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Bad Voltage Season 1 Episode 10 ‘Midnight Throne Travels’

by | Thu 27 Feb 2014

Stuart Langridge, Jeremy Garcia, Bryan Lunduke, and myself discuss:

  • Tech conferences — which ones are good, which ones are not, and why?
  • Desktop machines versus laptops, and a review of Stuart’s new gorgeous desktop computer from PC Specialist
  • Whistleblowing. In the light of the Snowden and Manning revelations, is whistleblowing a good idea, what’s available to protect whistleblowers from problems, and do we need to protect against those motivated by malice?
  • Miguel de Icaza, head of Xamarin and past founder of the Gnome and Mono projects, talks about why he was singled out as a “traitor”, what he’s doing now, and how to best work in the open source world
  • The winners in the Bad Voltage Selfie Competition! See this forum post for more details and all the entrants
  • A Bad Voltage community update covering growth on our community forum, the formation of our gaming community, the IRC channel, the Bad Voltage app, Bad Voltage at SCALE12x, and interesting post-show discussions.

**Go and listen to or download the show [here](https://www.badvoltage.org/2014/02/27/1×10/)**.

Be sure to share your thoughts on the show, the topics in it, ideas for future topics, and just be a part of the awesome and growing community of voltheads at https://community.badvoltage.org/
Also, be sure to join in the [Bad Voltage Selfie Competition](https://community.badvoltage.org/t/the-bad-voltage-selfie-competition/134) to win some free O’Reilly books!

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