John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin are joined by special guest Jeff Atwood, cofounder of the Stack Exchange Q&A network and creator of the popular programming blog codinghorror.com. John and Jeff try to rekindle the old Mac vs. PC flames and end up talking about the light and dark sides of Apple as a platform owner.
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Hypercritical #41: The Homer
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Hypercritical #40: When The Hobby Light Goes Off
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss what it’s going to take for Apple to field a television product that’s finally something more than a “hobby.” Attached box vs. full TV set, apps vs. channels vs. a la carte purchases, direct deals with content owners vs. additional layers of middlemen (e.g., Netflix). So many possibilities, but all of them difficult.
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Hypercritical #33: Square Bracket Colon Smiley
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the origins and suitability of Markdown, including why John doesn’t use it and why you might want to, and why the entire PC industry can’t seem to create a laptop as nice as a MacBook Air but for less money.
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Hypercritical #29: In Too Deep - 5by5
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss Lion’s quittin’ ways, people who choose to turn off Dock indicator lights, the merits of a “clean install” of Mac OS X, Mac application launchers, and BBEdit vs. TextMate vs. emacs vs. vi vs. sanity.
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