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@sophistifunk Server side JavaScript will take off Any Day Now(tm). (Only moderately sarcastic.)
@BigPondTeam responded to my request for The Killers latest as non-DRM in Australia: http://tinyurl.com/6h5p5l I'm impressed!
Earlier in the office. Dhanji: Get rid of those locks! Me: ...but there's a race! dhanji: Screw the race, get rid of the locks!
Anyone know why limes are so damn expensive in Australia?
@marick Ahh, the perils of not doing functional testing.
My bash scripting fu is growing stronger.
Loving the new GMail themes: Beach for private email, Desk for my work email.
I'm getting old. I don't understand the Clojure hype.
@chris_stevenson Yeah, as far as I'm concerned logging is a solved problem: log4j. Let's move on folks.
logger.fine(...); logger.finer(...); logger.evenFiner(...); logger.reallyDamnFineNow(...); Idiocy like this is what gives Java a bad rap.
How the hell could Joshua Bloch let java.util.logging slip through on his watch? It's atrocious.
Little known fact about Australia: It may have the best coffee in the world.
@mentalartist Thanks for the research. Interesting indeed.
@mentalartist Yeah I've heard that too. I don't buy it. Maybe a puny 1-3 year recession but the worse crisis since the depression?
@mentalartist Gotta say this is an exceptionally bad timing to start a new company.
Looked at this presentation of Scaling Twitter http://tinyurl.com/2udfd3. Almost embarrassingly naive. I assume it's changed since then...?
Reading Brewers Conjecture. Apart from using silly/obsolete terminology ("web services") it's an interesting read.
@amartinsn ah, "distributed transactions", that's easy. they're broken, don't use them.
@badrij listening. first 3 mins sound alright. ;-)