Stephen Hand

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@MasefelaE @DRollins_

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@KevOnStage In the north of England, it's the Sunday roast, specifically with beef & Yorkshire puddings.

If you're the 'go to' for that, you own the kitchen 🤣

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@AndrewOrlowski To be fair, having the same Indian guy phone you twice within a minute on behalf of 2 different mobile networks does seem entirely plausible...

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@GigaBasedDad 'New Year’s Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park!'

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@MuseumCommodore I'd start an extra large map on day 1. Would probably need to finish it when I got home, though...

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@_everythingism @ChrisAlvino I think it's been unfortunate that one of the use cases it's been genuinely useful for is as an assistant to people writing code. I think that's lead a lot of myopic tech folks to assume AI will be as useful to everyone else as it is to them... 🙄

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@Kearabile_ I exercise a lot and eat right now and rarely get anything beyond a mild cold, but I used to be a lazy, junk hoovering slob and it was no different, so genetic lottery I suppose?

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@techgirl1908 I think this mentality came about in the recent past, when many companies had near empty pipelines, so if they hadn't stopped the process earlier, they'd already decided you are better than keeping the role open. Whereas now, assume you will be competing down to the wire.

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@Bookeboy You can't replace all those shoes with a 7 inch Kindle, so really, they're making better use of the space than you ever did.

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@Dirtdragonmom Black headed gulls. Because of the chip piracy.

And because of Keehar from Watership Down.

And because I brought one home once, and nearly gave my mother a heart attack when she walked into the living room to see me cradling a stunned and confused gull like a baby...

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The number of times I see what I initially think is a @manwhohasitall post, but on closer inspection, turns out to be an actual thing is increasing of late...

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@YesterdaysBrit1

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@RichardGarriott So outrage staves off dementia? Who knew?

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@techgirl1908 My contacts are an 'append only' store. I still have the number for the gym in town I moved out of 15 years ago, so I'm definitely not gonna be deleting dead friends & family...

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@vagroanalytics @devnexus @LawrenceDCodes @marcushellberg Typescript is a layer on top of JavaScript than a language in its own right. It will help your Typescript a lot if you come to it with some understanding of what it's built on.

But I learned JS before TS existed, maybe learning them in tandem works. But you need to know both!

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@AdamRutherford Not even accurate. Cadbury creme eggs were never called 'Easter Eggs'. Seriously, as a kid if a relative had said they were bringing me an 'Easter Egg' and turned up with a creme egg rather than a hollow chocolate bad boy with buttons inside, they would've been dead to me, dead!

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@marktechson Agree, but what I REALLY love is when you retrofit unit tests, find a bug, then learn that all your integrators have written code that depends on the bug, and will break if you were to fix it. So you end up having to write unit tests to verify the bug has NOT been fixed... 🫠

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@CatherineMcNiel Times like that, seems like some people use music to process their feelings, some to move them on, and others, just to start feeling them at all. https://t.co/6xYQDrXfyy

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@javavvitch How the hell are these 'A dating app, but for ...' pitches still getting funded?!

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@brianmoore666 In the end, all you are is what you've done - nothing more, nothing less. But the most important things you do are rarely what gets most recognition or what's most richly rewarded.