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ajmcpherson

  1. 1980's Smirnoff found at my parents. Cold war cocktails all round. twitter.com/ajmcpherson/st…
  2. Turning a compiler pass into pseudo-code that is vaguely elegant is surprisingly difficult.
  3. "The only difference between haggis and a sausage is honesty" - @CraigyFerg
  4. Atom scale transistors: wired.co.uk/magazine/archi…
  5. Signs your compiler is completely broken #94: it can't tell the difference between a function call and an array.
  6. Hailstones showing once again that Scottish weather makes no sense.
  7. Penultimate #house tonight. Can't believe it's been 8 years.
  8. Ripping CDs for the first time in years. #whenAllElseFails
  9. Great Springsteen song I hadn't heard before. – Nebraska by @springsteen, from #SoundHound bit.ly/haD6lk
  10. @rubzo not yet, but it's on the list. I hear good things, thoughts?
  11. Lots of cool applications, if this works. Your future hard drive might be grown with magnetic bacteria extremetech.com/extreme/129070… via @extremetech
  12. GTA 3 on a phone is both amazing and depressing. I feel old.
  13. Antipodes Map: antipodemap.com Better than digging all that way and then finding out you've got a lot of swimming to do.
  14. Complexities of cover song copyright wired.co.uk/news/archive/2…
  15. @musebloom Alan Bennett eat your heart out.
  16. @musebloom Laundry Room Confessions sounds like a good idea for a play. I hope you're taking notes.