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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2016, 4:10:16 AM
That said, "enter ANYTHING here" is a bad idea for democracy in general, versus, "pick from these four somewhat-reasonable choices"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2016, 4:07:40 AM
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Boaty McBoatface! https://t.co/iKg1RKJxaU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2016, 2:42:47 AM
note that both e5-1630v3 and e5-1650v3 are "140w TDP" according to Intel's spec sheets. Not so much!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2016, 2:40:30 AM
e5-1630v3 = 3.7 Ghz 4 cores, 8 threads, 180w measured mprime. e5-1650v3, 3.5 Ghz 6 cores, 12 threads, 250w measured mprime
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2016, 11:05:46 PM
I had no idea Tiger Woods had such a close connection to his dad. sobering https://t.co/BFpJxSD46m
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PublishersWkly @PublishersWkly
Apr 21, 2016, 10:50:51 PM
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That time Stephen King was recognized by an elderly woman in a Florida supermarket https://t.co/0xkLdr4Htl
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JackMarshall @JackMarshall
Apr 21, 2016, 10:49:50 PM
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The average Web page size is now the same size as Doom https://t.co/G4OQeWIDuq https://t.co/xhkonZTEsD
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danariely @danariely
Apr 21, 2016, 10:48:27 PM
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I did an interview with @jonobacon for @Forbes about behavioral economics in technology: https://t.co/XYVonQxJjo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2016, 5:40:13 PM
Maybe You'll Get Some, Maybe You Won't https://t.co/OlObKaBr8n
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2016, 4:10:44 PM
I'm not crying, it's just been purple raining on my face
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2016, 3:08:54 PM
How having children taught me about empathy, and changed the way I build software https://t.co/86exp7zU3l
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wilshipley @wilshipley
Apr 20, 2016, 6:58:39 PM
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They don't even mention the biggest negative of Theranos: they want to use the infinity stones to enslave earth.

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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2016, 12:18:51 PM
doing performance evaluations well is like doing "blood-letting well" https://t.co/p3FIp2ryaV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2016, 2:36:19 AM
Jef Raskin: "It is much faster to grab a pocket calculator." https://t.co/gbKXRm7fRV
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tenderlove @tenderlove
Apr 20, 2016, 12:34:15 AM
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I like to add � and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2016, 12:28:02 AM
If you think of real time chat as the Solution To All Our Problems, you're gonna have a bad time https://t.co/U9jVwvouCo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2016, 6:50:51 PM
The 2016 Macbook removes 2 / 4 "bad" things about the 2015 model. Shame no additional usb-c https://t.co/oPKP5OaeQS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2016, 11:19:10 AM
"[even] high end [video cards] struggle to render games natively at 4K on PC" https://t.co/o3cc6LSMn4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2016, 12:53:02 AM
The devil, as they say, is in the details https://t.co/qbpHPHhtp8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2016, 12:51:51 AM
Since upgraded PS4.5 is all but confirmed, will Xbone follow suit? I for one applaud this move.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2016, 12:38:15 AM
Shift but only for letters because haha fuck you that's why.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2016, 12:37:37 AM
See how shift is held down here as I begin typing? Guess what happens if I press 8. Hint: *not* an asterisk. https://t.co/jluqid4T0z
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2016, 9:24:02 PM
I would have more time for my kids if I didn't spend so much time posting all these fliers https://t.co/PdMy4Z3vd5 https://t.co/PHQgYc9yuA
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mattcutts @mattcutts
Apr 18, 2016, 9:09:47 PM
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Looks like scammers are hitting @amazon's Kindle Unlimited program: https://t.co/EnHwgbczzd

Article has good suggestions to…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2016, 8:47:19 PM
Parenting Simulator 2016: Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada. Dada.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2016, 6:23:47 PM
Wow, just ran into this nastiness with a USB-to-serial adapter! https://t.co/22ftPluMHQ https://t.co/GdGCxNsEX8
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betsyphd @betsyphd
Apr 18, 2016, 6:06:20 PM
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@codinghorror You forgot the part where @rockhardawesome said, "This movie is way better than ET." 😂
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2016, 5:37:08 PM
Our tax prep person just replied "good job" to my email about paying our taxes and I'm pretty sure it was sarcastic and I deserved it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2016, 5:35:51 PM
So! We watched Avatar and I .. actually really liked it. Yeah, derivative story but A+++ for spectacle and actually decent CGI aliens.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2016, 6:28:34 AM
What startup company in their right mind is gonna hire @realdanlyons? Did they.. not know.. anything about him? At.. all?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2016, 4:10:01 AM
TIL a 7 year old fits in a server cabinet https://t.co/PbCRMU0i1U
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billjohnston @billjohnston
Apr 18, 2016, 12:07:57 AM
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The Post-Productive Economy https://t.co/M9vqZ18Njc
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RuthanneReid @RuthanneReid
Apr 17, 2016, 9:43:25 PM
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This did not end as expected. https://t.co/CfVHET53km
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2016, 9:35:29 PM
How gimped will the next iteration of Intel Atom be? If past history is our guide: very. https://t.co/D21rUHKpi3
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Brutalist Websites https://t.co/OdYH2uDtkB
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Hannah_Chutzpah @Hannah_Chutzpah
Apr 17, 2016, 2:54:16 AM
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You know when phone cords get uncoiled and you can't make them normal again? It has an *amazing* name: https://t.co/Fw…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2016, 12:28:22 AM
@dozba yeah I don't disagree with that but if a company as big as eBay can't fix mothership.. It is sinking
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damienkatz @damienkatz
Apr 17, 2016, 12:27:19 AM
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VR as a realtime communication medium? That's going to be huge?Are these people drunk?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2016, 12:20:51 AM
@dozba not fixing the mothership is a real bad long term call though
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2016, 12:19:23 AM
Seriously considering installing an ad blocker now https://t.co/s8xmtreSUz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2016, 9:02:06 PM
eBay's website is terrifyingly awful. Real throwback to 2003. Their mobile apps are quite good, in contrast. Probably because newer.
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weboesel @weboesel
Apr 16, 2016, 8:58:34 PM
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“falling in love, breaking into a bank, bringing down the govt…they all look the same right now: they look like typing” @Penn
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wilshipley @wilshipley
Apr 16, 2016, 8:19:32 PM
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Phil Collins is singing about:
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2016, 8:12:21 PM
We allowed our 7 year old to buy a Minions fart blaster. I already regret this. https://t.co/mSNYyICsgq
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JoeSondow @JoeSondow
Apr 16, 2016, 6:09:11 PM
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it's actually pronounced jithub
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2016, 4:28:20 AM
I've never seen Avatar, is it worth it?
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After many years of self-tracking everything (activity, work, sleep) I've decided it's ~pointless. No non-obvious lessons or in…
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lfoulkesy @lfoulkesy
Apr 15, 2016, 9:56:04 PM
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The art of sentence length. Swoon https://t.co/K91GEZTnKm
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One of my favorite bots is rm. You chat with it and it tell it what files to delete and it deletes them. Really fun stuff.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2016, 6:25:47 PM
This looks amaaazing, but $5k. https://t.co/y3HzCvGgYC https://t.co/CpP21vWFbx
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john_lam @john_lam
Apr 15, 2016, 3:45:18 PM
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BadUSB - USB thumb drive that turns itself into a keyboard and installs malware by TYPING: https://t.co/4LRrxeNd3l
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2016, 2:01:00 PM
Subtext is that fictional systems aren't that different from production systems. Both are held together with a mass of duct tape and spit.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2016, 1:48:59 PM
"give them a real-ish simulation of a real-ish system to hack against and experiment with" https://t.co/Twkhvq46u0
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photonstorm @photonstorm
Apr 15, 2016, 1:36:35 PM
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The way the Defender ship fires is beautiful. Here's my breakdown of it: https://t.co/6xd2vo6AXm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2016, 4:58:51 AM
Here's The Programming Game You Never Asked For https://t.co/Twkhvq46u0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2016, 9:26:47 PM
I should look into joining this hot new "Face Book" social network I am hearing so much about
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2016, 7:32:20 PM
My Kindle Oasis order won't arrive until June 7th, until then I have to read my books on a Kindle Voyage like a god damn peasant
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baconmeteor @baconmeteor
Apr 14, 2016, 6:47:37 PM
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A hard chocolate rain is gonna fall
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internetofshit @internetofshit
Apr 14, 2016, 4:19:59 PM
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the mattress for couples with trust issues https://t.co/PVFdxHvjXr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2016, 4:19:45 PM
"no Google products actually run on Google Cloud Platform." https://t.co/2L7Y5w9qQR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2016, 3:39:49 PM
Finally, a yogurt I can get behind https://t.co/vwtg6BPn4H
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2016, 5:24:57 AM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2016, 3:50:50 AM
Huh, I didn't realize the 2015 paperwhite has the same 300 ppi screen as voyage/oasis! https://t.co/ZXCYalBgcu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2016, 6:50:05 PM
as a UVa graduate I feel obliged to note that it is Thomas Jefferson's birthday
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2016, 5:34:46 PM
They *all* say 'fragile.' https://t.co/5QTNgxIWR2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2016, 3:48:09 PM
"more power in determining who can be heard ... than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president." https://t.co/9VfrjDG2S1
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waxylinks @waxylinks
Apr 13, 2016, 2:38:27 PM
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The Guardian's deep dive into harassment and abuse in their comments: analyzing 70M comments, women and minori... https://t.…
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kevindente @kevindente
Apr 13, 2016, 2:04:07 PM
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From the VIM 8.0 release notes - “Dropped the support for MS-DOS.” And you complained about supporting IE8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2016, 4:26:20 AM
@leokennis car trips with 3 kids, etc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2016, 2:52:44 AM
ooo lookin' good, new Windows 10 Emojis! https://t.co/PZvfQbbe1Y
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2016, 12:39:36 AM
For convenience, it looks like a 128gb low profile flash drive may be the way to go with the HooToo as "one device" https://t.co/OKPcikWb5P
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2016, 12:29:57 AM
Got my HooToo Titan, flashed latest, set up device name and you can SAMBA any USB storage as \\devicename -- awesome https://t.co/D5PbvpFnA8
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TakeThatDarwin @TakeThatDarwin
Apr 12, 2016, 11:56:05 PM
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In which flat-Earthers discover jpegs. https://t.co/V0g5li0336
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robertjcooper @robertjcooper
Apr 12, 2016, 3:51:59 PM
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To those people who want a grill on the Model S… https://t.co/ZnwYGHOrIf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2016, 2:49:06 PM
@loydcase the cheap M.2 SSDs based on the Phison S10 controller aren't bad at all for the price.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2016, 2:45:45 PM
@loydcase there is a burgeoning industry of cheaper M.2 SSDs, as I found here (see my last comments) https://t.co/BBQlQ6sEka
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2016, 2:13:33 PM
@loydcase they make 1TB M.2 SSDs? Which brand?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2016, 1:48:40 PM
Awww yiss LED FTW https://t.co/G8FW3N0xpa
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2016, 4:18:33 AM
Dear fellow white people: please stop trying to touch the hair of strangers. It is just creepy. https://t.co/lZsjWKQsVC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2016, 3:06:43 AM
@loydcase write in HTML ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2016, 1:38:41 AM
Never trust a soldier who is eager to go to war.
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jrbedard @jrbedard
Apr 11, 2016, 6:42:04 PM
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@dozba Fleetwood Mac: A Study of Group Dynamics https://t.co/T8si72N1L5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2016, 5:30:11 PM
@orlando_boffill the point is, you are supposed to grow out of that kind of behavior -- most do, some don't ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2016, 5:21:04 PM
@orlando_boffill have you ever had a two year old? You will hate them, at times, for quite justifiable reasons. They behave like assholes
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2016, 5:06:34 PM
"millennials aren't narcissists, young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older" https://t.co/QWgwcU9cup
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textfiles @textfiles
Apr 11, 2016, 4:23:38 PM
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Speaking of serial killers, this comic book about someone who went to high school with Jeffrey Dahmer is amazing. https://t.…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2016, 3:56:38 PM
Outstanding article on community moderation, with several excellent (and relatively easy to implement) tips: https://t.co/IJ4dbc5QPD
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2016, 3:26:01 AM
I decided what the world needed tonight, more than anything else, was a copy of Bill Gates' donkey.bas on GitHub https://t.co/WhyDFx3qUO
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caseyjohnston @caseyjohnston
Apr 10, 2016, 11:57:48 PM
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national sibling day is just a day created by Big Sibling so they have an excuse to tell you to stop hitting yourself
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sarahjeong @sarahjeong
Apr 10, 2016, 2:42:34 PM
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PET ME

PET ME YOU SON OF A BITCH

https://t.co/BkT42N7aKj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2016, 2:35:48 PM
“Yourself,” answered Mirra, “the war inside your head.” https://t.co/dS7xl3KPa0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2016, 1:46:58 PM
The answer to my "how do I make a media drive available over wifi" question and more, people love this thing https://t.co/D5PbvpWYrG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2016, 1:23:53 PM
I disabled 3D Touch on my 6+s because of weird Safari issues with it and keep forgetting to turn it back on https://t.co/w1XVAUR2ss
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jessamyn @jessamyn
Apr 10, 2016, 1:14:54 PM
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Price of stamps (letter and postcard) dropping today. First time in 97 years. box 345, 05060 https://t.co/7pwYNF6Fdy https://…
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