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You could have added a description, though, so that uninterested people don't have to click the link. Here it goes:

"Alfred 3 for Mac

Alfred is an award-winning app for Mac OS X which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac."

Simplicity and C++? Like speaking of rope in the house of the hanged, as we say in Italy... Congrats for the effort though.

Two of them.

1) 1993: switching from computer programming to system administration in order to avoid the C++ onslaught (at the company I was working for). Managed to successfully avoid it since then (25 years). And now we have Rust: life is good.

2) 1999: going back to programming while excluding closed tech and focusing only on free and open tools. With all their faults, having complete visibility and control of the software stack has been a blessing. And now there's hope for hardware too. Life is good #2.

"Thou who shalt be king hereafter, protect yourself vigorously from the Lie; the man who shall be a lie-follower, him do thou punish well, if thus thou shall think. May my country be secure!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#In_Zoroastrianism

Been there recently. The peace and quiet was uncanny, it felt like my hometown half a century ago.

Nope. Nor is grey text.

Slaves to speech suppression are masters of nothing - Eric Raymond http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8114

Downvoting reality does not make it less so, people.

"When do we start throwing obsolete things away?"

We started already: work is afoot to throw away C, C++ and JavaScript, the main culprits. Rust is a good stab at all three.

No need for a prescription in Italy.

Good keyboards and pointer devices are not as expensive anymore, both in money and learning time terms. My picks:

Kinesis Freestyle Edge (never mind the "Gaming" slant): https://gaming.kinesis-ergo.com/edge/

A big-ball trackball (not the thumb-operated ones): https://www.kensington.com/us/us/4493/trackballs

Thank you for posting this, definitely interesting and useful.

Thank you so much for Deck! I used it for a few talks recently, you can find two of them about Go on my BitBucket page: https://bitbucket.org/teknico/ You also have a pull request on Github. :-)

I'll just leave this here. Downvotes start in 3.. 2... 1...

The long goodbye to C - http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7711

Yes to the latter. As for the former, it's up to you to decide. ;-)

> Has any serious blockchain successfully implemented PoS at this point?

Decred has, in production for months: <https://docs.decred.org/mining/proof-of-stake/>.

True, it's a hybrid Pow/PoS system, not a pure PoS one, which is indeed probably not workable: <https://docs.decred.org/research/hybrid-design/>.

Another valuable coin missing from that list is Decred (DCR, https://decred.org/ ).

The on-chain atomic swap (no Lightning Network involved yet) was executed using Decred technology ( https://github.com/decred/atomicswap ) and was preceded by a DCR-LTC swap ( https://blog.decred.org/2017/09/20/On-Chain-Atomic-Swaps/ ).

(De)credit where credit is due. ;-)

Speaking of cross-platform alternatives to traditional Unix shells, if you like Python try http://xon.sh . More compatible and overall usable as a shell than IPython.

It's a lost cause: there's no such thing as "sane" or "orthodox" C++. Instead, use something actually sane like Go. Or Rust, if you really must (first bad pun is free, then it's 50 cents each).