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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 11:57:45 PM
All VPN services are bad, but surely you can trust yourself to run one, right? https://t.co/Chw1i74PBZ
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kpoulsen @kpoulsen
Feb 13, 2018, 11:48:20 PM
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Seconded. A weak move by @nytimes. Don't announce a hiring decision if you're prepared to reverse it within a couple of hours…
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ZachWeiner @ZachWeiner
Feb 13, 2018, 7:52:24 PM
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This is truly the darkest timeline. https://t.co/rlNsbN9bQy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 6:36:38 PM
Remember when fifty thou' a year would buy a lot of beer? (also, special effects in this video were done with an Amiga Video Toaster as I recall) https://t.co/UkQtQOImzy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 6:30:35 PM
I have mixed feelings about Future Man, but the series-long running Corey Hart gags were absolutely *sublime*, and Wolf is pretty much the best character ever https://t.co/fKN96ZQIv4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 3:54:03 PM
anyone at Google have any comment on a negative SEO attack farming campaign? This is crazy: https://t.co/w1ZPjzL9hi
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 3:41:35 PM
Why isn't QWOP an olympic event yet https://t.co/1IOhML27sV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 11:20:12 PM
“while there might indeed be one right way to do things, you will never get to find out what it is.” https://t.co/jua7xT92N6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 8:50:29 PM
Because dice are usually a no-no as they can be used for gambling, prisoners get creative with random number generation: https://t.co/3424QMRJTF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 8:30:44 PM
Anodize all the things https://t.co/CWerph9chL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 6:27:05 PM
wait wait wait wait so outside the US, "ranch dressing" or "ranch flavor" is known as .. "american" ?? 🤯
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Carnage4Life @Carnage4Life
Feb 12, 2018, 6:24:20 PM
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Stanford, Harvard & MIT creating computer ethics courses as a reaction to the #fakenews and the “Facebook effect”. A s…
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sachasayan @sachasayan
Feb 12, 2018, 6:23:29 PM
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@OH_NOES @thedirtbird @codinghorror I didn't believe you so I looked it up and now my mind is blown. https://t.co/6wPbWUmJPS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 5:25:54 PM
Anyone know why both IE and Edge don't support HTML5 dir=auto? This is odd https://t.co/VxCsfj09HI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 4:58:43 PM
The decline of torrenting for the best possible reason: easy, cheap, legal alternatives https://t.co/APZG6OlVer
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thedirtbird @thedirtbird
Feb 12, 2018, 4:51:34 PM
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I have 2 very specific needs!!!!! https://t.co/vExgjzHPu7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2018, 7:07:47 PM
“slack empowers your worst people to overwhelm your best” https://t.co/zV1gFtC3UI
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I am really Pumped watching the Winter Olympics. I am watching events I never thought I would watch before, like curling. You hear…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2018, 3:01:54 PM
Man vs. Snake: the long and twisted tale of Nibbler https://t.co/zR2ozLcz7L
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0xabad1dea @0xabad1dea
Feb 9, 2018, 9:57:03 PM
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I admit, I had to check. https://t.co/vFXjtx83Xa
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AllBlackCatsAre @AllBlackCatsAre
Feb 9, 2018, 5:07:22 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2018, 5:03:19 PM
There is a child named Ramses in my son's class and every time I see his name, I mentally start singing this https://t.co/iiwlSCWZEK
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StackSmashing @StackSmashing
Feb 8, 2018, 10:59:17 PM
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The leaked Apple source code mixes tabs and spaces.🤬 https://t.co/yZXM4ufRNY
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captbaritone @captbaritone
Feb 8, 2018, 2:30:59 PM
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It's done! 🎉 Winamp2-js (https://t.co/BtfXzKsJYH) finally supports all three windows!

To celebrate, here's a list of som…
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Some app copywriters (or their bosses) need to be fired. https://t.co/IJJr5U4jXH
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2018, 6:03:11 PM
Adult principles, by John Perry Barlow https://t.co/lp0cLwMwHl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2018, 5:49:14 PM
I don’t even know why but I had to have this https://t.co/a5ebT4cQHB
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2018, 1:38:16 PM
Holy cow I just checked and sure enough, Mr. Brightside is #98 in the UK charts at this very moment 🤔https://t.co/KCxwd37UvX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2018, 9:30:51 PM
“I was just angry and frustrated and sad that you can’t make cool shit for the internet anymore and make a living.” https://t.co/BvmikKssG6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2018, 5:22:46 PM
The live feed of the SpaceX launch is definitely exceeding my expectations https://t.co/i0VUt85fiE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2018, 4:05:51 PM
"the globe is now filled with imperfect clones of a pet shop accident." https://t.co/b2dTS5h5og
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I've tried tweaking my Kickstarter copy (title and blurb) to be more appealing to a broader audience (less about it being a seq…
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MobyGamer @MobyGamer
Feb 6, 2018, 1:16:35 AM
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I just posted all of the oldskool section of MindCandy Volume 1 online. If you've ever wanted to watch 2 hours of the best…
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zakagan @zakagan
Feb 6, 2018, 1:00:01 AM
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date: what’s your dream job? me: designing food stats for RPGs date: umm ok… *sips water* me: [under breath] -2 thirst
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 9:45:09 PM
Flying cars, at last! https://t.co/eYyFKQCPKl
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benjedwards @benjedwards
Feb 5, 2018, 8:44:08 PM
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This is kinda like the 80s equivalent of dual GPU cards for computer gaming https://t.co/6o7FDMK8EF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 6:01:04 PM
awww Pearl the too-cute angry drunk landlord is a big kid now! https://t.co/XVaV3y6ZDy
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Colin_Lougheed @Colin_Lougheed
Feb 5, 2018, 5:34:11 PM
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Rioting begins this morning in Winnipeg after last night's Jennifer Jones curling win. https://t.co/AxxynS1ELP
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 6:05:52 AM
it is a lesser world without Donkey Kong's Fun with Music https://t.co/18F0faKvEs https://t.co/QGCIxbPtQZ
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drewtetz @drewtetz
Feb 5, 2018, 6:03:34 AM
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"The Everyday Illusion" by @LOrangeMusic ✨ all animation realized in-camera!
watch on youtube here: https://t.co/Ba089MaCTK…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 2:16:12 AM
"If you've seen the movie Gleaming the Cube, you will understand this video. If not, you won't understand it at all." https://t.co/GHzciV0SdQ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 12:50:40 AM
I thought Life (2017) quite capably threaded the needle between sci-fi and horror https://t.co/rmJ6FVfSXZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 12:02:37 AM
Meanwhile, in Britain https://t.co/VMIIY5OZrN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 11:48:12 PM
Integer underflow — it’s not a bug, it’s a $4m cryptocurrency exploit! https://t.co/F7WYEtTXQz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 11:26:09 PM
“Because,” he said, “I’ve played in three Super Bowls.” https://t.co/0jnajGhrUK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 8:30:36 PM
Were there any other big popular web application frameworks before Rails? Or was it really the first one?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 8:27:46 PM
@FalkonerL @mathowie YEAHH MATT HOWIE
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SparkyRobot @SparkyRobot
Feb 4, 2018, 4:54:42 PM
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Bringing some delicious Tide Pods* to the Superbowl party! *truffles the REAL challenge is drawing those damn swirls. goo…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 12:57:35 AM
The Twelve Thousand Dollar Man https://t.co/feO1v86N6c
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2018, 9:32:13 AM
Imagine how desperate Google must be to actively embrace ad-blocking https://t.co/uAxF0dkwaG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 2, 2018, 6:23:53 PM
We reported a repeatable query based crash bug in @postgresql 10 with dumps and stack traces, and it was fixed within 2 days. Open source works!
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StuartJHowie @StuartJHowie
Feb 2, 2018, 2:20:59 AM
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Quite Simply Story Of The Day *** Nigel “No Mates” the Gannet dies of broken heart from his unrequited love for ceram…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2018, 11:28:30 PM
I have not worked at Stack Overflow in any capacity since 2012, but I occasionally dip my toe into https://t.co/MVKbgsCznt and I am so inspired by the way the community collectively carries the vision forward https://t.co/TUvEriDuYg
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seesharp @seesharp
Feb 1, 2018, 10:33:08 PM
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I just let a complete stranger into my house to ask me 15 minutes of very personal questions. If you get randomly selected:…
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This @codinghorror post is more relevant today than it was a year ago: https://t.co/uJ4pqYxsjy. Slogging through this nightmar…
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emschec @emschec
Feb 1, 2018, 6:46:49 PM
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https://t.co/xmHUIYKZkq "FIND AND DATE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE SAME PASSWORD". is this real?!? this can't be real. cc @notwaldorf
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sarahjeong @sarahjeong
Feb 1, 2018, 6:17:44 PM
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WeChat in China is basically what we're terrified of Facebook becoming in the US https://t.co/FYRIYmKXVG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2018, 5:16:16 PM
Choosing to skip the Coffee Lake CPU generation seems like a smart choice now that we know hardware mitigations for spectre / meltdown are coming later in 2018 https://t.co/5LGL3KbeeT
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PaulMMCooper @PaulMMCooper
Feb 1, 2018, 12:38:44 AM
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For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets & sent to one a…
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jckarter @jckarter
Jan 31, 2018, 8:17:34 PM
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Reminder: running 32 bit processes on a 64 bit CPU for prolonged periods can lead to burn-in of the unused high bits. Degauss…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 2:20:45 PM
Meanwhile, in France https://t.co/FhzzPwfPMb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 1:51:57 AM
Whyyyy am I watching American Horror Story this show is completely insane, it’s like some crazy mashup of every horror trope all at once, scripted by Rob Zombie and filmed by a crew of juggalos?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2018, 11:36:11 PM
Amazing detective work by @TheOmnigamer leads to discrediting of the 1982 “king of video games” Todd Rogers and removal of a 30 year old high score, the longest in history https://t.co/Gz7rsvOHRk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2018, 10:49:01 PM
“Tiffany’s and tents. Neiman Marcus and needles. Macy’s and mental illness.” https://t.co/7yxWXUrkbx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2018, 9:22:23 PM
Every time I have cheap ramen -- and I really like cheap ramen because I am bad at food -- I think about that time Sam Altman gave himself scurvy https://t.co/LqUC3mb9Pj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2018, 6:09:54 PM
his “earliest memories as a conscious human being involve the joy of running.” https://t.co/R77cE60pN5
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drluebbers @drluebbers
Jan 30, 2018, 2:01:29 PM
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Does homeopathy work? https://t.co/KGGXYlXcu2
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NoMagRyan @NoMagRyan
Jan 30, 2018, 1:53:04 PM
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has any picture summed up Twitter as well as this one https://t.co/zoK9XfLw1I
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Fascinating. Per Facebook, they're banning *all* ads related to bitcoin, ICOs, crypto. Not just overtly scammy stuff. An "inten…
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SteampunkMuppet @SteampunkMuppet
Jan 30, 2018, 1:02:53 PM
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My 8 year old said that if I can get 10k retweets she'll destroy the bourgeois and seize the means of production.
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marinaomi @marinaomi
Jan 30, 2018, 1:41:17 AM
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Someone on a BBS wrote that something Seaman had told them saved their life. I was the writer on that game--I wrote in an ea…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 29, 2018, 8:57:34 PM
This is the only DropMix card anyone needs https://t.co/ZMfwy2j83U
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fighting baseball for super famicom. some japanese guy had to come up with a whole league of fake american names https://t.co/4…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 28, 2018, 8:47:04 PM
“time spent online was linked to [teen] mental health issues across two different data sets” https://t.co/uqG1njqgBs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 28, 2018, 2:41:38 AM
"Toy designers actually build the kids that are gonna be doing great stuff." https://t.co/dk87Nb3Dwh
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 27, 2018, 11:43:50 PM
This 1975 convention poster is aces https://t.co/fQZJNWGRhm https://t.co/mIOas7AvZr
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drewthaler @drewthaler
Jan 27, 2018, 10:53:30 PM
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Finding a movie to watch with my son. We picked The Prestige. Me: Hang on, I think we have it. Him: Oh, is *that* how old…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 27, 2018, 10:53:11 PM
“In other words, we live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s” https://t.co/2R7bTGO3GL
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Discworld_com @Discworld_com
Jan 27, 2018, 5:06:57 PM
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“It says the continent has very few poisonous snakes…Oh, there’s a footnote.” His finger went down the page. “It says, ‘…
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my mechanical keyboard hobby catch of the day. had to stay up (?) til 6AM to catch the drop. yeah, it's for Planck, a 40% keyb…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 27, 2018, 12:46:09 AM
"you flirt, I'm married!" https://t.co/wjSLVhwVGf
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sandwich_cool @sandwich_cool
Jan 26, 2018, 9:06:19 PM
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hey @msdevUK, here is a suggestion for @VisualStudio
why don't you reinstate Clippy and he would say nice things when y…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 26, 2018, 7:16:51 PM
Romance writers, unlike most other writers, are making more money in the digital economy, not less -- https://t.co/ouyUC0Cig0 https://t.co/cUw7J9o7vJ
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tinybaby @tinybaby
Jan 26, 2018, 6:54:26 PM
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I would support the XFL if, instead of a separate league where they play football with different rules, it was a rebel factio…
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chrisfralic @chrisfralic
Jan 26, 2018, 1:39:18 PM
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Once upon a time Packard Bell made a thing called a Corner Computer. To go in the corner. https://t.co/RjhFJHpMqM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 26, 2018, 2:05:04 AM
I am pretty sure I suck at eating food because I am currently eating a row of Saltines with some water and it is goddamn delicious
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ultrabrilliant @ultrabrilliant
Jan 26, 2018, 1:59:39 AM
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Reminiscing about the early 2000s forum signature aesthetic. https://t.co/09wefJXuId
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Yeah sex is cool but have you ever fixed a memory allocation bug days before releasing to several hundred million users?
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washingtonpost @washingtonpost
Jan 25, 2018, 3:16:35 PM
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The White House wanted a Van Gogh. The Guggenheim offered a used (gold) toilet. https://t.co/ctgJlVOPWT https://t.co/wB…
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GoldenredDragon @GoldenredDragon
Jan 25, 2018, 2:18:48 AM
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@codinghorror You were waiting for this.
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How to discern humans from bots and feeds: https://t.co/w7jSjtLt1D https://t.co/J22zgtEg3U
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 6:53:26 PM
The cubes must be gleamed https://t.co/JK2PU3tIwZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 5:31:14 PM
“My son is a high school senior. Last night at dinner he was talking about how in his Economics class, filled with mostly seniors, the teacher asked each kid to relate what they thought their biggest economic challenge would be. Unsurprisingly, every single kid said 'college'”
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 5:18:31 PM
I can now buy newly released products from aliexpress directly before the US distributors even get them in stock. This feels.. disruptive.
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