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Objectional programming

On 10 February 2022 by Barry

It was at uni during my masters programme, when one of my classmates (who happened to be a middle-aged uni professor) stormed into the classroom early morning and blasted at another - rather young - student “have you gone berserk!? I pulled the changes since last night and nothing is working anymore”, to which he replied “I thought it was better this way”.

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Microsoftie switches to a MacBook

On 09 March 2017 by Barry

As a software engineer that has worked almost exclusively with Microsoft technology (C#, .NET, Windows Server) and with occasional exposure to Linux environments - I’ve never refrained from having opinions about products that were not in my day-to-day workspace.

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