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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2014, 5:28:29 PM
Windows not being UNIX can be a severe liability at times.
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waxpancake @waxpancake
Apr 4, 2014, 5:22:20 PM
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my first post to medium, am i doing this right???? https://t.co/90mIwSRAgX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2014, 2:27:40 PM
so @neill just got a recruiter email: "job title: Sr SOftwar Dev . One of the requirements? oriented programming."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2014, 5:33:17 PM
eating the majority of that bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs was.. not a good life choice in retrospect
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2014, 2:26:07 PM
Man, give someone a little PHP plugin work and they act like you've invoked Cthulhu o̫̲̩̼͙͈r̺̬̜ s̵͔͇̞o̢̦͓͕͔m̵̞̥̝ḛ̷t̩h͠
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.NET platform getting better and better for devs. https://t.co/4zNz53N7ic Now if they'd just price SQL Server reasonably...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2014, 11:46:44 AM
Imgur is going to be huge. It's like Reddit without all the stupid words holding them back. Seriously. http://t.co/22LqsPuGtA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2014, 11:22:35 AM
"We pay lip service to the idea of hiring the best people in the world" http://t.co/gfKgMHxvY3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2014, 3:02:50 AM
@ToseNikolov well, I already have two R290X so this is the same thing, right? Just on a "single" card.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2014, 2:44:38 AM
what is this font-size: rem nonsense? WHAT'S THE FONT SIZE, KENNETH? http://t.co/lxyG54IB2e
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2014, 11:49:12 PM
Meanwhile, in Russia https://t.co/tf79hnuNHJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2014, 9:24:09 PM
First thought "oh this is terrible" second thought "waitaminute this is an exact description of being a parent" http://t.co/gbgni0s7wf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2014, 7:13:31 PM
So psyched for Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2014, 4:51:59 PM
"Yeah I’m still not getting pizza. Can you check the roads?" http://t.co/uBCcN14G7x (via @amyengineer)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2014, 4:48:01 PM
The Wolf of BuzzFeed https://t.co/y7eaKzIsyr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2014, 4:32:46 PM
"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
Apr 2, 2014, 12:55:03 PM
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I had a fitness tracker once. It called 911 because it thought I died.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2014, 12:52:41 PM
one thing I dislike about Windows Phone. Its so-called IE10 has serious quirks in @discourse we don't see on desktop IE10.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2014, 12:39:53 PM
Flamewarriors, come out to play-ay-ayyy! http://t.co/9BAcZgraJ0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 5:50:43 PM
I got a Russ Walter promotional mail today! I love this guy. He even responded in comments: http://t.co/pdwPMqkYYG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 4:00:08 PM
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kevindente @kevindente
Apr 1, 2014, 3:11:42 PM
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Subversion is moving their source code to Git. Time to declare that product done and move on.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 2:50:19 PM
Guys I am watching a webinar on my phablet right now
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betsyphd @betsyphd
Apr 1, 2014, 2:50:04 PM
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Software training day! Feeling like I’m in a live action webinar. 😡
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ironicsans @ironicsans
Apr 1, 2014, 11:09:56 AM
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My annual tradition of linking to this press release about a falcon species discovered by Hanz Ohlo and Hugh Baccha: http:/…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 10:58:59 AM
TIL that libertarians do not have a good sense of humor. Or any sense of humor, apparently.
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betsyphd @betsyphd
Apr 1, 2014, 10:58:03 AM
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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
Apr 1, 2014, 10:30:26 AM
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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
Apr 1, 2014, 10:27:11 AM
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Discourse just passed 10k stars on GitHub! I'm absolutely floored by the momentum of this project.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 3:06:36 AM
MOTHER FLIPPIN' UNICOINS http://t.co/HNL6uS9XoI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 3:03:57 AM
having another one of those "why in the name of God did I agree to this" moments
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 1:28:22 AM
it's finally happened, you can *finally* buy Stack Overflow rep with unicoins! http://t.co/cPhfjgTcaQ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 1:09:24 AM
oh, so Skype group video calls cost $10/month? I finally understand the strange popularity of Google Hangouts!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 12:48:55 AM
"those incentives not only don't work, they make things worse" http://t.co/A6T4jME0gA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 12:12:09 AM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 12:04:54 AM
turns out fast CPU doesn't mean squat when stuff / apps / tabs are constantly being reloaded from disk on the iPad Air
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2014, 12:03:39 AM
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. :'(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 11:22:43 PM
Backup camera is hugely useful, first time I had a car with one is 2011. Should be mandatory. http://t.co/qYgejwDJQ2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 8:38:52 PM
Personally I think Brendan Eich is a fine CEO. Here is a man who knows how to extract maximum value from a thousand dollars.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 6:57:01 PM
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..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 6:32:21 PM
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
Mar 31, 2014, 6:30:16 PM
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@codinghorror in high school we had a computer lab with 100% IBM Model M keyboards, during programming classes it sounded li…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 6:27:50 PM
Also, buckling spring keyboards are MUCH louder than any switch shown in my previous tweet. If you like gunshots while typing..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 6:24:40 PM
my keyboard switch cheat sheet! Adapted from http://t.co/fOE0KSb3ZT http://t.co/QzUu5QsJWX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 4:47:21 PM
Is there any way to fix the "someone pasted a massively wide image in GMail now everything scrolls horizontally" in GMail web?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 4:27:20 PM
Well, exactly. Every day is de-facto April Fools day on the Internet anyway, so get used to it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 4:21:11 PM
pff I love April Fools! Every day should be April Fools, suckas!
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eviltrout @eviltrout
Mar 31, 2014, 2:09:21 PM
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A year ago we switched Discourse from CoffeeScript to Javascript and I don't regret it! @wycats was convincing: https://t.co
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 1:39:00 AM
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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This @flantz rant on The Immersive Fallacy from GDC 2005 is quite timely given recent interest in virtual reality: https://t.c
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2014, 1:13:03 AM
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
Mar 30, 2014, 9:05:40 PM
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When my girls see a person in any state of undress, they scream, “Naked Lady!”. Sorry, older gentleman we saw jogging shirtle…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2014, 7:17:17 PM
They never should have let white people play baseball.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2014, 2:39:51 AM
the Win8 Music app, for example, is TONS better than the craptacular Windows Media Player. But so crazily awkward to use on desktop!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2014, 2:30:33 AM
total lack of integration between Win8 metro apps and desktop (sizable windows, taskbar, etc) seems like a huge mistake in retrospect
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2014, 1:51:03 AM
3x Discourse sites in the last 3 months: http://t.co/ymKnzgBxiF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2014, 11:15:29 PM
Freedom Rock lives forever. Apparently. http://t.co/YF3Glofjfe
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darrellwhitelaw @darrellwhitelaw
Mar 29, 2014, 9:53:56 PM
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wow. @dropbox DMCA takedown in personal folders . . . this is new to me. http://t.co/fSKxJUrFus
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2014, 8:35:31 PM
Even if you feel all convicted murderers should be killed in eye for eye style, you should still oppose it based on the economics.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2014, 8:32:09 PM
It is nuts that the death penalty costs society more than life imprisonment. http://t.co/QROpDMfvAU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2014, 8:26:08 PM
I wonder why approval for the death penalty spiked around 1998? http://t.co/QeEF7JTVQn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2014, 7:53:43 PM
(looks at calendar) brb, going on my all Cadbury Mini-Eggs training diet
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jessicamalnik @jessicamalnik
Mar 29, 2014, 4:34:36 PM
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If you are building or growing an online community, this 45 min talk from @codinghorror is a must-watch. #cmgrchat http:…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2014, 3:36:16 PM
A cautionary tale, via @jarrod_dixon http://t.co/q62GKYpCfY
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We're seeing ~4-10x JavaScript performance speedup with SIMD.JS: https://t.co/pcXNAid3Qe Landed in Firefox Nightly, soon in Chr…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 8:37:53 PM
@arialdomartini @KLVTZ @wasdkeyboards there is a key puller included
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 8:36:08 PM
@eleopteryx @KLVTZ @wasdkeyboards there is a tenkeyless version there too
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 8:34:18 PM
@arialdomartini @KLVTZ @wasdkeyboards you can set that via the dip switches
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gotpurpledrank @gotpurpledrank
Mar 28, 2014, 6:21:42 PM
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Holy crap! After years of seeing @codinghorror's profile image I'm finally realizing its falling into a box and not his…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 6:20:25 PM
Equality. Innovation. Honesty. Advancement. ... are all words we choose from a list. https://t.co/gymIz3hizZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 6:12:30 PM
Atwood's Law continues to advance! https://t.co/0Egmpp114T
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 5:37:12 PM
@raganwald @deborahh imagine Amazon without user reviews. Much worse value prop.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 4:00:37 PM
CODE keyboard w/ clear switches now finally available. Very hard to get stock of these and they won't last -- http://t.co/oDttHoU42d
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 2:49:35 PM
There is something fundamentally weird about dudes in groups, and it happens at a very early age.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 2:48:44 PM
Speaking of gender: this is any preschool -- 1 dude, 4 ladies. Totally calm. 4 dudes, 1 lady? Utter frigging jumping-off-the-walls chaos.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 2:40:49 PM
Clearly the world isn't ready for my visionary solutions. Stupid world.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 2:29:15 PM
Solution! Everyone works from home under gender neutral aliases, using masked video and auto-tuned voice. Man, woman, cetacean.. who cares!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 2:20:22 PM
so.. everyone magically ignores self-promotion? Or can women be taught to be more self-promotional? Men taught to be less?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2014, 2:18:28 PM
"male candidates boasted about their abilities, while women downplayed their talents" http://t.co/eo5YYt0RPM
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textfiles @textfiles
Mar 28, 2014, 2:14:19 PM
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It's offical, Occulus is now the Travelling Wilburys of game companies
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 6:43:46 PM
We will remember the original iPhone screen the way we remember 13" color monitor CRTs. So impossibly tiny. So crazily low-res. PHABLETOWN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 5:58:08 PM
Mike Tyson / M. Bison https://t.co/B5DonsmGHK
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francesc @francesc
Mar 27, 2014, 3:43:46 PM
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100% code coverage
"@bloerwald: SUCCESS: 26/26 (100%) Tests passed http://t.co/pmw7DiiRp2"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 3:25:02 PM
Meanwhile, in Phabletown: Apple is readying two variants of iPhone 6 with 4.7" and 5.5" screens http://t.co/y1voo0AOxd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 3:15:42 PM
"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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 1:22:32 PM
We gotta find this kid! We GOTTA FIND HIM! http://t.co/y8aRNwur43
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 4:56:39 AM
So "Philadelphia Freedom" was a song about Billie Jean King. Ostensibly. http://t.co/a028KSzdlz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 3:56:58 AM
2am sales emails because ALWAYS. BE. COBBLING. I mean CLOSING. http://t.co/0CJx3RmJx1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 1:55:49 AM
It took me 20 years to understand how accurate that is. (He also moved his car before getting painting estimates on his own house)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2014, 1:55:17 AM
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.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2014, 7:23:15 PM
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
Mar 26, 2014, 5:35:33 PM
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I feel a scathing Yelp review coming on. Somebody hold my earrings.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2014, 5:31:26 PM
wow, someone just called me a "master saleman" on a call. And I was like http://t.co/cOXJzz7CHT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2014, 5:03:47 PM
so what's the over-under on @bhorowitz buying that one copy of the next Wu-Tang album?
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Wu-Tang Clan selling exactly one, and only one, copy of their new album. Genius idea. http://t.co/5602nwWKRM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2014, 1:42:14 PM
"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
Mar 26, 2014, 1:29:30 PM
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Facebook reveal Oculus Rift redesign. http://t.co/22mR9zUFaB
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2014, 1:27:30 PM
Never confuse the dream with the money. The dream is bigger than that.
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