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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We are at the Apple Newton stage of VR at best. The iPhone of VR is a decade out, if not more.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Human: best animal ever!
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textfiles
@textfiles
If you're into the whole emulation/software preservation thing, this paper is worth a read: https://t.co/IM8jlfj7Tx

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"shorter, more complex password rules beget passwords that can be more frustrating to everyone except hackers" https://t.co/pNb1qqhTnn

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts https://t.co/o5TsHvF0Vx

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am happy to report security through endless warning dialogs is alive and well on mobile

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Neuroticism is generally considered to be a positive trait so long as one does not have too much of it."
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dinapomeranz
@dinapomeranz
New NBER paper finds kids from low income US families who received annual windfall of $4000 are mentally better off: http…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue https://t.co/GDIgUAJ0Ws

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
TIL Regexbuddy has a "copy explanation of regex to clipboard as Markdown" function 😍 https://t.co/agVD8rUnY4 https://t.co/bapKSuG3HI
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drob
@drob
The landscape of developer technologies, based on the 2016 Stack Overflow Dev Survey https://t.co/dSzxhCyWnA https://t.co/ICKsLjU…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"The purpose isn't to please the critics. The purpose is to make your work better." thanks @SethGodinBlog

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Chuck Berry is 89 and still performs one night a week at Blueberry Hill in St. Louis. https://t.co/YHC8M7ChSV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Have we destroyed ourselves since launching Voyager, they might wonder, or have we gone on to greater things?" https://t.co/eGS1AYLR7d

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I like you, and have no reason not to! https://t.co/whnG6hV5rg

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The church of Carl Sagan is a hell of a drug https://t.co/PlX6HJiO5I

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Voyager 1 will reach the Oort cloud in about 300 years and take about 30,000 years to pass through it. https://t.co/c5HPUUKbfT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It's a glamorous world https://t.co/mIN04plHpp

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Not to be confused with Clippy." https://t.co/XfGTEz5gMr
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krisajenkins
@krisajenkins
Today I learned that raspberries make great Lego Afros. https://t.co/VUPtIoCoLA
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Toyapup
@Toyapup
Work provided me with a side-quest today. https://t.co/Xka7e3Hb3k

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Wouldn't it be better if politicians said exactly what they thought instead of what they think voters want to hear? Apparently not.
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SimoneGiertz
@SimoneGiertz
I made a robot to help me argue on the internet https://t.co/NxpXhk0NMM
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damienkatz
@damienkatz
What if EC2 was hosted on Azure, and Azure was hosted on EC2? Why couldn't that work?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
10% of the world's 1.4 billion Android phones are encrypted, compared to 95 percent of all iPhones https://t.co/cGGMB7oJBj

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
You guys should all be playing The Division to prepare yourselves for a Trump presidency https://t.co/qICCTngnyT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
If you are thinking "wow Jeff posts some odd stuff" remember I work on forum software. Odd is our core competency. We never outsource it.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Let's learn about owls https://t.co/dMkmxFFtpY https://t.co/tGaXqR0nOg

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Sorry I forgot to include an image with my previous tweet thanks @actualgabe https://t.co/waI7iii9J0
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sklivvz
@sklivvz
right to bear arms, useless vs. gvmt, kills people: "pry it from my dead hands"
strong crypto, useful vs. gvmt, safe: "OMG ter…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
No Lives Matter
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jzy
@jzy
@Nick_Craver I only surf web sites that fully validate in xhtml strict.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
So @RockBand told me that Cranberries Zombie song is coming out today for RB4 and now I *cannot* stop singing it. ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE! EH! EH! EH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
A brief regex meditation on the Android "tablet" market https://t.co/Npwxs6WO5J

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Batman Meets Superman: Dawn of Just Us https://t.co/qIY0gGmbtS

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
was skeptical of melatonin sleep aid, until @betsyphd got toddler tablets and 4 nights in a row, twins asleep by 9pm. That *NEVER* happens.
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randal_olson
@randal_olson
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Programming: the only field where the dumbest thing anyone could say 15 years ago becomes absolute truth https://t.co/ivWqmdQ7dw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Meanwhile, in Chicago https://t.co/k0EKHBTz9V
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mileskimball
@mileskimball
Li and Bishop are right: for most workers in the new economy, Statistics is much more important than Calculus https://t.c…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This whole "action movie shot entirely in first person" has to have been done before? So videogamey! https://t.co/p6LdXsyauC

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
You see, I have no interest in CLEANING your house, I just wanted to make sure all the pictures were hung exactly straight on the walls.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
ah, the glorious "formatting only" pull request. It is like the Durian of PRs.
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seesharp
@seesharp
Recent paper clarifying just what ISPs can infer from your browsing. HTTPS isn’t the answer; defeated by DNS.
https://t.co/H…
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jmartNYT
@jmartNYT
Question for history: how did no GOP candidates or super PACs confront Trump w this before votes began ?
https://t.co/wtYvTn…
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Can someone with a Samsung S7 run the 1.11.3 "render complex list" (both) tests here and report back? https://t.co/CEEtY9vndK
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fcollective
@fcollective
Software costs 0.7% of its 1980 price https://t.co/789qdG11VL — See also this @joshk post https://t.co/WwZBVAaowT https:/…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"We should be able to have *any* kind of discussion here" is a failing of the observer more than the community.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Hate on HN all you want, but for certain discussions it is the best thing going https://t.co/8IzD2MoVNO

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
10 years of AWS, aka proof that Bezos is a genius https://t.co/NG0yNafd8v

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Despite that earlier photo, rest assured our children eat nothing but Kale for every other meal except their birthday. Kale, kale, kale.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@lowellheddings basically life is too short for hdds, spinning rust is so bad :(
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TopMdw
@TopMdw
Millions of folks have played the game we made, but stories like this make me happiest. https://t.co/ZJZRxIQUAc https://t.co/EC…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We told Henry he could have anything he wanted for his birthday dinner so he created the ultimate meal https://t.co/MAdMploWqI

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@lowellheddings huge huge diff between hdd and sdd, 50% load time improvements typical: https://t.co/f0JnhcM3No

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@lowellheddings it doesn't though. Max USB 3 is 625 mb/sec, max eSATA is 750 mb/sec. *Very* few SSDs can achieve that read much less write

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@lowellheddings yeah but it's a pain. External USB3 SSD is like 80-90% of practical internal SSD speeds and a lot easier.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Despite all my recent console hatin', you can easily add USB3 SSD to both PS4 and Xbone. This helps: https://t.co/TlkTulz1bK
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katy_milkman
@katy_milkman
Real fixes for workplace bias https://t.co/qv4BJozDyC via @WSJ
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dinapomeranz
@dinapomeranz
Something US elites should realize: ignore leaving large parts of population economically behind at your own peril. https…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Good work computers, you've ruined another game.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Nobody expressed white man angst as eloquently as early Phil Collins https://t.co/sH3nv6rtn8

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Walk of Life Project https://t.co/cjsEUhLZAT
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esten
@esten
Okay you could outvote the entire Unicode Consortium for less than $130,000.
Only $130,000 to have any emoji you could ever wan…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Just saw Zootopia and my god the subtext is so deep at so many levels my head is spinning. This is like animated Citizen Kane

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Have you ever had an email correspondence where the other person dies somewhere in the exchange? It's ... existentially strange.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Don't worry about building a pyramid. Just focus on moving that stone block closer every day. https://t.co/IdhyNNVXjo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I think I speak for all parents when I say: too soon https://t.co/vofP1PYH8Q

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Hateful Eight, more like the Meh-tful Eight.
I'm sorry.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
hash/sec
GTX 295 (2009) 25k
GTX 690 (2012) 54k
GTX 780 Ti (2013) 100k
GTX 980 Ti (2015) 240k
sure sucks to be an 8 char password these days

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
every time you see a new video card release, don't think "slightly nicer looking games" think "wow, hash cracking and AI just got 2x faster"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@TBytemaster a lot, still around 2x increase per gen

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I don't think anyone could or can save Yahoo. https://t.co/CbqK1PAiez
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bencasselman
@bencasselman
Email of the night. https://t.co/w0PA5dhHOa
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GlitchLogos
@GlitchLogos
wh̷o͟l͏e͝ ̨f̶u̕èo̸d͟s™ https://t.co/8dZWZwbjNE
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eviltrout
@eviltrout
This is so true it hurts https://t.co/vVH3V6mKWp

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Just FYI based on the current GPU and cloud hash calculation rates, an 8 character password is disturbingly close to NO password

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This whole "next-gen consoles will be little more than x86 PCs with 8GB RAM and slow hard drives" thing is working out *great*

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so because the team at Xbox One apparently never tested copying 700 items (RB4 songs), and it don't work, I am.. copying them one by one 😱

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Praise GitHub Jesus at last https://t.co/eVKmCKAbsm

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Xbox One daily suck, pressing button on copy here does nothing at all. So frustrating. https://t.co/JCJvQxEItj
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MengTo
@MengTo
This is fascinating: Responsive Pixel Art https://t.co/AHcL3YPI8c https://t.co/cd97N2e2kT
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teenybiscuit
@teenybiscuit
chihuahua or muffin ? https://t.co/LzZ1lwoVrP
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teenybiscuit
@teenybiscuit
puppy or bagel ? https://t.co/OMse97hlTn
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teenybiscuit
@teenybiscuit
labradoodle or fried chicken ? https://t.co/wn5bdjdtDf
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Painkillers now kill more people in the USA than any illegal drug https://t.co/ANNVWIJup5

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Even in middle school, the relationship between homework and academic success is minimal at best" https://t.co/4tWPSMREDV
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flyosity
@flyosity
To verify his Reddit AMA, Bill Gates completely recreated his high school yearbook photo. Not Photoshopped. https://t.co/O2G5…
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Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life
List of social apps that came and went without me getting an account: Ello, Peach, Secret, & Meerkat
Not sure if late ad…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
If the moon was as single pixel https://t.co/0wEpfdf7W7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Code keyboard now comes in a minimalist 61 key version! https://t.co/RqTnFKsdV4 https://t.co/BLHcRcLFSi

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
My body is ready https://t.co/OqrC3lcDWT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the family that debugs null pointer exceptions together, is the family that .. wait! where are you all going!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Imagine the joy in your children's eyes when you unveil this on family board game night https://t.co/3XUEbHe2MX https://t.co/Vr4z5ZKV8b

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"[boat] with 60U of console space, piano, 3D printer, CNC mini-mill, SDR, a/v production, electronics lab, ROV.." https://t.co/rcZVxSZ4x2

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Remember the BEHEMOTH https://t.co/YuTTrlCVsa

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Maybe one day cars will be as obsolete a form of transportation as horses are today? https://t.co/PPOSYG7VDW


















