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    Hypercritical

    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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    Latest Episodes:
    Episode 60: 60: Reversing the Polarity Mar 23, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the puzzling UI of iPhoto for IOS, the magnetic polarity of iPad Smart Covers, the Apple TV's ability to work with any remote, the iPad's lack of a number in its name (again), automotive platform awareness in Germany, video signal value ranges, DVRs in the UK, statistical significance, the Apple TV remote (again), and finally, Mike Daisey, Apple, and China.

    Links for this episode:

    • The Great Instruction Manual Adventure - Dov Frankel
    • iPad 3 Smart Cover Sleep/Wake Feature Not Working - Mark Booth
    • An Example of Photography on the Retina Display - Duncan Davidson
    • This American Life's retraction of its original Mike Daisey episode
    • This American Life episode about Mr. Daisey and Apple factories
    • RGB High/Low on the Apple TV - Christopher G. Herbert
    • Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
    • Hypercritical #50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions
    • Daring Fireball on Mike Daisey: Separating the Baby From the Bath Water

    This episode is sponsored by Gitbox, Freshbooks - painless billing, and BBEdit - Dan's favorite text editor.

    Episode 59: 59: Safari is Apple's Google Mar 16, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin follow up on John's TiVo and smoke detector woes and the angst about the lack of a number after the name of the new iPad. John reviews his new Apple TV. Finally, the videos showing Chris Pirillo’s dad exploring Windows 8 and Mac OS X for the first time are mined for insights about computing in 2012 and beyond.

    Links for this episode:

    • ZFS TimeMachine - GitHub
    • Disabling the IR sensor on John's smoke detector - Matthew Copsey
    • iPhoto's Mystery Meat Gestures - Lukas Mathis
    • TVonics Store - A UK digital video recorder
    • HUMAX - A UK digital video recorder
    • Apple TV - Apple.com
    • Awake, Season 1 - iTunes
    • YCbCr - Wikipedia
    • Chris Pirillo’s dad using Windows 8 for the first time - YouTube
    • Chris Pirillo’s dad using Mac OS X for the first time - YouTube
    • What is a Browser? Google asks people on the street - YouTube
    • What is a browser? Google explains (and promotes Chrome) - YouTube
    • Tog on Interface quote in John's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion review - Ars Technica
    • Chris Pirillo - Wikipedia
    • Ten's Complement, ZEVO Storage
    • Apple Keynotes (1080p) video podcast feed - iTunes
    • Marco Arment’s Desk. Nice try Marco! We all know...
    • They're Made out of Meat - Terry Bisson
    • The Daily Show's "Hufu" story

    Sponsored by Hover (promo DANSENTME for 10% off), Squarespace (promo DANSENTME3 for 30% off for 3 months), and Sourcebits.

    Episode 58: 58: No More Numbers For You / The Four Tuners Mar 09, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin do some brief follow up on file systems, then dive into this week's Apple press event: the new Apple TV, the new iPad, specs vs. product names vs. Apple PR vs. sanity, and how we all still miss Steve Jobs. Plus, John reviews his new TiVo Premiere Elite and, of all things, his new smoke detector.

    Links for this episode:

    • Time Slider - Automating ZFS Snapshots in Solaris 11
    • I Can't Believe This is Butter! A tour of btrfs: Avi Miller - YouTube
    • Hammer file system - DragonFly BSD
    • The new iPad - Apple
    • TiVo Premiere Elite - TiVo
    • Hypercritical #2: Backup Vortex
    • AnandTech's analysis of the new Apple iPad
    • SuperDuper!
    • Backblaze
    • CrashPlan
    • Apple Keynotes (HD) video podcast feed
    • Apple Special Event March 2012
    • iPhoto for the iPad and iPhone
    • TiVo remote shortcuts
    • John's smoke detector (PDF manual)

    Sponsored by Harvest -- use code 5BY5 for 50% off your first month, and by Rackspace.

    Episode 57: 57: Computational Skeuomorphism Mar 02, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about file systems: the origins of Btrfs, how file systems might change in the new age of SSDs, the possibility of a Grand Unification of storage and memory subsystems, and why snapshots, clones, block-level diffs, and deduplication are awesome features of ZFS that would make Time Machine a lot better than it is today. The show ends with John's predictions for the new iPad, which we all assume will be announced at the Apple press event next week.

    Links for this episode:

    • NetApp and Oracle Agree to Dismiss Lawsuits - NetApp.com
    • A short history of btrfs - LWN.net
    • IntegrityChecker - diglloydTools
    • Clusters: Seamless File Compression
    • HFS+ file compression in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Ars Technica
    • Flash memory: Block erasure - Wikipedia
    • FSEvents in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Ars Technica
    • ZFS Deduplication - Jeff Bonwick
    • ZFS: Snapshots and clones - Wikipedia
    • A Conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore - ACM Queue
    • ZFS - The Last Word in Filesystems
    • The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ - AnandTech.com
    • Thunderbolt at TED2012 - Duncan Davidson

    Sponsored by TinyLetter and Shopify.

    Episode 56: 56: Belt and Suspenders Feb 24, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk about file systems: what they do, what makes a good one, and who needs a new one, badly. (Spoiler: it's Apple.) File systems discussed: Microsoft's ReFS, ZFS, and HFS+.

    Links for this episode:

    • Apple Purchases Land In Oregon For Another Large Data Center
    • The state of the filesystem, from John's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion review
    • maczfs - Support and ongoing development for the Mac port of ZFS
    • ZEVO - Ten's Complement
    • Building the next generation file system for Windows: ReFS - MSDN
    • Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency - MSDN
    • RAID-Z - Jeff Bonwick
    • A useless analysis of OS X release dates - Robservatory
    • Urban Dictionary: fsck
    • Rampant layering syndrome - FatBits
    • Rampant Layering Violation? - Jeff Bonwick

    Sponsored by AppsFire and MailChimp.

    Episode 55: 55: Region of Pain Feb 17, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss this week's announcement of OS X Mountain Lion: what it means for John's reviews, how the new release schedule might influence adoption and reliability, and how features like GateKeeper will affect Mac users and developers.

    Links for this episode:

    • The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia - The Chronicle of Higher Education
    • Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed Certificates - Wil Shipley
    • Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew
    • Gatekeeper's Dialog - Dustin Curtis
    • OS X Mountain Lion - Apple
    • Mountain Lion - Daring Fireball
    • Apple officially renames Mac OS X to OS X, drops the 'Mac' - The Verge
    • John Siracusa's Tumblr blog (also called Hypercritical, but it existed before the podcast)

    Sponsored by Rackspace, Squarespace, and Hover (promo code DANSENTME for 10% off).

    Episode 54: 54: Public Service Announcement Feb 11, 2012
    Show notes

    There's no Hypercritical this week, so we put together something special for you instead.

    Links for this episode:

    • Kindacritical, a special episode with Dan Benjamin, Merlin Mann, and Marco Arment

    Sponsored by Sponsor 5by5.

    Episode 53: 53: Brad Pitt Gets to Contribute Feb 03, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit gamification in education, talk briefly about the Nest thermostat, then engage in an ever-so-slightly more considered discussion of Wikipedia, attempting to address the mountain of feedback on the topic. No Wikipedians were harmed in the making of this episode.

    Links for this episode:

    • No-One Cares About the College Bookstore - Kieran Healy
    • Big Study Links Good Teachers to Lasting Gain - NYTimes.com
    • Verifiability and Truth: What John Siracusa Doesn’t Get About Wikipedia - The Wikipedian
    • Ignore all rules - Wikipedia
    • Game theory - Wikipedia
    • Gamification - Wikipedia
    • Build and Analyze #62: Frustrated by the Invisible Person
    • Nest - The Learning Thermostat
    • Self-Improvement podcast, episode 1: Hypercritical & Dr Karl's Blogcast

    Sponsored by FreshBooks and MailChimp.

    Episode 52: 52: Marked for Deletion Jan 27, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about iBooks Author, Apple's real and stated motivations for entering the textbook market, and what really matters in education. This is followed by a long, ill-considered rant about Wikipedia. (Warning: original research, no neutral point of view.)

    Links for this episode:

    • Apple sued by Toronto lawyer over stolen MacBook, iPhone - thestar.com
    • Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia
    • Apple's textbook plan feels like a blast from the past - Macworld
    • Holding out for an ePub hero - Macworld
    • Wishing on an ePub: Five hopes for Apple's rumored e-publishing software - Macworld
    • Glazman Responds to My Response - Daring Fireball
    • The iBooks 2.0 built-in widgets – Baldur Bjarnason
    • High Schools Are Step One Of Two - McKay Thomas
    • Apple's wager - Ars Technica
    • Citogenesis - xkcd
    • No original research - Wikipedia
    • What counts as a reliable source? - Wikipedia
    • Using Game Design to Improve My Classroom - YouTube
    • The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit - Wired
    • Cow Clicker - Wikipedia
    • Articles for deletion: FTFF - Wikipedia
    • Hypercritical #49: Pinching the Harmonica
    • Stare at the red dot…
    • Dan Benjamin - Wikipedia

    Sponsored by MindNode and Sourcebits.

    Episode 51: 51: Unjustified Confidence Jan 20, 2012
    Show notes

    John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin briefly recap the iPhone ringer/silent switch controversy, then discuss the new iBooks Author application, Apple's ebook ambitions and prospects, and the role of technology in education.

    Links for this episode:

    • The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained - YouTube
    • Amazon Kindle supported file formats - Wikipedia
    • EPUB - Wikipedia
    • On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch - Daring Fireball
    • Daring Fireball: On the Behavior of the iPhone Mute Switch – Andy Ihnatko
    • Designing “Mute” – Marco.org
    • Mute Means Mute - hivelogic.com
    • The United Kingdom Venn Diagram - Grey's Blog
    • Comments from Jacob Refstrup on 2011-03-09 on www-style@w3.org
    • The iBooks 2.0 textbook format – Baldur Bjarnason
    • 5by5 at the Movies #1: Goodfellas
    • iBooks Author - Apple
    • Kindle Format 8 Overview
    • Push Pop Press - Al Gore's Our Choice

    Sponsored by Vidmeup and Stripe.

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