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Do yourself a favor and listen to this week's episode ("The Wrong Guy") for clear examples of the book's issues.
@MrFoof +7 more
Podcast
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.
42 Hacker News mentions · 14 episodes
Episodes recommended on Hacker News
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Useful insight from those very deep in the weeds, to center our understanding of the Jobs biography.
@ghshephard +3 more
Episode 11: 11: I Am the Steve Jobs of This Sandwich
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Recently re-listened to an old-but-good episode with John Siracusa's informative rant on this very topic.
@aasasd +2 more
Episode 56: 56: Belt and Suspenders
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The final Hypercritical episode, in which he dissected his own podcast, is worth hearing.
@username223
Episode 100: 100: Metacritical
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Siracusa elaborates at length on software patents, calling them "Sport of Kings."
@flixic
Episode 69: 69: Sport of Kings
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Nice dissection of the idea of drug patents as being "special" compared with other kinds of patentable IP.
@kaffeinecoma
Episode 68: 68: Patent Hands
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This was the podcast that took me from opposing software patents to opposing the very concept of patents altogether.
@lukifer
Episode 67: 67: A Pill That Helps with Whatever
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Start with Blue Ocean: a classic, entertaining episode on Nintendo hardware, not so technical that eyes glaze over.
@ghshephard
Episode 50: 50: Maximum Deflection in All Directions
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Siracusa's Hypercritical episodes 42 and 43 do a good job explaining the book's flaws.
@gnaffle
Episode 43: 43: The Scorpion and the Frog
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If you're not familiar with television technology, listen to episode 16, 'The Soap Opera Effect'. You'll learn many new things.
@pooriaazimi
Episode 16: 16: The Soap Opera Effect
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Siracusa's Hypercritical episode on Merlin is worth listening to, and Merlin's Back to Work is no bore.
@elithrar
Episode 15: 15: The Bridges of Siracusa County
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Compelling take on the respective strengths and core competencies of Google and Apple.
@joebadmo
Episode 10: 10: Like Giving a Machine Gun to a Baby
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John Siracusa explains this same scenario as it appears to be happening at Apple extremely well in this episode of his fantastic podcast.
@guywithabike
Episode 8: 8: A Cautionary Tale
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There was a good discussion in the Hypercritical podcast about Spaces possibly being dead in 10.7.
@jcurbo
Episode 3: 3: The Mouse is Not a Finger
Why Hacker News recommends it
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If you want developer-oriented discussion, Hypercritical is better; John complains constructively.
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For those who haven't listened to hypercritical: give it a shot, you won't regret it
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I am a huge fan of Hypercritical because of this, John Siracusa can take a topic and pick it completely apart.
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John Siracusa has a weekly podcast on 5by5, Hypercritical, where most of his perceptive analysis of Apple products comes from.
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The early (1-20) and mid (40-50) episodes of Hypercritical were really educating. I learned a lot from those episodes.
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Episode 96 'Windows of Siracusa County' was amazing.
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He does an interesting podcast here
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Siracusa's opinionated Hypercritical show is worth it; Benjamin lets him rock out, and his ideas come out fast.
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Hypercritical is very good though, and I tune in every week.
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Hypercritical is by far my favorite podcast, ahead of The Talk Show for a long time.
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Hypercritical is by far the best podcast I listen to.
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Hypercritical is an awesome podcast, and Dan mostly lets John go on his long rants.
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Hypercritical episodes are really informative, even older ones about past events like iPhone 5 predictions, are still insightful.
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Hypercritical by 5by5 is actually very good, and people can enjoy IT podcasts simply because they like them.
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He discusses this very topic in Hypercritical, the podcast, in two linked episodes.
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It finished almost a decade ago, yet even the early episodes continue to have interesting insights.
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