Episode 26: 26: White Smoke
Hypercritical
5by5
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2011
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue to wait for the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. In the meantime, topics include Facebook's use of MySQL, some of the technology behind Google+, the 5by5 ShowBot, possibly new Mac hardware (featuring the fabled xMac), and whether or not Dan and John are cool.
Links for this episode:
- Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ - Cloud Computing News
- "I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything."
- Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast? - Caffeinated Bitstream
- The story of Showbot - Jeremy Mack
- VoltDB
- Night of the living xMac - Ars Technica
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical. |
| 0:04.0 | A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.0 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by the host of this show, John |
| 0:15.2 | Syracuse. |
| 0:16.2 | I know him from ours, Technic, and elsewhere, and by me, I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:21.0 | We would like to say thanks very much to Freshbooks.com and Shopify.com for making |
| 0:26.2 | this show possible. I'd also like to mention that bandwidth for this episode of Hypercritical |
| 0:30.8 | has been provided by Midas Green Technologies, virtual private servers |
| 0:35.0 | submerged in oil. Seriously, check them out at Midas Green Tech.com. |
| 0:41.7 | How are you today, John? Big week for you. |
| 0:43.0 | Or maybe not? |
| 0:45.0 | I don't think so. |
| 0:47.0 | You're saying not. You're saying that next week is the week. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, that's what I heard. |
| 0:52.0 | That's the rumor. Third hand, fourth hand. Yeah, that's what I heard. |
| 0:52.5 | That's the rumor. |
| 0:53.5 | And fourth hand, rumored, but the story I've got is that no lie on this week. |
| 0:58.5 | I thought it was going to be yesterday, obviously it wasn't, and what I've heard is that it's not going to be this week. |
| 1:04.4 | Do we have a reason why? |
| 1:06.4 | No, this is I'm very far removed from these rumors, but by the time they get to me, all I get is not this week. |
| 1:18.0 | That's, you know, I'm just, can not be honest, I'm disappointed in you. So am I. I hope it would be yesterday. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm not disappointed in now, I'm disappointed in you for not understanding why and warning me. |
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