Our cat Sammy is allegedly a legendary ledge lounger.
One response to this [software tar-pit] crisis was structured programming, a reform movement whose manifesto was Edsger W. Dijkstra’s brief letter to the editor titled “Go to statement considered harmful.” Structured programs were to be built out of subunits that have a single entrance point and a single exit (eschewing the goto command,which allows jumps into or out of the middle of a routine). Three such constructs were recommended: sequencing (do A, then B, then C), alternation (either do A or do B) and iteration (repeat A until some condition is satisfied). Corrado Böhm and Giuseppe Jacopini proved that these three idioms are sufficient to express essentially all programs.
The realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs.
Google Suggest getting ads? #SEO Maybe, or maybe just enhanced lists. Either way, Google Suggest just got a whole lot more interesting.
Oh, Reeder, you just blew it. There’s no reason I should have to be online to mark something for Instapaper. I’m on the subway, and that sorta defeats the purpose, now doesn’t it? Big point for Byline. Now if I could just get them to add “swipe to mark read” in headline mode, and add different sorting, it’d be ideal.
RP: Go has the feel of a dynamic language like Python or Ruby or JavaScript, but it has the performance and safety of a language like Java or C or C++. So you get the lightweight feel of a modern scripting dynamic language but the robustness and performance of a more old-fashioned language.
Yahoo vs. MSN vs. Facebook vs. Baidu. Now looks like a good time for another one of these Google Trends for Websites graphics. Where’s Google in all of this? You can’t include Google in Google Trends for Websites. Ha ha ha!
Look at the beautiful typography in Articles Wikipedia app on #iPhone4. #Kindle get your act together! Justified type is so much less readable than ragged right.
966 ratings, 4&1/2 stars. Gotta try Reeder even though I’m happy with Byline. #rss I will report back. This is a Google Reader syncing RSS reader. I’ve used NewsRack, NetNewsWire and MobileRSS extensively, and tried many more.
Here’s the top 6 things I learned about myself installing my #iPhone4 apps. I’m not restoring from backup. Instead, I’m re-evaluating my app choices, re-downloading without referring to my prior phone. If it’s not top of mind, I figure it’s bloat, and may not make the transition. I figured I’d fill one screen, and they’d be my key apps. Here’s the results, and what I learned.
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I’m a news junkie, and I need my fix offline because I’m a subway rider. (Byline, Instapaper)
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I like easy-publish tools. Likewise, I need it offline, so the queued up publishing, tweeting, etc can happen when emerging from the subway (Tumblr, Birdhouse)
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I still like reading long-form books, and iBooks was too late. (Kindle, Stanza)
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Keeping notes and writing is huge. I love pictures as the visual icons on notes (Iconic Notes) and any long-form writing tool needs Google Docs synchronization (iNotes).
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The iPhone is a great tool for remote server admin in a pinch, be it SSH, VNC or RDP. I got these tools as novelties, and find myself actually using them more and more. (iSSH, WinAdmin)
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And occasionally real-life intrudes on my iPhone bliss (iTrans, Zipcar, Chase)
