Ben James

Simple Corporate Developer. Black Lives Matter

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They're not feeling very blessed any more
https://t.co/FUQYXvU3Kn

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I just thought of a witty response to a 15-year-old tweet. Why are the tweets from 2008 gone?

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@adamnfish Bring your daughter to the sorter

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Iron Maiden postage stamps.

I think they should also release a mail-themed song. Fear Of The Dog?

https://t.co/VQzoPPJ2ci

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@TheCheapShowPod Not sure who I was expecting to come out as Inch Man's nemesis, but I wasn't expecting Trump's former secretary of state

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The herbs have opinions on methods of application

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@alexofbroheim All the more impressive considering @alimbada was in the lab before 5am

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If my day keeps going this way I just might bake something tonight

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@TheCheapShowPod @PaulGannonShow @elisnoid The first CheapShow episode I've listened to in a while, and I had to choose this one...

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@channingwalton @andertonsmusic Did you buy something nice?

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Current life stage: Ritter Sport seems like a viable chocolate choice

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@jimblimey Now and then I remember this beer exists and it's always a nice surprise

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@wiredsis As a lead developer I get excited when I convince someone not to write any code in the first place.

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This is it. My whole life has been leading up to this moment.

Both tin openers in the kitchen are broken.

I can now use the one on my Swiss army knife.

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Pay what you like for our album
Also why not buy this tin of 8 biscuits for £25
https://t.co/glj8oqS1en

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@schrodingerskit I'm glad you're reciprocating my like

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@schrodingerskit If I hadn't saw that tweet I miter thought you were just a twitter hack

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I haven't been active on StackOverflow for over 5 years, but my old answers keep gaining reputation and I recently hit 100k rep so they are sending me some free swag. Beat that for an investment, crypto dudes

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So you've heard Iron Maiden's new music, then

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@mausch @kurt2001 ScalaCheck was the first of this type of library that I used extensively, yes. It seems a no-brainer to try max and min numeric values early on, because lossy conversions and overflows are an insidious source of bugs (on .NET and JVM, at least).

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F# tweeps: Am I using fscheck wrong? The default generators for standard number types are terrible. I can reliably get it to pass a property that all int64 values are less than 100. Why isn't it generating a better random distribution by default? Am I expected to write this?