Control Structure #16: Slower Than Youtube on FiOS

In between discussing browsers, security, compression, famous people, and pretty benchmarks, Chris crashes his browser as he seeks to download the internet, and Andrew talks about RASPBERRY!

Links

• Japanese carrier debuts ‘the world’s smallest and lightest phone’ | The Verge
• Bartendro – A Cocktail Dispensing Robot by Party Robotics — Kickstarter
• Happy birthday to us! | Raspberry Pi
• Oleg Romashin | Raspberry Pi
• Writing efficient CSS selectors – CSS Wizardry – CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts
• Why Are There Not More Freelance Testers Out There? – Test Ninjas – Freelance Software Testers
• Introducing the HTML5 Hard Disk Filler API » Feross.org
• Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward | Ars Technica
• Accidental layer creation
• The Pirate Bay – The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site
• Fake headline of the day: The Pirate Bay “moves” to North Korea | Ars Technica
• My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers | Bryan Kennedy
• A brief XML rant – another techie’s log
• Google compression algorithm Zopfli may lead to faster Internet | Internet & Media – CNET News
• Monads, part one | Fabulous Adventures In Coding
• A new fabulous adventure – Fabulous Adventures In Coding – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• c++ – Can a local variable’s memory be accessed outside its scope? – Stack Overflow
• Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf| Reuters
• Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable, thanks very much | David R. MacIver
• LCA: The ways of Wayland [LWN.net]
• Mir – An outpost envisioned as a new home
• Updated: How Verizon found child pornography in its cloud | Ars Technica
• Secretive Copyright Negotiations Continue at the 16th Round of TPP Talks | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Polish Politicians Don Guy Fawkes/Anonymous Masks To Protest ACTA Signing | Techdirt
• Preventing Hangs in Windows Applications (Windows)
• Heaven Benchmark | Unigine: real-time 3D engine (game, simulation, visualization and VR)
• Unigine Heaven Benchmark | the Andrew Bailey
• Why does automated testing keep failing at my company? | Ars Technica
• Watir.com | Web Application Testing in Ruby
• Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity
• Net Gain: Corporate Espionage by Level Zero Games — Kickstarter

Music

• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Fenrir – Metal Jig
• Matthew Tyas – David’s day
• Matthew Tyas – Intellectuel
• Raphael D. Hardy – The House Of Candy
• Anitek – Amanditek

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #58: CS #16 — Nobody Expects The Nil Inquisition!

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