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A weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about. Hosted by John Siracusa & Dan Benjamin.
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Episode 100: 100: Metacritical
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin end the Hypercritical podcast with a discussion of the show itself, followed by a final Q&A where Dan asks the questions and John attempts to provide sensible answers. Many thanks to all the listeners and the folks in the 5by5 chat room. The journey was the reward.
Links for this episode:
"I modded my GameCube pad into a Wii Classic Controller", by gummowned - Reddit
Address Resolution Protocol - Wikipedia
Basic guide to mod a GameCube controller with a Wii Classic Controller PCB - Gummo
Hypercritcal (Song A Day #1450) - YouTube
Jonathan Mann
Song a Day: The Album
Wii RetroPad Adapter 2 - Sparrow's Domain
"If you liked our Bad At High School episode, …" - @theincomparable
Hypercritical - Ars Technica
Jerry Maguire - Wikiquote
More Hypercritical Length Analysis - Super Jeffective -
Episode 99: 99: New Siracusa County Bros. U
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on iTunes 11 and Apple's continuing failure to grok online services, then discuss the Wii U, starting with the painful setup process and continuing on to New Super Mario Bros. U, Nintendo Land, and, inevitably, the Wii U GamePad controller.
Links for this episode:
Order of authors on publications - Academia Stack Exchange
Does your brain really have the power to see the world upside-down?
Dropbox: The Linchpin - Daring Fireball
Dropbox: The Linchpin - Michael Tsai
How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii - Ars Technica
The long, frustrating road to recovering my Wii downloads - Ars Technica
The incredibly true story of how I bricked my Wii U - The PA Report
Wii U GamePad battery compartment - iFixIt
New Super Mario Bros. U - Amazon.com
Wii U - Nintendo
Nintendo Land - Amazon.com
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Episode 98: 98: Hardware Machismo
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on taping out silicon chips, Apple's seemingly bottomless silicon ambitions, and the pitfalls of labeling people, then discuss Twitterrific 5, the new Google maps app on iOS, iTunes 11, Tim Cook's national news tour, and Apple's upcoming "Made in the USA" Mac.
Links for this episode:
How to use rlwrap to get a command history in sql*plus - Lutz Hartmann
How To Tell People They Sound Racist - YouTube
Innovation is a Fight - Rands In Repose
Rands - Wikipedia
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race - TEDxHampshireCollege
A comment on The new age of Capital Intensity - Asymco.com
NBC's Rock Center interview with Tim Cook - Part 1
NBC's Rock Center interview with Tim Cook - Part 2
Google Maps for iPhone shows Apple how to do mapping right - Ars Technica
iTunes 11 review: Simple is as simple does - Ars Technica
iTunes through the ages - Ars Technica
Apple CEO Tim Cook to Brian Williams: “Don’t bet against us.” - Ars Technica
Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks - Businessweek
OpenStreetMap
Twitterrific 5
Jeff Foster
Kitsune: Efficient, General-purpose Dynamic Software Updating for C (PDF)
Muir Island - Wikipedia
Kremlinology - Wikipedia
Hypercritical T-Shirt Poll
For Apple, change could be a good sign - Jason Snell
Text of Steve Jobs' Stanford commencement address (2005)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs at D8: The Full, Uncut Interview - AllThingsD
Apple's "Made in USA" computer likely to be Mac Pro - Philip Elmer-DeWitt
The Pipeline #23: John Siracusa
The Setup / John Siracusa -
Episode 97: 97: Idle Doodles
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on silicon chip making and misogyny in geek culture, then dive into Hypercritical's first—and likely only—listener Q&A show. All questions entertained! Some questions answered!
Links for this episode:
No Movie for Old Men
On Dickwolves, Ethics, and Why I'm Not Attending PAX East - arthur-ign
The Pratfall of Penny Arcade - A Timeline
Five Geek Social Fallacies - Michael Suileabhain-Wilson
Raymond Chandler's Private Dick - The Atlantic
International maritime signal flags - Wikipedia
Blue Peter Frequently Asked Questions - BBC
John Scalzi - Wikipedia
The Way Games Work - Wii U GamePad - YouTube
Bare Bones Software: BBEdit 10.5
BBEdit 10.5 Release Notes
Quicken Mac 2007 - Intuit
Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be - John Scalzi
The AnandTech Podcast
Bono - Wikipedia
Larry Elmore: The Complete Elmore Artbook - Kickstarter
Perceptual adaptation - Wikipedia
Larry Elmore, Fantasy Artist
Jonathan Coulton - Wikipedia
Dan Moren's Boston Globe article (mostly behind a paywall, unfortunately)
Macworld: The Best Mac Ever
The Flop House
Roderick on the Line
Fresh Air
This American Life
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Episode 96: 96: Blue Peter
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin reveal John's Wii U in transit, then talk more about Apple, Intel, ARM, and silicon chip fabrication, and finally, the Fake Geek Girl meme, misogyny, and problems with Geek Culture in general.
Links for this episode:
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, by Charles Petzold
From NAND to Tetris: The Elements of Computing Systems - nand2tetris.org
Cabel's tweet about The Wii U GamePad
If Samsung doesn't supply Apple's processors, who will? - Fortune
Native Client: Technical Overview - Google
Native Client: A Sandbox for Portable, Untrusted x86 Native Code (PDF)
Ring (computer security) - Wikipedia
Broadwell (microarchitecture) - Wikipedia
Land grid array - Wikipedia
Indium gallium zinc oxide - Wikipedia
Blue Peter - Wikipedia
Multiply–accumulate operation - Wikipedia
Transactional memory going mainstream with Intel Haswell - Ars Technica
Intel's Haswell CPU Microarchitecture - RealWorldTech
Haswell has on-die voltage regulator - fudzilla.com
Idiot Nerd Girl - Know Your Meme
Fake Geek Girl Meme - The Mary Sue
The Incomparable #28: Bad at High School
RBC: Intel in talks with Apple to build iPhone processors - Fortune
Hypercritical - Ars Technica
Wyld Stallyns #1 : Be Excellent To Each Other - YouTube
Moore's law - Wikipedia
OS X 10.8.3 beta supports Radeon HD 7900-series chipsets - MacNN
Wild Speculation: Why a $2B AMD purchase would be a puzzle piece fit for Apple - 9to5Mac
Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it - SemiAccurate
Nerds: Stop hating women, please - New Statesman
On the “Fake” Geek Girl - The Mary Sue
Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away - Forbes
Forget the Sixaxis - the Wii U’s GamePad has nine-axis control - VentureBeat
Apple may tap TSMC to move A-series mobile chips to 28nm process - Ars Technica
Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be - John Scalzi
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Episode 95: 95: Black Friday
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the upcoming end of this show, more on Intel vs. ARM, Apple's CPU/GPU needs, and the newly revealed internals of the Wii U console and GamePad.
Links for this episode:
Advanced Vector Extensions - Wikipedia
5by5 Specials #10: State of the Union for 2012
Intel to fab ARM chips for Apple? It’s possible… - Ars Technica
Intel's Tick Tock strategy (image)
Silicon - Wikipedia
Silicone - Wikipedia
Intel set to expand its Hillsboro research fab, D1X - OregonLive.com
Haswell’s GPU prowess is due to Crystalwell - SemiAccurate
Crystalwell is very wide memory for Haswell GT3 - SemiAccurate
Nintendo Wii U Teardown - iFixit
Rayman developer: Wii U GamePad latency is 1/60th of a second - Ars Technica
Hands-On with Wii U (GamePad lag video) - Digital Foundry
Iwata Asks : Wii U: The Console : Hardware as Stagehand
Wii U GamePad battery compartment - iFixIt
Skylanders
CrashPlan's Black Friday sale
State of the Union Address for 2012 - 5by5 Blog
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