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If you count the sections of your four fingers with your thumb, you can count up to 12 on one hand!

Yes I suppose it's not! My time sense in recent decades is very fugitive :)

Not a recent movie, but it was mentioned in Shooter, a Mark Wahlberg film from way back when

This is why (apart from being Irish) I drink a fair bit of tea throughout the day. Going to the kitchen, boiling water and letting it brew, gets me away from my desk and gives me a…

Yes, it was called Active Desktop if memory serves.

Ah yes. I remember having to do something similar. My connection was via 3G on an old Sony Ericsson K750, which was acting as a Bluetooth modem. I think I did manage to get about 5…

Presumably expressions of interest?

My dad got us an Atari 130 XE for Christmas back in the 80s. On Christmas day, it ran a program which asked for our names (my sister or I) and then printed out a personalised messa…

I’m sorry to say that some of the gnarliest and most boneheaded codebases I worked on were ones where I was the ‘architect’. It was a startup environment and hectic, but I had tota…

This is one of the features I like most about F#, after some years experience with it. The project is structured with a specific file ordering, and there's no forward referencing. …

Yes likewise! We had a mobile library (a big van would park up a few streets over every Tuesday) and I have very fond memories of their Tintin books. There's something about the 'a…