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  • 63: Making Up Lines Then Reading Between Them
    In this final episode John talks about the making of Pragmatic, highlights, lowlights, criticisms and advice on whether you should have listened to it or any podcasts at all. Then Vic grills John for information.
    With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

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      • Previous Related Episodes:

      • Pragmatic Episode 10: Passion Over Academic Proof
      • Pragmatic Episode 10a: Passion Over Academic Proof Follow-up 1
      • Pragmatic Episode 59: Roll With The Seasons

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        • Pragmatic Season 2

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          • Downcast

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            • Pragmatic Definition
            • List of Countries by Life Expectancy
            • Check Out How Much The Average American Works Each Year
            • ABC Sleep Survey Results
            • Narcissism
            • Patreon
            • Electrons And Holes
            • B&D Doors Sectional Door
            • Garage Door
            • Engineering Flowchart

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              3 hr 11 min
            • 62: Send It Into The Void Baby
              John tackles how the internet works - the most requested topic as voted by Pragmatic listeners in this, the penultimate episode of the show.
              With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

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                • Previous Related Episodes:

                • Pragmatic Episode 16: One Mans Hopes And Dreams Of An RF Bubble
                • Pragmatic Episode 27: Military Software
                • Pragmatic Episode 55: Cautiously Concerned

                  • Historical Overviews:

                  • History of the Internet
                  • A Brief History of the Internet

                    • Token Rings:

                    • Token Rings
                    • How Token Ring Works

                      • OSI and TCP/IP Stacks:

                      • TCP/IP Protocol Fundamentals
                      • OSI model

                        • The Physical Layer:

                        • Ethernet Physical Layer
                        • Ethernet Over Twisted Pair
                        • Exponential Backoff
                        • Twisted Pair

                          • Addressing:

                          • MAC address
                          • What are MAC addresses and how are they used?
                          • Guidelines for Use Organizationally Unique Identifier and Company ID
                          • IEEE Registration Authority
                          • IPv6: An Unreachable Wall?
                          • How ARP Works
                          • Subnetwork

                            • Intranets and Firewalls:

                            • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
                            • Private Network
                            • Address Allocation for Private Internets
                            • Private network
                            • Network Address Translation
                            • I Have a Router, Do I Need a Firewall?
                            • About the OS X Application Firewall
                            • Firewalls

                              • Backbones and ISP Backhaul Costs:

                              • Nortel OC-192 10-GBIT/S Transport Platform
                              • Packet over SONET/SDH
                              • Synchronous Optical Networking
                              • Internet Transit Prices - Historical and Projections
                              • Internet Cost Structures and Interconnection Agreements

                                • Domains:

                                • Domain Name System
                                • Global DNS Propagation Checker
                                • List of DNS Record Types
                                • Country Code Top-level Domain
                                • Using the Google Public DNS

                                  • World Wide Web:

                                  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol
                                  • HTTP/2
                                  • Web Servers Popularity by Ranking

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                                    • Right-to-left
                                    • McMansion
                                    • Octet (computing)
                                    • Port (computer networking)

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                                      Shopi is a collaborative shopping list app that’s simple and easy to use with great features like pocket-lock, smart ordering and real-time collaborative updating. A shopping list is a special To Do list and Shopi addresses that use case very well. It’s ad-free for the first month so why not check it out.

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                                      2 hr 52 min
                                    • 61: You Never Really Owned It
                                      Seth Clifford returns to discuss DRM and the value of entertainment content. We also explore if DRM will someday end.
                                      With Seth Clifford and John Chidgey.

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                                        • Previous Related Episodes:

                                        • Anodised S02E06: Less Than Official Means
                                        • Pragmatic Episode 42: Hopefully They Don’t Burn It
                                        • Pragmatic Episode 42a: Hopefully They Don’t Burn It Follow-up 1
                                        • Pragmatic Episode 55: Cautiously Concerned

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                                          • Digital Rights Management

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                                            1 hr 25 min
                                          • 60: Or Was That Doctor Sbaitso
                                            With four episodes to go Vic chose a topic that was never on the list - the history of programming. We look at five key people in the evolution of programming.
                                            With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

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                                              • Punch-Cards:

                                              • Computer Programming In The Punched Card Era
                                              • Early Punched Card Equipment

                                                • Key People In Programming History:

                                                • NASA Engineers and Scientists
                                                • John von Neumann
                                                • Charles Babbage
                                                • Alan Turing
                                                • The Imitation Game: Inventing A New Slander To Insult Alan Turing
                                                • Margaret Hamilton

                                                  • Turing:

                                                  • Turing Completeness
                                                  • Turing Test
                                                  • Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
                                                  • Alan Turing: Inquest’s Suicide Verdict Not Supportable
                                                  • Alan Turing And The Development Of The Electronic Computer
                                                  • Turing Test

                                                    • Miscellaneous:

                                                    • Slide Rule
                                                    • Von Neumann Architecture
                                                    • Harvard Architecture
                                                    • Modified Harvard Architecture
                                                    • Jacquard Loom
                                                    • Computer History
                                                    • History Of Programming Languages
                                                    • One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
                                                    • Colossus Computer
                                                    • Mathematical Fractions
                                                    • Least Common Denominator
                                                    • Why Do We Say Lowest Common Denominator
                                                    • The Java Software Platform

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                                                      1 hr 38 min
                                                    • 59: Roll With The Seasons
                                                      Erik Hess of Technical Difficulties and Dawn Patrol joins me to talk about the things that motivate and demotivate us, and turning hobbies into jobs and then back into hobbies again.
                                                      With Erik Hess and John Chidgey.

                                                      Related Pragmatic Episodes:

                                                      • Pragmatic Episode 41: Meaningless Token Award

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                                                        • Generational
                                                        • Technical Difficulties
                                                        • Dawn Patrol

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                                                              1 hr 12 min
                                                            • 58: I Want My Hovercar
                                                              The next disruption in transportation is coming to a car near you soon. We walk through the history and evolution of personal transportation and look to the future.
                                                              With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

                                                              Related TechDistortion Articles:

                                                              • Setting The Bar High
                                                              • Working From Home is a Privilege

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                                                                • Asymcar
                                                                • Storming Mortal Ep17: Nutella and Voting in Australia with John Chidgey

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                                                                    • Trolleybus
                                                                    • Tram deaths
                                                                    • San Francisco cable car system
                                                                    • Flight plan
                                                                    • Head-up display
                                                                    • Autonomous car
                                                                    • Google driverless car
                                                                    • SA flags new road rules, as driverless cars head for Australia

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                                                                      1 hr 52 min
                                                                    • 57: Lap Band Bypass Gastric Sleeve
                                                                      My wife joins me as we discuss our recent experiences with being obese and undergoing weight-loss surgery. It's extreme but it works though it's not without serious risks.
                                                                      With Kirsten Chidgey and John Chidgey.

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                                                                      • How Did I Get Here?

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                                                                          • Sleeve gastrectomy
                                                                          • Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy is a Safe and Effective Bariatric Procedure for the Lower BMI Population
                                                                          • WHO | Obesity and Overweight
                                                                          • Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
                                                                          • The Science of Stapling and Leaks (PDF)

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                                                                            2 hr 10 min
                                                                          • 56: Lovely Platitudes Don't Help Me
                                                                            Brianna Wu is the CEO of GSX and is one of the women behind Revolution 60. Join us as we talk about gender imbalance in Engineering and Technology, and how we can help bring balance to the force.
                                                                            With Brianna Wu and John Chidgey.

                                                                            Briannas Other Podcasts:

                                                                            • “Isometric” (5by5.tv/isometric)
                                                                            • Rocket
                                                                            • Debug 44: Brianna Wu, Amanda Warner and Revolution 60

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                                                                                  • History of Feminism
                                                                                  • Women’s suffrage in the United States
                                                                                  • Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom
                                                                                  • Gender Equality Issues in Nursing Careers
                                                                                  • Gender Equality in a Female Dominated Work Field
                                                                                  • Gender pay gap in Australia
                                                                                  • Male/Female income disparity in the United States
                                                                                  • The Gamergate Controversy
                                                                                  • Sexual Harassment
                                                                                  • Brianna’s Wikipedia Page
                                                                                  • No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry

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                                                                                    1 hr 14 min
                                                                                  • 55: Cautiously Concerned
                                                                                    Privacy online is becoming a bigger issue with more servers hacked every week our personal data has never been at more risk. Seth Clifford joins me to talk strategies to reduce your exposure on the internet.
                                                                                    With Seth Clifford and John Chidgey.

                                                                                    You should also check out Seths new venture at Hey Derby and their iOS app Stringer.

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                                                                                        • Episode 42: Hopefully They Don’t Burn It
                                                                                        • Episode 42a: Hopefully They Don’t Burn It Follow-up 1

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                                                                                          • Privacy technology everyone can use would make us all more secure
                                                                                          • What Is SSL?
                                                                                          • EFF Warns of Untrustworthy SSL, Undetectable Surveillance
                                                                                          • 4 Simple Changes to Stop Online Tracking
                                                                                          • Safari Extensions - SSL Everywhere
                                                                                          • Disconnect.me
                                                                                          • How to Ditch Big Brother and Disappear Forever
                                                                                          • Verizon’s ‘Perma-Cookie’ Is a Privacy-Killing Machine
                                                                                          • Verizon Opt-out for Super Cookies
                                                                                          • Why passwords have never been weaker and crackers have never been stronger
                                                                                          • 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours | Ars Technica
                                                                                          • Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack
                                                                                          • Cloak VPN
                                                                                          • Virtual Private Network

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                                                                                            • Tax File Number
                                                                                            • Social Security Number
                                                                                            • Social Insurance Number
                                                                                            • PRISM

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                                                                                              1 hr 46 min
                                                                                            • 54: Stop Rubbing Your Reader Against My Butt
                                                                                              The Apple Watch promises to make Apple Pay even easier and safer than traditional credit card transactions. We look at the history of Credit Card data transactions and consider the practicalities. Of course.
                                                                                              With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

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                                                                                                  • Episode 1: Faraday’s Cage
                                                                                                  • Episode 44: Order A Steak and Get A Piece Of Rat
                                                                                                  • Episode 47: Interrogation Signal

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                                                                                                    • "…removed Google Analytics from my site…" Marco Arment
                                                                                                    • Which wrist to wear your watch on
                                                                                                    • Handedness
                                                                                                    • Right- and left-hand traffic
                                                                                                    • Hacker’s Demo Shows How Easily Credit Cards Can Be Read Through Clothes And Wallets
                                                                                                    • Shielded wallets not necessary
                                                                                                    • Credit card
                                                                                                    • World’s first magnetic strip credit card to go under the hammer
                                                                                                    • The Codabar Check
                                                                                                    • Tokenization

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                                                                                                      Visit lynda.com/pragmaticto learn more.Many Tricks:

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                                                                                                      Visit manytricks.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code (listen to the episode to get the code) for 25% off the total price of your order. Hurry it's only for a limited time!
                                                                                                      1 hr 9 min

                                                                                                    About Imperfect

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                                                                                                    Most people can look past the imperfections of everyday things in the world. For those that are unable to, this is for you.