Paul Walmsley

Was it Dijkstra who said "No one cares how quickly you can compute the wrong answer"?

Featuring the legendary rhyme "When I've got my hand on your grease gun/It's like a disease son"

This is a good method, but you have to squeeze carefully to remove the grotty bananus bit

When CDs came out and people found them 'sterile', that's because they reproduced the sound without the distortion

Peter Gabriel's So album needed the running order changed for LP because the bass repro is different depending on whether it's at the start or end. LPs actually *add* distortion (which is what you call 'warmth')

That's not really the whole story. In practice, many compromises are required in the mastering process because you can't exactly reproduce the sound. The bass has to be dialed down.

Yes, but there's a limit

I'm looking forward to Monday's karaoke now

Probably the only sentence to ever contain those two words

{'rock'}

Dinosaurs in a rowing boat on the Serpentine

They are evolving quite rapidly - they've mastered rowing boats too, so not long before our hovercrafts aren't safe from these menaces

You automate everything else; isn't it about time you automated away your software development staff? Response: This is another variation of the high-tech illu-sion: the belief that software developers do easily automat-able work. Their principal work is human communication to organize the users' expressions of needs into formal pro-cedure. That work will be necessary no matter how we change the life cycle. And it's not likely to be automated.

Rereading “Peopleware” 

Look, over thirty years later and this quote is 💯relatable to todays discourse 

5/x

#programming

I was going to try a comparison of compiling our applications (reasonably large but smaller than Chromium) on a devdrive, but I couldn't get devdrive to work with bitlocker

It's great then that MIDI 2.0 has support for 16 channels x 16 groups

The textures bring The Pink Panther to mind

Lovely pic - a nice surprise to see you in my feed, Lucy!

...and so that's why we always have a bottle of calamine lotion in the back of the Mondeo.

26/26

Oh, I'm so glad you asked. Well, the problems started last summer...

1/26

(Internal monologue: Tsk, the *real* Julie Fowlis never asks me about my kids...)

They started to message me too. Blocked & reported. Still, nice of them to ask about the family.

An old school friend used to draw all the pictures from Slayer album covers of people being eviscerated by devils on his textbooks, bags, etc

Years later turns out he became a graphic artist on the Total War video games and spent his days drawing gruesome violence.

Follow your dreams...

I remember the tears of laughter streaming down my face when I first saw that around the age of 10