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doubleclick.net, about 20 years ago.

I just work around it with a .gitkeep file.

Geothermal is fantastic for heating. Speaking as an Icelander, we have so much hot water in Reykjavík that we even use the residue to keep our pavements clear of ice in winter. Pip…

What's wrong with wahn-der-fyoo-gull?

If I recall correctly, iTunes was a Carbon application. They ported parts of the Carbon APIs to get it running on Windows.

"There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and hardworking; their place is the General Staff. The next one…

Why no macOS support?

Britain is not in the EU.

End of an era. Used to go there in the 90s. Now everything belongs to shitty, worthless Silicon Valley adventurers.

There's also afplay - Audio File Play (plays an audio file to the default audio output). Can play all audio formats supported by CoreAudio.

Use iTerm2

Thank you for that lengthy diatribe, which I heartily agree with. It's really all about separation of concerns.

Yes. I maintain some open source Mac apps in my spare time (and even develop new ones from time to time) using Objective-C. I've known and used this programming language for 20 yea…

English-language only text-to-speech.

I'd say we have quite a vibrant startup ecosystem given the size of the country.

Sloth author here. To clarify, Sloth does not run with or require root privileges. However, it allows you to (optionally) run lsof itself with root privileges via Apple's Authoriza…

I've been using PyPy and psycopg2cffi in production for the last 5-6 years or so without any issues. https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2cffi/

No. Have you?

Dr. Strangelove : It would not be difficult, Mein Führer! Nuclear reactors could - heh, I'm sorry, Mr. President - nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenho…

This is a very good and important point. As our technology becomes more complex and our global structures more essential, the system surely must tend towards ever greater fragility…

> Average annual household income here is 610000 NOK (~64500 USD). Norway's GDP per capita is about USD70.000. Surely you're using GDP per capita, or average individual income, not…

Russia is not a third world country. Rather, it is a second world country.

Edward Gibbon on his time at Oxford: "To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for…