Aidan Delaney (balor)

Aidan Delaney

unfact: Scala was the programming language of choice for tumblr due to its support for hardware accelerated animated gifs!

Aidan Delaney

Walked into sitting room to find 2 y.o. using tablet and simultaniously playing tuxracer whilst listening to Jeff Buckley

Aidan Delaney

/me loads the Slayer back catalogue into his music player.

Aidan Delaney

At what size, and with what level of cash, does a technology company actually become an investement bank?

Aidan Delaney

If this project used git instead of $other_scm_tool, I'd be working by now!

Aidan Delaney

Academic publishers suck, and suck even more when you're off campus and the http proxy is dead and you have a deadline.

Aidan Delaney

@geeksphone Do you expect to ship devices that have already been ordered soon?

Aidan Delaney

I'm in @cohub for the morning, talking to interesting people. If anyone is around for lunch....

Aidan Delaney

Why is @Shoseki never on the Internet when you need him!

Aidan Delaney

I'm no fan of DVDs, but at least they don't go down and lock up the device just because there's a glitch in the upstream DNS #lovefilm

Aidan Delaney

Borrowed a PS3 to see if the kids would like it. Horrible UI, inexplicable update reboots, no free "starter" content. #unimpressed

Aidan Delaney

Publishing binary-only scientific applications means that I can't verify your results when architectures/ABIs change.

Aidan Delaney

I think this is the third time I've implemented half of lib2geom in Java. I smell a geometry manipulation library in the works.

Aidan Delaney

Latest Intel missive in my inbox states "For your apps to conquer the broadest possible market, HTML5 is how to roll". That's a change.

Aidan Delaney

I had forgotten how socalising in Dublin with great people was so much fun.

Aidan Delaney

@bazkelly79 Meeting some geeks in the Stag's Head at 2000 if you're interested.

Aidan Delaney

I submitted to peer-pressure and bought a copy of the works of T. S. Elliot.

Aidan Delaney

Google not asserting patents agains open source (unless provoked), highly interesting http://ur1.ca/d764j

Aidan Delaney

Thank you @tickets_ie for quickly and easily fixing my booking mistake. I can fly to Dublin and have a fun night out with my beautiful wife.

Aidan Delaney

@pegleggen I just got a curious phishingy-like DM from your twitter account. I'd email you, but I'm on the run & can't find your address