December 2011
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Klotzbach & Gray Discontinue December Hurricanes...
via Russ Roberts: Two top U.S. hurricane forecasters, famous across Deep South hurricane country, are quitting the practice of making a seasonal forecast in December because it doesn’t work. William Gray and Phil Klotzbach say a look back shows their past 20 years of forecasts had no predictive value. I love the intellectual honesty this must have taken. I wish practitioners of software...
Dec 26th
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mogenerator 1.24
What’s New: [FIX] Was incorrectly using -mutableSetValueForKey: for ordered relationships instead of -mutableOrderedSetValueForKey:. bug 75 (Martin Schürrer) [NEW] Now generates Mike Ash-style constant structures for attributes, relationships and fetched properties. This allows you to write code like [obj valueForKey:PersonMOAttributes.age]. Tip: you’ll need to enable ARC...
Dec 8th
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Death and Resurrection of an SSD
Summary: SSDs live fast, die young, and pretend to be OK even while they’re dying. Don’t use one without awesome backups. And sometimes, they come back from the dead. ※ ※ ※ On November 30 2010, I received my first SSD: a 240 GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro. On Thursday, November 10 2011, the drive “died”. I claimed on twitter there was no warning: there...
Dec 4th
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