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August 30, 2013Control Structure #41: Space Garage
Andrew and Chris agree to not talk about the NSA, discuss the number 42, a bus, StarCraft science, updates on Kickstarters, Siria, Linux, Ballmer, FiOS, YouTube, ECMAScript, unwanted wares, adblocking, Xerox, frameworks, destroying code, Firefox plugins, and whitelisting.

Links
Paul Horn Is In Our Chat | The Nexus
A Tour of the Bus | Hank Bought A Bus
The Science Behind Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life | Surprising Science
‘StarCraft’ Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Says Study – Digits – WSJ
Author and former tutor Lacy Crawford reveals rich parents’ college-admissions madness – NYPOST.com
Hangar Release Imminent – Roberts Space Industries
Siri just started a beef with Google Glass | The Verge
14 Years of SQL Injection and still the most dangerous vulnerability – Netsparker, Web Application Security Scanner Blog
Linus Torvalds – Google+ – Hello everybody out there using Linux – I’m doing a (free)…
Google Groups
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
Microsoft creates white Xbox One for employees | The Verge
If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple | stratēchery by Ben Thompson
Craig Moffett Suddenly Thinks FiOS Is Great | DSLReports, ISP Information
Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig | Ars Technica
Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6 | Blog | Sencha
Download me II—Removing the remnants of the Web’s most dangerous search terms | Ars Technica
Download me—Saying “yes” to the Web’s most dangerous search terms | Ars Technica
Use Of Ad Blocking Is On The Rise – Forbes
First Wave of Scanning Software Patches Ready | Real Business at Xerox
Zero to Sixty in One Second — Acko.net
The Joel on Software Discussion Group (CLOSED) – Why I Hate Frameworks
FoxyProxy
Abduction! – Webpage Screenshots Screen Capture :: Add-ons for Firefox
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
programmer day – Google Search
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Developers – YouTube
dma-sc – Exocooper (used with permission)
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #129: CS #41 — Suspicious Engrish!
Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.
1 hr
August 29, 2013Control Structure #41: Space Garage
Links
Paul Horn Is In Our Chat | The Nexus

A Tour of the Bus | Hank Bought A Bus

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life | Surprising Science

'StarCraft' Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Says Study - Digits - WSJ

Author and former tutor Lacy Crawford reveals rich parents’ college-admissions madness - NYPOST.com

Hangar Release Imminent - Roberts Space Industries

Siri just started a beef with Google Glass | The Verge

14 Years of SQL Injection and still the most dangerous vulnerability - Netsparker, Web Application Security Scanner Blog

Linus Torvalds - Google+ - Hello everybody out there using Linux - I'm doing a (free)…

Google Groups

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months

Microsoft creates white Xbox One for employees | The Verge

If Steve Ballmer Ran Apple | stratēchery by Ben Thompson

Craig Moffett Suddenly Thinks FiOS Is Great | DSLReports, ISP Information

Newest YouTube user to fight a takedown is copyright guru Lawrence Lessig | Ars Technica

Toward Modern Web Apps with ECMAScript 6 | Blog | Sencha

Download me II—Removing the remnants of the Web’s most dangerous search terms | Ars Technica

Download me—Saying “yes” to the Web’s most dangerous search terms | Ars Technica

Use Of Ad Blocking Is On The Rise - Forbes

First Wave of Scanning Software Patches Ready | Real Business at Xerox

Zero to Sixty in One Second — Acko.net

The Joel on Software Discussion Group (CLOSED) - Why I Hate Frameworks

FoxyProxy

Abduction! - Webpage Screenshots Screen Capture :: Add-ons for Firefox

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

programmer day - Google Search
Music
Bump Foot - Releases - foot132

Developers - YouTube

dma-sc - Exocooper (used with permission)
1 hr
August 22, 2013Control Structure #40: Everyone Loves XML
Chris and Andrew wonders whether or not you should have this much jargon or snails, game genre alphabet soup, reckless twittering, filesystems, Google, Windows 8, XML, the NSA (yet again), war on general computing, and more games.

Links
Do I Really Want All This Stuff? — Editor’s Picks — Medium
Do I Really Want All This Stuff? | Hacker News
Jargon Generator
Inside Boy’s Knee, Sea Snail Egg Grew And Hatched (VIDEO)
[Project Phoenix] Japan’s indie RPG feat. AAA talent! by Creative Intelligence Arts, Inc. — Kickstarter
As the climate warms up, apple quality is going down | The Verge
After Fatal Crash With Cyclists, Driver’s Tweets Help Spur Murder Charge : The Two-Way : NPR
Conservancy Helps Samsung Resolve GPL Compliance Matter Amicably – Software Freedom Conservancy
Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead – Quartz
Some SecureRandom Thoughts | Android Developers Blog
(UPDATED 21/08) Windows 8 Results (Temporarily) Not Accepted At HWBOT – Benchmark Result Veracity Compromised
XML Can Give the Same Performance as JSON
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds – The Washington Post
NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation | Comment is free | The Guardian
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention of Guardian Reporter Greenwald’s Partner – Washington Wire – WSJ
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Abolish The NSA And Give Snowden A Parade | Techdirt
Groklaw – Forced Exposure ~pj
Untitled: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html
Bastion | the Andrew Bailey
Humble Origin Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
SCAR by LukHash*
Younnat – Old Movies Not Terrible
*used with permission
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #126: CS #40 — What A Deal!
Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.
40 min
August 21, 2013Control Structure #40: Everyone Loves XML
Links
Do I Really Want All This Stuff? — Editor's Picks — Medium
Do I Really Want All This Stuff? | Hacker News
Jargon Generator
Inside Boy's Knee, Sea Snail Egg Grew And Hatched (VIDEO)
[Project Phoenix] Japan's indie RPG feat. AAA talent! by Creative Intelligence Arts, Inc. — Kickstarter
As the climate warms up, apple quality is going down | The Verge
After Fatal Crash With Cyclists, Driver's Tweets Help Spur Murder Charge : The Two-Way : NPR
Conservancy Helps Samsung Resolve GPL Compliance Matter Amicably - Software Freedom Conservancy
Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead – Quartz
Some SecureRandom Thoughts | Android Developers Blog
(UPDATED 21/08) Windows 8 Results (Temporarily) Not Accepted At HWBOT - Benchmark Result Veracity Compromised
XML Can Give the Same Performance as JSON
NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds - The Washington Post
NSA Spying: The Three Pillars of Government Trust Have Fallen | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Glenn Greenwald: detaining my partner was a failed attempt at intimidation | Comment is free | The Guardian
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention of Guardian Reporter Greenwald's Partner - Washington Wire - WSJ
Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Abolish The NSA And Give Snowden A Parade | Techdirt
Groklaw - Forced Exposure ~pj
Untitled: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/27/the-coming-war-on-general-purp.html
Bastion | the Andrew Bailey
Humble Origin Bundle (pay what you want and help charity)
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot - Releases - foot132
SCAR by LukHash*
Younnat - Old Movies Not Terrible
*used with permission
40 min
August 14, 2013Control Structure #39: Penniless Playing Pinball
Links
PAPA 16 World Pinball Championships
PAPAtvPinball
Designer Edge Image of the Day – Guns Fired Underwater > ENGINEERING.com
StarCraft Universe by Upheaval Arts — Kickstarter
[SDL] Announcing SDL 2.0.0
No Longer Buying Aircraft Carriers - DataChomp
Bash Shell Scripting - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
SATA 3.2 standard finalized, promises faster and smaller storage
Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you - Coding 2 Learn
Surfin' Safari - Blog Archive » Unusual speed boost: size matters
Down For Everyone Or Just Me -> Check if your website is down or up?
Down For Everyone Or Just Me -> Check if your website is down or up?
Identity at Mozilla
Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions
samsquire/ideas · GitHub
We Give a F*** How the Site Loads by #dt on deviantART
Mime Field by `Cannibal-Cartoonist on deviantART
ABE STANWAY: Zen and the Art of Writing Commit Log - YouTube
Commit Logs From Last Night
The president is wrong: The NSA debate wouldn’t have happened without Snowden
NSA “touches” more of Internet than Google | Ars Technica
Lawmakers tasked with overseeing NSA surveillance programs feel “inadequate” | Ars Technica
Obama’s “reform” panel to be led by Clapper, who denied spying to Congress | Ars Technica
Computers for Cynics 0 - The Myth of Technology - YouTube
The return of the Unix wars? [LWN.net]
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
The House Of Lockwood
Music
Bump Foot - Releases - foot132
Younnat - The Duct [foot035] : Oleg Serdyuk : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Jamendo - Windmills by Anitek
1 hr 3 min
August 07, 2013Control Structure #38: Three Times The Power
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
1 hr 2 min
July 31, 2013Control Structure #37: Pierogi Day
Links
Programmers Drinking Song

Forgotten Employee

America now has more solar energy workers than coal miners : TreeHugger

The 'Australia tax' is real, geo-blocking to stop | ZDNet

The System: Comics Will Be Published Until Morale Improves by Rosscott Nover — Kickstarter

Man gets ransomware porn pop-up, goes to cops, gets arrested on child porn charges | Ars Technica

Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video | Ars Technica

Report: OS overhead takes up 3.5GB of PS4’s 8GB of RAM | Ars Technica

Your Xbox One Games Can Be Suspended (Or Terminated)

AnandTech | ASUS PQ321Q UltraHD Monitor Review: Living with a 31.5-inch 4K Desktop Display

Pwned again: An exclusive look at Pwnie Express’ newest hack-in-a-box | Ars Technica

Do I look like I give a shit (public license) - Sam says you should read this

The Advent of Web 3D | The SaintThe Saint

Your app makes me fat — Serious Pony

Welcome » The Document Foundation

next generation video: Introducing Daala part 2

Sony Global - Sony Global - Sony and Panasonic sign basic agreement to jointly develop standard for professional-use next-generation optical discs

Memory Stick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords | Politics and Law - CNET News

Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys | Politics and Law - CNET News

Lauren Weinstein's Blog: As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption

How HTTPS Secures Connections: What Every Web Dev Should Know

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Wheaton's Law | Know Your Meme
Music
Bump Foot - Releases - foot132

Jamendo - Clock by Theta-Sound

instrumentals | tryad
56 min
July 24, 2013Control Structure #36: Quantum Fluctuations Somewhere
Links
10 Rules of Internet - Anil Dash

BBC News - First tests of '130mph' lawnmower

FOIA Machine by The Center for Investigative Reporting — Kickstarter

“Well, that was unexpected…”: The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator | We Saw a Chicken …

WineHQ - News

Linux vs. Windows - Twenty Sided

Has Ubuntu lost it? | News | TechRadar

Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.4 Specification - Khronos Group Press Release

The Evolution of Direct3D | The SaintThe Saint (the one you should read)

Old School Monday: The DirectX Files | Maximum PC

linux - Why do game developers prefer Windows? - Programmers Stack Exchange

How An Engineering Toy For Girls Went From Kickstarter To Bestseller – ReadWrite

Game Programmer Quits Job To Sell Street Food, Doubles Salary

Riding the New Silk Road - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

Victory Lap for Ask Patents - Joel on Software

Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll | Todd Moore

App Developers: Lodsys is Back. It's Time to Beat this Troll. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Yahoo! Mail is not catching up anymore. Your move GMail - BackwardCompatible.net

Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law | TorrentFreak

50 Things That Look Just Like Your Childhood

WebPagetest Test Result - Dulles : thenexus.tv/ - 07/18/13 07:26:37

WebPagetest - Test Log

Test your IPv6.

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Responsive Design Trick
Music
Bump Foot - Releases - foot132

Podcast Fantastic
1 hr
July 18, 2013Control Structure #35: Last of The Tater Tots
Andrew laments how the past week has sucked, then him and Chris ask themselves a few questions, drive the Desert Bus, then talk about RASPBERRY!, LOLAPPLE, Microsoft reorganizing, federal banning, VLC, gaming on Linux, Linux itself, user experience, more NSA stuff, how SQL treats nulls, trying out Opus, and listener feedback.

Links
Do You Fall into This Happiness Trap? The False Choice | LinkedIn
What IS Business Casual? | LinkedIn
Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game Ever Created : The New Yorker
The Escapist : Video Galleries : LoadingReadyRun : The Couch
Desert Bus for Hope :: Welcome to Desert Bus for Hope
Plug: the brain of your devices by The CGC team — Kickstarter
Raspberry Pi Microwave – Made by Nathan
Man views porn using Safari, files lawsuit against Apple | Ars Technica
OS X Malware Demands $300 FBI Fine for Viewing, Distributing Porn
Internet is for PORN!! – YouTube
One Microsoft: Company realigns to enable innovation at greater speed, efficiency
NeoCities can now handle two million web sites – NeoCities Blog
DEF CON® Hacking Conference – The Hacker Community’s Foremost Social Network.
LulzSec – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The hot new technology in Big Data is decades old: SQL | Ars Technica
SEC Approves JOBS Act Requirement to Lift General Solicitation Ban; Release No. 2013-124; July 10, 2013
The SEC Just voted to lift the ban on General Solicitation! | Crowd Investing | Wefunder Blog
Secunia Newsroom – IT Security Blog
Dota 2 for Linux
Linux Programmer job offering | Crytek Video Game Developer Company
“Linux for Workgroups”: Linux 3.11’s feature set now confirmed – The H Open: News and Features
Experience Rot
Enough with the JavaScript already!
Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’ as corporations cower — RT USA
Complaint | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case | Internet & Media – CNET News
BBC News – Fugitive Edward Snowden applies for asylum in Russia
The Terminal – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5 things you didn’t know about … multithreaded Java programming
Opus Codec
Opus (audio format) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Skype and a New Audio Codec – – Skype Blogs
Ventrilo – Surround Sound Voice Communication Software
Comcast expands IPv6 trial
5 Usability Mistakes You Shouldn’t Make
Black Mesa | the Andrew Bailey
Blocking Image Hotlinking, Leeching and Evil Sploggers with IIS Url Rewrite – Scott Hanselman
When In Doubt, Whip It Out | The Nexus
EB #20 — You Have Been Shanghaied | The Nexus
She’s Gonna Kill Me | The Nexus
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
SQL Server Question
ID
Middle_name
1
A
2
C
3
NULL
Select * from Employee where Middle_name not in ('A','B')
Select * from Employee where Middle_name != 'A' and Middle_name != 'B'
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Jamendo – Fresh Start by Anitek
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #114: CS #35 — We Used a BigInt!!
Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.
1 hr 16 min
July 17, 2013Control Structure #35: Last of The Tater Tots
Links
Do You Fall into This Happiness Trap? The False Choice | LinkedIn

What IS Business Casual? | LinkedIn

Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game Ever Created : The New Yorker

The Escapist : Video Galleries : LoadingReadyRun : The Couch

Desert Bus for Hope :: Welcome to Desert Bus for Hope

Plug: the brain of your devices by The CGC team — Kickstarter

Raspberry Pi Microwave - Made by Nathan

Man views porn using Safari, files lawsuit against Apple | Ars Technica

OS X Malware Demands $300 FBI Fine for Viewing, Distributing Porn

Internet is for PORN!! - YouTube

One Microsoft: Company realigns to enable innovation at greater speed, efficiency

NeoCities can now handle two million web sites - NeoCities Blog

DEF CON® Hacking Conference - The Hacker Community's Foremost Social Network.

LulzSec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The hot new technology in Big Data is decades old: SQL | Ars Technica

SEC Approves JOBS Act Requirement to Lift General Solicitation Ban; Release No. 2013-124; July 10, 2013

The SEC Just voted to lift the ban on General Solicitation! | Crowd Investing | Wefunder Blog

Secunia Newsroom - IT Security Blog

Dota 2 for Linux

Linux Programmer job offering | Crytek Video Game Developer Company

"Linux for Workgroups": Linux 3.11's feature set now confirmed - The H Open: News and Features

Experience Rot

Enough with the JavaScript already!

Small Utah ISP firm stands up to ‘surveillance state’ as corporations cower — RT USA

Complaint | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case | Internet & Media - CNET News

BBC News - Fugitive Edward Snowden applies for asylum in Russia

The Terminal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

5 things you didn't know about ... multithreaded Java programming

Opus Codec

Opus (audio format) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Skype and a New Audio Codec – - Skype Blogs

Ventrilo - Surround Sound Voice Communication Software

Comcast expands IPv6 trial

5 Usability Mistakes You Shouldn't Make

Black Mesa | the Andrew Bailey

Blocking Image Hotlinking, Leeching and Evil Sploggers with IIS Url Rewrite - Scott Hanselman

When In Doubt, Whip It Out | The Nexus

EB #20 — You Have Been Shanghaied | The Nexus

She’s Gonna Kill Me | The Nexus

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
SQL Server Question
ID
Middle_name
1
A
2
C
3
NULL
Select * from Employee where Middle_name not in ('A','B')
Select * from Employee where Middle_name != 'A' and Middle_name != 'B'
Music
Bump Foot - Releases - foot132

Jamendo - Fresh Start by Anitek
1 hr 16 min

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