Episode 34: 34: Pride in Craftsmanship
Hypercritical
5by5
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2011
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin mourn the continuing shameful stewardship of the cultural touchstone that is Star Wars, then dive into the Windows 8 Metro user interface and Microsoft's prospects for the future of its hybrid tablet/desktop operating system.
Links for this episode:
- 6.270 - MIT's Autonomous Robot Design Competition
- Markdown Syntax Documentation - Daring Fireball
- Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Episodes I-VI) [Blu-ray] - Amazon.com
- The Secret History of Star Wars
- Hypercritical #13: The Tortoise and the Hare - 5by5
- 8 traits of great Metro style apps - Channel 9
- A bad motivator - John McCoy
- RubySpec - The Standard You Trust™
- Spielberg Repents for Changes He Made to E.T. - Wired.com
- Dragonslayer at the SXSW Film Festival
- Against perpetual copyright - wiki.lessig.org
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:09.0 | Nothing is so perfect that cannot be complained about by host of this show John |
| 0:15.2 | Syracuse. I'm Dan Benjamin. This is episode number 34. Like to say thanks for bandwidth which has been provided by Midas Green Tech |
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| 0:30.7 | Midas Green Tech.com slash 5 five. We'd also like to say |
| 0:34.8 | thanks to our two sponsors campaign monitor.com and shopify.com who will |
| 0:41.8 | tell you about them more as the show goes on. |
| 0:45.0 | How you doing this week John Sir Kisea? |
| 0:48.0 | Pretty good. |
| 0:49.0 | Fair? |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah. Not great. |
| 0:52.0 | Busy week. Busy week. |
| 0:53.0 | Busy week. |
| 0:54.0 | Exciting for the Windows users among us. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm excited. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm not a Windows user and I'm excited. |
| 1:00.0 | Excited to become, to become a Windows user perhaps user perhaps not really but I'm excited |
| 1:04.8 | About the events of the week like what what besides Windows 8 or the big events when metro that's basically that's it |
| 1:11.5 | The events of the week is metro we We'll talk about that but I do have to burn through some follow-up here. |
| 1:16.6 | Okay, burn it out. Try to do some lightning fast corrections. Lightning rounds, take one. |
| 1:22.4 | Last week we actually, it would be like lightning FU, LFU is an acronym used for something already. |
| 1:30.0 | Okay. |
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