - It is great Bitcoin is still around, the tech is maturing - Also good that Ethereum is developing rapdily. - The real test of Bitcoin is how many new people are joining the ecosystem: how many new retailers supporting bitcoin? - Coinbase now supports Ethereum, - Pokemon gets tons of 1 star reviews for some update on the tool - iPhone has a music industry model, one or two become superstars - Firefox goes multi threaded: the ececltrolysis project. - It is slow now compared to other browsers. Firefox needs to innovate and move the stack forward. - A great example of this is the new Firefox Servo engine - Mozilla is a non profit committed to keep internet open so there is a conflict of interest. - Mozilla needs to focus on the basics - Windows 10 Anniversary update is out: How do you tell if you have it? - People are having a lot of issues with drivers including Sergey whose camera does not work properly on Skype. - Bash is now on Windows is quite good - Some people are reporting data corruption issues. - Finally China launches rollin bus, it is a bridge on wheels - It is good they are trying something out and trying something new, kudos to them.