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Friday, 18 November 2011

Startupish Translated

We’ve got great backing

We managed to convince VCs to give us money but we haven’t convinced any actual customers to do so.

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The Kaiser Chiefs have a new album out called "The Future Is Medieval" Their web site lets users make custom versions of the album by choosing tracks and designing the cover. My version is at the above link. It's a cool idea. Wonder if it will increase sales...

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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Mac No Suitable Image Found

If you're building native extensions for python or ruby on a Mac and you get an error like:

no suitable image found

It probably means the language and extension were compiled for different architectures, i.e. 32-bit vs 64-bit or i386 vs x86_64. I use fink on the Mac and it defaults to compiling 32-bit versions. You can tell fink to default to 64-bit when you do an initial install from source but it's not as well tested as 32-bit and 32-bit works fine so why bother? However, 10.6, left to its own devices, will compile code to 64-bit versions. So…

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