Control Structure #38: Three Times The Power

Andrew and Chris talk about the Sun being the end of the world, how to hide, Canada, new things, POWER, assumptions about names, patents, the future, typography, SQL Server, security, Xerox, and listener feedback.

Links

• The Sun’s Magnetic Field is about to Flip – NASA Science
• ‘New-pot in bloom’: Cannabis plants found growing in council flower pots in Newport – Wales Online
• Kickstarter in Canada — Kickstarter
• Bethesda – QuakeCon 2013 Keynote w/ John Carmack
• QuakeCon in pictures: North America’s biggest LAN party | Gallery | PC Gamer
• Firefox Notes – Desktop
• PuTTY: a free telnet/ssh client
• PDF: SuperSpeedUSB_10Gbps_Available_20130731.pdf
• IBM opens up Power chips, ARM-style, to take on Chipzilla • The Register
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software
• Here’s why economists hate software patents
• Indian IT firm accused of discrimination against “stupid Americans” | Ars Technica
• Bret Victor – The Future of Programming on Vimeo
• References for “The Future of Programming”
• Matthew Butterick: The Bomb in the Garden
• Butterick’s Practical Typography
• SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks, and It’s All Your Fault | Brent Ozar Unlimited
• Mock Response
• Mock Response – I’m a teapot
• Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Google Zerg Rush
• When ‘Smart Homes’ Get Hacked: I Haunted A Complete Stranger’s House Via The Internet – Forbes
• SUMMON THE NSA!
• After NSA’s XKeyscore, Wikipedia Switches To Secure HTTPS | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
• HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents · D. Kriesel
• Always Listening To Our Customers: Clarification On Scanning Issue | Real Business at Xerox
• Blog Fonts | the Andrew Bailey
• Twitter / irqed: 99 little bugs in the code 99 …
• DPI Calculator / PPI Calculator
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
• PAPA 16 World Pinball Championships

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Jamendo – We Ain’t Finished Yet (lukhash.com) by LukHash
• Younnat – Magician’s Weekend by younnat on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
• Younnat – The Duct [foot035] : Oleg Serdyuk : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #122: CS #38 — CPU Lying Around Not Doing Anything!

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