The Insider News

Mashable[^]:

Twitter is great for real-time news and updates, but searching through your history for tweets on a specific topic — that's much less efficient, even with hashtags. With more than 450 million tweets created every day, finding one from, say, 2007 may be harder (and more painful) than finding a piece of hay in a stack of needles.

Gaslight[^]:

CoffeeScript has made the landscape of JavaScript development so much more interesting. There is no doubt that CoffeeScript has emerged. Rails and any other framework worth its salt ships with support for it.

Computerworld[^]:

It's hoping to dismiss the class-action suit over privacy

BBC[^]:

Apple has been a modern marvel. Starting with the revolutionary iPod, the company’s former chief executive officer Steve Jobs spearheaded an attack on the established order in consumer electronic devices. And this was an industry ripe for disruption. When the state of the art is the Sony Walkman, you know there’s real opportunity to change the game.

All Things D[^]:

Someone who says Apple has ripped him off by not giving him enough episodes of “Breaking Bad” has filed a putative class action suit against the company.

Darren Mart[^]:

Not long ago I received an E-mail from an energetic and talented developer who was tackling an ambitious software project. He asked if I had any advice to pass along.

ZDNet[^]:

Bruce Schneier thinks we (engineers) should re-engineer the Internet to make it harder for governments to conduct surveillance. This is just silly. If we aren't willing to re-engineer it to stop criminals we sure won't do so to stop governments.

The first piece of code acquired by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum – "Planetary", written in C++.
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Planetary is an iPad application written in C++ using the Cinder framework. Planetary offers an alternative music player application for the iPad that visualizes your music collection as a series of celestial bodies. Songs are moons, albums are planets, artists are suns—and the orbits of each are determined by the length of albums and tracks. Their brightness represents their frequency of playback.

CIO[^]:

Is your extensive IT experience and your age making it harder to find a new positions? Learn how to limit the effects of age discrimination and land that interview.

The Verge[^]:

A new poker machine has such smart artificial intelligence that players are hooked even though the house always wins.

Read Write[^]:

Microsoft's pivot to a devices and services company sounds cool, but what about enterprises who want no part of that vision?

jOOQ[^]:

jOOQ stands for Java Object Oriented Querying.

The Verge[^]:

Computer silicon can move electrons fast, but researchers want to make something even faster. A team at Oregon State University has been working for several years now on a new type of electronics that could transport electrons "almost instantaneously." They say that it could ultimately mean the creation of "extremely high-speed computers" along with improvements to cellphones, TVs, displays, and microelectronics at large.