Humorous strap line on BBC news a few hours ago..... I couldn't resist.
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009Update: PKR on VMWare
Sunday, March 29th, 2009I'm still getting a lot of people asking me if PKR runs on VMWare. The current release of PKR and VMWare seem to be broadly compatible. Here is a scrappy video of my settings so people can give it a go. I run PKR off of my bootcamp partition but there is no need to use a separate partition. Click through to watch in HD where it is a little better.
It's a little grainy but you should be able to see the settings I've been using for DX, VMWare and PKR.
This doesn't mean that future verisons of PKR or VMWare are going to work btw.
I have a shameful secret: as an engineer…
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008... I have no idea how to fix twitter. I know this sounds incredible but it is true, there I have said it, it's out in the open.
I use twitter every day to send out really quite boring messages. "I've had some chocolate" and "I like lossless encoding" are all stunning examples of how boring my twitters are. Sometimes they don't appear on twitter for hours... occasionally they don't appear at all.
As an engineer I think I have a fair idea of how twitter works BUT I have a code base full of my own problems. I tend to spend my time thinking about those rather then fixing twitters by proxy.
So I'm asking the internet, can you all just shut up about fixing twitter. I am sure they are aware of their deficiencies and how it would be better if they didn't do X or did do Y. Let's leave it to them to solve and if they don't I'm sure one of the genius twitter fixing bloggers can make his own distributed erlang über resilient systems that only blogger can create.
Here endeth the rant!