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Hypercritical
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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 100

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Episode 100: 100: Metacritical
vendredi 28 décembre 2012 • Duration 01:41:04
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
Episode 99: 99: New Siracusa County Bros. U
vendredi 21 décembre 2012 • Duration 02:01:20
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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Episode 90: 90: Salad Days
vendredi 19 octobre 2012 • Duration 02:02:54
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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Episode 89: 89: Lazy Sunday
dimanche 14 octobre 2012 • Duration 01:36:42
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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Episode 88: 88: Nobody Leaves Email
vendredi 5 octobre 2012 • Duration 01:55:22
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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Episode 87: 87: Smarter and Harder
vendredi 28 septembre 2012 • Duration 01:30:58
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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Episode 86: 86: Naked Robotic Core
vendredi 21 septembre 2012 • Duration 01:25:15
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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Episode 85: 85: Just Check the Checkbox!
mercredi 12 septembre 2012 • Duration 01:41:56
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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Episode 84: 84: Spared No Expense
vendredi 7 septembre 2012 • Duration 02:08:45
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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Episode 83: 83: Dishonorable
vendredi 31 août 2012 • Duration 01:29:57
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
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