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Mac Pro Trailer from Apple:

Repair Permissions won't touch any files in any of the user's home folders since Installer.app can't target user folders specifically, only any folder or a specific path, and there are no packages in ~/Library/Receipts/. The only way it'd ever touch any files in a user's folder is if you installed something that let you explicity select a folder to install in (there are very few of those, none are available from Apple publically) and you chose a folder inside your user's folder. The receipt would still be installed in /Library/Receipts/ and it would only affect the user that installed it. It also won't fix permissions for any files that were created during the normal (or abnormal) use of OS X. This means it won't touch any cache files, database files, swap files, or settings files not created by the installer. If a file isn't listed in a receipt, it doesn't exist to the repair permissions process. It's really as simple as that.

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One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is normal, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly, with the implication that it is a disjunctive sequence, meaning that all possible finite sequences of digits will be present somewhere in it. If we consider π in base 16 (hexadecimal) , it is trivial to see that if this conjecture is true, then all possible finite files must exist within π. The first record of this observation dates back to 2001.

From here, it is a small leap to see that if π contains all possible files, why are we wasting exabytes of space storing those files, when we could just look them up in π!

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Also titled: The History of the "Boo-Dah-Ling" Sound.

Neat!

If you know a programming language, but don't know how to craft your own shell scripts, this resource from Apple is for you.

As much as Apple will benefit from getting new customers with an entry level iPhone that benefits their ecosystem so will Google. We know Google makes more on iOS than Android and interestingly an entry level iPhone will likely help Google’s bottom line as well.

After yesterday's post on "Being Googley" what better than a post on "being Apple-y"?

The Meanings of Googliness talks about what it means to be a Google employee.

One of the first comments?

But really dude? On what planet is the biggest invader of privacy in the history of the planet ‘not evil’?

Uh, yup.

Every Second on the Internet is worth a few of your seconds.

TidBITS has a great explanation that makes everything pretty clear.

Apple isn't evil, and the industry may have gone this route in the end, but how they got there wasn't without fault or blame.

Siri takes initiative to learn how to pronounce names in iOS 7.

Great. Big freakin' deal.

Siri still can't spell the word "Erik" any way other than "Eric," on my phone or the phones of my friends, and there's no way to teach it to do so.

If your name is Michele with one "l"? Tough beans. You're out of luck and perpetually doomed to have your phone, who knows you are the contact and who can pronounce your name just fine, constantly misspelling your name.

The part at about 2:00 is particularly… something.

Fascinating to watch.

A good video (albeit SUPER corny) for beginners: