Tech persona for @TommyHerbert. Only follow this one if you want to hear me talk about programming and things like that.

Glasgow
Joined April 2011
this name could have been generated by a neural net: Sainsbury's Deliciously Free From Grated Cheddar-Style Coconut Based Alternative To Cheese
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it's a beautiful accidental anti-poem hinging on 'From', which expects a complement and never quite gets one
Tommy Herbert retweeted
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I suppose Apple's 'Find my iPhone' feature could conceivably be a vulnerability, which is maybe why they've added super-smart two-factor authentication. To find her phone, all my wife had to do was type in a code that they'd texted to her ph... ah.
Beginning to think Visual C++ is the wrong compiler if you want parallelism. And if you want performance, you probably want parallelism. And if you don't want performance, why use C++?
@Greigyboii @aa_smeaton @MattWatson90 Damn, I left our design drawings at home. Do we need those?
@Greigyboii @MattWatson90 @aa_smeaton No problem. I've got our table from yesterday with power sockets available.
@Greigyboii @aa_smeaton @MattWatson90 So shall I bring the bike or shall we just video ourselves using it on foot?
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@Greigyboii @aa_smeaton @MattWatson90 Well I'll wait till you guys arrive before I deprive the other team of internet.
Job applications: time to look up the word 'polymorphism'.
Bored of #Eclipse crashes and unpredictable #Android emulator behaviour. Come back, #Xcode: all is forgiven.
I can only afford one Android test device. What should it be? Phones, this is, not tablets.
New Year's resolutions are good for business. Three people came to me this week wanting apps. Where were you lot in Autumn?
Can I use the route-me library to calculate the shortest route between two waypoints in a city? The docs don't obviously answer this.
Was Google Wave largely ignored in the end?
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Dammit - underestimated! My last tweet should have said 'underestimated'. This is exactly the sort of thing that causes the trouble.
Reasons I overestimated dev time for my last project: spec changes, incomplete task list, optimism, not enough detail. http://bit.ly/kEt2mL
Tommy Herbert retweeted
Agreed! Blog post arguing that software patents should be abolished: http://ow.ly/58BiR (via @marcoarment)
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