Alex Young

posted two messages on Twitter

“@spurkis Think I'm past caring. After it finished calcluating time remaining (which took about 10 minutes) it was instant. I smell idiocy.”

16 hours ago - Link

“Vista: "Moving 513,080 items (17.1 GB)" No, it's one folder moving to another on the same drive. Why isn't this just a pointer update? GAH!”

17 hours ago - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“@serialseb MIT license is very generous - then again, so is BSD. Either's a great contribution.”

18 hours ago - Link

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“10 minutes to extract a 22MB zip file? Thanks Vista, that's... special.”

23 hours ago - Link

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“Installing NetBeans to try out JRuby GUI dev on Windows. Monkeybars here I come...”

yesterday at 2:40 am - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“Just got back from a meeting. Better than expected, given how long it went.”

Wednesday at 4:42 pm - Link

posted two messages on Twitter

“@serialseb It's an unusual term... I wonder if MS are going to try to claim it for themselves? They're usually called "guests"...”

Tuesday at 4:22 pm - Link

“@serialseb I dunno, did a woman complain about a possibly fried motherboard earlier? :-)”

Tuesday at 4:17 pm - Link

posted eight messages on Twitter

“Why do we as a (part of) society seek the availability of maximum social bandwidth? Is it an inherent human thing, or is it just geekery?”

Tuesday at 1:31 pm - Link

“@katebevan I'm off to Oxford on Friday at lunchtime (back on Sunday night), Laurie's got dinner on Friday and drinks on Saturday.”

Tuesday at 1:23 pm - Link

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“@adean Also, I make it 12ish hours to transfer 500GB over a 100MBps network, ignoring protocol overhead and contention”

Tuesday at 5:04 am - Link

“@adean Buddying up/pairing is easiest short-term. I'll bring a suitable VM along for perusal.”

Tuesday at 5:00 am - Link

posted two messages on Twitter

“Reconstructing code lost in a hard drive crash that was *just* far enough past prototype stage for this to be a pain.”

Tuesday at 2:55 am - Link

“@adean Windows VM's not impossible. Possibly the root cause here is my not having splurged on a new laptop in far too long.”

Tuesday at 2:40 am - Link

posted three messages on Twitter

“@adean re tools; I guess I'm the only one who's likely to be on Mono, but it'd be great not to need Windows! Linux laptop only, you see...”

Monday at 11:40 am - Link

“Retweeting @bbctech: Police forces will be remotely searching hard drives... What? Anyone got more on this? Article is detail and link-free.”

Monday at 10:54 am - Link

“Retweeting @bbctech: Yahoo [will be] the exclusive search engine for Virgin Mobile's [subscribers]... Walled garden FAIL”

Monday at 10:52 am - Link

posted two messages on Twitter

“Retweeting @orgNewsUpdates: No scanners to read ID cards http://twurl.nl/02mjsc - For some reason this makes me laugh. So transparent!”

Monday at 3:42 am - Link

“Oh, ffs - Amazon Web Services doesn't take Maestro. Some of us don't have credit cards for a reason, you know...”

Monday at 3:40 am - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“@annwitbrock yes, that's me - the tall guy with funny ideas about Ruby”

Sunday at 2:40 pm - Link

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“Really overslept / Steaming coffee in my hand / Weekend's looking up.”

Sunday at 4:02 am - Link

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“@saraford http://is.gd/9xfc, scroll right to the bottom. Works on all experts-exchange.com links. Best quote "this thread is just too silly"”

November 29 at 3:56 pm - Link

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“Reinstalling LightWave. This is good.”

November 29 at 8:43 am - Link

posted six messages on Twitter

“@MarkH_B Haven't been able to think about anything else for a couple of hours. SDKs are installing as I type.”

November 28 at 10:07 am - Link

“@MarkH_B That's what I thought. Big plans scurrying round my brainpan.”

November 28 at 9:14 am - Link

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posted two messages on Twitter

“@MarkH_B It's got some of the same ideas in it, but they're very different languages and environments. It makes JOGL a doddle, though.”

November 28 at 6:25 am - Link

“http://is.gd/9mX9 - tempting, tempting...”

November 28 at 5:47 am - Link

posted two messages on Twitter

“Things Need Doing and I'm the one to think hard about doing them. Very hard.”

November 28 at 4:46 am - Link

“http://is.gd/9myJ. That is all.”

November 28 at 4:12 am - Link

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“Aargh. Crisis. Do not want.”

November 27 at 6:13 pm - Link

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“@joshr Masonic? Hardly - just Egyptian, unless you've spotted something I've missed...”

November 27 at 10:48 am - Link

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“1GB upload. Blarg.”

November 27 at 9:18 am - Link

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“Crap. Just spent an hour and a half on the phone explaining the Rails request cycle to a VBA coder. What fun.”

November 27 at 6:01 am - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“RabbitMQ. Nanites. Maybe. Have to check out the testing/speccing story.”

November 27 at 3:49 am - Link

posted six messages on Twitter

“@katebevan You receive loot: Message-Passing Concurrency Model of the Eagle.”

November 26 at 12:06 pm - Link

“@katebevan Does it also handle the vicious Clawed Semaphore of Doom? How about the Screaming Critical Section? So much evil...”

November 26 at 12:04 pm - Link

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“Just found out about the Shogun SVM toolkit. Machine learning! With Python bindings! This looks *very* intriguing.”

November 26 at 10:06 am - Link

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“Very tired, for some reason. Moar coffee needed, obviously.”

November 26 at 8:57 am - Link

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“Signs You're Doing It Wrong: Emailer.deliver_email_invoice not stubbed out in testing. GAH! Still, at least there *is* a test.”

November 26 at 7:53 am - Link

posted two messages on Twitter

“@MarkH_B Sorry, brain no worky. You know this.”

November 26 at 6:13 am - Link

“@MarkH_B It's all to do with this: http://is.gd/96ix. Sickening behaviour.”

November 26 at 6:12 am - Link

posted six messages on Twitter

“@holytshirt Yup. Well worth it. Good to see everyone, too.”

November 26 at 4:39 am - Link

“@adean Fixed - thanks for the heads-up :-)”

November 26 at 4:19 am - Link

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“@LaurieWhiteley Hah! That's great :-)”

November 25 at 6:34 am - Link

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