53: There’s Gonna Be Some Flapping

• 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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