The Insider News

Ars Technica[^]:

In a post-Snowden era, it's getting hard to tell prudence from paranoia.

Inside Intercom[^]:

Cards are fast becoming the best design pattern for mobile devices.

The Verge[^]:

Spiegel is reporting that it has seen "top secret NSA documents" that detail the NSA's ability to gather information from most smartphones, including iPhones, Android, and and BlackBerry phones.

Dr. Dobbs[^]:

Do programs exist in order to tell computers what to do, or do computers exist in order to execute programs?

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[^]:

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