Hypercritical

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

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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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

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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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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