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Joe Armstrong

British actor · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Born 1978 · age 48

Joseph Armstrong is an English actor. His television roles include Allan A Dale in three series of Robin Hood, Hotspur in Henry IV, Part I, Ashley Cowgill in Happy Valley and Bairstow in The Village. On stage, he played the lead role in D. C. Moore's The Empire and appeared in the 2011 revival of Flare Path.

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2026The BlameSeries, Kyle Frasier2024Fool Me OnceSeries, Alexander Dosman2019“Messages take time", and they propagate through space, there’s no guarantee it gets there.”In their wordsThe forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019

“Why are people just moving the data and not the programs. We could move both of them to some intermediate point in the middle to perform the computation there.”In their wordsThe forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019

“Many programs don’t have well-defined interface. They should have.”In their wordsThe forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019

“I think we seem to have forgotten that things can be small. This way of decomposing systems into small things that I can reason about.”In their wordsThe forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019

“One of the things we’ve forgotten, is the importance of protocols and not describing them accurately.”In their wordsThe forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019

“Google knows everything about us but we know nothing about Google.”In their wordsThe forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019

2018BritanniaSeries, GildasThe Good Soldier SchwejkFilm, 20182017Darkest HourFilm, John Evans2016To Walk InvisibleFilm, Thomas Mallinson2014Happy ValleySeries, Ashley CowgillCloser to the MoonFilm, 2014Răzvan Orodel2012The Hollow CrownSeries, Hotspur2009Land GirlsSeries, Danny SparksBreaking the MouldFilm, 2009Norman Heatley2007Once Upon a Time on the WestwayFilm, Chas2006Robin HoodSeries, Allan2003Between The SheetsSeries, Richard Lloyd2001Waking the DeadSeries, Jason Murphy1984The BillSeries1978Born7 October 1978

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  • Darkest Hour 2017
  • To Walk Invisible 2016
  • Closer to the Moon 2014

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34 credits on file

Television 24

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In their own words 4

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4 statements, newest first
  1. I just want to model what’s going on in the real world

    2019 · The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019, Own words

  2. This is a thing that really scares me, are people developing large applications that they don’t understand.

    2019 · The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019, Own words

  3. People keep telling me this, "you’ve got to upgrade your operating system". Then they say, "Well, that’s because of security things." I don’t really have much confidence in them.

    2019 · The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming, a full transcription is also available on Erlang Solution website. Recorded in 2019, Own words

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He co-starred with Maxine Peake in Miss Julie at the Royal Exchange and with Louise Brealey in a touring production of Constellations.

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Born 1978 · age 48