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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 16, 2013, 3:01:48 PM
the Discourse mission statement in one image http://t.co/R3ogEB1j
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StackPhysics @StackPhysics
Feb 16, 2013, 1:42:39 PM
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Great answer: Russian meteor stronger than atomic bomb? http://t.co/MSjmrMyD #energy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 8:45:24 PM
See I told you, I should have brought my Dremel. The ultimate tool.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 8:44:06 PM
Was all excited to use my Surface Pro to present at Ember Camp and the side bevel angle prevented the Mini DisplayPort from connecting :(
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Python trademark at risk in Europe: We need your help! http://t.co/qJx1REJR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 2:43:25 PM
kids, build your own Useless Machine today! http://t.co/ME0Ho3Is
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 2:16:20 PM
major league gaming transformable controllers! http://t.co/DdbnAx70
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jongalloway @jongalloway
Feb 15, 2013, 12:41:20 PM
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Atwood's Law gets real. http://t.co/tViTmVPY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 12:17:34 PM
Civilized discourse thunderdome: two men enter, have respectful conversation, two men leave!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 12:10:39 PM
This Surface Pro completes me. But a Haswell based Surface Pro would complete me much harder.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 12:04:21 PM
"What would be really cool is if you could just yell really loud, and that would charge your device. Just scream into it. Done. Charged."
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very nice, going to grab a fork this weekend
http://t.co/V30uDQII
@evil_trout @codinghorror @samsaffron
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 3:26:18 AM
@hexamon I used to like the RT quite a lot as well, then I used an iPad 4.. the speed ruined it for me! (I was OK with the iPad 3)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2013, 2:36:12 AM
"Those fanatics," Seeley points out, "they're kind of gumming up the works." http://t.co/LOdKPC1H
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2013, 11:37:38 PM
this Surface Pro is amazing hardware. Chunkier than RT, half the battery life, but hey: 10x the speed and hi-res.
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troyhunt @troyhunt
Feb 14, 2013, 11:36:10 PM
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Here's the results: Win 8 was faster than XP on 7 year old hardware in nearly every way tested, often significantly so htt ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2013, 12:39:47 PM
I am flipping through my Valve Employee Handbook and I for the life of me I can't find the "random, senseless firings" section.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2013, 12:10:57 PM
play your cards right and one day you, too, could work with a Software Professional such as myself! http://t.co/yYhzxkKP
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betsyphd @betsyphd
Feb 14, 2013, 11:54:27 AM
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I think we’ve all learned an important lesson today: Don’t fuck with the data. The data will always win.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2013, 11:53:31 AM
from my Twitter archive: in 2007 "workin on ur problemz failcat all the time is annoying!", from 2013 "failwhale all the time is annoying!"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2013, 11:50:14 AM
Children teach us so much about ourselves and the world. Mostly by kicking our ass.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2013, 1:00:43 AM
But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me? http://t.co/zQKXVXG3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2013, 12:56:07 AM
Finally got my Twitter archive. Did you know in early 2008, 1500 followers was enough to be in the top 100 of http://t.co/jmaESyyJ ?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2013, 9:04:57 PM
frustration divorce risk of installing infant car seats with your spouse is right up there with installing ceiling fans
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2013, 6:10:43 PM
DO YOU EVEN BLOG, BRO?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2013, 3:05:05 PM
"I just arrived here, and I have never seen any of this before, but *whooo* boy lemme tell ya, you guys got this ALL wrong!"
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siracusa @siracusa
Feb 13, 2013, 2:44:33 PM
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This advance MUST be kept out of the hands of the PC-case-and-cooling fetishists: http://t.co/4RKwSfKk (via @mindfad)
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evil_trout @evil_trout
Feb 13, 2013, 2:38:28 PM
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If there is an obscure combination of keys that will suddenly close a program without prompting, I will do it accidentally.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2013, 2:01:05 PM
Two worlds collided http://t.co/65JyHgzQ (the whole Beck/INXS set is incredible, listen to it all)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2013, 1:31:39 PM
CSS to make HTML markup look like plain-text markdown? <Head asplode> http://t.co/LH87r4r3
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scottwasson @scottwasson
Feb 13, 2013, 1:22:37 PM
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Our latest System Guide offers a range of component picks for building your own PC: http://t.co/iZBOE1UZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2013, 12:45:01 PM
Ruby is quite slow, even on a 4 Ghz Ivy Bridge Xeon. But workable. What gets me is people using Ruby in 2006 on much slower hardware: wow.
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Disappointed that @liftconference's motto isn't "Do you even lift?"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2013, 11:27:39 AM
Today I learned that @gknauss hates coffee. Shall we burn the heretic? http://t.co/o7KiVhOr
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migueldeicaza @migueldeicaza
Feb 13, 2013, 11:24:36 AM
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Now just Mozilla and Microsoft need to switch to WebKit
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anildash @anildash
Feb 12, 2013, 4:50:30 PM
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If you want a web app that works on the same ideas as @mailbox, try out @emailgame, which I like & use a lot: http://t ...
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MrAdamRex @MrAdamRex
Feb 12, 2013, 4:37:58 PM
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For Lincoln's Birthday, here's your annual Lincoln ACTIVITY BOOK CHALLENGE. http://t.co/aYdzD4zv
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 3:22:21 PM
here's @billb demoing Pinball Construction Kit in 1984 https://t.co/V4zmqVj1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 3:20:41 PM
thanks @billb for posting Pinball Construction Kit. http://t.co/RWRsU4VR we're Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc for a reason :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 2:47:37 PM
"My children tell me that's like inventing smallpox." http://t.co/DkO8HkB9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 2:33:05 PM
We, as authoritative representatives of "The Company" (Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.) do solemnly swear.. https://t.co/BdgwVaxQ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 2:03:02 PM
@AwesomeRobot y'know what? You should design a Discourse theme. We PAY US DOLLAR MONIES. email me jatwood@codinghorror.com
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 1:58:58 PM
@AwesomeRobot I WILL BE THE JUDGE OF THIS SIR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 1:53:09 PM
@AwesomeRobot strong words.. there's been somewhat of a decline since 2005-2008 IMO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 1:50:30 PM
ah, Best of Bootie 2012 is out! http://t.co/ZPe2FutL Gotta catch 'em all!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 1:41:45 PM
uh.. nuttin, y'know.. just.. reading is fundamental.. and s**t http://t.co/GzTjs7JG
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betsyphd @betsyphd
Feb 12, 2013, 1:09:16 PM
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Heeeyyyy….someone took all the low-hanging fruit!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 1:01:30 PM
Did you ever want to punch both Belle and Sebastian right in their stupid faces? No? Just me? OK then.
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lizardbill @lizardbill
Feb 12, 2013, 11:49:05 AM
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At this point "bro, do you even lift?" and "What is best in life?" should be auto-inserted into every reddit AMA.
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Want to learn Ember.js? Get this https://t.co/413kVZED and follow along. It uses the new 1.0 router too.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 2:21:41 AM
Great, good humored take on electric car foibles in a cold Midwest road trip http://t.co/10vGmgPl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2013, 1:12:09 AM
Hungarian developers working on Commodore 64 rpg for the last 20 years. Still not released. http://t.co/UljLDAV3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2013, 11:52:58 PM
@dozba there's a startup even radical enough for Paul Graham!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2013, 7:04:49 PM
@MichaelBaun I believe they are admissible in a court of law as evidence
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2013, 5:02:12 PM
Discourse codebase GPA is only 2.64. No way we're getting into an ivy league with these grades. https://t.co/jgg2F4Ei
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howtogeeknews @howtogeeknews
Feb 11, 2013, 1:09:23 PM
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Geek Trivia: What Was the First TV Show to Be Rerun? http://t.co/6OSfcX17
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A Short History of the Death of Culture. http://t.co/eLsZ5GkW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2013, 1:44:26 AM
How awesome is The Aquabats Super Show? It has real life Strong Bad in it -- playing himself! http://t.co/P5QlSHKP
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2013, 1:31:08 AM
@howtogeek I looked and that and it was crap. NOT RECOMMENDED BY FORUM EXPERTS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2013, 1:25:59 AM
look a new http://t.co/gcyZ73N3 design! Send all complaints to @howtogeek
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2013, 12:29:41 AM
I hate to link to the Huffington Content Syndication Turbines, but this product is surprisingly *not* an Onion parody http://t.co/n4rOq1Yn
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FOSSNewsChannel @FOSSNewsChannel
Feb 10, 2013, 11:38:22 PM
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TONIGHT: The Stallman Factor reveals the truth about http://t.co/XQwCMXrp. http://t.co/djbnDF3I http://t.co/I5ijwkZ ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2013, 8:44:54 PM
Interesting to see @sivers so enthusiastically disavow locality in favor of, er, Internet-ality http://t.co/qqIGKlpA
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evil_trout @evil_trout
Feb 10, 2013, 7:34:28 PM
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Why Discourse uses EmberJS: http://t.co/TOCivZGS
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waxylinks @waxylinks
Feb 10, 2013, 6:23:37 PM
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Discourse: Jeff Atwood and Robin Ward reboot the discussion forum; see it in action   http://t.co/Z5xvQq9d
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A blog post about the decisions I made when refactoring Discourse today: http://t.co/IpKATcOR #ruby #rails #discourse
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2013, 1:42:36 PM
@dottorblaster yes! See http://t.co/4B3VAL8f for full info and live test instance!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2013, 12:22:10 PM
Interesting way to reframe email: http://t.co/JRihXmT1
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jongalloway @jongalloway
Feb 10, 2013, 11:47:42 AM
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Can't sleep! Scary clown, imposter syndrome and Peter Principle will eat me!
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ChrisHanel @ChrisHanel
Feb 9, 2013, 8:25:16 PM
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Starting to dig into @codinghorror's new project Discourse and really liking what I'm seeing. How much? I'm learning Rub ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2013, 12:17:12 PM
Spectacularly useless, but does illustrate superiority of emoji vs. dumb-as-rocks smileys http://t.co/ew7tbGIN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2013, 4:04:46 AM
you jerks already bought all the 128GB surface pros! Man. RUDE.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2013, 6:04:47 PM
"I guess that's pretty awesome." darkest brightly-colored-candy commercial ever. http://t.co/Md8MA8w8
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stevewerby @stevewerby
Feb 8, 2013, 3:09:15 PM
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Credit card company: What's your mother's maiden name? Me: Donkey Kong Bumper Boat. Them: Uh, yes. What? Me: I'm in secu ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2013, 3:04:56 PM
@Shicholas well, @evil_trout and @samsaffron did all the *real* work..
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After playing with Nexus 4 for a while, I now want a bigger iPhone.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2013, 1:25:58 PM
EZ deploy Discourse to the cloud with Ubuntu! Thanks to @marcoceppi and @castrojo http://t.co/cvpYgjgW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2013, 2:51:58 AM
Prediction? Pain. http://t.co/00vpYEQk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2013, 5:49:08 PM
@zigomir ooh, is there a blog post on that?
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iancorey @iancorey
Feb 7, 2013, 4:23:42 PM
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Google: "40% of Gmail's storage is signature files and attached logo images."
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samsaffron @samsaffron
Feb 7, 2013, 3:30:05 PM
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Big props to @blowmage, an awesome PR for Discourse https://t.co/sY9TnNFm accompanied by a very informative blog post ht ...
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marcgravell @marcgravell
Feb 7, 2013, 3:02:54 PM
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That moment during a meeting with the sysadmin team when your wife, **after** walking past naked, asks suddenly: "is yo ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2013, 2:35:04 PM
@rusanu yes well you are hard-core. I am merely soft-core maybe not even PG-13
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2013, 1:42:38 PM
Yay, new RubyMine! I currently suck at Ruby, so I need an amazing IDE. http://t.co/Zvpjc6gd
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evil_trout @evil_trout
Feb 7, 2013, 12:47:47 PM
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Discourse tops Github's trending graph: http://t.co/M5qsjrwT - feels good man!
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StackTravel @StackTravel
Feb 7, 2013, 10:02:27 AM
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What's the deal with the "string people" in central Paris? http://t.co/gXXp6jlP #paris
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I made one of the best tumblr blogs ever: http://t.co/ZnsjcpAt serving original #Geocities screenshots auto-generated by Ne ...
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StackExchange @StackExchange
Feb 7, 2013, 9:59:41 AM
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Why don't websites immediately display their text these days? http://t.co/yDNF5gMd #superuser
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matthewrex @matthewrex
Feb 7, 2013, 9:57:23 AM
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Portlandia’s “Nerd PSA” is the absolute best thing: http://t.co/Z6DvCoYC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2013, 12:11:20 AM
Did you ever wake up one day and realize you basically kind of accidentally deployed 4chan on your servers? Because that happened.
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If forums are the Internet's B-movies, @codinghorror is its Quentin Tarantino. Congrats on the launch! http://t.co/GoTjtxvd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2013, 8:46:03 PM
thanks for the kind words @davewiner we hope we can live up to our goals http://t.co/CIADGsKE
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We're bringin' the love back. http://t.co/FzKUO9Rk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2013, 8:40:53 PM
Just found out that @frandallfarmer took a goatse viewing for the team today in the name of moderation. I salute you, sir.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2013, 6:53:07 PM
@GoddamnedHorse @proteus4994 horses can use computers?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2013, 2:53:30 PM
How do you automate trust? We have some ideas in Discourse about this! http://t.co/bDDpWEM6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2013, 1:40:54 PM
Excited to be working with smart VCs like @joshk that support 100% open source software biz models! http://t.co/FHlw54gE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2013, 1:21:53 PM
@softwarenerd @DanB well, I'm buying two. It ain't no flop to me.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2013, 1:01:40 PM
someone just asked how long it will take to have a certain Discourse feature. Well, http://t.co/J0kdKGvR obviously.
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