Control Structure

Listen as Chris becomes the cohost! Later, him and Andrew discuss decadent video games, taxes, fonts, Microsoft, programming languages, disappoint in the non-existence of glowing animals, and more.

Links:

• Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm’s opening cinematic released | News, Videos | PC Gamer
• The Elder Scrolls Online Alliance Cinematic Trailer – YouTube
• What If We ______ Like We Hire Programmers – What Questions Are Appropriate? | job tips for geeks
• High Scalability – High Scalability – What if Cars Were Rented Like We Hire Programmers?
• Magical Maths « How Japanese Kids Learn To Multiply – Amazing, No Need to Learn Japanese
• Ahmed Al-Khabaz expelled from Dawson College after finding security flaw | Canada | News | National Post
• Nokia: Yes, we decrypt your HTTPS data, but don’t worry about it — Tech News and Analysis
• Make Patent Trolls Pay All Costs Associated With Their Frivolous Lawsuits If They Lose | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
• AFP: Orange ‘forces Google’ to pay for mobile traffic
• France considers tax on data collection in broader effort to capture revenue from web giants | The Verge
• Shedding some realistic light on Imagination’s real-time ray tracing card | Ars Technica
• Wikimedia sites to move to primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia — Wikimedia blog
• Ironic Sans: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz
• Embedded in Academia : C and C++ Aren’t Future Proof
• Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter | Wired Business | Wired.com
• Slant (Python as first programming language)
• No Water, No Moon – 21 Insightful (and often hilarious) Lessons from CEO of Evernote
• The Next Microsoft — Minimally Minimal
• MSFT — Minimally Minimal
• World Exclusive: Durango unveiled – VG Leaks
• NES – notenoughshaders.com – The Rise of Costs, the Fall of Gaming
• Microsoft May Invest $1-$3 Billion in Dell Buyout
• Gym’s smart floor uses LED lights for changeable boundary lines | Digital Trends
• Solar Roadways: The Prototype – YouTube
• Wildlife in Chernobyl: Debate over mutations and populations of plants and animals in the radioactive fallout exclusion zone. – Slate Magazine
• Waterfox – The fastest 64-bit variant of Firefox on the web

Music:

• Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
• Anitek – Chess
• Anitek – Lamb of Who?

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #37: CS #10 — Sunday Morning Cartoon Villian!

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