Pentaho won't launch on MacOS X

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Download Pentaho, unpack it.  You double click “Data Integration 64-bit” and nothing happens. When you try it on the commandline, it gives you: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/trimbo/Downloads/data-integration/Data Integration 64-bit.app. The solution is to give the JavaApplicationStub file execution permission. chmod +x ~/Downloads/data-integration/Data Integration 64-bit.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub Now you can double click the icon and it will launch. Hopefully this helps someone.…

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Why I didn't go work on Facebook games

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Many people were surprised when I left the games industry last year and moved over to a completely different kind of ecommerce engineering position. Some background. I started out of college working on computer graphics (CG) for commercials. At the time, the industry had a lot of money flowing in. Most commercials with any kind of CG in them would cost $500K, and commercials that were entirely CG would be $1MM plus.…

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Programming a Chamberlain garage door opener into your VW HomeLink

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My wife has a Volkswagen Passat and we just moved into a place with a Chamberlain garage door opener that uses a rolling code. The normal VW instructions don’t help you figure out how to program these types of garage door openers. I found some instructions on VW vortex which describe how to do this. I’m going to paraphrase the instructions here so people searching for this kind of thing can easily find it.…

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