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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Windows not being UNIX can be a severe liability at times.
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waxpancake
@waxpancake
my first post to medium, am i doing this right???? https://t.co/90mIwSRAgX

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so @neill just got a recruiter email: "job title: Sr SOftwar Dev . One of the requirements? oriented programming."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
eating the majority of that bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs was.. not a good life choice in retrospect

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Man, give someone a little PHP plugin work and they act like you've invoked Cthulhu o̫̲̩̼͙͈r̺̬̜ s̵͔͇̞o̢̦͓͕͔m̵̞̥̝ḛ̷t̩h͠
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df07
@df07
.NET platform getting better and better for devs. https://t.co/4zNz53N7ic Now if they'd just price SQL Server reasonably...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Imgur is going to be huge. It's like Reddit without all the stupid words holding them back. Seriously. http://t.co/22LqsPuGtA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"We pay lip service to the idea of hiring the best people in the world" http://t.co/gfKgMHxvY3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@ToseNikolov well, I already have two R290X so this is the same thing, right? Just on a "single" card.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Nudie Suits http://t.co/TGbsyIStJN

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
what is this font-size: rem nonsense? WHAT'S THE FONT SIZE, KENNETH? http://t.co/lxyG54IB2e

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Meanwhile, in Russia https://t.co/tf79hnuNHJ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
First thought "oh this is terrible" second thought "waitaminute this is an exact description of being a parent" http://t.co/gbgni0s7wf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
So psyched for Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Yeah I’m still not getting pizza. Can you check the roads?" http://t.co/uBCcN14G7x (via @amyengineer)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Wolf of BuzzFeed https://t.co/y7eaKzIsyr

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Every man lives, not every man really dies." Waitaminute.. strike that, reverse it. Thank you. https://t.co/kBXAfSiIeI
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jdalrymple
@jdalrymple
I had a fitness tracker once. It called 911 because it thought I died.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
one thing I dislike about Windows Phone. Its so-called IE10 has serious quirks in @discourse we don't see on desktop IE10.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Flamewarriors, come out to play-ay-ayyy! http://t.co/9BAcZgraJ0

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I got a Russ Walter promotional mail today! I love this guy. He even responded in comments: http://t.co/pdwPMqkYYG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
WTF Russia? http://t.co/P2DmsfSelg
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kevindente
@kevindente
Subversion is moving their source code to Git. Time to declare that product done and move on.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Guys I am watching a webinar on my phablet right now
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
Software training day! Feeling like I’m in a live action webinar. 😡
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ironicsans
@ironicsans
My annual tradition of linking to this press release about a falcon species discovered by Hanz Ohlo and Hugh Baccha: http:/…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
TIL that libertarians do not have a good sense of humor. Or any sense of humor, apparently.
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
Twenty years ago today, I spotted @codinghorror on the dance floor & said the words every man longs to hear: You’re doing it …
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migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza
Nat knows me too well, he sent me this link last night: Libertarian Police Dept http://t.co/DhCaYE01Cv
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eviltrout
@eviltrout
Discourse just passed 10k stars on GitHub! I'm absolutely floored by the momentum of this project.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
MOTHER FLIPPIN' UNICOINS http://t.co/HNL6uS9XoI

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
having another one of those "why in the name of God did I agree to this" moments

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
it's finally happened, you can *finally* buy Stack Overflow rep with unicoins! http://t.co/cPhfjgTcaQ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
oh, so Skype group video calls cost $10/month? I finally understand the strange popularity of Google Hangouts!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"those incentives not only don't work, they make things worse" http://t.co/A6T4jME0gA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Giving https://t.co/V4Tr0C7RMz a try!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
turns out fast CPU doesn't mean squat when stuff / apps / tabs are constantly being reloaded from disk on the iPad Air

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
if you skipped the iPad Air upgrade cycle, you totally made the right call. I didn't. 64-bit and 1 GB ram is.. so, so brutal. :'(

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Backup camera is hugely useful, first time I had a car with one is 2011. Should be mandatory. http://t.co/qYgejwDJQ2

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Personally I think Brendan Eich is a fine CEO. Here is a man who knows how to extract maximum value from a thousand dollars.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
My wife @betsyphd and I met on April Fools day in 1994. Little does she know this is the longest running April Fools joke yet..

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
If one more person shares their personal "principle of least surprise" definition with me I'm going to give them a real surprise all right
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angrynoah
@angrynoah
@codinghorror in high school we had a computer lab with 100% IBM Model M keyboards, during programming classes it sounded li…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Also, buckling spring keyboards are MUCH louder than any switch shown in my previous tweet. If you like gunshots while typing..

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
my keyboard switch cheat sheet! Adapted from http://t.co/fOE0KSb3ZT http://t.co/QzUu5QsJWX

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Is there any way to fix the "someone pasted a massively wide image in GMail now everything scrolls horizontally" in GMail web?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Well, exactly. Every day is de-facto April Fools day on the Internet anyway, so get used to it.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
pff I love April Fools! Every day should be April Fools, suckas!
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eviltrout
@eviltrout
A year ago we switched Discourse from CoffeeScript to Javascript and I don't regret it! @wycats was convincing: https://t.co…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I can't see VR becoming remotely mainstream until we have better ways to get AV inside your head than "here, strap on 5 pounds of equipment"
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checker
@checker
This @flantz rant on The Immersive Fallacy from GDC 2005 is quite timely given recent interest in virtual reality: https://t.c…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I kind of agree with this. VR may be like AI, always "we are so totally on the cusp" but never get there. http://t.co/7l9lWAmQ9k
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
When my girls see a person in any state of undress, they scream, “Naked Lady!”. Sorry, older gentleman we saw jogging shirtle…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
They never should have let white people play baseball.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the Win8 Music app, for example, is TONS better than the craptacular Windows Media Player. But so crazily awkward to use on desktop!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
total lack of integration between Win8 metro apps and desktop (sizable windows, taskbar, etc) seems like a huge mistake in retrospect

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
3x Discourse sites in the last 3 months: http://t.co/ymKnzgBxiF

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Freedom Rock lives forever. Apparently. http://t.co/YF3Glofjfe
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darrellwhitelaw
@darrellwhitelaw
wow. @dropbox DMCA takedown in personal folders . . . this is new to me. http://t.co/fSKxJUrFus

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Even if you feel all convicted murderers should be killed in eye for eye style, you should still oppose it based on the economics.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It is nuts that the death penalty costs society more than life imprisonment. http://t.co/QROpDMfvAU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wonder why approval for the death penalty spiked around 1998? http://t.co/QeEF7JTVQn

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
(looks at calendar) brb, going on my all Cadbury Mini-Eggs training diet
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rossipedia
@rossipedia
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jessicamalnik
@jessicamalnik
If you are building or growing an online community, this 45 min talk from @codinghorror is a must-watch. #cmgrchat http:…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
A cautionary tale, via @jarrod_dixon http://t.co/q62GKYpCfY
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anssik
@anssik
We're seeing ~4-10x JavaScript performance speedup with SIMD.JS: https://t.co/pcXNAid3Qe Landed in Firefox Nightly, soon in Chr…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

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@codinghorror

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@codinghorror
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gotpurpledrank
@gotpurpledrank
Holy crap! After years of seeing @codinghorror's profile image I'm finally realizing its falling into a box and not his…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Equality. Innovation. Honesty. Advancement. ... are all words we choose from a list. https://t.co/gymIz3hizZ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Atwood's Law continues to advance! https://t.co/0Egmpp114T

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@raganwald @deborahh imagine Amazon without user reviews. Much worse value prop.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
CODE keyboard w/ clear switches now finally available. Very hard to get stock of these and they won't last -- http://t.co/oDttHoU42d

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
There is something fundamentally weird about dudes in groups, and it happens at a very early age.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Speaking of gender: this is any preschool -- 1 dude, 4 ladies. Totally calm. 4 dudes, 1 lady? Utter frigging jumping-off-the-walls chaos.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Clearly the world isn't ready for my visionary solutions. Stupid world.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Solution! Everyone works from home under gender neutral aliases, using masked video and auto-tuned voice. Man, woman, cetacean.. who cares!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so.. everyone magically ignores self-promotion? Or can women be taught to be more self-promotional? Men taught to be less?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"male candidates boasted about their abilities, while women downplayed their talents" http://t.co/eo5YYt0RPM
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textfiles
@textfiles
It's offical, Occulus is now the Travelling Wilburys of game companies

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We will remember the original iPhone screen the way we remember 13" color monitor CRTs. So impossibly tiny. So crazily low-res. PHABLETOWN

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Mike Tyson / M. Bison https://t.co/B5DonsmGHK
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francesc
@francesc

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Meanwhile, in Phabletown: Apple is readying two variants of iPhone 6 with 4.7" and 5.5" screens http://t.co/y1voo0AOxd

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"For what purpose.. what's your goal? What are you trying to accomplish? Can you provide an example?" I have to type this so much

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We gotta find this kid! We GOTTA FIND HIM! http://t.co/y8aRNwur43

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
So "Philadelphia Freedom" was a song about Billie Jean King. Ostensibly. http://t.co/a028KSzdlz

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
2am sales emails because ALWAYS. BE. COBBLING. I mean CLOSING. http://t.co/0CJx3RmJx1

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It took me 20 years to understand how accurate that is. (He also moved his car before getting painting estimates on his own house)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
When I ran a painting business in college, one of our mentors told us he priced jobs based on the car he saw in the homeowner's driveway.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
A gentle reminder that the Internet Archive is amazing: if you have any computing materials to preserve, send 'em! http://t.co/PhCYzTzYMp
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
I feel a scathing Yelp review coming on. Somebody hold my earrings.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
wow, someone just called me a "master saleman" on a call. And I was like http://t.co/cOXJzz7CHT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so what's the over-under on @bhorowitz buying that one copy of the next Wu-Tang album?
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BrentO
@BrentO
Wu-Tang Clan selling exactly one, and only one, copy of their new album. Genius idea. http://t.co/5602nwWKRM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I was going to change the world with VR and try to change humanity forever, but here's a number." http://t.co/fTgd6Y2J77
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tomsulston
@tomsulston
Facebook reveal Oculus Rift redesign. http://t.co/22mR9zUFaB

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Never confuse the dream with the money. The dream is bigger than that.








