Episode 66: 66: The Housewives of Siracusa County
Hypercritical
5by5
5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2012
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss meeting Apple employees at WWDC, the latest round of iPhone rumors, RubyMotion (a new product for writing iOS apps in Ruby), the distinction between producer, consumer, and performer in gaming and other arts, The Kids Today, games as art, and Dropbox-related App Store rejections.
Links for this episode:
- Rumors about the next iPhone: size, screen, dock connector - iLounge
- Participation, consumption and enjoyment - Jonathan Dugec
- Game completion statistics - Gamasutra
- RubyMotion - Ruby for iOS
- Building native iOS apps with RubyMotion - Ars Technica
- iPad Keyboard Prototype - YouTube
- Dara O Briain Live at the Apollo: I Love Video Games - YouTube
- Begging the question - Wikipedia
- Hypercritical #15: The Bridges of Siracusa County
- Hypercritical #14: A Dark Age of Objective-C
- REPL: Read–eval–print loop - Wikipedia
- Hypercritical #6: Frivolous Things
- Lolita - Wikipedia
- The Apple strategy tax
- The real Daniel Hooper!
- The Joys and Sorrows of Being an Almost-Gamer - Ash Furrow
- No true Scotsman fallacy
- The start of the Twitter thread with Frankly
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical weekly talk showroom and a |
| 0:05.3 | anything on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and |
| 0:07.6 | related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be |
| 0:12.3 | complained about by my co-host John |
| 0:15.4 | Syracusea. I'm Dan Benjamin this is episode number 66. It's Friday May 4, 2012. |
| 0:25.0 | I want to say thanks very much to our three sponsors today, |
| 0:28.0 | tap typing, Squarespace, and Textastic. |
| 0:33.0 | Tell you more about them. |
| 0:35.0 | As the show goes on, we want to also say thanks to a friend of 5 by 5, |
| 0:40.0 | Jory Raphael, who does all of the amazing show artwork that you see on 5 by 5. |
| 0:45.8 | He did the logo, among other things. |
| 0:47.4 | He has an awesome icon set called Symbols.com, and he is the one secretly providing and subsidizing our bandwidth for this month so go check |
| 0:59.1 | out symbolicons.com and thanks very much to him for doing that. |
| 1:04.5 | John, |
| 1:05.7 | Greetings sir. |
| 1:06.5 | How are you? |
| 1:08.1 | I went back to programming. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah why not? |
| 1:11.6 | That's what you do. |
| 1:12.2 | It's what you do. It's what you do best. |
| 1:13.0 | Might be. |
| 1:15.0 | Pearl it up. |
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