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alastair

Netley Abbey, United Kingdom

http://alastairs-place.net

Owner/CEO of Coriolis Systems Limited.

I develop software on Mac OS X and iOS, primarily in Cocoa/Objective-C and Python.

In a past life, wrote Windows and embedded software, contributed significantly to the early Mingw32 project, and hacked at XEmacs and GCC.

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How does line spacing work in Core Text? (and why is it different from NSLayoutManager?)
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How can I round a float value to 2 post decimal positions?
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Why is it an "exc_bad_access" and not a "run-time" or "compile-time" error?
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What language level support (if any) does Swift have for asynchronous programming?
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13
Horizontal <hr>-like separator in NSAttributedString
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10
A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution Required
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What's the CoreText equivalent to AppKit's NSObliquenessAttributeName?
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9
Passing arguments wrapped with double quotes in a subprocess command
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9
Are ordinary OS X desktops at risk from bash "shellshock" bug (CVE-2014-6271)?
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uWSGI Server log…permission denied to read file...which file?
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Google C++ style guide's No-exceptions rule; STL?
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How to limit memory of a OS X program? ulimit -v neither -m are working
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7
Has every NSThread automatically a dispatch queue?
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7
numerical value of a unicode character in objective c
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7
How to set console cursor position for stdout
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7
Emacs is not recognizing files as latex and going into latex-mode?
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memcpy/memmove to a union member, does this set the 'active' member?
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Removing duplicates from NSMutableArray
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Can I know the exact rect of part of NSTextField text?
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6
Confusing with the usage of regex in Python
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6
Swift EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION
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Did any European computers use 10-line fonts?
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5
How do I enable backslash support in GCC?
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Is there any easy way to adding NSLog or any logging statement in all methods?
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5
Can't Remove Kernel Extensions Under Mojave
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