Control Structure

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March 27, 2014Control Structure #57: The Way It’s Meant To Be Played
Steven and Andrew talk about Oculus VR, new Java things, Microsoft, Mozilla, and tons of gaming related technical news, along with listener feedback.

Links
EVERYTHING IS FINE – YouTube
Pinburgh 2014 | PAPA.ORG
Twitch
Pono Music – Where Your Soul Rediscovers Music by the PonoMusic Team — Kickstarter
Facebook to Acquire Oculus | Facebook Newsroom
Twitter / notch: We were in talks about maybe …
Latest JDK 8 Release Notes
NetBeans IDE 8.0 Release Information
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010 | Ars Technica
Announcing Visual Studio Achievements Beta | C9Team | Channel 9
Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public – The Official Microsoft Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs
DONKEY.BAS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Google donkey: Google forced to deny killing donkey with Street View car in Botswana | Mail Online
Mozilla, the organization behind Firefox, names Brendan Eich as its new CEO – Digits – WSJ
ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP – Computerworld
2048
Play 2048 and all of its derivatives and clones
2048 Variants | Semi-long Blog
2048
xkcd: Digits
Want to Stay Anonymous? Don’t Make a Hit Computer Game – Digits – WSJ
Unity 5
Untitled: https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/welcome-to-unreal-engine-4
CRYENGINE | Crytek
DirectX 12 – DirectX Developer Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
How OpenGL Can Unlock 15x Performance Gains | NVIDIA Blog
DHrpcs3/rpcs3 · GitHub
Troy Hunt: The prophesied Windows XP and IE 8 crisis is nigh! (unless you’re in China)
Moonbase Commander – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rebellion brings MoonBase Commander back to PC for $5.99 | Polygon
State of The Andrew Bailey, March 2014 | the Andrew Bailey
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Younnat – Magician’s Weekend by younnat on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #205: CS #57 — Five Good Fringe Titles!
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1h 4min
March 11, 2014Control Structure #56: The Air Gap
Steven joins Andrew again to talk about graphics, browsers, JPEGs, fonts, storage, theft, operating systems, copyright, CPUs, Snowden, languages, and plenty of other things.

Links
Hemingway
Nadella as Microsoft CEO: A slap in the face for Indian system | Firstpost
One Billion Dollars
A birthday present from Broadcom | Raspberry Pi
MSDN Blogs
pheelicks.com | Rendering large terrains
What browser am I using?
Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project | Mozilla Research
Clear Sans | 01.org
Adobe – Fonts : Source Sans Pro
Sony Global – “Archival Disc” standard formulated for professional-use next-generation optical discs
How I Went From 100 To 0 Things (Or How I Was Robbed of All My Stuff) –
Windows XP users will be warned of support ending with a pop-up | Ars Technica
OS Statistics
Operating system market share
Linux Foundation to Build Massive Open Online Course Program with edX, Increase Access to Linux Training for All | The Linux Foundation
Collection of Less Commonly Used UNIX Commands
Editorial: Why Games Should Enter The Public Domain | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Modern Microprocessors – A 90 Minute Guide!
Edward Snowden and ACLU at SXSW – YouTube
One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
Chrome Web Store – SpeakIt!
Registers of the Power Architecture | the Andrew Bailey
International Backup Awareness Day
Big Giant Circles
The Fringe #200: CS #56 — Trixy Trixy Google › The Nexus
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #200: CS #56 — Trixy Trixy Google!
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1h 11min
February 19, 2014Control 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
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1h 40min
January 31, 2014Control Structure #54: Conspiracy with Big Water
Andrew and Steven talk about near catastrophes, data retrieval, old hardware, new hardware, hard drives, Microsoft, killing processes, encryption, listener feedback and more.

Links
Xannathor | LoadingReadyRun Video Gallery | The Escapist
support SQLite for functional testing purposes by bendavies · Pull Request #12 · fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle · GitHub
This is the one map you need to understand Ukraine’s crisis
Ghost ship Lyubov Orlova ‘sinks’ in Atlantic Ocean – Mirror Online
Apps Status Dashboard
We are the Google Site Reliability Engineering team. Ask us Anything! : IAmA
Official Blog: Today’s outage for several Google services
Use Subqueries to Count Distinct 50X Faster
Count Distinct Compared on Top 4 SQL Databases
Folklore.org: Quick, Hide In This Closet!
AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100 | Ars Technica
Intel bungs PC on an SD: Tiny computer for Internet of Things and wearables • The Register
Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
OneDrive for Everything in Your Life | OneDrive Blog
Microsoft Will Rebrand SkyDrive After It Settles Trademark Case With Sky Broadcasting | TechCrunch
Why isn’t People-Centric UI Design taking off? – Scott Hanselman
TabWorks – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More Mantle Delay Rumors Surface in Relation to Battlefield 4 (Updated) | Maximum PC
linux – When should I not kill -9 a process? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
IE7 users, we need to talk… | Nursing Blog – NursingJobs.us
The monkeys in 2013 | JavaScript
Improving Firefox SSL/TLS Security – blog.dbrgn.ch
SSL Cipher Suites Supported By Your Browser
SSL/TLS Supported CipherSuites
Restore Net Neutrality By Directing the FCC to Classify Internet Providers as “Common Carriers”. | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
Penguin-Geddon: Could The Next Major Google Search Engine Update Trigger An Economic Recession? | The Impact of Google Search Engine Updates
Search DuckDuckGo
GiftCardSpread
Registers of the x86 CPU architecture | the Andrew Bailey
Lovebible.pl – Charlie’s Diary
Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems | Ars Technica
Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch | Ars Technica
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Younnat – Magician’s Weekend by younnat on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
Younnat – Doctor Verhovtsev’s Dream by younnat on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #186: CS #54 — Apparently I’m France!
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1h 15min
January 17, 2014Control Structure #53: One Word Awesomebar
Andrew and Steven return to podcasting to talk about lost technology, acquisitions, web browsers, New Year's resolutions, deprecation of the web and the internet, Markov chains, and more, along with a long winded explanation of btrfs features.

Links
SimCity’s upcoming offline mode the result of six and a half months of work, says Maxis | PC Gamer
Tourist walks off pier while browsing on Facebook | World news | theguardian.com
The Cubli: A Gravity-Defying Cube that Can Jump, Balance, and Walk | Colossal
Georgia Tech Researchers Reveal Phrases that Pay on Kickstarter | College of Computing
Create your own Bullet time camera rig with Raspberry Pi | Muktware
Mac Pro (late 2013) replica
Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max
The Next Microsoft — Minimally Minimal
Google to Acquire Nest – Investor Relations – Google
AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast For $5-10M To Radionomy, Takes 12% Stake In Belgian Digital Audio Startup | TechCrunch
Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Outage post-mortem
Multiprocess Firefox | Bill McCloskey’s Blog
Chrome rendering engine will get faster, lighter, and better offline in 2014 | Ars Technica
Finding a low-memory browser – Scott Hanselman
Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful – Scott Hanselman
Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems | Ars Technica
“Shopping cart” patent rolls to a halt at the Supreme Court | Ars Technica
Newegg.com – Newegg’s Fight Patent Trolls T-Shirt
The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise | Wired Business | Wired.com
Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules | Ars Technica
Net Neutrality is Dead. The FCC Won’t Save It. It’s Time to Start Building. — Medium
King James Programming
praetoralpha/toilet · GitHub
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Jamendo – quiet ep by Transient
Shardik’s Walkman – Pasodoble e-moll (live) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #181: CS #53 — Whitespace is Significant!
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1h 10min
December 19, 2013Control Structure #52: Do Not Pass Google
Ryan disturbs Andrew's evening by wanting to do a show, where they talk about Kickstarers, old times, security, video, Linux distros, CSS tools, NSA, and other things.

Links
DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
Space Janitors Webseries – Season 3 by Space Janitors Crew — Kickstarter
The Magazine: The Book (Year One) by Glenn Fleishman — Kickstarter
Keacher.com » How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web
A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack – Tom Moertel’s Blog
Pixel Scalers
two-factor authentication list
EvanHahn/two-factor-auth-list · GitHub
cisco/openh264 · GitHub
VideoLAN – x264, the best H.264/AVC encoder
Debian — Debian “wheezy” Release Information
Release Notes
CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Myth – CSS the way it was imagined.
The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Mozilla Developer Network
Mozilla Developer Network – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WebPlatform Docs · WebPlatform Docs · WPD · WebPlatform.org
Code rant: Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules | World news | theguardian.com
Edward Snowden says judge’s ruling vindicates NSA surveillance disclosures | World news | theguardian.com
Folha de S.Paulo – Internacional – En – World – An Open Letter to the People of Brazil – 16/12/2013
Mirror’s Edge | the Andrew Bailey
KeePass Password Safe
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Jamendo – Dibujando Infinitos Ciclos que Van y Vienen en el Tiempo by JOSE TRAVIESO
MrSolidSnake745’s Floppy Drive Orchestra
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #171: CS #52 — Podcasters Gone Wild!
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1h 25min
November 21, 2013Control Structure #51: Dude, Your OS Is Showing
Andrew yells for Chris, gets Matthew instead. They talk about small computers, hard drives, insane power, web servers, web browsers, and some other stuff.

Links
Desert Bus for Hope :: Welcome to Desert Bus for Hope
Empty-Stomach Intelligence – New York Times
Medium Maker
Micro Python: Python for microcontrollers by Damien George — Kickstarter
TWO MILLION! | Raspberry Pi
Why Do Companies Still Use Microsoft Windows For Displays? ← Terence Eden’s Blog
The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology
Backblaze Blog » How long do disk drives last?
Online Backup & Data Backup Software | Backblaze
6TB helium-filled hard drives take flight, bump capacity 50% – Computerworld
Tencent Will Soon Dole Out 10TB of Free Cloud Storage To English Users
Western Digital hoping for 5x larger hard drives with HAMR – TechSpot
Introducing the Large Pixel Collider, a computer of uncomfortable power | PC Gamer
LPC
Martin Gräßlin – Google+ – The last half year has been very difficult for me. I had…
Oracle abandons commercial support for Glassfish JEE Server | ZDNet
WildFly Homepage · WildFly
Is Modern Web Design Too Formulaic? – Microlancer Blog
Hands-on with Firefox’s new “Australis” interface | Ars Technica
Opera Developer News – Opera Desktop 18 released
Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks | Sucuri Blog
Mike Hearn – Google+ – The packet capture shown in these new NSA slides shows…
KeePass Password Safe
KeePassX
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Jamendo – A Voice from the Mountain by Let Me Introduce You To The End
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1h 6min
November 14, 2013Control Structure #50: Retrospecies
Andrew and Chris ruminate about old episodes and the future.

Music
Crucible | Miracle Of Sound
Jamendo – Dibujando Infinitos Ciclos que Van y Vienen en el Tiempo by JOSE TRAVIESO
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
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13min
November 01, 2013Control Structure #49: Spiders To Eat The Bugs
Steven dares to wake the idle podcasting phenomenon of Andrew! They talk about some stories, then Dell, Apple, Mozilla, Cisco, helium filled hard drives, SEC, RSA, NSA, Google, and some other ancillary anecdotes.

Links
Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds panic myth: The infamous radio broadcast did not cause a nationwide hysteria.
The parable of the fisherman « Figuring Shit Out
The parable of the fisherman | Hacker News
Dell Completes Go-Private Transaction | Business Wire
XPS 15 Touch Screen Laptop Details | Dell
New 6430u smells awful – Laptop General Hardware Forum – Laptop – Dell Community
Apple Unveils 1-Lb. ‘iPad Air’; iPad Mini Gains Retina Display – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com
Woz Is Unimpressed By Apple’s New iPads | Cult of Mac
In the Beginning… Was the Command Line – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wow, or from the When-Apple-Became-the-Borg Department | Lessig Blog, v2
the slaughter continues — Apple’s latest deleted comment | Lessig Blog, v2
12 Awesome CSS3 Features That You Can Finally Start Using | Tutorialzine
Firefox Notes – Desktop
Open codec pioneer leaves Red Hat, joins Mozilla to work on next-generation video codec — Tech News and Analysis
OpenH264
Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes eleventh-hour push for WebRTC’s future — Tech News and Analysis
Cisco’s H.264 Good News | Brendan Eich
Monty Montgomery – Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264
NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Data Transmissions to and from Moon | NASA
The keys to the keydom | bit-player
Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts | Ars Technica
Stephen Clarke-Willson – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Western Digital to Release 7-Platter Sealed Hard Disk Drives This Quarter – X-bit labs
EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Public Citizen Press Room
Dozens in Congress now ready to end bulk data program | Ars Technica
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
MrSolidSnake745’s Floppy Drive Orchestra
Cage The Elephant – Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked – YouTube
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1h 27min
October 17, 2013Control 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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1h 20min

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How many episodes does Control Structure have?

The podcast currently has 158 episodes available.