
Thom – e/ach hans run
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Be merry! We meet again, at the turn of the tide.
Sheffield, England
Joined September 2015
If the GoF had just put Monads in the Design Patterns book and called them something dull like Function Decorators, we could have saved decades of snark and angst.
Monads have entered the chat. No, seriously. The best description of them I've ever read was from Graydon Hoare (yes, that one), who once wrote that he thought the "monad keeners" might be on to something, but they're impossible to understand "until your brain breaks, and then,.
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She should have been allowed to do her little speech, and then been subjected to ten minutes of grilling about the bits of the union flag her dress got wrong.
bbc.co.uk
Bilton School in Rugby apologised after preventing a pupil from making a speech at school while wearing a union jack dress.
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Missed that it was 5 years since Garry passed. Given recent events, perhaps we'd have all fallen out by now (he was a rare breed: a staunchly Zionist Zen Buddhist), but I've always liked this photo of him taking time out at the pub after an Opta Pro Forum to share his knowledge.
Just to inform everyone who reads this feed that Garry Gelade passed away on 5th July at 14.25 UK Time. If anyone wants to know about it, please call on +44 2072896305.
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I have a sort of part-time, quasi-religious belief that this is one of the cleverer optimisations the universe uses, as a side effect of consciousness. Also the reason we'll never meet aliens - snapping together two complicated timelines like that would be too expensive.
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RT @lemonwatcher: Heard yer da wrote grumpy tweets about missing out on Bitcoin at $100, $1700, $2500, $5000, $3500, $6000, $7500, $10000,….
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RT @FootballCliches: After 33 years of people (subconsciously, actively, desperately) wondering where the iconic commentary sample in the G….
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RT @cj87EFC: This needs to be incorporated into our match day ritual. Absolutely incredible when everyone started singing it. https://t.co/….
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