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Hypercritical

Episode 15: 15: The Bridges of Siracusa County

Hypercritical

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News, Apple, Ars Technica, Siracusa, Mac, Tech, Sci-fi, Geek, Tech News

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2011

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue their discussion of high-level programming languages, now focusing on why all popular languages suck in some way, then transition into a hard look at Perl, the black sheep of the dynamic language landscape.

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0:00.0

The name of this show is hypercritical.

0:05.0

It's a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses.

0:12.0

John Sir Cusa and I, I'm Dan Benjamin will talk about how things go well and sometimes don't go so

0:18.3

well for companies like Apple right and that's what we talk about here.

0:22.0

It's not just Apple.

0:23.7

Yeah. And the fact is, John, nothing is so perfect that you can't complain about it.

0:28.5

That's what we say. That's true. And we would like to thank the Intuit Small Business blog and their mobile app, as well as

0:35.6

campaign monitors worldview for making the show possible.

0:39.0

We'll tell you more about those as the show progresses.

0:41.6

What are we complaining about today? the FU right you get a lot of

0:45.6

if you you know the whole show is F you not too much today I trimmed a lot because I know we have a lot

0:50.8

of stuff to get to him when you're trying to keep the show short now, right?

0:54.0

Got, had some requests that the show be,

0:58.0

uh, we, not, not cutting it short, that's not the right thing,

1:01.0

but just make keeping track of time.

1:03.0

That person who asked for that didn't even mention my show so he probably doesn't even listen.

1:07.5

I don't think he's aware of your show he probably looked at the run time of it and said I can't

1:11.0

listen then. Mine have been short not long, I'm not doing two hour things with James Bondtacked

1:16.1

on to the end or anything?

1:17.1

Yeah, I think you got, of all the shows I think you are probably the most time sensitive.

1:21.6

So there you go.

1:24.0

So I feel no compunction to try to cut it short.

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