Graham24

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by Graham24 8y ago
bloke I knew worked in Tiny Computers in the UK in the late 90s. at xmas they were so busy the staff would just ignore any customer who did not want to buy an Extended Warrenty as they were not worth the time. And people wonder why the Hig
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by Graham24 8y ago
What's a C programmer's favourite time of day? t_time.
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by Graham24 8y ago
LFO are also top draw stuff
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by Graham24 8y ago
"Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is a quality product.
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The street nun helping people make a living from New York's cans(theguardian.com)
1 points by Graham24 8y ago|0 comments
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by Graham24 8y ago
Yeah, if they do not have attention to detail, I do not want to work there.
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by Graham24 8y ago
In the Summer of 1985 (when I should have been outside chasing girls) I wrote a COBOL interpreter in C64 BASIC as the college I was at was still using punched cards and sending them offsite to be run overnight. That was interesting.
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by Graham24 8y ago
been there done that.
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by Graham24 8y ago
after 25 years, it's institutionalising.
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by Graham24 8y ago
My Dad was a riveter in the Vickers Viscount factory in the 50s/60s. Ok, not Comets, but close.
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by Graham24 8y ago
It was shown in the UK again last weekend.
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Beer before wine not fine, scientists find after vomit-filled tests(theguardian.com)
2 points by Graham24 8y ago|0 comments
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by Graham24 8y ago
when I was at university we did a module on Formal Methods including writing Z Schemas. Out of a class of 30 only two people really understood them. That's why they are not generally used, no one (or at least not enough) has a clue ho
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by Graham24 8y ago
I blame the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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by Graham24 8y ago
I am currently DMing The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, every Sunday at 8:30pm.
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by Graham24 8y ago
Yeah, it sure did. Whoops, sorry, forget I said that...
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by Graham24 8y ago
I'm expecting him to announce that he's bought an old extinct hollowed out volcano and is recruiting for goons.
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by Graham24 8y ago
{cough cough} West Ham {cough cough}
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by Graham24 8y ago
This is six months old
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30 years after its birth, Acorn RISC OS 5 is going open source(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by Graham24 8y ago|0 comments
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by Graham24 8y ago
there was a great radio 4 adaptation of this from the 90s, but I can only find references to a 2015 version.
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by Graham24 8y ago
being English, every Christmas there was always a box of Turkish Delight on the table (and dates of course).
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by Graham24 8y ago
A9418D0004
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by Graham24 8y ago
Make sure you know about Orders of Complexity. Read the Mythical Man Month and other old books on theory.
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by Graham24 8y ago
I've heard the Vulcan fly a few times and it sounds as if the very air itself is screaming in complaint not the plane.
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by Graham24 8y ago
I'm glad my team play all-out attacking progressive football, rather than the negative 11 behind the ball defensive dismal displays I've seen the away teams do at Dean Court.
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by Graham24 8y ago
I've done this, leave an obvious trivial bug for the QA to find otherwise they'll keep digging until they find something pointless and hard to fix, which is not a problem in the first place. they have to find something to justify
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Cheap material could radically improve battery charging speed(theguardian.com)
2 points by Graham24 8y ago|0 comments
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by Graham24 8y ago
Try the 8 bit guy's you tube channel.
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by Graham24 8y ago
I pity the poor fool who tries to point a laser at my eye.

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