Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio
by ruswick on Friday May 18, 2012 @06:16PM
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That's what makes the shows good. Dan, like most hosts that own networks (like Leo) don't really know a lot and don't really contribute to the conversation. Their job is to get the best cohorts and let them do their thing. As far as I'm concerned, the less Dan talks, the better. That's more time that people like Siracusa and Marco get to talk.
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Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio
by frou_dh on Friday May 18, 2012 @06:23PM
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That's out of order. Dan is a coder, a writer, something of a designer, and has founded or been involved with several startups. He shows he knows a thing or two.
Put another way, I very much doubt any of these co-hosts you admire share your view that Dan is clueless.
Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio
by pooriaazimi on Friday May 18, 2012 @06:34PM
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Yes, he is a coder (Ruby on Rails), has had talks on Ruby, is familiar with iOS development, Perl, PHP (he said PHP was the language he used daily for a couple years) and is not clueless at all. He has also done a few PeepCode screencasts (Ruby, Sinatra, jQuery, Mercurial, Command Line, vi, ...).
The problem is John Siracusa, who basically knows too much.
Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio
by ruswick on Friday May 18, 2012 @11:25PM
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Dan does know a lot about development. But compared to people like Marco and John Siracusa, who know about everything, Dan seems to take a back seat to the other co-hosts.
Re:John Gruber takes 'The Talk Show' to Mule Radio
by alwillis on Saturday May 19, 2012 @03:38AM
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Dan is a smart guy; however, he doesn't have the in-depth tactical knowledge about how Apple works. Some of his questions and assertions about Apple are naive, which can be frustrating to listen to at times.