Episode 14: 14: A Dark Age of Objective-C
Hypercritical
5by5
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2011
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit Apple's GUI history, complain about TiVo some more, then explore the possibility of another Copland-like crisis looming in Apple's future. What will replace Objective-C and Cocoa? What can?
Links for this episode:
- John Gruber at Webstock '11 - The Gap Theory of UI Design
- Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters - Ars Technica
- TiVo survey hints at multiroom companion box, four-tuner DVR in the future - Engadget
- Avoiding Copland 2010
- Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 2
- Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 3
- Copland 2010 revisited: Apple's language and API future
- Copland - Wikipedia
- The Guru - Flickr
- The "haggling over the price" joke
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical. It's a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong. |
| 0:07.0 | The world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.3 | Nothing is so perfect that my co-host John Syracusea cannot find something wrong with it. |
| 0:16.4 | There's nothing that he can't complain about. |
| 0:18.4 | Hi John. |
| 0:19.4 | Hi Dan Benjamin and we'd like to say thanks to rackspace.com and Shopify.com for making the show possible. |
| 0:26.7 | Tell you more about them as the program continues but you know it's becoming |
| 0:32.2 | it's becoming a little bit of a of a stick of yours almost |
| 0:36.6 | that the follow-up is most of the show now that the other the other hosts of the other |
| 0:41.9 | shows are now they have something that they will |
| 0:44.9 | refer to as John Syracuse a mode anytime they do follow up. |
| 0:50.3 | If I can make them feel that it's their responsibility to address |
| 0:53.7 | issues raised by listeners about their previous show I feel I will have succeeded. |
| 0:58.3 | I found out today you're six foot two. That's right. Well I was in my youth now I'm a hunched old man. |
| 1:04.8 | With or without the hair? That's without. Okay. Do you wet it down when you take measurements to keep it flat or what? |
| 1:15.6 | It squishes down, you know. |
| 1:17.6 | How tall are you? |
| 1:18.6 | You have some sort of a Napoleon complex? |
| 1:20.6 | No, I don't think so. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm, you know, I'm average height in Korea. |
| 1:24.0 | 5 7. 5. 7. |
| 1:27.0 | You know, 5.8 with a nice pair of shoes on. |
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