Control Structure #119: Build Them and Bill Them

Control Structure

After a while of not podcasting, Andrew and Steve get back into action. They talk about building features, RASPBERRY!, Backblaze, AMD, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and the new Andrew Bailey.

Banter

• 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory – Hacker Noon
• Uploading to testpypi · Issue #153 · pypa/twine · GitHub

News

• Raspberry Pi 3 snags LTE support with help of new add-on chip | PCWorld
• 2016 Hard Drive Failure Rates for 2TB – 8TB Drives
• AMD Zen 8 Core SR7 Flagship To Sell For $499, Boost To 3.5Ghz & Outperform Intel’s $999 i7 5960X
• DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment | DeepMind
• DansDeals.com » Blog Archive » PSA: Don’t Mess With The Google!
• Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers | TechCrunch
• International Backup Awareness Day
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Google Cloud to join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group
• Microsoft Fortifies Commitment to Open Source, Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member | The Linux Foundation
• Open source has won, and Microsoft has surrendered | Computerworld
• Install SQL Server on Ubuntu – SQL Server vNext CTP1 | Microsoft Docs
• Untitled: http://www.streeturbotinsider.com/Corporate+News/Oracle+(ORCL)+Enters+Agreement+to+Acquire+DNS+Provider+Dyn/12270020.html

Feats

• Welcome to the New Andrew Bailey | the Andrew Bailey
• Object-Role Modeling download | SourceForge.net

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• A Cobblers Tee Thug | C418
• little things | C418
• Beyond Good and Evil | paniq

There is no episode of The Fringe for this episode. It was mostly Andrew and Steve watching YouTube videos and reading stories while eating burritos.

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