Control Structure #26: Cyborg Grandma

Andrew and Chris talk about Lego Mindstorm replacements, iPads disabling cyborgs, Python dictionaries, Google formats, data storage, Powerpoint, SSH, and old stuff, along with juicy feedback.

Links

• Sriracha hot sauce purveyor turns up the heat – Los Angeles Times
• BrickPi: LEGO Bricks with a Raspberry Pi Brain by Dexter Industries — Kickstarter
• Heart Patient Risk From iPad2 Found by 14-Year-Old – Bloomberg
• We Support “The Unlocking Technology Act of 2013” | FixtheDMCA
• Why Isn’t Gatsby in the Public Domain? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• The Performance Impact of Using dict() Instead of {} in CPython 2.7 | Doug Hellmann
• A proposal for an always-releasable Debian [LWN.net]
• Using Python to see how the Times writes about men and women
• What can Python and the New York Times tell us about gender? | The Verge
• The WebM Open Media Project Blog: VP9 Codec Nears Completion
• Official Gmail Blog: Bringing it all together: 15 GB now shared between Drive, Gmail, and Google+ Photos
• Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is – Quartz
• Executable Archaeology: The Case Of The Stupid Thing Eating All My RAM
• Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint” | Moving People to Action
• Firefox, Heal Thyself | Future Releases
• Security and Obscurity: Does Changing Your SSH Port Lower Your Risk? | Daniel Miessler
• Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ – The Washington Post
• Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia
• Mystery Solved? A New Theory About Why Egypt Stopped Building Pyramids – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic
• Jennifer Government | by Max Barry
• WebObjects – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Pixelation – Index
• Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion getting its first DLC next month | News | PC Gamer
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• instrumentals | tryad
• Jamendo – transient – fvzzbvster by transient

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #88: CS #26 — Tree Rats!

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