Control Structure #43: Popular Opinion

Andrew explains Kickstarter and FM transmission, then interviews Steven. They also talk about far flung topics like risk, business decisions, loans, McAfee, chargers, web servers, databases, display managers, social networks, signing up, Steam, compromised security algorithms, listener feedback, and so much more.

Andrew explains Kickstarter and FM transmission, then interviews Steven. They also talk about far flung topics like risk, business decisions, loans, McAfee, chargers, web servers, databases, display managers, social networks, signing up, Steam, compromised security algorithms, listener feedback, and so much more.


Links

Schneier on Security: Our Newfound Fear of Risk
NSA and GCHQ: the flawed psychology of government mass surveillance | Chris Chambers | Science | theguardian.com
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value – Forbes
This One Tweet Reveals What’s Wrong With American Business | LinkedIn
The student loan bubble is starting to burst
Set Chopin Free by Aaron Dunn — Kickstarter
Creative Link Effects
Turning the Raspberry Pi Into an FM Transmitter – Imperial College Robotics Society Wiki
Twitter / officialmcafee: I felt fine when I went to …
Wireless Charging Start-Up Claims 30-Foot Radius – Slashdot
Cota By Ossia Aims To Drive A Wireless Power Revolution And Change How We Think About Charging | TechCrunch
The STEM Crisis Is a Myth – IEEE Spectrum
This Russian Software Is Taking Over the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
September 2013 Web Server Survey | Netcraft
phpMyAdmin – 15 years
PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL 9.3 released!
What’s new in PostgreSQL 9.3 – PostgreSQL wiki
PostgreSQL Basics by Example – darthdeus’ blog
Breaking Capacity Barriers With Seagate Shingled Magnetic Recording | Seagate
Intel rejection of Ubuntu’s Mir patch forces Canonical to go own way | Ars Technica
Why your distributed social network will not work—programming is terrible
Stop Making Me Sign Up — Design + Startups — Medium
Steam Family Sharing
Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from the U.S. Government | Yahoo Global Public Policy
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security | World news | Guardian Weekly
Pretty Good Privacy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Untitled: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announces-steps-to-restore-confidence-on-encryption-standards/
PDF: itlbul2013_09_supplemental.pdf
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Color + Design Blog / ColorSchemer Studio 2 for Mac (+COLOURlovers) by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers
How to Choose Colours Procedurally (Algorithms) | devmag.org.za
We Do Commerce
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Linux-Kernel Archive: RIP – dead harddisk..
Prove It With A Unit Test | A site to share coding knowledge of how things work centered around a unit test

Music

Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Podcast Fantastic
Jamendo – In The Middle by Anitek
Jamendo – Inside a dream by Celestial Aeon Project
Jamendo – Jetstream by Celestial Aeon Project

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #137: CS #43 — Advance Your Hue!

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