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Programming

Has Apple Made Programmers Cool? 378

Posted by samzenpus from the for-some-definition-of-cool dept.
An anonymous reader writes "CNET suggests that Apple has totally changed the general public's perception of programmers: It's now suddenly cool to code. No matter what platform you're on. They argue that App Store millionaire success stories have 'turned a whole generation of geek coders from social misfits into superheroes.' Apparently, gone are the days when a programmer was the last person you wanted to talk to at a party: 'Mention to someone that you make apps and their interest will pick up instantly. This is an astonishing change from what a programmer in the '80s could have expected in reaction to their job description.' The App Store millionaires, or 'Appillionaires,' may have done all of us programmers a huge favor. Programming is now socially acceptable: 'Previous generations strapped on electric guitars and fought for super-stardom in sweaty dive bars, but today's youth boot up Xcode on their MacBook Pros.'"
The Media

Google's New Meta-Tags For News Story Authors 71

Posted by timothy from the tree-of-attribution dept.
EreIamJH writes "Google News is experimenting with meta-tags in an effort to ensure that the correct news source is credited with an article. The original-source meta-tag will identify the newspaper that breaks a story, while syndication-source is for everyone who repeats the story. Both meta-tags can appear multiple times — for instance an article that sources information from other articles would include an original-source tag for each article used in preparing the new article. While the intention is worthy, I look forward to lots of snarky blogger fights as journalists vent their hurt feelings for having been omitted as an original source."

Comment Re:the cult of the iq test (Score 1) 553

by winterchapo (#32838634) Attached to: Chinese Company Seeks US Workers With 125 IQ
Awesome, next interview I have I'll let them know that I can't do shit, but I sure as hell can talk to people. You need both, intelligence and social skill (can we call it that, instead of social intelligence?) to be effective at work. How about HR depts. everywhere kindly get to work and find a hiring process that effectively take both into account.
Mars

Martian Gullies Explained By ... Sand 97

Posted by CmdrTaco from the well-thats-not-'as-much-fun dept.
eldavojohn writes "There's a lot of evidence that a very long time ago some fluid once flowed on Mars, but the primary evidence of water today — gullies inside craters — is explainable by a much less exotic reason: flowing dust and sand. It would now seem that the news from 2006 that NASA had found definitive evidence of flowing water on today's Mars needs to be comprehensively reexamined. The Bad Astronomer lays claim that flowing sand and dust doesn't explain all recent hi-res imagery from the red planet, but it certainly does seem more plausible, considering what we know about Mars."
Hardware

Moore's Law Will Die Without GPUs 250

Posted by CmdrTaco from the i've-heard-this-song-before dept.
Stoobalou writes "Nvidia's chief scientist, Bill Daly, has warned that the long-established Moore's Law is in danger of joining phlogiston theory on the list of superseded laws, unless the CPU business embraces parallel processing on a much broader scale."
Communications

BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla 253

Posted by CmdrTaco from the and-he-looks-like-david-bowie dept.
andylim writes "According to the Telegraph, the BlackBerry was first predicted more than a century ago, by Nikola Tesla, the electrical engineer. Seth Porges, Popular Mechanics' current technology editor, disclosed Tesla's prediction at a presentation, titled '108 Years of Futurism,' to industry figures recently in New York. Recombu.com has published the original Popular Mechanics article in which Tesla predicts a mobile phone revolution."

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