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It’s pretty easy: http://eggfreckles.net/notes/installing-mountain-lion-clean/

I have used this procedure many times, it works like a charm.

However, I do want Apple to provide a more obvious way of doing just that. It would be great if their tool for creating a bootable recovery manager worked just with the OS X install app as a source.

But to be honest, I do not think that doing a clean install is a good idea for the most people and for defect HDDs, new Macs at least come with internet recovery (but the older ones are still a problem).
Commercial toilets don't usually have tanks and rely on water pressure for the flush.

But (most) home toilets have tanks that act as a buffer and can flush even with no water pressure at all.
Newer Macs have Internet Recovery, which connects to Wi-Fi from EFI firmware and downloads a recovery image. So you can do exactly that, except without the install media...
What defines a startup for me is utilizing technology with a very good chance it will be a spectacular failure. You have a great feeling that you'll have users but there's a very real chance that you'll get none to 10 and go down in tremendous flames. You're swinging for the fences. That's because you're doing something that no one has done or your entering a market with huge dominant players whom you hope to usurp. It's either very audacious or insane. Your 10 professional friends split down the middle when asked.

You know if you open a barber shop you will get people come in off the street to cut their hair. You just worry you'll have enough over time to sustain it. If you start a consulting business you know you'll get clients (at least I assume you do) as your skills are in demand. You probably got commitments from at least 3 before you made the plunge. It's just whether you'll get enough and a steady flow to go with. If you're bootstrapping a lifestyle tech company it's probably because you know exactly what the market needs and have your first 5 customers from your previous gig so you know you can get through the first year. All of these still have a large amount of risk but they're not really true startups to me.

It's true it's very hard to have a startup without (rapid) growth as the central tenant . And you can have many businesses that are not startups that aren't focused on growth over anything else. However, you can have many businesses that are not startups hyper focused on growth (SuperCuts, Pappa Johns) to make the definition in this essay too weak for me.
"the racial reality in sub-Saharan Africa is that blacks have very low IQs."

I've had the pleasure of meeting enough sub-Saharan Africans that I can not only personally call bullshit on this, the statement is so nonsensical it reads to me like a claim that the moon is made of Swiss cheese.
> When you assume, you put plum paste on your ass

I don't get it...

Ume. I got it. I got. Hey, guys, I got it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ume
I've often thought that the US should set up "national parks" in some coastal waters, where no fishing of any sort would be allowed, and no motorized boats.

These would then serve as "reservoirs" of marine life.
Verizon iPhone 5 Confirmed to Be Unlocked on GSM 3G Networks
Isn't that a result of relative stagnation in the 1800's? When things like better microscopes, advanced plumbing, higher speed trains, electricity, phone, radio and other staples of today's world were just being researched and used by a handful of people (with the others wondering why tf does it matter).

Right now, we're paving the way for much more powerful computers (quantum & "living" computers, HUD glasses), cheaper space travel (via privatization of space travel), effective transportation (electric cars, efficient airplanes), medicine (stem cells, man-machine interfaces), energy (nuclear fusion, efficient batteries) production (3D printers, robotics, faster prototyping and research), and other stuff.

And just like the radio, it will be at least another 50 years before we actually use it all on a larger scale, in my opinion...
> The example you give was a harsh yet necessary action due to the fact that low-IQ humans require brutality to understand when they've done wrong, because nice words and the rule of law just don't cut it with them.

I can't believe this just happened.
That's true. It also has to do with context.

Like it or not we are indoctrinated. Religion and politics are two or the most prominent examples of this. It takes a certain kind of person to move outside your own mind, if you will, and take a fresh and unbiased look at some of these subjects.

I don't mean this to suggest that this makes one superior in any way. I am simply speaking about a fact. You can't evaluate religion without moving outside of it for your evaluation. As an atheist I had to move outside the indoctrination of nearly to decades of growing up in the christian faith in order to see it differently.

And so, as we evaluate and discuss politics you'll come across people who --no matter what-- are attached to an ideology and there's nothing you can do to change that. They have to choose to open their minds to a conversation and an honest evaluation of where they stand.

In many ways Romney was absolutely right in stating that 47% of voters will vote for Obama no matter what. What he neglected to say is that, for other reasons, 47% will vote for him no matter what. Those of us in the middle can be tough bunch because we don't buy into the indoctrination and dare to want to look at the facts every so often.

I am certainly not right about everything and I know that some of my opinions might be critically flawed in many ways. I've always appreciated learning from others --and I have, a lot.
This. I live in the city because my favorite club nights and shows are here and I don't need a designated driver to get home. When I lived in Mountain View, going out was such a hassle that I pretty much didn't bother. Even though I have to commute now, I'm sort of glad so many employers are in the 'burbs and giving homebodies good reasons to stay there; it slows down gentrification.

I'm sort of amazed the regional transportation system is so dysfunctional that five private busses on the same route with no shared capacity is the solution everyone settled on. But then I remember what a farce MUNI has become; I routinely see busses and trains so overloaded that riders literally can't squeeze into the doors, and sometimes nothing shows up at all.
I moved to Denmark about 1 1/2 years ago, and my experience has greatly improved over my American experience. Strangely, given the fears that government=bureaucracy, one of the #1 improvements has been that bureaucracy is much reduced. In the United States, even though I was covered under a group healthcare plan, it was much worse. Rules on in/out-of-network doctors were byzantine, rules on referrals were opaque, and billing was a goddamn mess: one hospital visit means dozens of separate bills from every specialist, which are often miscoded and require time on the phone to sort out (turns out anaesthesiologists don't know shit about medical billing).

In Denmark, it Just Works™: I got a health card on my 4th day after being in the country, and it covers everything. No anesthesiologist sending me a surprise $5,000 bill for something that should've been covered; no arguing over preexisting conditions; just professionals actually trying to do their jobs correctly, instead of trying to figure out how to screw me over or pass the buck to someone else.
It would do no such thing. 3.4 gallons * 1 million = 3,400,000 gallons.

A single typical water tower holds approximately 400,000 to 500,000 gallons, and I'm quite sure a city of that size has more than 7 of them.

A small reservoir holds around 500,000,000 gallons.
I've never lived in the Bay Area but I've visited a bunch of times. I've considered what I would need to do to live there without a car and it's difficult. Here are some glaring problems:

1. Caltrain is dog slow, infrequent and doesn't tend to go to places you want. Santa Clara County actually runs what seems to be a fairly decent VTA light rail that will get you from, say, downtown Mountain View to tech companies east of Moffett Airfield (Lockheed Martin, Yahoo, some of Microsoft's buildings, etc) but sadly not to the Google campus (west of Moffett Airfield).

To take public transport from SF would require you going to South SF (say half an hour), 1h 20m to MTV and 15-20 minutes on a shuttle if one is running. It's 2 hours best case scenario or one hour (or slightly less) on the 101 on the shuttle busses.

2. Zoning is a disaster for commerce in the valley. Most land is reserved for ("zoned") single family residences on large blocks of land such that density is very low. Public transit just doesn't work at low population density;

3. New development is virtually nonexistent in SF. Rent control is, at this point, an unmitigated disaster to a city that's still clinging to some 60s idyll.

Personally I think NYC is far more attractive than the Bay Area in all ways but two: the weather and the inertia of existing tech companies. You can live 5 minutes walk from work in NYC. There are very few places you could do that (or would want to) in SF.
It doesn't really sound like he got himself into this situation because he struck out on his own and broke something.

It sounds like he got into this situation by calling up and trusted customer support and doing what any normal consumer does: then calling the fixup guy who is supposed to do this stuff professionally.

They said to make a backup and everything would work. He made a backup and it didn't work. From there, everything got worse.

I know that is pretty much the opposite of what I, an undoubtedly overzealous "technology guy", would try to do. Though, as a technology guy I probably would have said "Fuck it, lets install linux" not even halfway through the trouble he was having (and if it were still 2003 and the linux distro I was trying to install were Gentoo, the effort required between the two probably would have just about evened out).

Sticking with it and trying to work with customer service is a very "normal trusting consumer" thing to do.
Apple is trying hard to rival Oracle for the "most dickish technology company" slot. To recap, they've so far:

1. Partially reversed the commoditization of PC hardware, driving up prices for consumers

2. Engaged in large-scale App Store censorship

3. Gouged 30% from eBook content owners

4. Exploited Foxconn workers (possibly)

5. Are sitting on an enormous pile of cash and donate nothing to charity

And now patent trolling. I can't speak for anyone else, but I personally feel it is unethical to buy Apple products. I think the ethical tone of the company was set when Jobs screwed Woz out of the bonus for Breakout for Atari.

But hey, they made computing shinier. Yay?
Why Kids Should Grade Teachers
You seem like a smart guy, but heres an FYI: the Lion installation app, as well as ML installer, is just a wrapper application with preflight functions for the installer. This app wrapper contains the disk image of the Lion installer that functions just like any other disk image of OS X. To find the disk image for lion in the "Install Lion.app" app wrapper, you right click on the app and click show contents, find a resources folder and bam, there it is. The disk image can be burned to DVD or restored to a flash drive using disk utility. No excuses now, they didn't fail anyone. Time machine has never failed me. The only time things get dicey is when you encrypt, using vault or etc, large file sets or systems. All you needed to do from the first go is 1) back up to time machine, 2) install new drive, 3) restore the time machine backup with option at boot (snow leopard install disc might be required, but you scratched your disc, not apples fault), if disc is scratched for DVD install, there's a good chance you could have still restored a usable copy of it to a flash drive or a new DMG on your desktop using disk utility. 4) restore the disk image of lion from the install lion.app, the DMG you were unaware of and bitched so much about, to the flash drive and 5) upgrade your SL to lion using option at boot. Also, before backing up a dying drive, make sure to repair permissions using disk utility. Also, if you kept your old drive, you can buy an enclosure for 30$ and turn the drive into an external disk and restore your original installation. And not the time machine backup. Works every time even with dying unrepairable drives.. Cheers.
Excellent post. Perfect example of why government should have nothing to do picking winners and losers as they are doing with Uber. They are trying to protect the mediocre at best. I used to think that the US was about excellence. That striving to be the best at something was actually rewarded. This is one example of how government can interfere to the benefit of the incompetent rather than promoting progress.
Private sector seems pretty enthusiastic about the wars to me...

I agree with libertarians in the sense that I think concentrated power is a bad thing. But I think the idea that an unregulated market would be any better is laughable.

The answer, in my mind, is better regulation, not necessarily less regulation (although I suspect that the second would often follow from the first, but not in the way that libertarians seem to want).

Food labeling, by the way, is an example of good regulation in my book. Nobody gets to tell me what I can or cannot eat (just talking about labeling laws here, I realize there are also laws banning certain foods). But at the same time, nobody can try to trick me, either, at least not without breaking the law and being exposed to liability.
Well, this is the perfect time to introduce sea farming - famers seasteading and growing fish (and other seafood) on the open ocean (on their own lots of water). I always found the idea pretty interesting...
I did this for the first two years of college-- I'd often sleep for about 3-4 hours each night before class, and then sleep another chunk of time in the afternoon. However, it had the opposite effect on me as it became more and more difficult to go "back" to sleep in the afternoon unless I waited until the evening.
What ended up happening the last year or so is that I started sleeping 5-6 hours per night without a nap, and then sleeping more on the weekends. Surprisingly, this schedule (with morning coffee) got me through classes much better than having a combined total of 8 hours per night.
I started researching sleep to build a sleep tracking app and the theory (there are a number of books regarding this) is that your body can catch up on a certain amount of sleep "debt" within a period of 1-2 weeks. The "debt" is not a scientific measurement but within 14 days, your body has a general idea of how much sleep/rest is missing, and if the debt is made up gradually instead of all at once (and also by going to bed earlier rather than sleeping in), it can actually decrease the effect of drowsiness from past nights.

Actually now that I started working I sleep 7 hours a night and wake up the same time every morning and it's the first time in 6 years I don't need coffee to get through the day.

Disclaimer-- I also referenced a product I built. The app is called SleepBot and it's a very simple mechanism to help people track sleep and get an idea of their sleep "debt" over short periods of time. As David mentioned, sleep has been an untapped market but there's recently been an influx of sleep apps into the market including tackers, sound machines, and alarms. I think what we're seeing is an increased concern for sleep as more of us try to figure out how to improve our health beyond diet and exercise.
Final Builds of 10.8.2 and 10.7.5 Maintain OS X Battery Life
Self driving cars undoubtedly will once they become publicly available, which seems inevitable.
http://amren.com/news/2004/08/solving_the_afr (Solving The African IQ Conundrum: "Winning Personality" Masks Low Scores)

http://amren.com/news/2012/04/six-brain-damage-scourges-that... (Six Brain-Damage Scourges That Cripple IQ in Sub-Saharan Africa)

http://amren.com/news/2012/07/things-fall-apart-greg-cochran... (Things Fall Apart: Greg Cochran’s New Theory of the Cause of Racial Differences in IQ)
Apple didn’t remove Lion from the App Store for me. I can download it without a problem. (It’s in my purchase tab, as is Mountain Lion. I’m running Mountain Lion.)
Someone has opened a bug report about this in LaunchPad. If you think this is a terrible mistake by Canonical, and that it should be fixed, you can mark yourself as affected by this bug too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shoppin...
Fair enough, if there's enough economic downfall to such extent that basic human needs can't be covered on an area which relies on exporting required resources rather than being able to sustain itself, deaths would be probable. Although in many cases this could be alleviated to an extent by optimal share of available resources rather than allowing huge inequities to form(as is often the case due to corruption for example).

> as developed ones have less use for them
What an interesting way to put it, I have to admit. Talk about lives when you consider entire economies and ultimately people as resources to sustain your own standard of living.

It gets more interesting when one wonders for example the indirect deaths caused by using commercially optimal energy sources(e.g. fossil fuels) rather than relying on sustainable energy sources. Of course the comparison is silly, it is the fundamental greed for having more which drives us into using sub-optimal solutions which simply won't work in larger scale.

There's also the factor of aiming for actual direct happiness via covering the basic needs rather than hoarding for more and competing for resources which happens at the expense of other people's quality of life. Consider Foxconn factories as an example. If only workers quality of life and working conditions would have been given more value, dozens of suicides and years in desperation would've been avoided. But of course, someone would've had to pay more for their iPhone, which wouldn't have been a problem either in that case. Now it really is a big deal.

Ultimately the problem itself is in relying on growth which then requires more resources than there are available to sustain the growth. Either you reduce the resource consumption or the system balances itself at the expense of those who are the least responsible for the unbalance. Of course, starting with the animal life and nature as we've seen.
Odd fact, the flights to 5 music festivals around the world cost less than the tickets to the festivals (incl camping).

Note: This contest was hosted by us (not a customer) to showcase our experts' flight hacking skills. It's in the same vein as our previous round-the-world itinerary to 6 continents all in business class, which came to as little as $2659 http://flightfox.com/rtw
Just finished three days of repeat testing on the final builds of 10.8.2 and 10.7.5. Good news is that battery life remains restored in Mountain Lion compared to the developer builds.

I have to say I was a bit worried it wouldn't last, given Apple's recent software missteps (i.e., the battery life in the developer builds was restored by disabling critical underlying code, etc). Glad I was wrong!
Why did Apple customer support steer him down an "edge case"?
That's interesting. I tried for quite some time to find it (on both one friend's MBP w/ Mountain Lion, and another's with Snow Leopard, in case it wasn't present in the ML App Store), but couldn't. The support guy said they'd removed them from the store. I wonder if it's because you've already downloaded it on that hardware, or are running Lion currently (are you?)?

At this point it's academic; the laptop is gone... but if I did something wrong I'd definitely like to know :).
That's probably because you've never lived, side by side, day to day, with low-IQ humans. They are not the same as us, and therefore require different treatment. To believe otherwise would imply that the Whites of Rhodesia and South Africa were either heartless monsters, or people who couldn't learn from their environment. Neither of those is possible.
How is promoting the Uber model better for drivers, if it forces them to pick up customers that are located in places they would rather not drive to and forces them to destinations they would rather not drive to?
You seem like a smart guy, but heres an FYI: the Lion installation app, as well as ML installer, is just a wrapper application with preflight functions for the installer. This app wrapper contains the disk image of the Lion installer that functions just like any other disk image of OS X. To find the disk image for lion in the "Install Lion.app" app wrapper, you right click on the app and click show contents, find a resources folder and bam, there it is. The disk image can be burned to DVD or restored to a flash drive using disk utility. No excuses now, they didn't fail anyone. Time machine has never failed me. The only time things get dicey is when you encrypt, using vault or etc, large file sets or systems. All he needed to do from the first go is 1) back up to time machine, 2) install new drive, 3) restore the time machine backup with option at boot (snow leopard install disc might be required, but he scratched his disc, not apples fault), if disc is scratched for DVD install, there's a good chance he could have still restored a usable copy of it to a flash drive or a new DMG on his desktop using disk utility. 4) restore the disk image of lion from the install lion.app, the DMG you were unaware of and bitched so much about, to the flash drive w/ disk utility and 5) upgrade his SL to lion using option at boot. Also, before backing up a dying drive, make sure to repair permissions using disk utility. Also, if you kept your old drive, you can buy an enclosure for 30$ and turn the drive into an external disk and restore your original installation. And not the time machine backup. Works every time even with dying unrepairable drives.. Cheers.
Life now is clearly better and more interesting than it was 100 years ago. But the pace of innovation is much, much slower. 100 years ago cars, household electricity and recorded sound were all brand new. Every one of these things represents a huge leap forward, giving mankind entirely new capabilities. And all of them were developed and brought to market in the same 20-30 year period.

What have we produced in the last 20-30 years that's even close to providing that kind of new capability? The only recent innovation on that level is TCP/IP, and we've been iterating on that ever since.

"Things are good now" is never a reason to not get better. We've gotten very good at making incremental improvements, but fallen way behind on the pace of breakthrough innovation.
Umm...

This isn't in your browser, this is in your entire operating system...

Adblock won't do anything to help you with this one.
I vaguely agree; when I see that wordy explanation about "this is sent from a blah blah replies won't be blah blah" I tend to read it uncharitably, even though I know why they do it. My first read of it, somewhat involuntarily, is along the lines of: wow, these people can't even deal with the use-case of someone replying to this email, and are so befuddled by the possibility that the best workaround they could think of was to tack on this wordy disclaimer in the email, begging people not to hit "reply".
Thanks! The canonical data structure to avoid the O(n^2) lookup is a kdtree, which I think is reasonably easy to implement in coffeescript.
The symbology on your website is typically seen as negative as well. Perhaps you should consider an alternative there if you are concerned with what others see as negative.