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Functional Programming, C#, Haskell, Managing Devs, Health Informatics

East Midlands, England
Joined May 2010
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For my next trick, I'm going to build a 65 MB self-contained game in C# and shrink it to 8 kB (still 100% self-contained): medium.com/@MStrehovsky/buil…
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An approachable explanation of tagless final. But secretly, these are just typeclasses for Kleisli arrows. jproyo.github.io/posts/2019-…
Let's talk about code reviews (again). I usually encounter two camps when it comes to code reviews: those who think they are necessary and good and those who think they are an unneeded process that slows people down (or a less efficient alternative to pair programming). 1/
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If the FBI want to get into an iPhone w/o users permission, they should ask someone who's done it before, like U2
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2 unit tests. 0 integration tests xitter.cf/ThePracticalDev/status…
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Finally. Someone has the guts to say it.
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“You Won’t Believe What I Promised The Client” - Project Manager who reads Buzzfeed too much.
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Sometimes when I'm writing Javascript I want to throw up my hands and say "this is bullshit!" but I can never remember what "this" refers to
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It's the Circle... the Circle of Life.....vine.co/v/OmxBWU3FuxP
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john lewis xmas advert > man on moon receives parcel from earth I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn > a tear falls
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Realising you've got about fifty grand's worth of plastic bags under your kitchen sink.
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In case of fire ... #Git #Commit
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And that's when our smart devices learned to blackmail us
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Did yet another crap health IT project just get Addenbrookes put in special measures? flnx.co/KfSzW
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Guardian sub makes small typo and accidentally loses all his income. – at Kesgrave, England
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Who needs Trello
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Jurassic Park is on, and I can't not think of this. One of the funniest YouTube comments ever.
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“Nothing is more expensive than hiring cheap developers.”
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New technique for time management: 1 big thing, 3 medium things, and a few little things to accomplish each day.
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