Programming Throwdown, episode number four, Matlab and Octave. Take it away, Jason. Man, episode number four,

it's pretty epic. It's a milestone for, yeah. Yeah, it's eight weeks. Yeah, there we go,

eight weeks. We have, pretty soon we'll be at 140. Yeah, that's right. We have, what is it,

like over 150 downloads, So quite a few of you

have been listening and so we appreciate that. Yeah, got a number of reviews on iTunes,

five stars. Thank you all for doing that. Yeah, that's good times, good times. So I think

there was something in the news about like Amazon with their like EC2, their cloud server went down. Did you see that one?

Yeah, it was all over the news all day. Saw a bunch of that. Their web services went down. I guess it was all of them. Their S3, EC2, all of them.

Oh, really? I thought it was just EC2. Maybe.

Okay, I'm not really sure about that.

But yeah, I saw that the Amazon's stuff went down and that it's interesting how many popular

websites now are actually running on top of Amazon's web service.

I guess that's a praise of how good it really is, but things like Cora, which is a question and answers, site was down.

I know Heroku, which is a, was bought, who is a bobby?

Oh, well, it's a company that's a platform as a service, and they host like Ruby apps

and stuff.

And I know they were down.

I think Dropbox was even having problems. Yep. Pretty much, you know, a large portion of the popular websites we go to and use every day, use Amazon Web Services as a backing because they've done such a good job making it so cheap and reliable. And then it goes down and then it's like, uh-oh, the world comes to a halt yeah i mean this is similar to uh what was

that one company started with an e that they did uh email surveys and they got hacked and as a result

your email and your name got leaked out oh yeah a couple weeks ago i yeah i got an email from trip

advisor saying that my email got leaked out.

And then I got one from the university that I was a student at.

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