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NSCFType··on Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home
It was — specifically, it was the 2014 Christmas special ("White Christmas").
NSCFType··on Changes to Code Search Indexing
Commit activity or showing up in a search result.
NSCFType··on New species of fungus identified via Twitter
Nothing unusual about the origin on this one, but an amusing binomial nonetheless:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_blackbird

NSCFType··on Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition
> VERB

> informal US

> Obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them.

> Origin

> 1980s from the name of Robert Bork (1927–2012), an American judge whose nomination to the Supreme Court (1987) was rejected following unfavourable publicity for his allegedly extreme views.

from OED https://www.lexico.com/definition/bork

NSCFType··on BitQuest – Minecraft server with Bitcoin-denominated economy
The villager trading mechanic can be exploited to provide unlimited emeralds:

The game has NPC villagers, each of whom are dressed according to their profession. Professions indicate to the player which items are available for trade. There are a number of possible items per profession, and each villager will make available around a dozen of them. Villagers who are librarians may trade an emerald for a 20-something sheets of paper. Paper is crafted from sugar cane. Players can build massive sugar cane towers.

Normally, villagers stop trading items after a while and lock the item from the trade screen. All can be locked except the last trade. So if you get a librarian villager that has paper as its final item, that means unlimited emeralds for you!

Obtaining villagers isn't a problem even if villages are hard to find since zombie villagers can be cured into normal villagers. Villagers obtained can then be 'farmed' in simple villager breeders, you just need two to start with. Professions are randomly assigned at, um, birth.

Setup for all this is several hours of gameplay, less with some help. The primary thing is finding a zombie spawner underground (plentiful) or an occupied village above ground (not so plentiful). After that, it's just a matter going to the sugar cane tower and grabbing hundreds of sugar cane, crafting it to paper and visiting a librarian for a while. It takes like 10 minutes to trade a full inventory of paper. Repeat ad nauseam. You don't even have to bring a pickaxe.

NSCFType··on OS X 10.10 – Source Code
> From memory, this is the first release of the Darwin source in ages

Ages? https://opensource.apple.com/ looks like it has for a while, except for the addition of 10.10 (I grab CFLite, libclosure, libdispatch, and objc4 whenever they're made available after a release).

NSCFType··on OS X 10.10 – Source Code
Not in a very long time. If memory serves, Apple last released a bootable image for one of the Darwin 8.x releases.
NSCFType··on Rewriting Reddit (2005)
Flask (2010) wasn't around when reddit was (re)written (2005).
NSCFType··on Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple
One of the payment types is 'None'.

http://i.imgur.com/oCqZf2b.png

NSCFType··on λ Lessons
I submitted this to /r/Haskell and chrisdoner left you some praise and feedback (he thought I wrote it).

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2d1dpg/λ/cjlakwi

NSCFType··on Algorithm: The Hacker Movie
Well, technically, IP addresses can be represented by a single integer:

2130706433 == 127.0.0.1

NSCFType··on MacDown: Open-source Markdown editor for OS X
LightPaper (free, not open source) has a project sidebar: http://cl.ly/WGSv

http://clockworkengine.com/lightpaper-mac/