Barry Jones

All round nice guy.

[Barry Jones @atirez]

. @Ryanair do not refund missed flight fees. After you miss a flight they offer £100pp to go on standby for another flight under time pressure. If you choose to go on a different flight they wont give you your money back - even though you are told when paying it is refundable.

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@davidpine7 Seems pointless to me. You have saved a few curly braces and increased comprehension time. Pretty in your mind, is not more important than readable and maintainable.

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What is this punditry interrupting the pre-match adverts @SkySports

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Takes Foden off making us even more toothless. Poor, boring, sideways, slow. #EnglandvsScotland

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Local elections, #Conservatives letter just says vote for us it will be worse if you vote for them. I am now informed, thanks #kettering

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@pmaxkelly76 Yay 😃

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I want to be optimistic. But I can't help but feel like we are going to get smashed. #ManchesterDerby #ManUtd

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Favour specific over general.
https://t.co/TgVj8u7EoX

[Barry Jones @atirez]

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affection; to make judgement wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. - Francis Bacon

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The direction you are looking at a code change from affects your perception of its correctness.

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The three ways of seeing: 1. Enjoyment. 2. Mechanics. 3. Mechanics of the enjoyment, what is good and bad and how it works.

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Illustrating Basic; one of the first books on programming I ever owned. It's amazing how visualising things can help you grasp concepts quicker.

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@david_perell The first person doesn't care, the second sarcastically copies.

[David Perell @david_perell]

This video is a masterclass in psychology.

The first person to do something always looks weird. People laugh. Then somebody else joins. Then the crowds come in and the person who started the whole thing goes from looking like a goon to looking like a genius.

[Barry Jones @atirez]

Software development is a bunch of principles masquerading as science.

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@Kewstu121 Yeah we are all good over here. How's things?

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We write code to tell the computer what to do, then expect other people to figure out what we meant. Let’s write code to communicate to each other instead. https://t.co/lmZrBls6M1

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@Sonos I am disappointed that all my purchases are now being made obsolete. I wont be buying any more of your products knowing they have a short lifespan.

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So the @BBC now shows its best content on its second paid for service @BritBox_UK

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@InstapaperHelp please can you add the ability to export all highlights for a single article, preferably from the article page.