Looked up the history and they bought it so early on that effectively the whole thing was developed by Google.

They bought the startup in 2005 and the first phone came out in 2008.

Thanks for the link to "dirs" - I wish I'd known about it before I implemented a (worse) version just using the home crate.

LASIM author here - it should! Though Mac OS X is the one platform I can't test on myself - I can build it through Github, and everything I did should be cross-platform, but I can't actually launch it myself to make sure everything is working fine.

Only other thing might be if their work Macbook imposes any restrictions on running arbitrary binaries from the internet - which it understandably might.

This bit me too.

How I believe you would read it for posts, using the values you posted, is "6 posts are allowed every 600 seconds". The variables are poorly named IMO.

Following those rules, my own application seemed to stop getting rate limited.