Control Structure

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August 14, 2014Control Structure #67: There Was No Firefox
After talking about what they've been doing at home, Andrew and Steve talk about Raspberry Pi, Broadwell, game development, the internet, Internet Explorer, OpenGL, USB, Markov Chains, and dice.

Banter
Holoroom – Space Janitors Season 2 Ep. 2 (in 4k resolution!) – YouTube
The SnapPiCam | A Raspberry Pi Digital Camera. by Gregory L Holloway — Kickstarter
News
device manager – Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster? – Super User
Broadwell is coming: A look at Intel’s low-power Core M and its 14nm process | Ars Technica
File:Intel CPU Core i7 2600K Sandy Bridge bottom.jpg – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gamasutra: Thomas Henshell’s Blog – Why I’ve Said Goodbye to Mobile in Favor of PC
Archmage Rises
Stay up-to-date with Internet Explorer – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Stay up to date with Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11 – IEBlog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
AnandTech | OpenGL SIGGRAPH 2014 Update: OpenGL 4.5, OpenGL ES 3.1, & More
Tegra K1 “Denver” Will Be First 64-bit ARM Processor for Android
What caused today’s Internet hiccup | BGPmon
CIDR Report
Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken | Threat Level | WIRED
Markov Chains
King James Programming — we want the computer to make an atonement for your…
King James Programming — The first program is written in the book of the…
Appreciate Deprecate
teal 3d dice roller
At The Nexus #137: It’s Bloody French › The Nexus
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
MrSolidSnake745’s Floppy Drive Orchestra
C64 reMIXed | LukHash
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58min
August 01, 2014Control Structure #66: Mom as a Service
After talking about how things Comcast and Kickstarter go awry, Andrew and Steven talk about the demoscene, Hemingway, sales charts, jQuery, CSS, notes, RAM drives, and listener feedback.

Banter
Comcast Confessions: when every call is a sales call | The Verge
Comcast customer jailed in gun case | Albuquerque Journal News
Never back a Kickstarter without a programmer (and other tips for not losing your money) | Polygon
Road Redemption official website
Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behind two flailing Kickstarter games | Polygon
ChargeAll – World’s Smallest Portable Power Outlet | Indiegogo
News
ODROID-W: The First Raspberry Pi Compatible Development Board | MAKE
The Voice of 6octaves: Interview with Demoscener – kb (Farbrausch)
Hemingway App for Mac and PC
The PC Didn’t Die. It Was “Future Proof” | LinkedIn
Writing jQuery in 2025
Ten CSS One-Liners to Replace Native Apps ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post
Appreciate Deprecate
Google Keep
Tools and utilities for Windows
Podcast Feedback
The Glory Days | Big Giant Circles
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
fr-08: .the .product by farbrausch :: pouët.net
little things | C418
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49min
July 18, 2014Control Structure #65: The Carpet Shampooer
Andrew and Steven come around to talk about what's been going on around the internet, two Kickstarters, Raspberry Pis, free Microsoft stuff, web protocols, standards, FCC crashing, listener feedback, and other cool things.

Banter
Google’s Self-Driving Car – YouTube
123 – Homestar Runner’s Matt Chapman – The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show
Everybody! Everybody!
Homestar Runner April Fool’s 2014
Comcastic service disconnection by ryan.block on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
Here’s why your Comcast rep is yelling at you | The Verge
Fallout: Nuka Break – Tales from the Wasteland by Wayside Creations — Kickstarter
Potato Salad by Zack Danger Brown — Kickstarter
News
New product launch! Introducing Raspberry Pi Model B+ | Raspberry Pi
Hummingboard – Powerful Linux Single Board Computer
Bringing WinJS cross-platform and open source
Amazon Best Sellers: Best Laptop Computers
Largest collection of FREE Microsoft eBooks ever, including: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2013, Office 365, Office 2010, SharePoint 2013, Dynamics CRM, PowerShell, Exchange Server, Lync 2013, System Center, Azure, Cloud, SQL Server, and much m – Microsoft Senior Sales Excellence Manager – Eric Ligman – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Commentary: What I Learned, and What You Should Know, After I Published My Twitter Password – Digits – WSJ
ROBOTS.TXT DISALLOW: 20 Years of Mistakes To Avoid | beu | blog
Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0 | Mozilla Research
FCC extends net neutrality comment deadline after ‘overwhelming’ traffic | The Verge
Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC – Y Combinator Posthaven
Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum
MINIX is now available under the BSD license
Appreciate
richardharrington/disrupt-to-bullshit · GitHub
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music used
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
The Glory Days | Big Giant Circles
Big Giant Circles (BigGiantCircles) on Twitter
Nuka Break: Season 2 | Dan Martinez
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40min
July 03, 2014Control Structure #64: Quantum Variable
After trying again, Andrew and Ryan talk about Google, Opera, MP3s, DoS attacks, security, HP, IBM, Samsung, Xanadu, Aaron Swartz, accomplishments, podcast feedback, and some other interesting tidbits.

Banter
Rise of Nations: Extended Edition on Steam
Tchau Orkut – Orkut Blog
Google Takeout – Download Your Data
Google Apps update alerts: Removal of Quickoffice from Google Play and App Store
News
Opera 24 for Linux released on the Developer stream – Opera Desktop – Opera Software
Ryan Maguire – The Ghost in the MP3
Tally of Cyber Extortion Attacks on Tech Companies Grows
OpenSSL: About, Roadmap
Google unveils independent “fork” of OpenSSL called “BoringSSL” | Ars Technica
Backstage at HP, Ars sees how the sausage gets made | Ars Technica
IBM Expects Nanotube Transistor Computer Chips Ready Soon After 2020 | MIT Technology Review
AnandTech | Samsung SSD 850 Pro (128GB, 256GB & 1TB) Review: Enter the 3D Era
Newegg.com – BITCOIN ACCEPTED
Updated: PayPal froze account of secure email startup ProtonMail due to “technical problem” — Tech News and Analysis
Google I/O 2014 – Security at scale at Google – YouTube
Who Needs Giacomo? Bet on the Fortune Cookie – New York Times
Now I Know
Is TLS Fast Yet?
World’s most delayed software released after 54 years of development | Technology | theguardian.com
OpenXanadu (sources only)
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Free to Read | About JSTOR
Full text of “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto”
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz : Brian Knappenberger : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Deprecate
R4S – Record for Skype – Home
Youtube HTTPS Ciphers – Google Groups
Feats
Router Fan
ryanmr/tntv-titler · GitHub
I worked on the next version of our automated titler tool for +The Nexus this…
Sigil (computer programming) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ryanmr/ddns-linode · GitHub
Shuttleworth says Ubuntu is sticking with MySQL | ZDNet
Plans and Pricing – Linode
SSD Cloud Hosting – Linode
Podcast Feedback
One-dollar salary – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mailpile: Let’s take e-mail back!
Login to DIGITIMES archive & research
SSD price war in full swing – Storage – News – HEXUS.net
Royalty Free Music – Download Free from Musopen.org
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Sonata in E Flat Major, D. 568 – Download free
Music | Big Giant Circles
Big Giant Circles (BigGiantCircles) on Twitter
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1h 20min
June 20, 2014Control Structure #63: Certain Fundamentals
Andrew and Steve talk about British knights, Apple acolytes, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, FPGAs, SSDs, memristors, listener feedback, and more, as the storms roll in. Special thanks to LoadingReadyRun and Musopen.

Links
Crapshots Ep143 – The Crossroads – YouTube
Nexus Special #30: E3 2014 › The Nexus
The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says – Forbes
The Intel 80386 and 80486 | Indiegogo
BBC News – Raspberry Pi pioneer honoured in Birthday list
Crate of Penguins — Losing Apple
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Reacts to John Oliver Viral Video | Re/code
Hands-on with Canonical’s Orange Box and a peek into cloud nirvana | Ars Technica
MemShrink’s 3rd birthday | Nicholas Nethercote
An even slimmer pdf.js | Nicholas Nethercote
stop playing mp3 in new tab | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support
Internet Explorer Developer Channel is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1
3% of users browse with IE9 and 14% of users have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former? | Fiona TG
Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips | Enterprise | WIRED
Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server – The Washington Post
Safer email – Transparency Report – Google
TrueCrypt
Extreme Horizon experiment: iPhone on Spinning Car Wheel – Evil Window Dog blog
The Unicode Blog: Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0
The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte – The Tech Report – Page 1
With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer – Businessweek
The Swift Programming Language: The Basics
International Backup Awareness Day
AWS console breach leads to demise of service with “proven” backup plan | Ars Technica
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Sonata in D Major, D. 850 – Download free
Sonata in E Flat Major, D. 568 – Download free
The Hebrides – Fingal’s Cave, Op. 26 – Download free
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1h 10min
June 06, 2014Control Structure #62: Water in Your DSL
Andrew and Steven talk about Kickstarters, web links, web browsers, 3D, the future of the Internet, and some more things. Then they tell a story in low bandwidth voices: once upon a time, Tom Chris came back. The End.

Links
Graphing the distribution of English letters towards the beginning, middle or end of words – Prooffreader
Arena Commander Launched! – Roberts Space Industries
Road Redemption by DarkSeas Games » Road Redemption (new version) – splitscreen multiplayer and more!!! — Kickstarter
Introducing Launch Now and Simplified Rules » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter
Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere. by LeVar Burton & Reading Rainbow — Kickstarter
Princeton undergrads create a new way to control things with your voice – SD Times: Software Development News
Swift Programming Language – Apple Developer
The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Linux Mint 17 “Qiana” Cinnamon released!
Downloads · WildFly
One year of Blink and WebKit
Why link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web
This URL shortener situation is officially out of control – Scott Hanselman
Troy Hunt: The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields
Typography in 16-bits: System fonts » DamienG
The Scroll Up Bar – The Usability Post
OpenGL Is Broken
The Bottom Feeder: The Indie Bubble Is Popping.
Ten Reasons Developers Hate Your API
3dfx Oral History Panel with Ross Smith, Scott Sellers, Gary Tarolli, and Gordon Campbell – YouTube
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality – YouTube
John Oliver Crashes FCC Website After Net Neutrality Segment | Variety
Cucumber – Making BDD fun
Reset The Net 2014 – Namecheap
International Backup Awareness Day
Royalty free music. Public domain and copyright free classical music. | Musopen
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Seven Years of Server Data | C418
C418 (C418) on Twitter
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1h 2min
May 23, 2014Control Structure #61: Morale Has Improved
Andrew and Steven invite Ross Nover to the show and interview him about himself, The System and tools that he uses. Afterwards, they discuss a Raspberry Pi tank, computer time, OS user experience, securing HTTP, accessible HTML, colorful games, and listener feedback.

Links
Macaw: The Code-Savvy Web Design Tool
Macaw: The Code-Savvy Web Design Tool by Macaw — Kickstarter
Arena Commander Weekly Report – May 12-16 – Roberts Space Industries
Control Structure #41: Space Garage › The Nexus
The Economics of a Kickstarter Project — Medium
The Brooklyn Bridge in Letterpress Type by Cameron Moll — Kickstarter
The System – Comics will be posted until morale improves.
Rosscott
Rosscott (Rosscott) on Twitter
The System: Comics Will Be Published Until Morale Improves by Rosscott Nover — Kickstarter
Super Art Fight | The Greatest Live Art Competiton in the Known Universe
How Are Websites Made? — I Love Charts — Medium
Unicomp, Inc.
PANEL: What do Web Developers need to know in 2014 – Hanselman, Crockford, Papa, Jacobs on the Hanselminutes Technology Podcast: Fresh Air for Developers
Zero Punctuation Video Gallery | The Escapist
The System – The System 649: Bike Sniper
Raspberry Tank Build Diary
Raspberry Tank – Firing Range on Vimeo
ianrenton/raspberrytank · GitHub
Canonical’s cloud-in-a-box: The Ubuntu Orange Box | ZDNet
The Infinite Space Between Words
mjg59 | The desktop and the developer
4 HTTP Security headers you should always be using | ibuildings
WAVE Web Accessibility Tool
WAVE Report
GDC Vault – Borderlands and the 11th Hour Art Style Change. Or: Kids, Don’t Try this at Home!
The System – The System 706: Metro Disaster
Google Maps
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Music | Big Giant Circles
Big Giant Circles (BigGiantCircles) on Twitter
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1h 25min
May 09, 2014Control Structure #60: Actual Genuine Scanlines
On this episode of the food show, Andrew and Steven talk about Rasberry Pi, Dell, Brian Fargo, Unreal Engine, Skype, AMD, internet middlemen, listener feedback, and so much more.

Links
New Emergency Services – The IT Crowd Wiki
Primanti Bros. Restaurants – A Pittsburgh Tradition
Fox’s Pizza
GoPiGo: The Delightful Raspberry Pi Robot by Dexter Industries — Kickstarter
Dell – Google+ – Thank you from +Michael Dell An open letter to our…
Untitled: http://www.biography.com/people/michael-dell-9542199#synopsis&awesm=~oDCVYvDkDgFAXD
2048, success and me — Gabriele Cirulli
PhoneGap | Home
One of Fallout’s fathers returns to the wasteland | Polygon
Brian Fargo Pitches Wasteland 2 – YouTube
The Escapist : Forums : The News Room : The Unreal Engine 4 “Elemental” Demo is now a PC Benchmark
Untitled: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/sharing-the-unreal-engine-4-roadmap
Skype Loves Bringing Groups Together – With FREE Group Video Calling – – Skype Blogs
Beyond x86: “New and different” AMD plans ARM chips for consumers | Ars Technica
Observations of an Internet Middleman | Beyond Bandwidth
Introducing Authy for your personal computer
Using CSS variables – CSS | MDN
Improved Backups and Backup Tips | the Andrew Bailey
Bridging Pittsburgh’s Technology Communities
Atom Blog
Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Fujitsu, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Rackspace, VMware and The Linux Foundation Form New Initiative to Support Critical Open Source Projects | The Linux Foundation
I asked Steam Support what happens to my games if Valve goes out of business. : Games
International Backup Awareness Day
The System – Comics will be posted until morale improves.
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Music | Big Giant Circles
Big Giant Circles (BigGiantCircles) on Twitter
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1h 8min
April 25, 2014Control Structure #59: Server Babies
Andrew and Steven talk about the fallout from Heartbleed, compile times, realistic graphics, servers, Andrew's new backup strategy, a double dose of listener feedback, and more! And don't forget to submit any questions for Ross Nover from The System Comic!

Links
The Escapist : Quizzes : Your 420 Quiz
You appear to be creating a new IDE…
Borderlands 2 – Vladof Weapons Video – YouTube
Is the Toilet Free? | Made by Many
Stefan Urbanek – Google+ – “This presentation can’t be opened because it’s too old. To…
What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing | Kalzumeus Software
LibreSSL
OpenSSL code beyond repair, claims creator of “LibreSSL” fork | Ars Technica
‘FIPS mode is not coming back’ – MARC
Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death
Ryan Gordon – Google+ – Clang vs GCC benchmark time. I had tweeted this… …
Fast inverse square root – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erik McClure: The Problem With Photorealism
Google VP named Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science | Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
DataSource configuration – WildFly 8 – Project Documentation Editor
Migrating a Java EE App from GlassFish to WildFly · WildFly
User Info for Instantfox :: Add-ons for Firefox
Witcher Backup – GOG.com
Du-z / Steam Backup Tool — Bitbucket
Xubuntu
Installation/MinimalCD – Community Help Wiki
Mirrors : Ubuntu
SymNDS : Ubuntu
Carnegie Mellon Computer Club : Ubuntu
Argonne National Laboratory : Ubuntu
Linux Unified Key Setup – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
EncryptedFilesystemsOnRemovableStorage – Community Help Wiki
Mount encrypted volumes from command line? – Ask Ubuntu
International Backup Awareness Day
The System – Comics will be posted until morale improves.
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
PRELUDE | LukHash
Bach – Little Fugue | MrSolidSnake745’s Floppy Drive Orchestra
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1h 19min
April 10, 2014Control Structure #58: Goodbye XP
Andrew and Steven say Goodbye to Windows XP, then talk about other operating systems, AMD, Unreal Engine, Microsoft, web browsers, Heartbleed, services that should and are being killed, a rant against OpenStreetMaps, and more.

Links
Support for Windows XP for Enterprise Business is ending
It’s Bliss: behind the iconic Windows XP photo – Digital Cameras: SLR & Compact Cameras
US Burns Through All High-Skill Visas For 2015 In Less Than A Week | TechCrunch
Quake III bounty: we have a winner! | Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
Unexpelled Ubuntu
AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Unreal Engine 4.1 Update Preview
Epic Games’ Sweeney on the future of Unreal, VR and democratic game development | Polygon
.NET Compiler Platform “Roslyn” – Home
The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married. – .NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Registers of the x86 CPU architecture | the Andrew Bailey
Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 | TechCrunch
Windows to be free on 9” and smaller tablets, also on IoT devices | Ars Technica
Internet Explorer Web Platform Status and Roadmap – status.modern.IE
Irish domains – Domain names ireland – ie domain registration
Chromium Dashboard
WebCL – Heterogeneous parallel computing in HTML5 web browsers
Staying ahead of OpenSSL vulnerabilities | CloudFlare Blog
Heartbleed Bug
Spring cleaning: Five Google projects that need to die | Ars Technica
Why We Decided To Stop Offering Free Accounts | Dyn Blog
Text File formats – ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text | Ronald Duncan’s Blog
Osm2pgsql – OpenStreetMap Wiki
Nominatim – OpenStreetMap Wiki
Welcome
International Backup Awareness Day
USPS Address APIs | the Andrew Bailey
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
The Glory Days | Big Giant Circles
LukHash – Falling Apart : LukHash : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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1h 13min

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The podcast currently has 158 episodes available.