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I find your comment really amusing. Your whining and complaining about Marco's podcast doesn't exactly make you look like the paragon of humility, reason, and u

by sjs 15y ago

I find your comment really amusing. Your whining and complaining about Marco's podcast doesn't exactly make you look like the paragon of humility, reason, and understanding. It's almost as if HN has become a soapbox for you to complain about some application or developer ... ok sorry for that last (clearly hyperbolic) jab. I hope you get the point though, and take it in the friendly and jocular way it was intended.

gks 15y ago
It wasn't intended to come out as if I was complaining. Someone mentioned the podcast, it's not as though I brought it up myself. I liked the podcast in the beginning. It just simply took a different path than it should've in my opinion. The title of it is "Build & Analyze" right? So, it should be about "building" things (whether that be coding, building said code, or as a metaphor for other things in life) and "analyzing" things related to the same... code or life. But instead there is very little discussion of building... and the analyzing is ranty and uninspired. One of the recommendations I made was Hypercritical with John Siracusa. Let's compare and contrast a bit.. Siracusa is one of those guys that just knows how to take something, whittle it down to nothing and find the faults. There's nothing wrong with finding fault in things. There will _always_ be faults, however big or small. The difference is in how Siracusa talks about them. He's critical of things to the point of beating a dead horse. Hypercritical is perfect for his podcast. Probably the most apt name I've ever seen for a podcast. But when he discusses these faults he provides some of the best examples he can come up with for _why_ he feels that way, and/or _how_ the faults they could be corrected. Marco on the other hand just. Complains. I think he tried in the beginning to provide just cause for his complaining. But in the end he failed to be able to do it consistently. Instead, the podcast turned into another version of The Talk Show. At least with the Talk Show Gruber can be entertaining. Though I rarely listen unless the show notes show me something interesting. But Marco is trying to emulate Gruber and failing hard. Even his blog is taking on the same type of thing with a tiny bit more iOS discussion. Either way. People can make their own opinion. I just hoped to make it a quick way for people to know to avoid it. If they're like me and they find annoying dick-ish podcast hosts to be on the do-not-listen list then they know right away that Build & Analyze isn't for them.
- joshuacc 15y ago
  The title of it is "Build & Analyze" right? So, it should be about "building" things (whether that be coding, building said code, or as a metaphor for other things in life) and "analyzing" things related to the same... code or life. The title is actually taken from a feature in Apple's Xcode, and as far as I can tell is just meant to indicate, "Here are the thoughts of an iOS developer." Nothing wrong with that.
rhizome 15y ago
Also amusingly, there's always someone to pipe up and say "you're complaining about someone complaining...HYPOCRITE."
- lylejohnson 15y ago
  It's hypocrites all the way down.

by sjs 15y ago

gks 15y ago

It wasn't intended to come out as if I was complaining. Someone mentioned the podcast, it's not as though I brought it up myself. I liked the podcast in the beginning. It just simply took a different path than it should've in my opinion. The title of it is "Build & Analyze" right? So, it should be about "building" things (whether that be coding, building said code, or as a metaphor for other things in life) and "analyzing" things related to the same... code or life. But instead there is very little discussion of building... and the analyzing is ranty and uninspired. One of the recommendations I made was Hypercritical with John Siracusa. Let's compare and contrast a bit.. Siracusa is one of those guys that just knows how to take something, whittle it down to nothing and find the faults. There's nothing wrong with finding fault in things. There will _always_ be faults, however big or small. The difference is in how Siracusa talks about them. He's critical of things to the point of beating a dead horse. Hypercritical is perfect for his podcast. Probably the most apt name I've ever seen for a podcast. But when he discusses these faults he provides some of the best examples he can come up with for _why_ he feels that way, and/or _how_ the faults they could be corrected. Marco on the other hand just. Complains. I think he tried in the beginning to provide just cause for his complaining. But in the end he failed to be able to do it consistently. Instead, the podcast turned into another version of The Talk Show. At least with the Talk Show Gruber can be entertaining. Though I rarely listen unless the show notes show me something interesting. But Marco is trying to emulate Gruber and failing hard. Even his blog is taking on the same type of thing with a tiny bit more iOS discussion. Either way. People can make their own opinion. I just hoped to make it a quick way for people to know to avoid it. If they're like me and they find annoying dick-ish podcast hosts to be on the do-not-listen list then they know right away that Build & Analyze isn't for them.

joshuacc 15y ago
The title of it is "Build & Analyze" right? So, it should be about "building" things (whether that be coding, building said code, or as a metaphor for other things in life) and "analyzing" things related to the same... code or life. The title is actually taken from a feature in Apple's Xcode, and as far as I can tell is just meant to indicate, "Here are the thoughts of an iOS developer." Nothing wrong with that.

rhizome 15y ago

Also amusingly, there's always someone to pipe up and say "you're complaining about someone complaining...HYPOCRITE."

lylejohnson 15y ago
It's hypocrites all the way down.