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May 08 2010
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“ An Authorized Developer will have demonstrated the ability to develop and program excellent software for Nintendo video game systems or for other game platforms. In addition, an Authorized Developer will have a stable business organization with secure office facilities separate from a personal residence ( Home offices do not meet this requirement )
— An excerpt from Nintendo’s developer application form. Good luck on that war with Apple and iPhone OS, Nintendo. via Craig Chockenberry (via chartier)
Apr 12 2010
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Installing 64-bit MySQL and Ruby gem on Mac OS X 10.6
- Download and install Mac OS X (x86_64) package, currently 5.1.45 from mysql.com
- Install MySQL.prefPane to start the server automatically.
- Download source.zip, currently 5.1.45 with MySQL sources.
- Copy the contents of “include” folder from sources to /usr/local/mysql/include.
- Install Rails gem:
env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64"; sudo gem install mysql -v=2.7 \ -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config \ --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql \ --with-opt-include=/usr/local/mysql/include
sudo gem install ruby-mysql
Mar 11 2010
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“ Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
— James Allen
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“ If money is your hope of independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and abililty.
— Henry Ford
Mar 10 2010
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“ Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make this combination worthless.
— Milton Friedman
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“ As someone who has purchased or rated The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK by Erica Sadun … you might like to know that Stochastic Models for Fault Tolerance: Restart, Rejuvenation and Checkpointing is now available.
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Feb 05 2010
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Jan 09 2010
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Undressing the Terror Threat
Paul Campos:
A little intelligence and a few drops of courage remind us that life is full of risk, and that of all the risks we confront in America every day, terrorism is a very minor one. Taking prudent steps to reasonably minimize the tiny threat we face from a few fanatic criminals need not grant them the attention they crave. Continuing to play Terrorball, on the other hand, guarantees that the terrorists will always win, since it places the bar for what counts as success for them practically on the ground.
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From CUSEC 2009, Avi Bryant: Bad Hackers Copy, Great Hackers Steal

