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Why I decided to visit Kansas City: it’s not just Google Fiber

A Little About Me I’m a hacker and entrepreneur from Los Angeles, California. My initial introduction to technology came when I was a child, and my dad showed me how to assemble our own computers. I was intimidated at first, but I was also fascinated. Our first family computer was a 486DX with 16MB RAM…Continue Reading…

TSA Employee Supports Ron Paul

I placed my backpack on the conveyor belt and told the TSA employee that I would like to opt-out from using the scanner. I was instructed to stand to the side, while a woman communicated: “Male opt-out.” A nice-looking young guy came over and led me through a short glass security gate. We picked out…Continue Reading…

An Error Occurred – User interaction is not allowed

I encountered this problem on a friend’s Mac. We were trying to request a certificate from a certificate authority (to create a signing certificate for iOS apps). This is probably a permissions problem. Try promoting your user to Admin – give it permission to Administer this computer.

Was Jesus humble?

I just noticed that WordPress has a Word count. That’s nice – I can set a goal and just keep typing until I reach it. My goal shall be 500. Five hundred words per post sounds good. Today I would like to write about the humility and meekness of Jesus. According to C.S. Lewis: “Christ says…Continue Reading…

rspec test: failure/error: visit ‘/home’ no method error or routing error: no route matches [get] “/home”

I’m developing a Ruby on Rails web app, and this problem tripped me up for a while. I couldn’t get an rspec test to work. Here are the errors I was getting: emlmbp:captivesurveys eml$ rake spec:views /Users/eml/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby -S rspec ./spec/views/home/index.html.erb_spec.rb FF Failures: 1) home/index.html.erb displays proper title Failure/Error: visit ‘/’ NoMethodError: undefined method `visit’ for…Continue Reading…

rbenv install command on Mac OS X

If rbenv is missing the install command, then you need to install ruby-build. If you have Homebrew, then run: brew install ruby-build You can learn more about this in the README in the rbenv project here. After you have ruby-build, you can run: rbenv install 1.9.3-p194 … to install Ruby 1.9.3-p194 (if that’s the version…Continue Reading…