John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin are joined by special guest Jeff Atwood, cofounder of the Stack Exchange Q&A network and creator of the popular programming blog codinghorror.com. John and Jeff try to rekindle the old Mac vs. PC flames and end up talking about the light and dark sides of Apple as a platform owner.

Links for this episode:

• Serving at the Pleasure of the King - Coding Horror
  
• Serving at the Pleasure of the King – Marco.org
  
• iPhone Development: Long Live the King - Jeff LaMarche
  
• Real Security in Mac OS X Requires Apple-Signed Certificates - Wil Shipley
  
• The Pipeline #38: Jeff Atwood - 5by5
  
• Watson - Wikipedia
  
• Mobile First - Luke Wroblewski
  
• The Homer - Simpsons Wiki
  
• Mac OS X Server 10.0 to 10.3: System Requirements
  
• Steve Jobs at D8: ‘PCs are going to be like trucks’ - The Microsoft Blog
  
• Stack Overflow
  
• Stack Exchange - Free, Community-Powered Q&A
  
• Apple - Stack Exchange
  
• No Movie for Old Men - Reactions to children in peril
  
• TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball
  
• Amazon.com: Revolution in The Valley [Paperback]: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made (9780596007195): Andy Hertzfeld: Books
  
• Amazon.com: INSANELY GREAT: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything (9780670852444): Steven Levy: Books
  

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