The Cave

Interesting iPhone application .

Yummy .

Handy .

Simple enough : Type the following exactly in the Terminal (the $ represents a bash prompt and is not to be typed):

… to ditch the RAM disk and unmount it, just type

Handy little wireless command line command .

How to expand ~ paths on Mac OS X , in Objective-C, POSIX and Core Foundation terms. The equivalent of Python’s s = os.path.expanduser(s)

As a replacement for Adobe’s Flash, it is widely considered utterly superfluous and of no interest to anyone who could be found. … Silverlight was created by Microsoft to leverage its desktop monopoly on Windows, to work off the tremendous sales and popularity of Vista.

Very cool .

Maybe they decided they can make more money charging reasonable rates than losing out to folks who’d buy it elsewhere and self-install. Maybe they decided they want to see a larger % of install base with more RAM so Snow Leopard or other nifty things work better / nicer / sexier / faster / more appealingly.

The 5 day review is amusing: 10/21 Close => 18.07 10/22 Open => 16.35 10/22 Close => 15.48 The market’s been cratering (more) today so it’s hard to distinguish the MANH-specific-cratering from the global-economy-cratering impact, but the activity was quite high today. … In this market though who’d buy them is questionable, but if they continue down their path I’d think someone will find them worth the cost sooner or later.

40 R&D and 75+ PSO, with R&D taking notably large cuts in WMOS, WM/iSeries and (the entire?) … Some folks I’ve heard were NOT in the layoff: David Milam Mark Joseph Kimberly Shepard Dharmender Goyal Mark Pluta Marek (I don’t recall his last name) Dennis Castaldi Ken Shipp Bhavanni (I don’t recall his last name) Stock closed yesterday in the 17-18 area (moved a little in after hours trading).

“Dear Florida”: Five Ways McCain/Palin Will Make Things Worse For Older Americans

Not that empty-headed, flag-waving, drop a tear during the national anthem love, but the more profound love that is based in the knowledge that, despite the abuses of power to which it often succumbs, Democracy is the one form of government that leads to the greatest good for the greatest number.

I also understand that democracy is a political system and capitalism is an economic system and while they tend to work well together, giving health care to all Americans, or lowering the taxes of less fortunate Americans, doesn’t turn us socialist.

Amusing .

How to fix it : defaults write com.apple.xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions ‘{ ORGANIZATIONNAME = “Howard Kapustein”; }’

Looks nice .

Here .

The CRA didn’t force banks to give loans to people who couldn’t afford them (quite the opposite in fact), and CRA regulated loans had little or nothing to do with this crisis, which affects sub-prime loans of the type the CRA prevents. It did require banks end discrimination, but a person from an ethnic minority who entered a branch of Wachovia and asked for a 110% mortgage to help them buy a $500,000 home which they expected to pay back using their Burger King salary would have been rejected just as a white person in the same circumstances would have been.

However— and this is the really important part of the story— the same chairman insisted that all this cash should not be put away someplace safe, but should rather be made available as a kind of piggy bank for the government to borrow from. … And on top of it all, if you’re a middle-class person you’re paying 35+% taxes (including FICA), while the very rich are probably paying a lower tax rate thanks to (a) the ceiling on Social Security taxes, and (b) the Bush tax cuts.

According to this , Apple changed sleep mode from 0 (RAM is powered) to 3 ( also writes RAM to disk). … Alas, for those of us w/o a spare battery that’s not much point.

Hmmm .

Neat trick for perceived-startup time. Far better than a splash screen.

As this link points out, there’s no good way to write the code that (a) is correct, (b) avoids the warning and (c) doesn’t introduce other problems. … I guess I could change the parameter name, but that still feels like a cheesy hack – I like having interfaces be self-documenting, change “filename” is a better parameter than “aFilename” or some other annottion.

This sounds more promising than the current plan. IANAE (I Am Not An Economist, though I did take 1 class back in college and do have a minor in Accounting), but this sounds more likely to improve matters than the current trajectory. And so far the markets (all of them) seem underwhelmed by the current [...]

Heh.