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.

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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