Hypercritical
Technology Podcasts
A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.
Location:
Austin, TX
Description:
A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.
Twitter:
@5by5
Language:
English
Contact:
5by5 Broadcasting 5114 Balcones Woods Drive Suite 307-292 Austin, TX 78759-5273
Email:
itunes@5by5.tv
Episodes
Episode 100: 100: Metacritical
12/28/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin end the Hypercritical podcast with a discussion of the show itself, followed by a final Q&A where Dan asks the questions and John attempts to provide sensible answers. Many thanks to all the listeners and the folks in the 5by5 chat room. The journey was the reward.
Links for this episode:
"I modded my GameCube pad into a Wii Classic Controller", by gummowned - Reddit
Address Resolution Protocol - Wikipedia
Basic guide to mod a GameCube controller with a Wii Classic Controller PCB - Gummo
Hypercritcal (Song A Day #1450) - YouTube
Jonathan Mann
Song a Day: The Album
Wii RetroPad Adapter 2 - Sparrow's Domain
"If you liked our Bad At High School episode, …" - @theincomparable
Hypercritical - Ars Technica
Jerry Maguire - Wikiquote
More Hypercritical Length Analysis - Super Jeffective
Duration:01:41:04
Episode 99: 99: New Siracusa County Bros. U
12/21/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on iTunes 11 and Apple's continuing failure to grok online services, then discuss the Wii U, starting with the painful setup process and continuing on to New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, and, inevitably, the Wii U GamePad controller.
Links for this episode:
Order of authors on publications - Academia Stack Exchange
Does your brain really have the power to see the world upside-down?
Dropbox: The Linchpin - Daring Fireball
Dropbox: The Linchpin - Michael Tsai
How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii - Ars Technica
The long, frustrating road to recovering my Wii downloads - Ars Technica
The incredibly true story of how I bricked my Wii U - The PA Report
Wii U GamePad battery compartment - iFixIt
New Super Mario Bros. U - Amazon.com
Wii U - Nintendo
Nintendo Land - Amazon.com
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Duration:02:01:20
Episode 98: 98: Hardware Machismo
12/14/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on taping out silicon chips, Apple's seemingly bottomless silicon ambitions, and the pitfalls of labeling people, then discuss Twitterrific 5, the new Google maps app on iOS, iTunes 11, Tim Cook's national news tour, and Apple's upcoming "Made in the USA" Mac.
Links for this episode:
How to use rlwrap to get a command history in sql*plus - Lutz Hartmann
How To Tell People They Sound Racist - YouTube
Innovation is a Fight - Rands In Repose
Rands - Wikipedia
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race - TEDxHampshireCollege
A comment on The new age of Capital Intensity - Asymco.com
NBC's Rock Center interview with Tim Cook - Part 1
NBC's Rock Center interview with Tim Cook - Part 2
Google Maps for iPhone shows Apple how to do mapping right - Ars Technica
iTunes 11 review: Simple is as simple does - Ars Technica
iTunes through the ages - Ars Technica
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Brian Williams: “Don’t bet against us.” - Ars Technica
Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks - Businessweek
OpenStreetMap
Twitterrific 5
Jeff Foster
Kitsune: Efficient, General-purpose Dynamic Software Updating for C (PDF)
Muir Island - Wikipedia
Kremlinology - Wikipedia
Hypercritical T-Shirt Poll
For Apple, change could be a good sign - Jason Snell
Text of Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address (2005)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs at D8: The Full, Uncut Interview - AllThingsD
Apple's "Made in USA" computer likely to be Mac Pro - Philip Elmer-DeWitt
The Pipeline #23: John Siracusa
The Setup / John Siracusa
Duration:02:06:37
Episode 97: 97: Idle Doodles
12/5/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on silicon chip making and misogyny in geek culture, then dive into Hypercritical's first—and likely only—listener Q&A show. All questions entertained! Some questions answered!
Links for this episode:
No Movie for Old Men
On Dickwolves, Ethics, and Why I'm Not Attending PAX East - arthur-ign
The Pratfall of Penny Arcade - A Timeline
Five Geek Social Fallacies - Michael Suileabhain-Wilson
Raymond Chandler's Private Dick - The Atlantic
International maritime signal flags - Wikipedia
Blue Peter Frequently Asked Questions - BBC
John Scalzi - Wikipedia
The Way Games Work - Wii U GamePad - YouTube
Bare Bones Software: BBEdit 10.5
BBEdit 10.5 Release Notes
Quicken Mac 2007 - Intuit
Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be - John Scalzi
The AnandTech Podcast
Bono - Wikipedia
Larry Elmore: The Complete Elmore Artbook - Kickstarter
Perceptual adaptation - Wikipedia
Larry Elmore, Fantasy Artist
Jonathan Coulton - Wikipedia
Dan Moren's Boston Globe article (mostly behind a paywall, unfortunately)
Macworld: The Best Mac Ever
The Flop House
Roderick on the Line
Fresh Air
This American Life
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Duration:01:55:07
Episode 96: 96: Blue Peter
11/30/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin reveal John's Wii U in transit, then talk more about Apple, Intel, ARM, and silicon chip fabrication, and finally, the Fake Geek Girl meme, misogyny, and problems with Geek Culture in general.
Links for this episode:
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, by Charles Petzold
From NAND to Tetris: The Elements of Computing Systems - nand2tetris.org
Cabel's tweet about The Wii U GamePad
If Samsung doesn't supply Apple's processors, who will? - Fortune
Native Client: Technical Overview - Google
Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code (PDF)
Ring (computer security) - Wikipedia
Broadwell (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
Land grid array - Wikipedia
Indium gallium zinc oxide - Wikipedia
Blue Peter - Wikipedia
Multiply–accumulate operation - Wikipedia
Transactional memory going mainstream with Intel Haswell - Ars Technica
Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture - RealWorldTech
Haswell has on-die voltage regulator - fudzilla.com
Idiot Nerd Girl - Know Your Meme
Fake Geek Girl Meme - The Mary Sue
The Incomparable #28: Bad at High School
RBC: Intel in talks with Apple to build iPhone processors - Fortune
Hypercritical - Ars Technica
Wyld Stallyns #1 : Be Excellent To Each Other - YouTube
Moore's law - Wikipedia
OS X 10.8.3 beta supports Radeon HD 7900-series chipsets - MacNN
Wild Speculation: Why a $2B AMD purchase would be a puzzle piece fit for Apple - 9to5Mac
Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it - SemiAccurate
Nerds: Stop hating women, please - New Statesman
On the “Fake” Geek Girl - The Mary Sue
Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away - Forbes
Forget the Sixaxis - the Wii U’s GamePad has nine-axis control - VentureBeat
Apple may tap TSMC to move A-series mobile chips to 28nm process - Ars Technica
Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be - John Scalzi
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Duration:01:44:40
Episode 95: 95: Black Friday
11/23/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the upcoming end of this show, more on Intel vs. ARM, Apple's CPU/GPU needs, and the newly revealed internals of the Wii U console and GamePad.
Links for this episode:
Advanced Vector Extensions - Wikipedia
5by5 Specials #10: State of the Union for 2012
Intel to fab ARM chips for Apple? It’s possible… - Ars Technica
Intel's Tick Tock strategy (image)
Silicon - Wikipedia
Silicone - Wikipedia
Intel set to expand its Hillsboro research fab, D1X - OregonLive.com
Haswell’s GPU prowess is due to Crystalwell - SemiAccurate
Crystalwell is very wide memory for Haswell GT3 - SemiAccurate
Nintendo Wii U Teardown - iFixit
Rayman developer: Wii U GamePad latency is 1/60th of a second - Ars Technica
Hands-On with Wii U (GamePad lag video) - Digital Foundry
Iwata Asks : Wii U: The Console : Hardware as Stagehand
Wii U GamePad battery compartment - iFixIt
Skylanders
CrashPlan's Black Friday sale
State of the Union Address for 2012 - 5by5 Blog
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Duration:01:48:03
Episode 94: 94: Shrink, Shrink, Shrink!
11/16/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit the topic of voting technology, then discuss the possibility of Apple using ARM processors instead of Intel processors in its Macs: RISC vs. CISC, process nodes, the x86 burden, and…sewing machines.
Links for this episode:
Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel for Mac - Businessweek
RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era (1999) - Ars Technica
Reduced instruction set computing - Wikipedia
Complex instruction set computing - Wikipedia
RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era (2008) - Ars Technica
x86 instruction listings - Wikipedia
Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 1 - YouTube
Secret Life of Machines The Sewing Machine Part 2 - YouTube
How a Sewing Machine Works (animation) - swiss-miss.com
Micro-operation - Wikipedia
x87 - Wikipedia
SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) - Wikipedia
SSE2 - Wikipedia
SSE3 - Wikipedia
SSE4 - Wikipedia
x86-64 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lithography - Wikipedia
22 nanometer - Wikipedia
Ivy Bridge (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
Apple A6 - Wikipedia
Understanding Moore’s Law - Ars Technica
Ivy Bridge: 1.4B Transistors - AnandTech
Intel 8086 - Wikipedia
Haswell (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
TSMC - Wikipedia
Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC (2005) - Ars Technica
Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture - Real World Tech
eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen (video) - events.ccc.de
eVoting after Nedap and Digital Pen - events.ccc.de
Luddite - Wikipedia
Why You Can't Vote Online Yet - On The Media
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Duration:01:40:08
Episode 93: 93: A Magic Elf in My Computer
11/9/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about Forstall's departure from Apple, Surface storage, and Fusion Drive, then discuss US voting technology, Google voice search, and how Apple's design problems are more than skin deep.
Links for this episode:
Why Executives Are Never Fired - Michael Camilleri
Gardening leave - Wikipedia
Available disk space on Microsoft Surface - Microsoft.com
SDXC - Wikipedia
Apple fusion drive on late 2010 MacBook Pro - Tomasz Korwel
Fusion drive on a pre-10.8.2 version of OS X - Alexandre Torres
Achieving fusion—with a service training doc, Ars tears open Apple’s Fusion Drive - Ars Technica
End-to-end auditable voting systems - Wikipedia
David Bismark: E-voting without fraud - TED.com
Google Voice Search vs. Siri - Daring Fireball
Google Voice Search vs. Siri: Who’s the Best... - Gizmodo.com
Apple’s design problems aren’t skeuomorphic - counternotions
Frogger! The Frogger Musical - Paul and Storm
Konami Code - Wikipedia
BYOD Fusion
Do It Yourself Apple Fusion Drive on Your Mac - YouTube
AppleCD Audio Player
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Duration:01:55:22
Episode 92: 92: The Tim Cook Era
11/2/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest information about Apple's Fusion Drive and the first big executive reshuffling at Apple in the post-Steve Jobs era: Forstall and Browett are out; Ive, Cue, Federighi, and Mansfield are in.
Links for this episode:
AnandTech - The Windows RT Review
Tweet from Tanner Silva about the cost of a Retina MacBook Pro screen replacement
Tweet from Stephen Hackett about glass-covered MacBook Pro screens
Tweet from Thomas Brand about screens glued to laptop lids
Tweet from jackslash about the Apple logo on the front of the iMac
Mac notebooks: About the "Ignoring accidental trackpad input" option - Apple.com
Fusion drive on older Macs? YES! - Patrick Stein
More on BYO Fusion drive - Patrick Stein
Fusion Drive - loose ends - Patrick Stein
Core Storage in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
Apple Announces Changes to Increase Collaboration Across Hardware, Software & Services - Apple.com
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Steve “taught me that the joy is in the journey” - Ars Technica
Op-ed: Apple Store may be shifting from customer experience to profit machine | Ars Technica
Behind Silicon Valley's Un-Retirement of Apple's Bob Mansfield - AllThingsD
Skeuomorphism in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
Skeuomorphic applications in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica
Jonathan Ive interview: simplicity isn't simple - Telegraph
File system API unification in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Ars Technica
Daring Fireball: Forstall Out; Ive Up
Neven Mrgan's post on App.net about Jony Ive's car
Bertrand Serlet to Leave Apple - Apple.com
Avadis Tevanian - Wikipedia
Craig Federighi - Wikipedia
Bertrand Serlet - Wikipedia
Daring Fireball: The Good, the Bad, and the Avie
Apple Technical Note 2034 (PDF)
The Incomparable #114: When You Wish Upon a "Star Wars"
From inside Apple, the Scott Forstall fallout - Om Malik
Hypercritical #45: Star Wars is Not a Blog Post
Fusion Drive quick look: Our predictions confirmed! - Ars Technica
Browett seen as bad for Apple thanks to Dixons’ poor reputation - Ars Technica
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Duration:02:05:53
Episode 91: 91: Adolescence
10/26/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the new hardware announced at the October 23rd Apple event: the latest Retina MacBook Pro, whether the new iMac is too skinny or too fat, the little information we currently know about Fusion Drive, and, of course, the new iPads, both mini and Retina.
Links for this episode:
Intel Z68 Chipset & Smart Response Technology (SSD Caching) Review - AnandTech
Hypercritical #17: Intruding Gooseneck
AnandTech - Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD
Macminicolo Blog (Impressions of the 2012 Mac mini (updated))
Does this aluminum back make me look fat?
Hands-on with the thumb-able iPad mini and the ultrathin iMac - Ars Technica
Apple Fusion Drive—wait, what? How does this work? - Ars Technica
A short history of btrfs - LWN.net
Hypercritical #57: Computational Skeuomorphism
B-Trees, Shadowing, and Clones (PDF) - Ohad Rodeh
Mac mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012): About Fusion Drive - Apple.com
Apple's white iPad mini sells out in 20 minutes - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
Strange Game - The Magazine
AnandTech - Understanding Apple's Fusion Drive
Apple Special Event October 2012
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Duration:02:23:37
Episode 90: 90: Salad Days
10/19/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin ponder the upcoming Apple event, assess picayune physical details of the iPhone 5 and iPod touch, compare the newly announced pricing for the Microsoft Surface to its possible competitors, and discuss John's approach to getting value from Twitter.
Links for this episode:
Pentagon Paradox: The Development of the F-18 Hornet, by James P. Stevenson
Hypercritical #73: 22 Degrees
Daniel Siders on sending a POST for each follower in Tent
October 23 Apple event confirmed: “We’ve got a little more to show you” - Ars Technica
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle - Wikipedia
iOS portfolio price distribution - asymco
Thoughts on the Display, Price, and Name of the Impending Smaller iPad - Daring Fireball
iPad (3rd generation) - Wikipedia
Microsoft Surface will start at $499
Just one example of a Totoro-themes iPad case on Etsy
The Brief, by Richard Dunlop-Walters
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Duration:02:02:54
Episode 89: 89: Lazy Sunday
10/14/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin relax on a Sunday afternoon and chat about Apple's taste for brute force solutions, the foibles of decentralized systems like Tent and email, and The Magazine, Marco Arment's new Newsstand publication.
Links for this episode:
The Magazine
The Magazine - Foreword
Appnetizens Analytics: Posts Per Hour History - appnetizens.com
Google Realtime Search Goes Offline - Time.com
The Secret of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed - NPR.org
The Feature
The Brief
The Brief Explained - Marco.org
Marco's tweet about his "LOL" FAQ answer
Marco's tweet about the The Magazine's App Store ranking on launch
Newsstand - Wikipedia
Lazy Sunday - NBC.com
The Apple Strategy Tax - Ars Technica
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Duration:01:36:42
Episode 88: 88: Nobody Leaves Email
10/5/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest events in the burgeoning App.net community, then explore the competing(?) Tent.io protocol for decentralized real-time social networking.
Links for this episode:
Real-time computing - Wikipedia
Paying Developers is A Bad Idea - Charlie Kindel
Ball bearing - Wikipedia
Announcing the App.net Developer Incentive Program - App.net
Say Hello to Netbot - Tapbots Blog
Netbot - Tapbots.com
Protocols don't mean much - Dave Winer
Tent - the decentralized social web
Tent.is (alpha) - Simple Tent Hosting
John's tent.io account - siracusa.tent.is
As of 2011, what is the average number of followers for a Twitter user? - Quora
Is a federated Twitter even possible? - Dan Wineman
A response to Brennan Novak - Dalton Caldwell
Hypercritical #37: A Story of Triumph
Wedge - A Mac client for App.net
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Duration:01:55:21
Episode 87: 87: Smarter and Harder
9/28/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on Apple's slippery little devices and Apple's mapping woes, then discuss the new iPod touch and iPod nano. John's hypothetical Ferrari is briefly mentioned.
Links for this episode:
iPod touch - Apple.com
iPod nano - Apple.com
A letter from Tim Cook on Maps - Apple.com
Lightning connector, disassembled - iFixit.com
iPhone 5 Teardown, connector portion - iFixit.com
Acer AZ3731-UR21P, with PS/2 ports - Amazon.com
Close-up picture of those Acer PS/2 ports
iPhone 5 wall charger vs. earlier model
How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything - The Atlantic
Merlin's Tweet: "You’re dead to me, Dan. DEAD."
Merlin's Tweet: "He USED to have a web site…"
Speaking for Yourself - Merlin Mann
PC System Design Guide - Wikipedia
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Duration:01:30:57
Episode 86: 86: Naked Robotic Core
9/21/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the new iPhone 5: its physical design, the case for cases, the new lightning connector, and Apple's trouble with maps. Let the iPhone 6 speculation begin?
Links for this episode:
iPhone 5 - Apple.com
The Amazing iOS 6 Maps
The Incomparable #108: Journey: Then We Touched, Then We Sang
iPhone 5 deconstructed: packed with power efficient parts - Ars Technica
Lightning connector: a follow-up - brockerhoff.net
Lightning connector - brockerhoff.net
The Impromptu
Black iPhone 5 Anodized Aluminum Susceptible to Scratching? - Mac Rumors
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet - Wikipedia
McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle - Wikipedia
On the rumor that Google has submitted an iOS 6 Maps app and Apple is sitting on it
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Duration:01:25:15
Episode 85: 85: Just Check the Checkbox!
9/12/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss all the things that went wrong during John's Mountain Lion ebook publishing experience. There's more than enough blame to go around. Please note that this episode was recorded before the September 12th Apple event.
Links for this episode:
OS X Battery Life Analysis from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion - The Mac Observer
Apple MagSafe Airline Adapter - Apple Store (U.S.)
Apple's battery guide for laptops - Apple.com
Apple's battery guide for iPad - Apple.com
Apple's battery guide for iPhone - Apple.com
Apple's battery guide for iPod - Apple.com
About My Mountain Lion Review - John Siracusa
Mobipocket - Wikipedia
Amazon Kindle - Wikipedia
EPUB - Wikipedia
Kindle Format 8 - Wikipedia
KindleGen
Kindle Previewer
EPUB on the Threepress Consulting blog
Pricing for Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing
It's a Unix system - YouTube
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Duration:01:41:56
Episode 84: 84: Spared No Expense
9/7/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Amazon's new Kindle and Kindle Fire products. Is Amazon Apple's most dangerous competitor, or are the two companies not really in competition at all? Who is Amazon's ideal customer? Finally, John and Dan make their predictions for next week's Apple press event.
Links for this episode:
Amazon shows off Kindle Fire HD with 4G LTE for $499, WiFi for $299 - Ars Technica
Kindle Fire’s 4G package offers 250MB of data a month for $50 a year - Ars Technica
Amazon’s new $119 Kindle Paperwhite e-reader comes with front-lit screen - Ars Technica
Kindle Fire HD 8.9" 4G - Amazon.com
Kindle Fire HD 8.9" - Amazon.com
Kindle Fire HD - Amazon.com
Kindle Fire - Amazon.com
Kindle Paperwhite - Amazon.com
Kindle - Amazon.com
How to Store Batteries - Battery University
How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries - Battery University
Amazon FreeTime Gives Parents More Control Over What Kids Watch
iOS Version History Chart
Volume of the iPhone 4S vs. the (rumored) iPhone 5 - iamconcise.com
Live Updates From Amazon's Press Event - NYTimes.com
IMDb: Internet Movie Database - Wikipedia
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Duration:02:08:45
Episode 83: 83: Dishonorable
8/31/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Apple v. Samsung court case, the near-comprehensive rumors and leaks about the next iPhone, the possible internals of the rumored iPad mini, and which company we'd like to buy Twitter, if it were actually for sale.
Links for this episode:
Predicting the “iPad Mini” internals - Marco.org
More new iPhone parts, A6 processor, more new 9-pin cables - 9to5Mac
Preparing for the iPhone Next: Rumors Analyzed - AnandTech
Apple v. Samsung verdict is in: $1 billion loss for Samsung - Ars Technica
Hypercritical #67: A Pill That Helps with Whatever
Hypercritical #68: Patent Hands
Hypercritical #69: Sport of Kings
Thunderbolt Lite - Richard Stelling
Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
OS X icons for generic PC hardware in John's Leopard review - Ars Technica
Why Thunderbolt Won't Come to the iPhone Anytime Soon - AnandTech
New Part Leaks Include Taller iPod Touch Front Panel, 'iPhone 5' Cameras - Mac Rumors
Rat king (folklore) - Wikipedia
What Is the Open Web and Why Is It Important? - Coding In Paradise
MacBook Pro Mountain Lion Battery Life: 10.7 vs 10.8 vs 10.8.1 -The Mac Observer
Shopify (get 3 months free), Squarespace (10% off with code DANSENTME8), and Textastic.
Duration:01:29:57
Episode 82: 82: The Opposite of Comprehensive
8/24/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin finally complete their discussion of John's Mountain Lion review. Topics include power management, UI simplification, automatic termination, Facebook integration, and plagiarizing from yourself.
Links for this episode:
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review
Secrets, the OS X hidden feature database and preference pane - secrets.blacktree.com
Github OS X hidden feature project - mathiasbynens/dotfiles
Google's reverse engineering of Mountain Lion's overlay progress bar API
Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.1 Improves Battery Life Somewhat - Mac Rumors
Google Chrome updater technology - dev.chromium.org
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Duration:02:06:57
Episode 81: 81: Channels of Control
8/17/2012
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the latest round of Twitter API changes that further marginalize third-party "traditional" Twitter client applications, with the inevitable follow up about App.Net, the nascent Twitter-like service that takes money directly from its users, rather than selling access to its users to advertisers.
Links for this episode:
Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API - dev.twitter.com
Display Guidelines - dev.twitter.com
Delivering a consistent Twitter experience - dev.twitter.com
Twitter hands down new, strict rules for third-party developers - Macworld
The Princess Bride (1987) - Memorable quotes
siracusa on App.net
dan on App.net
jkottke's "Twitter is Vader" tweet
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Duration:02:03:18