53: There's Gonna Be Some Flapping
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• 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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