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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 18, 2016, 2:22:46 AM
We are at the Apple Newton stage of VR at best. The iPhone of VR is a decade out, if not more.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 18, 2016, 1:16:52 AM
Human: best animal ever!
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textfiles @textfiles
Mar 18, 2016, 1:10:11 AM
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If you're into the whole emulation/software preservation thing, this paper is worth a read: https://t.co/IM8jlfj7Tx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 7:31:27 PM
"shorter, more complex password rules beget passwords that can be more frustrating to everyone except hackers" https://t.co/pNb1qqhTnn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 6:58:18 PM
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts https://t.co/o5TsHvF0Vx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 6:47:03 PM
I am happy to report security through endless warning dialogs is alive and well on mobile
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 5:25:04 PM
"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
Mar 17, 2016, 5:24:07 PM
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New NBER paper finds kids from low income US families who received annual windfall of $4000 are mentally better off: http…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 5:22:02 PM
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue https://t.co/GDIgUAJ0Ws
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 5:01:43 PM
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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The landscape of developer technologies, based on the 2016 Stack Overflow Dev Survey https://t.co/dSzxhCyWnA https://t.co/ICKsLjU…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 4:01:42 AM
"The purpose isn't to please the critics. The purpose is to make your work better." thanks @SethGodinBlog
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 3:59:33 AM
Chuck Berry is 89 and still performs one night a week at Blueberry Hill in St. Louis. https://t.co/YHC8M7ChSV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 3:50:11 AM
"Have we destroyed ourselves since launching Voyager, they might wonder, or have we gone on to greater things?" https://t.co/eGS1AYLR7d
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 2:40:28 AM
I like you, and have no reason not to! https://t.co/whnG6hV5rg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 2:36:47 AM
The church of Carl Sagan is a hell of a drug https://t.co/PlX6HJiO5I
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 2:32:18 AM
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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 1:39:35 AM
It's a glamorous world https://t.co/mIN04plHpp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2016, 1:34:31 AM
"Not to be confused with Clippy." https://t.co/XfGTEz5gMr
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krisajenkins @krisajenkins
Mar 17, 2016, 12:19:41 AM
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Today I learned that raspberries make great Lego Afros. https://t.co/VUPtIoCoLA
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Work provided me with a side-quest today. https://t.co/Xka7e3Hb3k
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 16, 2016, 9:31:23 PM
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
Mar 16, 2016, 4:43:23 PM
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I made a robot to help me argue on the internet https://t.co/NxpXhk0NMM
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damienkatz @damienkatz
Mar 16, 2016, 2:26:10 PM
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What if EC2 was hosted on Azure, and Azure was hosted on EC2? Why couldn't that work?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 16, 2016, 2:09:03 PM
10% of the world's 1.4 billion Android phones are encrypted, compared to 95 percent of all iPhones https://t.co/cGGMB7oJBj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 16, 2016, 12:59:04 AM
You guys should all be playing The Division to prepare yourselves for a Trump presidency https://t.co/qICCTngnyT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 16, 2016, 12:27:37 AM
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.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 16, 2016, 12:00:22 AM
Sorry I forgot to include an image with my previous tweet thanks @actualgabe https://t.co/waI7iii9J0
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right to bear arms, useless vs. gvmt, kills people: "pry it from my dead hands" strong crypto, useful vs. gvmt, safe: "OMG ter…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2016, 9:47:54 PM
No Lives Matter
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@Nick_Craver I only surf web sites that fully validate in xhtml strict.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2016, 7:30:40 PM
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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2016, 7:22:39 PM
A brief regex meditation on the Android "tablet" market https://t.co/Npwxs6WO5J
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2016, 6:19:02 PM
Batman Meets Superman: Dawn of Just Us https://t.co/qIY0gGmbtS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2016, 5:47:55 PM
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
Mar 15, 2016, 4:41:45 PM
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Age distribution in the US, 1933-2100. #dataviz

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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2016, 3:37:09 PM
Programming: the only field where the dumbest thing anyone could say 15 years ago becomes absolute truth https://t.co/ivWqmdQ7dw
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2016, 3:29:07 PM
Meanwhile, in Chicago https://t.co/k0EKHBTz9V
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mileskimball @mileskimball
Mar 14, 2016, 11:48:41 PM
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Li and Bishop are right: for most workers in the new economy, Statistics is much more important than Calculus https://t.c
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 10:00:00 PM
This whole "action movie shot entirely in first person" has to have been done before? So videogamey! https://t.co/p6LdXsyauC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 7:12:37 PM
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.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 7:11:42 PM
ah, the glorious "formatting only" pull request. It is like the Durian of PRs.
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seesharp @seesharp
Mar 14, 2016, 3:28:47 PM
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Recent paper clarifying just what ISPs can infer from your browsing. HTTPS isn’t the answer; defeated by DNS.

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goulcher @goulcher
Mar 14, 2016, 3:21:03 PM
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Me doing any sport https://t.co/twIYvfpXSN
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jmartNYT @jmartNYT
Mar 14, 2016, 2:27:32 PM
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Question for history: how did no GOP candidates or super PACs confront Trump w this before votes began ?

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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 1:31:51 PM
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
Mar 14, 2016, 1:04:22 PM
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Software costs 0.7% of its 1980 price https://t.co/789qdG11VL — See also this @joshk post https://t.co/WwZBVAaowT https:/…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 1:01:42 PM
"We should be able to have *any* kind of discussion here" is a failing of the observer more than the community.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 12:52:18 PM
Hate on HN all you want, but for certain discussions it is the best thing going https://t.co/8IzD2MoVNO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 12:49:48 PM
10 years of AWS, aka proof that Bezos is a genius https://t.co/NG0yNafd8v
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 3:05:25 AM
Despite that earlier photo, rest assured our children eat nothing but Kale for every other meal except their birthday. Kale, kale, kale.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2016, 12:06:53 AM
@lowellheddings basically life is too short for hdds, spinning rust is so bad :(
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Millions of folks have played the game we made, but stories like this make me happiest. https://t.co/ZJZRxIQUAc https://t.co/EC…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 13, 2016, 8:26:41 PM
We told Henry he could have anything he wanted for his birthday dinner so he created the ultimate meal https://t.co/MAdMploWqI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 13, 2016, 8:02:53 PM
@lowellheddings huge huge diff between hdd and sdd, 50% load time improvements typical: https://t.co/f0JnhcM3No
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 13, 2016, 7:50:45 PM
@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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 13, 2016, 7:45:29 PM
@lowellheddings yeah but it's a pain. External USB3 SSD is like 80-90% of practical internal SSD speeds and a lot easier.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 13, 2016, 7:32:09 PM
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
Mar 13, 2016, 3:39:28 PM
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Real fixes for workplace bias https://t.co/qv4BJozDyC via @WSJ
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dinapomeranz @dinapomeranz
Mar 12, 2016, 3:28:14 PM
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Something US elites should realize: ignore leaving large parts of population economically behind at your own peril. https…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 12, 2016, 2:16:52 AM
Good work computers, you've ruined another game.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 12, 2016, 1:37:58 AM
Nobody expressed white man angst as eloquently as early Phil Collins https://t.co/sH3nv6rtn8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 8:25:07 PM
The Walk of Life Project https://t.co/cjsEUhLZAT
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Okay you could outvote the entire Unicode Consortium for less than $130,000. Only $130,000 to have any emoji you could ever wan…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 7:42:43 PM
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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 4:20:17 PM
Have you ever had an email correspondence where the other person dies somewhere in the exchange? It's ... existentially strange.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 4:01:32 PM
Don't worry about building a pyramid. Just focus on moving that stone block closer every day. https://t.co/IdhyNNVXjo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 5:19:49 AM
I think I speak for all parents when I say: too soon https://t.co/vofP1PYH8Q
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 4:28:28 AM
The Hateful Eight, more like the Meh-tful Eight. I'm sorry.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 1:45:56 AM
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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 1:14:45 AM
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"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 11, 2016, 12:13:09 AM
@TBytemaster a lot, still around 2x increase per gen
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2016, 11:06:31 PM
I don't think anyone could or can save Yahoo. https://t.co/CbqK1PAiez
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bencasselman @bencasselman
Mar 10, 2016, 10:30:30 PM
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Email of the night. https://t.co/w0PA5dhHOa
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GlitchLogos @GlitchLogos
Mar 10, 2016, 8:48:21 PM
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wh̷o͟l͏e͝ ̨f̶u̕èo̸d͟s™ https://t.co/8dZWZwbjNE
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eviltrout @eviltrout
Mar 10, 2016, 8:32:25 PM
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This is so true it hurts https://t.co/vVH3V6mKWp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2016, 7:15:46 PM
Just FYI based on the current GPU and cloud hash calculation rates, an 8 character password is disturbingly close to NO password
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2016, 6:57:42 PM
This whole "next-gen consoles will be little more than x86 PCs with 8GB RAM and slow hard drives" thing is working out *great*
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2016, 6:53:35 PM
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 😱
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2016, 5:31:07 PM
Praise GitHub Jesus at last https://t.co/eVKmCKAbsm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 10, 2016, 5:22:49 PM
Xbox One daily suck, pressing button on copy here does nothing at all. So frustrating. https://t.co/JCJvQxEItj
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This is fascinating: Responsive Pixel Art https://t.co/AHcL3YPI8c https://t.co/cd97N2e2kT
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teenybiscuit @teenybiscuit
Mar 10, 2016, 1:03:11 AM
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chihuahua or muffin ? https://t.co/LzZ1lwoVrP
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teenybiscuit @teenybiscuit
Mar 10, 2016, 1:03:08 AM
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puppy or bagel ? https://t.co/OMse97hlTn
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teenybiscuit @teenybiscuit
Mar 10, 2016, 1:03:05 AM
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labradoodle or fried chicken ? https://t.co/wn5bdjdtDf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 9, 2016, 6:01:57 PM
Painkillers now kill more people in the USA than any illegal drug https://t.co/ANNVWIJup5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2016, 10:00:02 PM
"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
Mar 8, 2016, 4:59:47 PM
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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
Mar 8, 2016, 4:53:19 PM
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List of social apps that came and went without me getting an account: Ello, Peach, Secret, & Meerkat Not sure if late ad…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2016, 4:23:31 PM
If the moon was as single pixel https://t.co/0wEpfdf7W7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 8, 2016, 3:15:50 PM
Code keyboard now comes in a minimalist 61 key version! https://t.co/RqTnFKsdV4 https://t.co/BLHcRcLFSi
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2016, 8:43:30 PM
My body is ready https://t.co/OqrC3lcDWT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2016, 5:49:23 PM
the family that debugs null pointer exceptions together, is the family that .. wait! where are you all going!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2016, 5:48:38 PM
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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2016, 5:35:50 PM
"[boat] with 60U of console space, piano, 3D printer, CNC mini-mill, SDR, a/v production, electronics lab, ROV.." https://t.co/rcZVxSZ4x2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2016, 5:28:29 PM
Remember the BEHEMOTH https://t.co/YuTTrlCVsa
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 7, 2016, 5:12:27 PM
Maybe one day cars will be as obsolete a form of transportation as horses are today? https://t.co/PPOSYG7VDW
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