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Hypercritical

Episode 20: 20: I've Got Nothing

Hypercritical

5by5

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

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2011

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss John's upcoming trip to WWDC, Twitter's strange gaps in functionality (and the third-party developers determined to fill them), the sale of NetNewsWire to Black Pixel, and dealing with changes to your favorite applications.

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0:00.0

This is hypercritical, weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong.

0:07.6

In the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses, nothing is so perfect

0:11.7

that it cannot be completely decimated and destroyed by my co-host

0:15.8

John Sir-Cusa.

0:17.2

I'm Dan Benjamin and this is episode number 20.

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them out at mailchimp.com. Hey John, how you doing this week?

1:18.6

Doing pretty well, Dan. We are requeathed, yeah, I don't know, you know, people, we do a lot of work in posts on these shows, especially when people are recording.

1:27.0

I don't even want to say it, but when people are foolish enough to record with a USB headset microphone.

1:37.0

I mean, nobody would do that if they were serious about this.

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