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I think this is a simpler and quicker approach for adding customizations of a generated NSManagedObject subclass without resorting to use mogenerator.

I’m not sure if there are lots of special cases where mogenerator is better. Mogenerator is basically subclassing the generated NSManagedObject subclass. So, I think we could also do that by subclassing. That’s if we really need a full subclass, not just a category.

Fantastic news today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). After a lot of hard work and mountains of paperwork, jailbreaking your iPhone is now explicitly a permitted fair use under the DMCA!

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The EFF also successfully renewed the existing DMCA exception for carrier…

This is what I call fairness.

fuckyeahcomputerscience:

thedailyfallout:

An argument that the days in which computer science majors from non-elite universities had great job prospects is ending, due to worker training programs and the unconcern of most employers with academic credentials.

Stereotyping again, aren’t we?

Some people are looking into Skype integration for Adium. The current solution with a Skype plugin is not satisfactory — running a Skype client — due to the decentralized nature of Skype.

Another thing to be considered is SkypeKit in Pidgin. Even in this case, it’s still not an ideal solution. I still prefer not to maintain an account just for Skype (because everyone is using it), and another for XMPP and Gmail, or SIP.

So my ideal suggestion is Adium as a popular and user-friendly app for these internet standards: XMPP and SIP. Skype should just be a secondary priority.

Twitter client? The preferable Twitter use case for Adium is for DM, conversation, or maybe “breaking news”, if that’s possible via Twitter system. This is where superfeedr could play a part.

The whole timeline updates, and various things that we use on Twitter are better to be done on Twitter clients. This is because Twitter clients are not designed as an app running in the background, notifying us of important messages, or for real-time conversation.

Have you been looking for a chat client that can work on all of your various chat services, all at once? Look no further. Adium is what you should be using. It’s easily the best chat client on OS X.

Adium has been around since the very first version of OS X and has only gotten better with…

These findings are counterintuitive. Think about it. Why would asserting one’s intentions undermine rather than advance a stated goal? Perhaps, Senay hypothesized, it is because questions by their nature speak to possibility and freedom of choice. Meditating on them might enhance feelings of autonomy and intrinsic motivation, creating a mind-set that promotes success.

It reminds of how most schools give up by offering an absolute answer to everything. This is done to attain a school reputation or goal, instead of fostering the growth of questioning everything — which is the essence of learning and discovery.

But, this experiment may not be entirely true. Determination may come without the process of “Would I do this?”. Soldiers or mercenaries are the examples for this. Although it will be true in the case of “being a hero”.

alexislloyd:

Compelling article from Scientific American arguing that willpower doesn’t work as well as we collectively seem to think it does. 

[One group] was basically putting their minds into wondering mode, while the [second group] was asserting themselves and their will. It is the difference between “Will I do this?” and “I will do this.”

The results were provocative. People with wondering minds completed significantly more anagrams than did those with willful minds. In other words, the people who kept their minds open were more goal-directed and more motivated than those who declared their objective to themselves.

onethingwell:

Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction.

Via Daring Fireball