Tag Archives: Snow Leopard

How I develop on OSX

By Ethan | Published: February 4, 2010
It recently occurred to me that I’m dumb. I certainly don’t mean this in any pejorative sense (after all, that would be abrasive to the ego), but rather I would suggest it as regards a behavioral pattern that I tend to follow. Roughly, said pattern goes like this: Identify problem On the grounds of theoretical purity, construct needlessly complicated solution. Implement solution. For [...]
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OSX Package Management

By Ethan | Published: October 9, 2009
A few days ago, I was discussing Snow Leopard with a recent OSX convert. For the record, this person remains primarily a linux user — a stalwart patron of Fedora — but he had very recently acquired a unibody Macbook. As I am similarly a user of both linux and OSX, this came as music [...]
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