Episode 41: 41: The Homer
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2011
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin are joined by special guest Jeff Atwood, cofounder of the Stack Exchange Q&A network and creator of the popular programming blog codinghorror.com. John and Jeff try to rekindle the old Mac vs. PC flames and end up talking about the light and dark sides of Apple as a platform owner.
Links for this episode:
- Serving at the Pleasure of the King - Coding Horror
- Serving at the Pleasure of the King – Marco.org
- iPhone Development: Long Live the King - Jeff LaMarche
- Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed Certificates - Wil Shipley
- The Pipeline #38: Jeff Atwood - 5by5
- Watson - Wikipedia
- Mobile First - Luke Wroblewski
- The Homer - Simpsons Wiki
- Mac OS X Server 10.0 to 10.3: System Requirements
- Steve Jobs at D8: ‘PCs are going to be like trucks’ - The Microsoft Blog
- Stack Overflow
- Stack Exchange - Free, Community-Powered Q&A
- Apple - Stack Exchange
- No Movie for Old Men - Reactions to children in peril
- TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball
- Amazon.com: Revolution in The Valley [Paperback]: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made (9780596007195): Andy Hertzfeld: Books
- Amazon.com: INSANELY GREAT: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything (9780670852444): Steven Levy: Books
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:04.5 | this is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses |
| 0:11.5 | nothing is so perfect that it can't be obliterated. |
| 0:17.5 | By my co-host, John Syracusea, I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:20.7 | Today is November 4, 2011. This is episode number 41. We would like to say a quick |
| 0:26.5 | thanks to barebones.com, the makers of BB edit, and also to mailchimp.com for making this show possible. We will tell you more about |
| 0:34.6 | them as the show progresses. We also want to say that bandwidth for this episode is |
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| 0:43.0 | Simple, affordable, and awesome. |
| 0:46.0 | You can use promo code 5 by 5 and you'll get 10% off for the life of your account at reinvigorate.net. Hey John, Syracusea. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey Dan, Benjamin. |
| 0:58.0 | We have a guest. |
| 1:00.0 | We do. First for this show, right? |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. Who is it? It is Jeff Atwood. I've heard that name. |
| 1:07.2 | How can we describe Jeff Atwood, creator of coding horror. |
| 1:10.3 | Very popular programming blog from way back when but more widely known today as what what do you call you co-founder |
| 1:18.5 | Stack overflow? Is that the correct title Jeff? |
| 1:21.6 | Mm-h Jeff? It is. |
| 1:23.0 | Sure. Co-founder of Stack Overflow, the Stack Exchange Network of Q&A websites. |
| 1:28.0 | If you're a programmer and you have a question about how to do something, Stack Overflow.com is the site for you and they have expanded and they now have an empire, |
| 1:36.0 | the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites about, I don't know how many topics you have 50 something, |
| 1:41.5 | huge number of topics. |
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