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Hypercritical

Episode 33: 33: Square Bracket Colon Smiley

Hypercritical

5by5

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

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2011

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

This is hyper critical. This is a weekly talk show

0:04.8

ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and

0:07.4

related technologies and businesses. As we say here, nothing is so

0:10.8

perfect that it cannot be complained about by my co- and

0:14.4

perhaps improved upon by my co-host John Syracusea nozy I'm Dan

0:20.0

Benjamin this is episode number 33 I'd like to say thanks to easyDNS.com and mailchimp.com for making this show possible

0:29.9

and of course as always bandwidth for this episode has been provided by Midas Green Technologies

0:35.1

virtual private servers submerged in oil.

0:38.2

You go to mind screen tech.com slash 5 by 5 find out how to get some free bandwidth.

0:44.4

Here we are, John.

0:46.4

It's September of 2011.

0:50.1

We have, you were saying you don't know what we're going to talk about.

0:55.7

Yeah, there's got a list of stuff. There's a bunch of links and already in the show thing.

0:58.4

I didn't put all of them there, so you must have put some there.

1:00.4

Maybe faith did.

1:01.4

I did.

1:01.9

All I do is think about this show day and night yeah I guess I have a little bit of follow up and then we can pick what we want to talk about

1:09.2

okay sure so this is kind of a repeat of last week's follow-up where I talked about the 27 inch display that I said was a 30 inch display and I talked about how the

1:19.4

URL said slash displays but this is the only one they sell. Right.

1:23.0

I was quickly corrected, this is not the only one they sell.

1:25.0

They still sell the old 27 inch that doesn't have Thunderbolt.

1:29.0

Really?

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