The delightful Good Math, Bad Math blog discusses the often-misunderstood nature of depression. The thing that you always need to remember about depression – and which Benjy mentions – is that depression is not something which you can reason with. Depression isn’t a feeling. It’s not a way of thinking, or a way of viewing…
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Another year has turned past. I read an article recently exhorting people to learn to do something in the next year well enough to astonish other people. I thought about that for a long time, and I realize that we do, regularly. Sitting still (at least intellectually) does not sit well, so we find new…
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An excellent, insightful, and interesting read about, among other things, engineering maturity. The whole thing can be summed up with the quote at the end of the article: “It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets credit.” but the article is full of a rich texture and depth of…
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If you’re seeing errors related to Tcl/Tk when building Ruby 1.8.7 (say, with RVM) on Mountain Lion, it’s because X11 is no longer shipped with OS X. Now you have to install XQuartz instead; also install a non-clang gcc-4.2. Then:
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Short answer: Google’s blogsearch now redirects, which breaks the WordPress widget. Change the URL it’s looking at to www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&partner=wordpress&q=link:BLOG.EXAMPLE.COM/&tbm=blg&tbs=sbd:1&output=rss and everything should work again.
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Including the exceedingly helpful caffeinate, which provides a command-line interface to what I’ve been doing with Caffeine for ages – keep your mac from sleeping for a period of time, without entirely changing the sleep preferences. (By way of DF.)
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If you use homebrew’s macvim recipe, Mountain Lion, and any of the vim plugins that use the python support (such as the excellent Gundo, which provides a handy navigable graph of your vim undo history for a buffer), you should remove and reinstall macvim: The upgrade to Mountain Lion changed the system Python environment sufficiently…
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Frodo is one year old today. He’s been a delight and a charmer since we first met him, and though he has certainly caused us some frustration (and no small amount of missed or interrupted sleep), he’s nevertheless been a wonderful addition to the household. He keeps hitting remarkable plateaus of development, causing us to…
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With OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), the setup process for getting Apache and PHP (now version 5.3.13) working is simpler. Gone are the tangled IfDefine statements in httpd.conf now all you need to do is drop an appropriate file into /etc/apache2/users. If you don’t need SSL support, it’s almost trivial: If you do need SSL,…
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I’m not an amazing artist, but some things practically draw themselves. (Draw Something is fun, yup.)
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