Control Structure #38: Three Times The Power

Andrew and Chris talk about the Sun being the end of the world, how to hide, Canada, new things, POWER, assumptions about names, patents, the future, typography, SQL Server, security, Xerox, and listener feedback.

Andrew and Chris talk about the Sun being the end of the world, how to hide, Canada, new things, POWER, assumptions about names, patents, the future, typography, SQL Server, security, Xerox, and listener feedback.


Links

The Sun’s Magnetic Field is about to Flip – NASA Science
‘New-pot in bloom’: Cannabis plants found growing in council flower pots in Newport – Wales Online
Kickstarter in Canada — Kickstarter
Bethesda – QuakeCon 2013 Keynote w/ John Carmack
QuakeCon in pictures: North America’s biggest LAN party | Gallery | PC Gamer
Firefox Notes – Desktop
PuTTY: a free telnet/ssh client
PDF: SuperSpeedUSB_10Gbps_Available_20130731.pdf
IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla • The Register
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
Here’s why economists hate software patents
Indian IT firm accused of discrimination against “stupid Americans” | Ars Technica
Bret Victor – The Future of Programming on Vimeo
References for “The Future of Programming”
Matthew Butterick: The Bomb in the Garden
Butterick’s Practical Typography
SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks, and It’s All Your Fault | Brent Ozar Unlimited
Mock Response
Mock Response – I’m a teapot
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Google Zerg Rush
When ‘Smart Homes’ Get Hacked: I Haunted A Complete Stranger’s House Via The Internet – Forbes
SUMMON THE NSA!
After NSA’s XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches To Secure HTTPS | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents · D. Kriesel
Always Listening To Our Customers: Clarification On Scanning Issue | Real Business at Xerox
Blog Fonts | the Andrew Bailey
Twitter / irqed: 99 little bugs in the code 99 …
DPI Calculator / PPI Calculator
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
PAPA 16 World Pinball Championships

Music

Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Jamendo – We Ain’t Finished Yet (lukhash.com) by LukHash
Younnat – Magician’s Weekend by younnat on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
Younnat – The Duct [foot035] : Oleg Serdyuk : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #122: CS #38 — CPU Lying Around Not Doing Anything!

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