Lion comes with a version of postgres already installed and uses those binaries by default. In general you can get around this by using the full path to the homebrew postgres binaries but there may be still issues with other programs.
Found this while uninstalling / reinstalling with Homebrew. The sysadmin equivalent of “have you tried turning it off and turning it on again”. Not the last problem to debug, but one of the least visible.
Quick review of Fooled by Randomness:
The writing is terrible. Every other paragraph references some other chapter. Stories are told about investment philosophies by creating empty straw-man stereotypes designed to make you feel good about hating normal traders, like the author. It slips between first, second and third-person omniscient at random.
Nassim Taleb sounds like a genuinely awful person. An opera hipster who trashes fellow rich people for “going to the symphony in some vain attempt to be ‘cultured’” while simultaneously bragging about his own poetic and “real” intellectual interests. He’s like that asshole nerd in high school who got picked on and only responded with grandiose claims about how smart he is. His arrogance and misanthropy seep through nearly every sentence.
That said, the ideas in the book are some of the most important you’ll read about markets, success, and money. It has a few good examples of very simple situations demonstrating survivor bias and the difference between signal and noise. It will change the way you think about success, and what advice to take from anyone.
Until someone writes a less sloppy treatise on signal vs noise, I strongly recommend reading it.
Nice TextMate (1) extension to turn off refresh on window focus. Useful if you are, say, editing files over a network.
Xbox One:
None of these things individually is a really big deal. The Kinect “always listening” thing in particular is overblown, and the used game policy likely won’t be so bad thanks to strong competition from Sony. But when you wind all these things together, it feels like a swift kick to the shins for the consumer. Everybody has something they can worry about with the Xbox One. The odds of at least one of these functions going catastrophically wrong during one’s ownership of the system are good.
Contrast to Sony, with their revolutionary “nothing’s changed” policy. Everyone knows what to expect. No one is complaining that downloadable games will be tied to your account. Heck, no one even seems to mind that Sony will now require a paid subscription to play multiplayer games online, just like Xbox Live. The lower price point is the real gut-punch to Microsoft.
Microsoft is pursuing the same “no compromises” policy with Xbox One that they used to develop Windows 8. It’s everything to everyone. It’s a TV box; it’s a Netflix player; it’s a game station; it’s a casual… thing, with Kinect. If they stripped the game system out of it, the Xbox One might actually do better. But they unveiled it at a press conference right before E3, to an audience of fickle gamers and game press.
Sony centered their entire press conference around gamers. Almost everything on stage was games – no Skype, no UStream casting, no “game sharing” or demos of the other system features. They had one guy from Sony Pictures who had nothing to talk about. No new movie, music, or TV show announcements, other than the continuation of the same video & music channels which no one cared about on PS3. But even he mentioned gamers five or six times.
Nintendo has their work cut out for them.
Parting wisdom: remember how much PC Gamers despised Steam when it first came out. Even poor initial sales won’t doom Microsoft if they move fast and keep improving.
Javascript key codes are completely insane. How would you even browser detect for this stuff? I’m guessing that’s why jQuery haven’t standardized key codes.
I made a tool for making bookmarklets, as most of the ones I found were ugly and barely usable. Not that mine’s a ton better, but it does have a code editor and Bootstrap. I’m using it for a project - making a bookmarklet for Prose, which is basically a way better version of that bloggity thing I made.
Feel free to check it out, fork it, etc.
Couple nice rules of thumb for novice designers.
Expect a lot of design posts. I’m trying to learn - somehow all the graphic design stuff in college managed to get dumped after the final projects. Now I realize I need help, so I’ll be scouring the internet to find it. If you know of any great design resources - stuff that cuts into theory and practice rather than the “15 new jQuery tricks” and “how to make your avatars circles” linkbait - feel free to @ me on Twitter.
Cheers,
These things are generally not worth posting. You may or may not keep your promises. Nobody is angry with you for not posting. Your audience wants more posts about interesting things. None of these things are interesting.
Hopefully, my advice against these tired blog posts is something interesting :)
Cheers,