Apple’s Ripples is seriously the best background ever. Mac users have it built in, here are iOS versions. This is Apple’s image, not mine.
CS Education
“We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language by no longer calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much more honest because it squarely puts the blame where it belongs, viz. with the programmer who made the error. The animistic metaphor of the bug that maliciously sneaked in while the programmer was not looking is intellectually dishonest as it disguises that the error is the programmer’s own creation. The nice thing of this simple change of vocabulary is that it has such a profound effect: while, before, a program with only one bug used to be “almost correct”, afterwards a program with an error is just “wrong” (because in error).”
Source: http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
Via Hacker News
Great idea; all this time I didn’t quite see how programming related to math aside from logic and number systems, this clears up lots of confusion.
Apps & Facebook, Facebook & Apps
I’m surprised critics of the App Store haven’t dramatically compared it to facebook’s closed app system. They’re very similar. Both have tightly controlled experiences, yadda yadda yadda and so on.
Download to Universal App
I had Twitter for iPhone installed on my iPad, then the update came out making it Twitter for iPhone and iPad as a universal app.
Updating from the app store on device smoothly upgraded it to the iPad version.
Nice Apple, and Twitter.
(Update: using springboard’s search still shows the old icon, a minor error)
Docs
iPad is a great way to view your reference documentation.
iPad
I just got an iPad. It’s great.
Typing is swell, if only I could write code on it.
So far I haven’t used it for development, but that will change.
But for now I’m searching for the best RSS reader. :)
