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Programming Throwdown, episode 21.

Mailbag?

So, this is a pretty exciting episode mailbag episode uh one quick thing before

we get started if um if this is your first time uh this is your first episode that you've listened to

listen to a different episode so basically this is uh you know we've accumulated a lot of questions

throughout the other episodes and um so this is our chance, we've accumulated a lot of questions throughout the other episodes.

And so this is our chance to sort of answer a lot of those questions and sort of engage in a dialogue about that.

But, you know, this is deviating highly from the original format of the show.

And so if you kind of want to get an essence of, if you want to learn a programming language or get essence of the show, watch the one for. Okay. With that said, well, maybe actually the guests will be funnier than us, so then it'll make this episode better than the other episodes. Oh, that's true. If you didn't like the last episode, watch this one. Okay. And if anybody who ends up on this episode is better than us, we're going to kick you off and make you start your own podcast.

Yeah, so basically. Take it away with the news.

New. We have a personal story. We have a personal story. So, you know, they're having the hurricane. Hurricane scene. Actually, they had the hurricane. And, you know, as Floridians, we've been through plenty of

hurricanes ourselves. And one thing that I always wondered was, why don't they set up, like, why don't

they have a mode in your cell phone where you can do like some kind of ad hoc? So, for example,

let's say the cell phone towers go down, right? Like a mesh, a cell phone mesh network?

Yeah, like a cell phone peer-to-peer network where you could call people and as long as one person in the network had access to the tower,

then you'd be able to get your call through.

And so it turns out they have something like this, but for like policy reasons, it's not completely implemented.

So in some phones, like in some circumstances, you can actually call 911 and it will route you through other phones, which is pretty incredible.

And it's something that's not on by default.

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