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kennethfriedmanon Ask HN: Favorite podcasts to code to?

The Talk Show (John Gruber), Star Talk Radio (Neil deGrasse Tyson), Freakonomics Radio (Stephen Dubner), Accidental Tech Podcast (Arment, Liss, Siracusa), Stuff You Should Know (howstuffworks.com).

kennethfriedmanon Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC

It's great to see more and more organizations taking a public stand - however it would be even better to see even a hint that a policy-based solution is coming.

kennethfriedmanon Swift Blog

It's really great to see Apple opening up - maybe not in their products, but in their culture. Programming language blog, a presence on social networks (mostly Twitter), posing for pictures with devs at WWDC, and generally embracing the dev community. All of these individual things seem small but together show a much more open side of Apple.

A side effect of these changes: Apple can control their own story now; whereas the rumor mill and the Apple-Needs-To-Release-A-New-Category-In-The-Next-30-Days-Or-They-Are-Doomed websites have been controlling their story/image for the past couple years.