Archive 6. May 2010

Dow Falls in High-Speed Drop - WSJ.com - "Several market watchers said they heard a major firm may have accidentally released an errant program, where a trader accidentally placed an order to sell $16 billion, instead of $16 million, worth of e-minis, the futures contracts tied to equity indexes." - holy cow ...

What iPads Did To My Family - Chuck's Blog - doesn't really need much commentary. In the whole discussion about the iPad, many people forget that creative work with a computer doesn't necessarily mean programming. Whether we programmers like it or not, the devices that prevail are determined by the users - and we are only a small part of them. And the restrictions that Apple imposes on its iPhone and iPad devices primarily affect programmers and much less the users. Is that problematic? Maybe. However, I can't see the downfall of Western culture, which some people proclaim, in a device that makes computing more accessible.