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dorward

  1. @Ixalon I thought you *had* cloned yourself!
  2. @Si @setmajer I guess I don't spend enough time waiting on platforms to care. :) Would appreciate it in the tunnels though.
  3. @edent Ask a stupid question and watch people down vote it.
  4. @shadowcat_mdk Isn't it The New "International Day" Day?
  5. @markrwright That budget will stretch to a Mac Mini if one would suit your needs. (Not inc. keyboard/mouse/screen) apple.com/uk/macmini/
  6. @markrwright These days? Easily. I wouldn't try building a serious games machine on that, but a general purpose machine is no problem.
  7. @patrick_h_lauke They certainly seem to be good at the "having awful performance" aspect! twitter.com/dorward/status…
  8. @DanAdcock ta. That is a terrible site, isn't it?
  9. @worldofchris I think building a massive, low performance web application for the sake of example would be overkill :)
  10. @worldofchris As a user of the twitter web app (which I'm not), yes. As a person who explains why #! is awful, no. :)
  11. Drat. Twitter are abandoning hashbang URIs … now I have to find someone else to use as an example of why they are so awful.
  12. @sil Pressing the trapdoor button appeals, but the H&S people have been in ( youtube.com/watch?v=VgX6JF… ) and the button makes the keyboard wobble
  13. @sil Do you mean bollocks for typing on or bollocks for pretending to be a super-criminal mastermind?
  14. @nefarioustim @benward Soc media is destroying my brain. My first read of that tweet parsed it as "Please click Like for this on Facebook"
  15. @jonnymorris1973 …to seek out new BEMs and dead civilisations, to drink tea where no Gallifreyan has drunk tea before.
  16. @jonnymorris1973 Time, the final frontier. These are the voyages of a Type 40 TARDIS, its 7 year mission, to explore strange new corridors…
  17. @BarnabyEdwards Avoid the Tube and shopping centres. They'll be full or hordes of kids. ;)