Accidental Tech Podcast

53: There's Gonna Be Some Flapping

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  • Follow-up on why Flappy Bird was successful.
  • Kieran Healy's excellent article with science.
  • John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW '09.
  • Goofball Jones' anonymous criticism of John's "shtick", and John's defense including many links:
    • An explanation of John's "schtick"
  • Some podcasts where John talks about things he likes:
    • Goodfellas
  • I Like My Coffee Like My Evil Sith Lords
  • Death Star University
  • Darth Vader's Office is Really Weird
  • Jedi Weekend
  • Wind is the Enemy
  • Skywalker's Eleven
  • Also Known as Endor
  • Journey: Then We Touched, Then We Sang
  • Professor Siracusa's Anime 101
  • Hangin' With the Totes
  • Masterpiece: Ico
  • The Incomparable #100: Who Cares What We Think? - Why we do podcasts about what we think of things, good and bad.
  • An ATP episode about how we deal with criticism
  • The massive WhatsApp acquistion by Facebook, the huge value of mobile messaging, and the web giants' chilling effect on competition.
  • The "Copland 2010" argument that Objective-C needs to be replaced:
    • John's original "Copland 2010" article from 2005
  • Copland 2010 Revisited (in 2010)
  • We Need to Replace Objective-C (Ash Furrow)
  • Replacing Objective-C and Cocoa (Steve Streza)
  • Objective: Copland 2010 (Guy English)
  • Separating language shortcomings from API shortcomings.
  • Casey got us to talk about LINQ briefly.
  • Long-term evolution of programming languages.

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      Accidental Tech PodcastBy Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa