Month: October 2011
GeekWire – Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated
Some really interesting stuff in here.
DARPA Shredder Challenge
Neat challenge, it would be cool to work on this problem but image analysis is so far out of my area of expertise.
BBC News – Blackberry PlayBook operating software update delayed
Who could have guessed that people would want native email, calendar and contacts apps?
Panic Blog – Panic State of the Union ’11
Coda is the app I probably spend the most time in outside of the browser, can’t wait for version 2.
The Speaker – Dustin Curtis
Dustin Curtis on what at first seems like a bad design decision by Apple until experiencing the "normal" design.
TechCrunch – Creator Of Lisp, John McCarthy, Dead At 84
Reminded of what I wrote not even two weeks ago after Dennis Ritchie died, of how the innovators of Computer Science were mostly still alive and it became a little less true.
Marco.org – What’s Next for Apple
Too true.
My Dinner With Android – Four months with Android: reflections, grievances and some tenuous metaphors bundled up into a weighty tome
That pretty much sums up every bit of experience of Android I’ve ever heard.
Tim Bray – Dennis Ritchie
One of the giants of Computer Science dies.
Seldo.Com Blog – PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
I use PHP for my day job every day and will probably still be using it years from now, but there are times I wish the language itself was more modern.