More of an emotional overreaction. The point is that we were actually friends, and it is true that he didn't have many friends. His taking a job at AWE without even appearing to consider the ethics o… (View Post)

Please don't quote that comment! I'm busy furiously back-pedalling from it. Anyway, it's all a bit hypocritical of me, given that I worked for the MoD for a while in my younger and more naïve days! (View Post)

Well, maybe I was being a bit harsh. He wasn't a bad student - not the brightest, but not the worst either. He wasn't a particularly likeable character, but what we finally fell out over was his taki… (View Post)

I did my PhD with him. Utter tosser. (View Post)

I have spent the last few months acquainting myself with a vast, monolithic 30-year-old C++ code base written by programmers of wildly varying ability under the auspices of a whitespace-hater. Pity m… (View Post)