LTG Episode 27: Escape

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Video

Sorry no video this week, Technical troubles ie. Tim forgot to press record.

Random

• 27 is a zero-indexed self-locating string in π

In this show

• Stewart Allen
• Tim Haak
• Barry Reid
• Jeff Hinds

Guests

• Carl Sandrock

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• @letstalkgeek
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Events

• 20 November 2010 Africa's First SWARM Party http://www.meetup.com/onematchstick/calendar/14868708/?a=socialmedia
  • http://onematchstick.blogspot.com/
• 20 October 2010 My Broadband conference (we'll be there)
• 6 November 2010 Tshwane Mediaeval Fayre 2010 http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=237362077613

Topics

• Google test autonomous cars
  • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/what-were-driving-at.html
  • http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/09/2140245/Google-Secretly-Tests-Autonomous-Cars-In-Traffic
  • Got to talk about optimal driving strategies - Carl has done actual research on this.
    • http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html

• Beer
  • You've got to start with howtobrew
    • http://www.howtobrew.com/
  • There are beer podcasts
    • http://www.thebrewingnetwork.com/
  • There may be a homebrewing club near you
    • http://www.worthogbrewers.co.za/
  • Support local microbreweries like Drayman's
    • http://www.draymans.com/
  • Why do South Africans (and most of the world) associate beer with lager, when there are so many different styles?
    • http://www.bjcp.org/stylecenter.php

• Skype for android
  • http://blog.who-els.co.za/2010/10/skype-for-android-phones.html

• Finally xbox live for SA, launches 10 Nov.
  • http://www.xbox.com/En-za/live/faq.htm
  • http://mybroadband.co.za/news/gaming/15784-Xbox-LIVE-service-pros-and-cons.html

• Pareto optimality of programming languages
  • http://youinfinitesnake.blogspot.com/2010/09/programming-language-wars-movie.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
  • This idea should be coming soon to a database engine near you in the form of the SKYLINE operator - postgresql, mysql
    • http://www.dbis.ethz.ch/research/publications/38.pdf
    • postgresql - http://skyline.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/
    • mysql - http://code.google.com/p/skyline-operator-in-mysql/
  • Are all successful products today Pareto optimal?
  • The blub paradox
    • http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

• Mystery of dying bees solved
  • http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/08/1950242/Mystery-of-the-Dying-Bees-Solved

• Spaceship Two glide tests
  • http://www.physorg.com/news205989966.html

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