Control Structure #55: The Orkut Button

Ryan and Andrew talk about being hacked, Linux, Google, social media, benchmarks, singletons, programming platforms, languages, libraries, and user feedback.

Links

• 10 Lessons from 10 Years in Corporate IT | I Hate the Sounds around Me
• The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology
• Update Your Browser | Facebook
• Important Kickstarter Security Notice » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
• Steve Jobs time capsule dug up after 30 years: Here’s the video | Apple – CNET News
• Who’s Writing Linux? – IEEE Spectrum
• call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie
• Bug#727708: call for votes on default Linux init system for jessie
• Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Losing graciously
• Download your data – Account Settings
• Goran Kukurin – Google+ – Hello everyone! I wanted to share with you my story, maybe…
• Why I’m Done with Social Media Buttons – Sam Solomon
• Futuremark Press Releases — Futuremark announces Servermark benchmark
• design patterns – So Singletons are bad, then what? – Programmers Stack Exchange
• Mozilla will start showing first-time users ads in blank Firefox tabs | The Verge
• Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
• Merge branch ‘grunt’ into develop · 7bc312c · thenexustv/coprime · GitHub
• Watir.com | Web Application Testing in Ruby
• Selenium – Web Browser Automation
• Ruby Programming Language
• Python Programming Language – Official Website
• 20.5. xml.etree.ElementTree — The ElementTree XML API — Python 3.3.4 documentation
• 14.1. csv — CSV File Reading and Writing — Python 3.3.4 documentation
• The Mechanics and Meaning of That Ol’ Dial-Up Modem Sound – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
• absorptions: The sound of the dialup, pictured
• Why DuckDuckGo is better for web development, a pictorial guide | Virtuous Code
• AnandTech Portal | It Begins: AMD Announces Its First ARM Based Server SoC, 64-bit/8-core Opteron A1100
• Download Ubuntu Server for ARM | Ubuntu
• Why Box’s IPO Is a Potential Blockbuster
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
• Licensing for Twitch and Youtube – Music by Jimmy Hinson
• Twitter / BigGiantCircles: @Kathleen_LRR @Graham_LRR yeah, …

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• The Glory Days | Big Giant Circles
• The Jimmy Saga (BigGiantCircles) on Twitter

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #193: CS #55 — Celestial Neutrinos!

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