July 2008

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I picked up a few coupons for ASmallOrange:

5special – $5 off order

15discount – 15% off order

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I’m reading Ender’s Shadow, generously lent to me by Tiffany L. One amazing part of the book reminded me that evil is not a product of deprivation. I think I’ve blogged about this idea before, so if you find it, link me to it :) Some people have the idea that people are mean to each other because they’re poor, or somehow desperate. But that’s not the case at all. Even rich people, with all physical needs met, are evil and sinful. And this is just a reminder of that truth. From Page 53: Read the rest of this entry »

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I’m looking for a new hosting account for my dad’s websites, and I don’t like the fact that DreamHost, while good, promises unrealistically high disk space and bandwidth. The service becomes unbearably slow and unstable long before all of my space is used.

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Here’s a very interesting section from one of Paul Graham’s essays.

What really stands out to me:

  • Fear of elitism causes lost opportunities. If all universities are roughly equal in quality, then none are especially good. The best professors are spread out, making them less productive. And no one university will be good enough to attract talent from abroad.
  • The Germans invented the modern university, but now they suck because in the 1930s they excluded Jews. Hopefully nothing like that will cause the downfall of our universities. We love Jews and people of all races… right?
  • Competition is key. It’s a good thing many of the best universities in the US are private. Government-controlled institutions just don’t work.

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I managed to export the email addresses of all commenters on a WordPress blog so that I could check if they’re using Twitter. This is fairly straightforward to do:

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Interesting stuff.

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Maybe I’m just stupid, but playing a simple sound with the iPhone SDK was ridiculously hard to do. I finally go it working. It took a number of tricks, such as adding AudioToolbox.framework (found here). Go ahead and mix C++ and Obj-C. And of course, you have to create the CFURLRef, however you want to do it, you have to make sure you do it right (looking up some weird path using the application bundle is part of it).

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Here’s an informative video we created to show you how to make mochi:

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Watch this!

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