Episode 82: 82: The Opposite of Comprehensive
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2012
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin finally complete their discussion of John's Mountain Lion review. Topics include power management, UI simplification, automatic termination, Facebook integration, and plagiarizing from yourself.
Links for this episode:
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review
- Secrets, the OS X hidden feature database and preference pane - secrets.blacktree.com
- Github OS X hidden feature project - mathiasbynens/dotfiles
- Google's reverse engineering of Mountain Lion's overlay progress bar API
- Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.1 Improves Battery Life Somewhat - Mac Rumors
- Google Chrome updater technology - dev.chromium.org
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.4 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by my co-host your friend |
| 0:15.2 | John Syracuse. Today is Friday. It's August 24th 2012. This is episode number 82. |
| 0:25.0 | We would like to say thanks very much to our three amazing sponsors, |
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| 0:45.0 | Good day to you, Mr. John Syracuse, how are you? |
| 0:49.0 | Good day to and Benjamin. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, I hear the lawnmowers have started, |
| 0:52.0 | so the show is officially begun or the leaf blowers rather. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | What I like about what I like about that |
| 1:04.1 | we were talking about this before the show started for an IRC client is that it handles |
| 1:05.2 | like the joint part messages it has a little instead of having to tweak the |
| 1:09.1 | like the theme to get rid of those and then do other weird things you just there's a little checkbox. |
| 1:14.4 | Yeah but I did that like three years ago. Yeah that's you and you and your preferences that's a |
| 1:19.9 | value of preserving the preferences across multiple |
| 1:23.1 | upgrades. All right to this week guess what what? |
| 1:28.2 | What? |
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