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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2014, 12:30:29 AM
It is a wonderful minefield. I will just sit here and wistfully gaze at it from afar.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2014, 12:29:59 AM
"Why are you so afraid to walk into this minefield I just created? What are you, some kind of fraidy-cat?"
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wilshipley @wilshipley
Apr 23, 2014, 12:23:48 AM
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@codinghorror I also don’t respond well to open hostility, no matter how worthy the cause or how much I agree with the prem…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2014, 12:17:09 AM
Shrug. Not a fan.
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Watch the talk that brought EmberConf to tears and earned @devarispbrown a standing ovation: http://t.co/l5IQSMHu9A
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2014, 5:20:19 PM
Just got the new "improved" Twitter profile. WHOEVER MOVED MY CHEESE IS GOING TO PAY WITH THEIR LIF.. actually, I am OK with this.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2014, 12:39:56 PM
@MrBradricks very soon!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2014, 6:53:45 PM
@ZenSaiyuki is that what I said? Or is that your interpretation of what I said?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2014, 4:01:13 PM
pretty much the best Discourse plugin ever https://t.co/0fwTCF0W8k
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2014, 12:51:22 PM
That time where I was able to use Vanilla Ice in non-ironic way to illustrate a point about UX https://t.co/c69papyCdH
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2014, 12:36:55 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2014, 3:21:35 AM
something is security theater when you need some absurdly specific situation in order for it to be useful. https://t.co/5U1GhcLs3c
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2014, 2:24:59 AM
Gentlemen, everything sucks.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2014, 2:23:52 AM
Thing is, all your desktop 4k options are really bad. Hackintosh? Linux-on-the-desktop? Windows 8.1 frankenstein edition? LAWL.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2014, 1:50:13 AM
The only real hope is that "Metro"/Modern apps are fully desktop capable in Windows 9, and everything moves to that.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2014, 1:47:30 AM
Windows is so profoundly bad at high DPI that I just don't care about 4k displays. It is beyond awful on the Surface 2 Pro.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2014, 11:19:55 PM
Indexes ARE magic! http://t.co/5xg3LalfmT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2014, 2:15:29 PM
Have any of the so-called Craigslist alternatives made a dent in Craigslist?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2014, 2:51:27 PM
I forgot to mention! Big Nexus 5 / Android camera app update for Google. Hopefully it can hold a freaking focus for more than 1 sec now
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2014, 1:12:15 PM
@icambron is "person" really inclusive enough, though?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2014, 1:06:21 PM
Are you a brave, brave (non gender specific entity?) Try our near-final @discourse install, and give us feedbacks! http://t.co/5nRG3lZ9mH
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2014, 5:33:43 PM
this music video will go down in history as one of the all-time greats, alongside “weapon of choice” and “sabotage” http://t.co/VQt9TA4xck
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2014, 1:18:51 PM
Is it Friday yet? Let's pretend it is! Enjoy this, which is mostly work safe... mmmmostly. https://t.co/qIHK5YGntA
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Nick_Craver @Nick_Craver
Apr 17, 2014, 12:03:38 PM
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A good post by @marcgravell on understanding and paying down technical debt, with a #stackoverflow codebase example: http:…
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ironicsans @ironicsans
Apr 17, 2014, 11:55:23 AM
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In the future, (unclosedparentheses are the new hashtag.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2014, 1:31:55 AM
"The most successful bunko man is one who bunkos himself before he goes after a sucker." http://t.co/A8tFDiTdw3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2014, 5:45:19 PM
my three things today: blog post, deploy 2 new servers at datacenter, fill out customer billing forms. http://t.co/ICVv9S6ISY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2014, 12:39:00 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2014, 12:05:39 PM
Do not frick with the train engineers. https://t.co/oQDXR9INfO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2014, 11:32:58 AM
I'm just not even going to bother any more with passwords for sites I visit infrequently. Email me a single use token.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2014, 7:08:44 PM
Big Bang Theory http://t.co/smQRZVFfZi
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prints of lovely paintings from old byte magazine covers: http://t.co/w0XH3dUtve
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2014, 2:37:05 PM
“How can I know who I am until I see what I do?” http://t.co/fh0tmxiFjo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2014, 2:24:52 PM
You want to set up @discourse? Sure you do. https://t.co/rchHWI5Ad0 Enter promo code 'DEPLOY2DO' at Digital Ocean for $10 credit!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2014, 2:26:39 AM
Did I find you, or you find me? https://t.co/b9QNoqzGzu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2014, 2:22:44 AM
"How can {thing} happen?" Because people don't love themselves. Quite the opposite most of the time.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2014, 2:21:24 AM
"It's a real honest kind of love song. I don't think I've ever done a real love song before." http://t.co/OGFNHptZaV
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eviltrout @eviltrout
Apr 14, 2014, 11:41:56 PM
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If all these web sites think we should should change our passwords, why aren't they forcing us to? Wouldn't that be safer?
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brianhogg @brianhogg
Apr 14, 2014, 7:27:32 PM
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"Sure I could program in PHP, but I could also use a sundial to tell time" #microconf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2014, 5:11:57 PM
I love the Wolf of BuzzFeed so, so much. https://t.co/y7eaKzIsyr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2014, 1:14:01 AM
you think you're all smart and college educated, then you try explaining basic things to your five year old and .. realize you know jack-all
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2014, 1:08:48 AM
was reading a kids book about the solar system today with @rockhardawesome and I realized how little we actually know about these planets
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Just watched it - really great show. "Borderland’ Is to Debut on Al Jazeera America" http://t.co/JbSW4Xq5LE @ajam
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2014, 4:31:54 PM
Signed a contract to install artificial grass in our 17' x 20' back yard. Feels like I personally stabbed the Lorax in its wee heart.
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splattne @splattne
Apr 13, 2014, 4:22:41 PM
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Meanwhile in Japan... http://t.co/fJOQ8BKO8O
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2014, 3:17:07 PM
Verifying myself: I am codinghorror on Keybase.io. rIvPI-HlzchiWEyedcPwrspw780Z7V3bbwgh / https://t.co/TYXClmMa8L
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vikhyatk @vikhyatk
Apr 12, 2014, 8:27:46 PM
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@codinghorror Starting pay at companies like Amazon/Microsoft is ~$2500/mo, and around $300-400/mo for TCS/Infosys-type consu…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2014, 7:15:19 PM
According to an email I just got, the starting salary for a new programmer in certain areas of India is $150 per month?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2014, 4:57:50 PM
Quora: answers nobody wanted, to questions nobody should have asked in the first place ™
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rejectedjokes @rejectedjokes
Apr 12, 2014, 4:52:51 PM
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Congrats! You've written for 8 seconds straight! Reward yourself by spending the next 10 hours clicking on nonsense on t…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2014, 4:49:53 PM
OK I am trying to set up GnuPGP for the first time and I have concluded if this is the system, everyone is screwed
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2014, 4:36:27 PM
Can we rub some bitcoin on the SSL to fix it?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2014, 3:46:15 PM
the single most catastrophic design bug in the history of computing: the null-terminated string http://t.co/ld2qp9hwrT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2014, 3:36:08 PM
http://t.co/zkvwptYdM6 "nearly every security bug you've experienced in your entire life was Dennis Ritchie's fault" truth.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2014, 9:34:59 PM
By the time Microsoft is done patching the UI in Windows 8 it's going to be more unrecognizable than Plants vs. Zombies 2
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lizardbill @lizardbill
Apr 10, 2014, 9:26:23 PM
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IMDb finale rating vs. average episode ratings http://t.co/FqWltWljOf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2014, 7:22:06 PM
@pgmcgee we think so yes
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2014, 2:09:12 PM
"Our population is becoming majority non-white at the same time a record share is going gray" http://t.co/slXT2P83ld
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2014, 1:25:20 PM
@AwesomeRobot now you're getting it. Tear open your inner Walt Whitman.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2014, 1:22:16 PM
who sings the praise of fluorescent light fixtures and tan cubicle walls, office carpet patterns and stained acoustical ceiling tiles? I do.
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betsyphd @betsyphd
Apr 10, 2014, 12:43:34 PM
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TIL if you type "set timer for x minutes" into Google it will set a little timer for you that beeps when the time is up. Hand…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2014, 8:32:54 PM
When venture capitalists get angry with each other, do they call each other Lifestyle Businesses?
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ZachWeiner @ZachWeiner
Apr 9, 2014, 6:57:33 PM
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"If there were Transformers, why aren't there Cisformers?" "That's called a car."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2014, 3:44:51 PM
Cloud to Butt Plus https://t.co/pbNZli46eI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2014, 3:33:47 PM
so you're mad about something on the Internet.. http://t.co/f4GVXg5Vvz http://t.co/zwfbn9J9ZW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2014, 2:51:21 PM
@Kim_Bruning @waxpancake you should ask @rands, apparently he still likes and uses Quora?
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waxpancake @waxpancake
Apr 9, 2014, 2:31:18 PM
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Worth noting: Quora has no public API, no backup/export tools, blocks anonymous display of answers, and banned the Wayback …
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 9:35:00 PM
@funruly hard to say! 20 people simultaneous?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 9:08:40 PM
whoa, my Windows desktop just booted to the desktop. That was mad crazy yo!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 5:06:54 PM
Converting a low-volume educational Discourse instance from Heroku at ~$152.50/month to Digital Ocean at $10/month.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 4:46:30 PM
the real enemy wasn't the NSA, it was open source! https://t.co/MM3meSRJS8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 4:42:05 PM
hey guys what's the temporary mitigation of this SSL issue we're having eh http://t.co/x2OQ5jVVFd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 4:34:32 PM
@landley and! every change requires full audit of all code again, even if it's 1 character. Good times!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 3:45:49 PM
See, this Heartbleed thing just goes to show you that given enough eyes, all bugs are shall (explosions, screaming in the distance)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 2:02:20 AM
No, no, no. The best way to learn something is to start *complaining* about it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2014, 12:28:36 AM
Have you upvoted someone today?
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samsaffron @samsaffron
Apr 7, 2014, 11:28:42 PM
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Hosting on Linux? stop what you are doing and check if you are vulnerable to Heartbleed http://t.co/pmhyaYAsQD , get openss…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2014, 11:12:24 PM
I feel like I am not smart enough to understand what I am supposed to be using BitCoin for.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2014, 9:33:34 PM
@outdoorhabit @rossrubin lol look at the graph here, 2008 to 2012 http://t.co/QhB2npe9DB
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2014, 9:18:40 PM
@outdoorhabit @rossrubin mobile years are dog years. 3.5 years on mobile is 25 years of normal time.
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rossrubin @rossrubin
Apr 7, 2014, 8:37:04 PM
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Gingerbread is Google’s XP. RT @toddogasawara: iOS 7 adoption: 87%. Kitkat adoption: 5.3%. Gingerbread 2.3 shrinking but sti…
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codepo8 @codepo8
Apr 7, 2014, 5:59:46 PM
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Basic is soon 50 years old! http://t.co/DGjWyIOaK2 50!!!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2014, 3:32:54 PM
Great Pando article on Glitch, failure, and success with Slack http://t.co/WtUcanskax
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2014, 4:00:39 AM
The many faces of Comic Neue, all of which need punching http://t.co/aFZbF6Gpn3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2014, 2:23:24 PM
In all fairness, the speed of light has not been giving 110% lately. Where's the hustle, photons?
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johnhiott @johnhiott
Apr 6, 2014, 2:20:09 PM
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finally going to make time to try and read all of Code Complete @codinghorror
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2014, 1:14:05 AM
it pains me to say this, but it is better to locate servers on the east coast for better pings to large european audiences
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MikeJudge @MikeJudge
Apr 5, 2014, 9:58:06 PM
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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! http://t.co/p2zoKnjL37
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mangopieface @mangopieface
Apr 5, 2014, 8:34:39 PM
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I'm about as good as my mum with Linux but last night with 1/2 of wine in me I installed @discourse on @digitalocean box,…
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Rob_Vela @Rob_Vela
Apr 5, 2014, 3:42:29 PM
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#Protip: the closing line “Sincerely” is lame and uninspiring. Try finishing your business letters with “By the power of Grey…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2014, 3:24:34 PM
Important Message For Programming http://t.co/5rJzlBKVf0
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rrhoover @rrhoover
Apr 5, 2014, 1:20:30 PM
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"Writing code? That’s the easy part." - @codinghorror http://t.co/IqLLVoyiVT
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tarashoe @tarashoe
Apr 5, 2014, 11:44:23 AM
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lord give me the strength to accept the terms & conditions
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2014, 2:33:52 AM
I am not convinced the Windows 8 Frankenstein approach was wrong yet. I want to see the kindler, gentler all-together-now version first.
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NonCombosMentos @NonCombosMentos
Apr 5, 2014, 2:12:28 AM
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A group of pedants is called an "actually"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2014, 2:03:38 AM
@JapanJapan0 best profile image evarrrr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2014, 1:21:18 AM
"I think half of the Facebook business model is based on people accidentally clicking things" http://t.co/Frub5wp8Yy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2014, 1:04:57 AM
Season *six* of Hoarders? Why? I would rather watch Intervention than Hoarders. But really neither.
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