Control Structure #48: Sofware as a Surface

Andrew nabs Ryan and talks about the end of XP, Andrew's side project, IKEA, jokes, Indians, standards, careers, emails, RAM, trials, Google's TOS, fabs, Firefox, NSA, hosts, patterns, Ghost, and listener feedback.

Links

• Millions in Asia still on Windows XP | Visual.ly
• Google Chrome Blog: Extending Chrome support for XP users until April 2015
• Project Twentieth Century: Resurrection | the Andrew Bailey
• IKEA or Death
• 50 People On ‘The Most Intellectual Joke I Know’ | Thought Catalog
• The Fundamentals of the Law of Attraction
• Bad Indian Programmers
• The Indian and his insatiable appetite for the college degree — Design + Startups — Medium
• ECMA 404: JSON
• Your Career is a Mess | Founder Dating
• I asked for a t-shirt, I got a job – Thought Conduit
• Matt Swanson – How not to validate email addresses
• Mail::RFC822::Address
• mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2013-10-11: Why Registers Are Fast and RAM Is Slow
• Saas Foundry | Should You Require a Credit Card Upfront for a Free Trial?
• Use Google Fiber properly – Fiber Help
• Terms of Service update -€“ Policies & Principles -€“ Google
• Slowing Moore’s Law: Why You Might Want To and How You Would Do It
• Intel Delays Next-Generation Broadwell Chips Until 2014 Due to Manufacturing Issue – Mac Rumors
• Intel’s next-generation Broadwell CPUs delayed due to yield problems | Ars Technica
• Shumway
• GoDaddy Pulls Lavabit’s Security Creds Because The FBI Got Ahold Of Its Encryption Keys – Forbes
• Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails | Ars Technica
• GoDaddy Buys Media Temple To Build Up Its Business With Web Professionals | TechCrunch
• Yep, the NSA is grabbing your address book, contact lists too | Ars Technica
• The NSA Video
• Game Programming Patterns
• Ghost – Just a blogging platform
• Fury3 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Google Groups
• Phantom of the Floppera – YouTube
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
• The Official Circleville Pumpkin Show Website

Music

• instrumentals | tryad
• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Jamendo – Final Chapter by LukHash (used with permission)

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #152: CS #48: That’s a Bulkbag!

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