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James

@MrAatch

Easily distracted programming language geek

 NZ
Joined August 2009
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My first unsolicited recruitment email! I feel strangely validated.
A flowchart of what programmers do at work all day, by @secretGeek
Image from Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror)
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Just had an opthamologist apps. Now everything is blurry.
This just in text editors suck because they aren't IDEs.
12 hours almost straight debugging a memory corruption bug in C++. Hopefully the fix sticks.
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TCP packet walks into a bar & says “I’d like a beer.” Barman replies “You’d like a beer?” “Yes,” replies TCP packet,“I’d like a beer.”
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Every single backend developer has a heart of designer. In a jar on the desk.
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New snapshot is so close I can almost taste it! Cc @rustlang
Ugh, massive change to project. All tests pass. Except 1. Because I changed the format of an error message.
About to start part 2 of The Planets by @NZSO awesome stuff so far.
Uh huh. So when MS releases an flat ui, it's a travesty, but when apple do it, it's an innovation the likes of which none have seen? I see.
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There's something strangely satisfying about closing a "bug" report as WONTFIX.
Man, now I feel old. Some kid just asked me to buy alcohol for him.
How Does The Worst Human Being Of Retail Sleep At Night? After He Sees This, He Won't add.vc/c3W /by @adamah #FitchTheHomeless
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*prepares for unfollowers* I wish Russell T Davies would come back to Who. Steven Moffat is fantastic for one off episodes not a series.
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Want unintialized values in #rustlang? Now you can: github.com/mozilla/rust/pull…

Add uninit intrinsic and use it in libcore/libstd by Aatch · Pull Request #6354 · rust-lang/rust

Adds an uninit intrinsic. It's just an empty function, so llvm optimizes it down to nothing. I changed all of the init intrinsic usages to uninit where it seemed appropriate to.

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"Half the city is closed down due to flooding" - bus driver
Wow, town is flooded out to the point that the buses won't go through it at places.
License Or It Doesn't Exist commonsware.com/blog/2013/04… via @commonsguy
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A thousand thumbs-up. “We need a standard layered image format”, by @ccgus who uses sqlite for Acorn’s images: shapeof.com/archives/2013/4/…
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