No One Even Missed Us?

Nov 20, 2015 · 1 hr 17 min · Episode 275 · 74.0 MB

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Jack Ganssle was in Australia and visited Dave's lab! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1apCAzCTZdQ
Dave has interviewed others in the past like DJ Delorie and Colin Mitchell of Talking Electronics
Chris interviewed Grant Imahara at the Superconference.
Mythbusters is ending but had a big influence.
Dave grew up watching the Curiosity show.
After creating the Superconference badge using the Truchet tiles, Chris better understood what Fabienne was talking about when she was on the shoe.
The badge modding was amazing:
- Best blinky
- Best dead bug
- Most over-the-top
TI is reducing their student sample program. Any student listeners out there should magically become "companies"!
Dave is considering incorporating in Wyoming, which is supposed to have a beneficial tax structure.
Dave is amazed by the finance magic that happened around the purchase and sale of Dick Smith.
ON semi is buying Fairchild Semi.
Bootstrapping a programming language requires starting from low level code.
There was a Quora article comparing D, Rust & Go.
What the heck is "D" as a programming language, anyway?
The Prometheus seems like a decent machine but "requires a 3rd party CAD/CAM tools"? It'd be ok if they mandated their partner site Upverter (former guests on episode 163), but a totally custom solution seems like a waste...