Control Structure #1: What’s For Dinner?

Andrew Bailey and guest Ryan Rampersad discuss hard computer science topics like discrete cosine transforms and mapping real things to 3d models, along with backups, Bitcoin, bad things, old things, fiber optics, open source, and more.

Andrew Bailey and guest Ryan Rampersad discuss hard computer science topics like discrete cosine transforms and mapping real things to 3d models, along with backups, Bitcoin, bad things, old things, fiber optics, open source, and more.

Topics:

Neumont University – Neumont University
WebGL
The Computer Backup Rule of Three – Scott Hanselman
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Microsoft SkyDrive users: claim your free 25GB | ZDNet
Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700Mbps | Ars Technica
Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan’s drowned internet | The Verge
Single-mode Fiber Solution – Corning ClearCurve – YouTube
Actually, the GIF is dying – Quartz
JPEG Discrete Cosine Transformations
Interview: Linus Torvalds – I don’t read code any more – The H Open: News and Features
Why Linus Torvalds would rather code than make money | News | TechRadar
“Your criticisms are completely wrong”: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in | Ars Technica
Intel’s 50-Core Xeon Phi: The New Era of Inexpensive Supercomputing | Dr Dobb’s
Facebook Could Slow Down A Tiny Bit As It Starts Switching All Users To Secure HTTPS Connections | TechCrunch
Facebook Asks Users If It Can Abolish Their Right To Vote On Future Site Governance Changes | TechCrunch
CodeWars
The Ten Year Decline of Sony
Microsoft Has Failed
FizzBuzz Still Works — Global Nerdy
Coding Horror: Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?
Pay Another Way: Bitcoin — Blog — WordPress.com
Miner problem: big changes are coming for Bitcoin’s working class | The Verge
A minor Bitcoin miner injury? | ZDNet
Report: Police Confuse Bitcoin Miner’s Power Use for Growing Weed | TIME.com
Netflix on Ubuntu Is Here | iheartubuntu
PPA for Netflix Desktop App | iheartubuntu
How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii (updated) | Ars Technica
A Tale of Two Lock-ins – Open Enterprise
Crowding out OpenBSD [LWN.net]
Official Gmail Blog: ᎭᎴᎾ ᏗᏓᏴᎳᏛᏍᎩ ᎬᏗ Gmail ᏣᎳᎩ (Get started with Gmail in Cherokee)
Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 | Ars Technica
Internet Explorer 10 finally comes to Windows 7 | Ars Technica
BBC News – Two-tonne Witch computer gets a reboot
The fastest web server in the world? » Seravo
Faceshift uses Kinect to animate faces in real time | Polygon
Software Release (and a little surprise) – YouTube

People:

http://theandrewbailey.com/
linkedin.com/in/theandrewbailey
http://ryanrampersad.com/
http://twitter.com/ryanmr

Music:

Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Jeremy Williams – Game Theory
Younnat – Magician’s Weekend
tryad – this (instrumental)
Frozen Silence – Christmas Carols (several)
Jennifer Avalon – Snows Of December

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #11: CS #1!

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