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baconmeteor
@baconmeteor
I’ve updated the Kickstarter page with a map of the Antarctic route and a list of sites you can expect to read about https…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Being a woman of color who graduated CS107 is almost like being a unicorn, and that’s pretty f'd up." http://t.co/OZr3HDzw4S

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"My favorite fact about the 747 is that it was built by the company's B team, Boeing's version of the Bad News Bears" http://t.co/nSEZ9JKfIw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Great points raised about the absurdity of intentionally weakened crypto http://t.co/0nXYYOZKg9

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Found out the hard way that Slack on iPad does not warn on @everyone mentions like web does. Love n different codepaths for n platforms
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jmar777
@jmar777
When you've spent 20 minutes crafting a thoughtful answer on #stackoverflow, and OP deletes their own question. http://t.co/o7…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@ericjgruber the goal is also for me to read it and parse it, which is so hard to do unless I am formatting it manually

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"suggests sexism is a kind of Neanderthal defense mechanism for low-status, non-dominant men" http://t.co/rTRV0ySV1Q

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
finally re-formatting our insane Word "terms and conditions" .doc into sane HTML. I can literally feel the minutes of my life slipping away

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Someone at Amazon is a little bitter. But yeah, I'd avoid working for large companies in general. https://t.co/Q4pxq6pF2k

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I had to restart my computer twice to install Visual Studio 2015 Community edition. Never change, Microsoft!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Taking advantage of lonely people is an awful business model. But it is very lucrative.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I know people that worked for the Ashley Madison Industrial Complex and they stories they tell me are *really* scary.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Ashley Madison has a simple refund policy: they send you a paper check with the Ashley Madison logo prominently featured on the envelope.
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mgoldst
@mgoldst
The excellent "How Buildings Learn" miniseries is on YouTube. Added bonus: music by Brian Eno. (via @kottke) https://t.co/ItfI…
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StackExchange
@StackExchange
Computer Programming To Be Officially Renamed “Googling Stack Overflow”
Source: http://t.co/xu7acfXvFF http://t.co/iJ9…
Source: http://t.co/xu7acfXvFF http://t.co/iJ9…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@JohnJMcG sure. But if you start off making $135k from your early twenties.. well, the future trajectory is quite set

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Kind of irritated at @fiddlecub for his abnormally low review score for Alien: Isolation, which made me ignore it http://t.co/GHFRZja7Kg

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Alien: Isolation is worth it for the sublime, perfect presentation of retro 1980 spaceship computing alone. So good. http://t.co/Vojmjor6wp

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"how could a $135k salary make you the 1%? If you're 31 or younger, it puts you ahead of 99% of your age group" http://t.co/07tOe7X1oA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Within two years (by 1994/1995) I was hired as a "programmer" making $30/hr, inflation adjusted $100k/year.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I was thinking about my very first post college job, in Boulder, CO in 1993, for $14k/year. That's $24k adjusted for inflation.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Geeks went from being social outsiders, outcasts, and rejects to.. part of the 1% power structure, with all that implies. Hard to adapt.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Sort of like BitTorrent seeding, but for webpages! http://t.co/oTeOY3XNHL?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Southern Poverty Law Center subreddit is a shambles http://t.co/WmJrTFrQPG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Aren't you sad you missed out on this sweet, hot, trackpoint-on-a-mouse action? http://t.co/yg5gGLNKCA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Oh yeah, and I had forgotten about this freaktrain rollerbar keyboard mouse abomination, too: http://t.co/bnybeYllPf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The freaky Contour Mouse. Comes in 4 different sizes, thumb scroll wheel, thumb rocker switch, three buttons.http://t.co/y8iDhtrx1R

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
What I do for fun on Saturday night: spend hours meticulously updating ancient blog post on mouse surfaces http://t.co/hYU0lRLbWs

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Help turn Neocities, a free and ad-free website building community, into an educational platform: https://t.co/dgIYCkR1cx

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
in case you missed it, there was a spelling error in my previous tweet -- that was the point!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Aquisitions http://t.co/U6Ez4fIRFp

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Giving the G502 mouse a try to possibly replace my beloved G9X http://t.co/SPm25IKToX

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"in June 2009, 5.7 trillion of the 6.3 trillion email messages sent were spam" http://t.co/jUwCF5ZhC7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I need one of these ludicrously overengineered tables so bad http://t.co/RbsRymSEMT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Were you in the shit? https://t.co/3VXicJsSGv

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I'll say it straight up: after reading his book, I thought Tony Hsieh was full of shit. Still do. http://t.co/lp6aVkyTjO

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@howtogeek @gchelwa @AimeeGroth I think it's more accurate that they start from relatively high paying jobs. Was true for me, certainly

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@howtogeek @gchelwa @AimeeGroth yeah but you had a job that paid well, right? That was the case for me. I had career based savings.
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gchelwa
@gchelwa
Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk—they come from families with money http://t.co/BoExS77gVs

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@sloverlord hmm hosted by Ghost https://t.co/p6tEUcXPb7
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lukew
@lukew
Dropdown menus should be the UI of last resort: http://t.co/Cg7hqHmKUh
Finally turned this into a blog post.
Finally turned this into a blog post.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
When in doubt, make a customer happy. http://t.co/754QE7fCjN

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@alyssackwan please let us never speak of them again

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
There are 3 mouse grips: palm, claw, and fingertip. Pick your mouse to match grip. I am a hardcore claw man, myself. http://t.co/M9MBuSl71F

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
worst candy ever? Tie between candy corn, which tastes like emulsified shame, and wax lips.. OF THE DAMNED http://t.co/VfHY2V7OoF

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
100+ instances of verbal street privilege took place within 10 hours. http://t.co/80S8lXu5yq

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Healthy food for our kids, with Nick Offerman http://t.co/rur2hF0xJC

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
a well-designed system makes it easy to do the right things and annoying (but not impossible) to do the wrong things http://t.co/xAAGR8Hdvg
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johnolilly
@johnolilly
Masterful from Reed Hastings. <3 http://t.co/KuPVv3FmqR
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
The girls are OBSESSED with these "squishy bunnies". One of them just asked me if she could "do some bunnies". http://t.co/NK…
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cbarchak
@cbarchak
There are 310M guns in America and 330M mobile phones. Which do you think is a more useful check on government power?
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MarkAgee
@MarkAgee
STAGES OF WORKING FROM HOME
- Yay I get to work from home
- It would be nice to talk to people
- I hope that pigeon sits in t…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We constantly regress and break IE9 in Discourse (on meta.discourse which runs latest-checkins) and *nobody* complains. Nobody.
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baconmeteor
@baconmeteor
I’m just going to keep dropping seven-thousand-word posts until this thing gets funded. Save yourselves. https://t.co/zvBy…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Almost 10 years later, just received my first chip-and-pin credit card in the USA. Progress? http://t.co/HyVNftUhbs

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Well, that escalated quickly https://t.co/Qu0zNvTWIS

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I have a life goal of adding :poop: to all Slack reaction polls. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD, SHEEPLE <drops mic>

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Seeing screenshots of the Windows XP interface feels as old as the black and white Mac UI to me ... ancient hieroglyphs

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Software developers think their job is to write code. But it's not. http://t.co/xMkX2vaUUc

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This is encouraging -- I hope Reddit can grow up. https://t.co/pZvdopM229
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waxpancake
@waxpancake
The Web We Have to Save: must-read @h0d3r piece on using the web after six years in an Iranian prison. https://t.co/vquOa09…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Space is immensely vast, radio edition http://t.co/rtPZy5DXBj

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@dozba kids will take everything you've got and then some. It takes a village..

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I had no idea when I took on this gig that my entire identity would be subsumed by my kids" http://t.co/yxVICz5ZRz

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This would be funny if it wasn't such an uncannily accurate portrayal of working at a large company http://t.co/aO89thl6GA
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holman
@holman
do we really want to waste new horizon’s 1kbps connection sending photos of a rock in space, or should we use it to install nod…
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bobby
@bobby
where is your god now, designers http://t.co/QZMnxk5ygM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
brb planning my Windows 10 launch party it's gonna be a total rager https://t.co/mWcTOu37nn

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Still funny! http://t.co/ICRJnTesxp

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Mouth Silence: still excellent http://t.co/3L4PYcJpsx

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@darksim905 the first step is awareness, brother!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Here's a tip, guys: aim to be the "I'm gonna make one point and then I'm done" guy. I know how your minds work.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Aw yiss the old "I just like to argue" guy. ❤️️ THAT GUY SO MUCH http://t.co/fY0AtPxs42 http://t.co/qAHUyptfjK

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
People will remember how you made them feel long after they have forgotten what you happened to be arguing about.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Americans now drink more bottled water than milk or beer." http://t.co/rNZeTF5oNY
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tothur
@tothur
On the left: our best image of Pluto in May. On the right: our current best picture of Pluto. #NewHorizons #Pluto http://t.co/q…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Mom posts FAQ on her twin stroller http://t.co/3LfHpTNWGb

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Being a leader is easy when things are easy. The real test is when things get hard, via @jasonfreedman https://t.co/hiNX0B02ib

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
“Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” holy balls http://t.co/3xQTbKW6U9

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Trash cat https://t.co/jeicAw8WF4

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This show had a tremendous influence on me as a young lad https://t.co/N00NOg4dmM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"if you’re running a sports bar, and you have a gang of bikers move in, you have two choices." http://t.co/xXeyibPCzp
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NickTimiraos
@NickTimiraos
Japan's population is set to fall 32% (!) by 2060, and 40% will be over age 65 http://t.co/P5lUAv5YO7 http://t.co/pes8KW6…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We imagined a future world war fought with high tech soldiers and nukes, instead it is being fought by banks and money. Progress!
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jonathansampson
@jonathansampson
git commit -m "Fixed interface issues." http://t.co/fRQaFLt2fZ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
DeepDream, the terrifying Magic Eye pictures of our time. https://t.co/SOoxnPI2gX

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Conan, what is best in life? http://t.co/aXT93U7bL1

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Basement Jaxx presents the twerk-bot https://t.co/hPDmbW89Aa
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zzzzaaaacccchhh
@zzzzaaaacccchhh
Actually, Redditors ruined this too. http://t.co/2Y8rMKgKVj

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I'd say vulnerability bounty reports *cannot* be submitted until they are peer verified. But a peer might "steal" your bounty, right?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Yet again, wasting our team's time with "vulnerability" bounty reports that were not verified at all. http://t.co/7aTckQPYBo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Time for some chicken payback https://t.co/Fy8No9Fm1S
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backerjacker
@backerjacker
IndieVice overcomes smartphone cameras’ vices to provide improved photos - http://t.co/gKb13yhXm6 http://t.co/CWKlHGUd11
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norm
@norm
The sidewalk memorial is growing, @311Toronto. H/T @jasonwagar. #DeadRaccoonTO http://t.co/3vTUf9xB7b

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
In the future, there will be JavaScript http://t.co/mHXI2MFjby http://t.co/w7CFNo88h7















