July 2010
15 posts
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Using categories with core data - Use Your Loaf →
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...
Dev-Team Blog: Getting out of jail is free! →
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.
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Migrating to Simplicity and Quality
There are times when we were young, inspired by various information, training, and maybe “indoctrination”. All of these were thrown at us because we were empty-headed.
We did our best (or worst) to promote who we are in the most expressive way. Because that’s how we are trained to get ahead. This is especially true in the world full of social competition and reputation.
As we...
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“Exploration of my ancestors, leads nowhere” Einstein told Hans Muehsam late in life (Mar. 4, 1953).
“I think we can dispense with this question of heritage”, quoted by Carl Seelig (his biographer).
Don’t you love it if some well-known public figure who had contributed something to humanity, agreed with your point of view?
There’s a difference between reading the...
Is computer science a dead end in the workforce? →
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?
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SweetMacTips: SweetAppSunday - Adium →
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...
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The Willpower Paradox →
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...
Fake →
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
“Our evolutionary history has given us a brain that is focused much of the time...”
– Futurity.org – Food fight: brain vs. gut (via wildcat2030)
This is true.
“ “Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any...”
– Elizer S. Yudkowsky, Staring Into The Singularity, 1996, cited in Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near, Penguin Books Ltd, London, England, 2005, p. 35 (via amiquote) (via wildcat2030)
fuckyeahnoamchomsky:
kenspeckle:
Advertising and PR arose to “control attitudes and opinions” since it was no longer possible to control by force. —Noam Chomsky
rentzsch.tumblr.com: App^H^H^H Webapp Store →
Listening to episode 2 of the JSConf Live podcast, around 19 minutes in interviewee Brian LeRoux brings up oneAPI (lightly edited, emphasis mine): … In case it’s not apparent, Brian is talking about web apps that allow payment via your Carrier. That is, website charges that land directly…
Whatever the carrier and web app store do, if they don’t give a great user experience,...
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About eBooks
Printed books somehow looks classy, intelligent, and sophisticated, but I don’t think printed book is a format that most people prefer to choose. It’s easily damaged, thick, heavy, and you can’t read it in a relaxed way such as using a tablet. We definitely need ebooks if we want to make a “progress” in our civilization.
eBooks, similar to various purchasable digital content always have their...
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Re: Overclocking SSL
rentzsch:
Adam Langley:
In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. Previously it had been introduced as an option, but now all of our users use HTTPS to secure their email between their browsers and Google, all the time. In order to do this we had to deploy no additional machines and no special hardware. On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS...
June 2010
19 posts
“In the interest of journalistic integrity, I went on Chatroulette this morning...”
– R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010 - Internet Culture - Salon.com (via apretz) I guess you will only find time waster in there, hoping to find nude girls on webcam.
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– Nick Paumgarten: Up and Then Down. (Told you so, everyone who has tried to convince me that our elevators’ door-close buttons did anything.) (via marco)
I never thought of that, because I never tested it. If it really doesn’t work, then I really admire human’s nature to invent things...
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SIP2SIP - free SIP account for Voice, Video, IM... →
While I was feeling frustrated with my phone number, I found a free SIP account provider which will probably have a good future.
If you’re looking for a free SIP account that you could use in any kind of SIP client. I just found this today. Take a look at the guys behind this project: AG Projects. The SIP server is powered by OpenSIPS — one of the most popular open source SIP server.
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“More specifically, the principle of computational equivalence says that systems...”
– Rowland, Todd and Weisstein, Eric W. “Principle of Computational Equivalence.” From MathWorld—A Wolfram Web Resource.
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“Thus, The Matrix can be seen as an attack on what Nietzsche calls herd...”
– The Philosophy of the Matrix
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“Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his...”
– Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he’s from the future
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Chaos and Art - Chaos Theory →
As someone who studied control systems for my undergraduate degree, I could relate to this.
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The Rosenhan Study: On Being Sane in Insane Places →
Every time someone gave birth to a human being in a society, there’s always a potential for insanity at some point in the life of this human being.
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About GPL
Just a thought, don’t get angry.
I tend to think that GPL is actually fighting for developers’ freedom. Not the real users. Am I right?
What is the real software freedom that a non-technical “user” actually need? To get it for free? or to have the source code to be modifiable for his/her own needs?
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Bridges: A cultural understanding of depression →
Although it maybe supported by fact, I disagree with the idea that individualism is the cause for depression.
What it means to be independent is to have a certain degree of freedom to determine one’s own purpose and destiny. There are many cases where people from Asian countries migrated to a society which values individualism. This is mostly caused by the tendency to explore, to find a...
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Nine Things Developers Want More Than Money →
Something is missing here:
We’re not that “crazy” in order to do anything in the name of “software” or “technology”. We need the flexibility to grow ourselves.
For example, we would be motivated if we could also compete with the established software business by working on our stuff. This is something that’s very hard to achieve, and it would be...
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About "Ask Me" feature
We can’t create a lengthy question on formspring.me because of the character limits on the ask form. We could resize the default form size, but it’s not supported by the character limits.
For now, I prefer the tumblr ask because it doesn’t have a character limit. Although, it would be great if it also supports customization of the default size of the form.
Besides, I would...
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i have xcodeproj that have buttouns, each do...
Correcting the way you describe the operation, you can’t create a button action that will open an Xcode project. Unless you’re building a “Mac” app to communicate with Xcode.
In the case of communication between iPhone apps, you have to register a custom URL scheme in the app that you would like to communicate with. Then, you have to open the custom URL scheme from the...
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But what have you shipped?
That’s right.
nikf:
Yes, I know you’re a master of the web, that you’ve visited every website written in English, that you’ve been going to SXSW for ten years, that you were one of the first bloggers, you used Foursquare before it was cool and you can code in HTML in your sleep. Yes, I know that you sit in the back of the room tweeting clever ripostes when speakers are up front...
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May 2010
41 posts
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There is no purpose
I read this article published by Scientific American.
This is my conclusion:
Patterns in life do not emerge out of coincidence but they emerge out of repeatability. No events in life are truly random, according to mathematicians. Although, I do not know to what degree that this “nothing is truly random” characteristic applies to.
In the case of winning a lottery:
When we won a...
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“The great mathematicians feel mathematics in a way the rest of us do not. And...”
– The Art of Mathematics, Jerry P. King (via memoize)
saratron: one of these days i’ll be good, but never one of the greats : (
(via saratron) - pattern recognition, not for the mere mortals.
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“This stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t…...”
– Steve Jobs: The guru behind Apple - Science, News - The Independent
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Discover New Revenue Opportunities with the App... →
I knew about this for a long time before it appears on the iPhone Developer News RSS feed. I declined to register because it seems the program is only available for those in the US, Canada, New Zealand, and I don’t know where else.
Now, I am registered and approved as a LinkShare partner to use their affiliate network for iTunes links.
If you’re interested in new revenue...
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The state of my Jailbroken iPhone
When the iPhone was just out around 2008, I was excited about iPhone jailbreaking due to my enthusiasm to hack and my familiarity with *nix based OS. Right now, I feel less and less motivated to use jailbroken iPhone OS features. Although there are cases where I need it:
Using an unofficial 3G network.
When I really have free time to experiment on a modified iPhone OS.
The user experience...
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A new theme
I changed my theme again into Apple Like.
The /mobile link won’t be necessary anymore since there’s a mobile-formatted page by default. The /random link is also unnecessary because there’s a feature to search through all of the posts.
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“Finally, data from studies of head and brain size phenotypes indicate that...”
– Comparative genomics of autism and schizophrenia — PNAS
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“So yes, there is pain in seeing the truth about Heaven – but there is also a...”
– The concept of heaven is a way to ignore real world problems
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_meta: A thought on the Weak and the Strong →
Don’t fear the strong. Those genuinely strong have no reason to hurt you, for their strength is hard earned - through honesty, hard work, and playing by the rules. They’ll always be willing to help, for help is usually a great investment. The strong will walk away from an insult, for their ego is…
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Alex Payne — Something New →
marco:
Starting today, I’m joining BankSimple as a co-founder, with the role of Chief Product & Technology Officer. In a nutshell, I’m going to make sure we build something that’s simple, beautiful, and works really really well.
Banking today is one of those unfortunate industries in which nearly every choice is bad. Most people choose between a handful of giant companies that are...
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Emptiness
A state where we lose interest in following the routines and demands in life.
Find the most challenging and difficult problems in our life that seem to be interesting for us and within our reach. Then, we won’t feel empty anymore.
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Curiosity
When we gave instructions instead of questions, we had successfully killed curiosity. Thus, we had killed the growth of human beings.
Religion vs Philosophy
What religion had given us is the old style of education to satisfy the teacher, leaders, or an unknown figure. Most religion will always conflicted with logic and reasoning. Thus, religion shouldn’t be treated as a source of...
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