Control Structure #25: Lost in the Rice Cooker

Chris' Kickstarter has finally launched! Then him and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, getting a new job, coming back to the internet, bad ideas, Netflix, Debian, "building" software, stats about Google closing stuff, and more.

Links

• NASA SLS countdown and launch w/audio – YouTube
• The Life of Wars: Vita Bellorum by Christopher Thompson — Kickstarter
• Chineasy – Where characters are revealed
• How our brains navigate the world without us noticing | Ars Technica
• Scientists Back Kiera Wilmot by Tweeting About All the Stuff They’ve Blown Up – Miami – News – Riptide 2.0
• Review & Outlook: A Tale of Two Oil States – WSJ.com
• From the Composer of Skyrim – Soule Symphony No. 1 by Max Steiner Agency Inc. » As the Symphony Progresses….. — Kickstarter
• Code Monkey Save World by Greg Pak — Kickstarter
• Raspberry Pi • View topic – Simple Pi Rack
• I Am a Bad Software Developer – Pen.io
• I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet | The Verge
• Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB — Wikimedia blog
• McDonald’s Theory — What I Learned Building… — Medium
• Nerds, we need to have a talk
• The W3C’s Soul at Stake — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
• Tell W3C: We don’t want the Hollyweb | Defective by Design
• Netflix’s Ted Sarandos talks Arrested Development, 4K and reviving old shows | Stuff magazine
• U.S. Finds Porn Not Secrets on Suspected China Spy’s PC – Businessweek
• Debian — News — Debian 7.0 “Wheezy” released
• Don’t build. Compose. — on startups — Medium
• With No Cash for Upgrades, Local Government to Disconnect Some PCs from Net and Tape up Ethernet Ports | RocketNews24
• Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years | MIT Technology Review
• Google services survive if they make money, aren’t social | Ars Technica
• 11 Tips for Writing Effective Welcome Emails | Vinay Sahni
• Internet traffic from Syria vanishes in the midst of ongoing conflict | The Verge
• NeXT
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
• Coding Horror: Joining The Prestigious Three Monitor Club
• Coding Horror: Three Monitors For Every User

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Calm Down by Anitek
• Lamb Of Who? by Anitek

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #85: CS #25 — Poop Smear!

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