4.1 stars
feb 8 - good stackoverflow podcast, lots on apple, generally positive toward the ipad
- "the first couple months of parenting is like hazing, they'll do everything they can to make you quit" (atwood)
- "it's not a strength of apple to support developers"
- "apple: putting a friendly face on unix"
- "why didn't apple to go amazon and say: you do the bookstore"
- "ipad: a kindle that's fast and has a better screen"
- "if I love the iphone, why wouldn't I love a bigger version of it?"
- "touchscreen doesn't scale, I don't know anyone who is going to iwork that way"
- "ipad, because you're not going to hold a laptop over your head in bed"
- "steve jobs never liked general purpose computers that can crash"
- "the new world apps will be very sandboxed, you can't change anything, but you can't crash anything"
- "upgrading with apple is a strategic game"
- "apple needs to get its price structure under control, the difference between 299 and 999 matters to most people"
- "flash is ipad's floppy"
- "the loss of flash on a mobile device is acceptable, it's collateral damage" (atwood)
- "I'm insanely unconcerned about the loss of flash on the ipad" (daniel jalkut)
Notes on other podcasts:
- apr 5 - good colin marshall podcast with seth godin on Linchpin, a book about art, life and making a difference
- mar 10 - awesome podcast: david siegel talking on the semantic web in a way that finally makes sense
- mar 10 - good podcast interview with Michael Steinbecker on decline of french cuisine
- mar 9 - good colin marshall podcast interviewing Ian Ayres on coming importance of supercrunching and statistics
- mar 8 - nice Colin Marshall interview with Edward Champion on interviewing, authenticity and the cultural/intellectual scene
- mar 5 - very informative podcast on copyright law in software/music business, brad frazer eloquent and knowledgable on topic
- mar 2 - very interesting podcast on the ZBS Foundation, makers of quality radio fiction, never heard of them before
- feb 28 - entertaining dan carlin history podcast on the age of discovery: globalization 1.0
- feb 27 - interesting podcast on ways to deal with large amount of info, feeds, tweets in our lives, lots of ideas
- feb 27 - good dotnet rocks podcast on the #vs2010 launch in april and what's new in .NET 4
- feb 27 - good podcast on the role of a chief cultural officer and why companies need one
- feb 26 - good colin marshall podcast with author of book on why time moves forward
- feb 12 - good stackoverflow podcast mostly on why email is bad. insightful, funny conversation
- feb 11 - good herding code podcast on IOC, Git vs. mercurial, clojure's relationship to lisp
- feb 9 - good podcast on how to approach philosophy and the big questions from the standpoint of math and physics
- feb 1 - good herdingcode podcast with rob conery, part1: nosql, part2: asp.net mvc good / webforms bad
- feb 3 - very interesting podcast on reactive extensions for .NET (Rx) aka linq to events, i.e. event-based programs using observable collections
- jan 28 - another podcast on the ipad aftermath, nice conversation, also on the mobile space (Phil Windley, Scott Lemon)
- feb 8 - good philosophy podcast discussion on the relationship between hume and rousseau, good conversation, lucid
- feb 8 - good stackoverflow podcast, lots on apple, generally positive toward the ipad
Most of what I currently listen to is .NET related and quite a bit on technology in general and how it is impacting society. I listen to an occasional historical or philosophical podcast.
I record these notes as a way of extracting the gems and remember facts from these podcasts: phrases that ring true or new terms that I look up later. If you see someone walking around Berlin speaking short phrases into his cell phone every couple minutes, that's me.
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