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Programming Throwdown

LaTeX

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2012

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This show covers LaTeX, a digital typesetting language. Tools of the show: Cocos2d-X and Snapseed. Books of the show: Algorithms in C++ http://tinyurl.com/agbc8t7 and Head First Design Patterns http://tinyurl.com/ayxb7q6.

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0:15.6

Programming Throwdown, episode 22, LaTech.

0:19.4

Take it away, Patrick.

0:20.8

All right. So so thank you for the

0:23.0

introduction Jason yes you got the smooth radio voice going yeah I want to you

0:27.1

know keep myself all rounded so I figured you know so I'll do some you do some

0:31.6

yeah yeah you guys you guys missed the other three takes where Patrick did

0:37.2

I just started screaming.

0:38.7

No, you were crying because it was so beautiful. Oh, yeah, that too. Yeah.

0:43.1

All right. Anyways, so I'm behind the times, but I finally decided to upgrade my computer to a new version of Ubuntu.

0:51.3

So I actually went to the long-term support one or whatever because I figure I

0:54.6

don't really like this. I hate this. So I'm just going to the LDS one. So I went to precise

0:59.4

penguin. Yeah. Percise penguin. Bad idea. Yeah. So do not like, do not like, wish I could

1:08.1

just uninstall. So on my home computer, I've been on precise pingle and for, well, I was on precise

1:13.5

pin go, I'm on 12.10 now. And that, there's a whole slew of issues there, but, uh, but yeah, you know, when I switched to unity, I didn't, didn't mind it too much, you know? So I think this is the issue, right? So Unity, this is the new, like, I guess, UI kind of name thing and widgets.

1:11.2

So it's replacing Gnome.

1:13.0

Okay.

1:13.7

All right. So no is what we had before. And yeah, now we have Unity. I wish we didn't. So the whole left bar thing. I don't like. You want to be united? No, I felt like they're just trying to be different just to do something different, right? Like, maybe I'm sure, like, I don't get into the whole, like, I'm not really involved in the community very much.

1:47.8

I don't really know the backstory, so I'm probably offending a million people here. Yeah, everyone's so funny. That's okay. Yeah, I don't like it. Personally, my personal preference is I hate it. So like I want my thing at the bottom back or at the top where I can click on each

2:01.4

instance of like if I have you know five five Chrome windows open or five you know command

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