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“to manage one million animals gives me a headache” Uhhhh…. http://t.co/uwGt7ELv (must-read I think)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2012, 1:36:28 PM
Twitter "verified" my profile by making me click through 4 A/B "which tweet is better?" questions. Now "verified". http://t.co/DPTq9Zw6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2012, 1:33:22 PM
@jameswiseman76 @spolsky @marcgravell @Nick_Craver repro'ed but odd. Google used to collapse under the same domain a bit, not here clearly.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2012, 12:10:34 AM
One Weird Old Trick for making your blog popular: http://t.co/YSxTpfs1
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Kinda depressed about Fitocracy. Thought it was a new form of government with Fight Club rules.
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andrewducker @andrewducker
Aug 17, 2012, 6:47:27 PM
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I am amused to discover that "Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan" is an anagram of "My Ultimate Ayn Rand Porn".
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2012, 6:37:51 PM
I am liking http://t.co/5pr7UUh0 -- it's like a more thoughtfully designed, and way less douchey, Quora.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2012, 6:26:45 PM
On the self-inflicted death of prog-rock "Yes had gotten too damn silly." http://t.co/oKcYiClv
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2012, 5:28:14 PM
dear Craigslist caller: asking me if I have "change for a hundred dollar bill" for the super-amazing-cheap deal you're getting is not cool
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2012, 5:21:44 PM
“It’s an electronic hickey.” http://t.co/Zs0aRqcZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2012, 4:57:55 PM
"The conventional approach, enforced to a greater or lesser extent, is that you shall use a standard subroutine." http://t.co/5ufgobhv
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2012, 4:50:20 PM
If it's a core business function, write that code yourself, no matter what: http://t.co/FH9FwS8S
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2012, 4:40:07 PM
buying copies of Get Lamp and BBS documentaries to support Schuyler Towne's recovery http://t.co/2E8gbhco
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splattne @splattne
Aug 17, 2012, 3:19:22 PM
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The first binary search was published in 1946. The first bug-free one in 1962. In 2006 a bug was discovered in Java’s Arra ...
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We're hiring: Data Scientist at Stack Exchange http://t.co/gmC2NQbJ via @StackCareers
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 7:23:05 PM
The Top 10 Rock Songs Black People Love, A Post Written By A Black Person http://t.co/b7HW2LwH
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Carnage4Life @Carnage4Life
Aug 16, 2012, 7:21:24 PM
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Instagram, a free app, worth a billion dollars while Hipstamatic has to fire all but five employees to survive? - http ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 6:39:31 PM
Death to the "cup of coffee vs 99 cent app" analogy! http://t.co/Vi2Rfysm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 6:20:21 PM
I warned you man.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 6:20:15 PM
Oh God. Don't click this. Don't do it. http://t.co/ujqpMJMw
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Priceless "If I were heavily involved with Node.js, I’d be making contingency plans." http://t.co/sPORJR7F
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dingstweets @dingstweets
Aug 16, 2012, 4:40:04 PM
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"13 ways of looking at Medium," a really, really good piece by @jbenton http://t.co/QkrVS2AY
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StatFact @StatFact
Aug 16, 2012, 2:01:33 PM
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Pitfalls in random number generation http://t.co/arFb5tXn
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Font support in iOS is great and getting better with each release: http://t.co/DF2o1Ncz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 1:16:43 PM
ironically I got a pseudo-error when submitting the last tweet. Twitter, the least competent webscale engineering team ever. <3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 1:16:02 PM
does http://t.co/jqo6IbeA list "no more Twitter fail whales" as a reason to switch? Lately it's been very bad.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 11:47:38 AM
I used to think Brokencyde was the worst thing to happen to pop music in the last century, then I heard Skrillex
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 10:57:11 AM
" What would you do if you hit the lottery? How can you do some of that right now?"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 9:48:02 AM
H.265 in Jan 2013: "Reduce video bitrate by half with comparable image quality" http://t.co/jIlyaS9z
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 9:07:51 AM
"I have no moral from this story." https://t.co/VsCKFTI2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 4:01:58 AM
"I'm pretty sure Crocodile Dundee would be happy to acknowledge that this is, in fact, a knife." http://t.co/mAgL0rXt
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 3:59:25 AM
@velotester create your own teams, then. Works for me.,
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2012, 12:23:22 AM
"The team you want to join is the one that’s hard to get into." http://t.co/h1180v1r
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 15, 2012, 11:33:03 PM
if anyone ever wants to email me, you might find that information on my blog via the "About Me" link. Just throwing that out there. =8-D
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 15, 2012, 11:23:10 PM
"They thought that was funny." http://t.co/nSW2Dri9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 15, 2012, 9:10:57 PM
I will shut up about this now, but the more I use the Nexus 7 the more I like it. It could go from good to great with Android 5.0.
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KuraFire @KuraFire
Aug 15, 2012, 7:14:05 PM
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Hillary Clinton on being asked about her clothes: http://t.co/BXfoaK0H
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 15, 2012, 6:45:18 PM
let's help @oatmeal and the state of NY build a god***n science museum! http://t.co/aK9LWlNQ
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gostermag @gostermag
Aug 15, 2012, 5:48:43 PM
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@codinghorror interesting - I just assumed when I get an email with 2 trailing spaces the author is over 40
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 15, 2012, 10:55:08 AM
per @miller2300 The Pragmatic Programmer is only $2.99 on Kindle right now! Go buy it! http://t.co/oSCQbhGb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 4:39:29 PM
Friend with busted iPhone home button must pay $50 to have it fixed. Another victim of the One Button Mystique. http://t.co/GHea8z6c
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 4:00:20 PM
@jotato I don't know, are you?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 3:58:28 PM
@jotato you are working on a Ruby-to-PHP translator too? WE WILL CRUSH YOU!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 3:57:16 PM
remember this? http://t.co/RmZvrAuY It's now a live ad on Stack Overflow! http://t.co/MmneuSud
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verlaine101 @verlaine101
Aug 14, 2012, 3:38:22 PM
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@codinghorror I'm just amazed Steve Jobs' house would have any removable parts.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 3:33:13 PM
even worse, he was carrying an Android phone. http://t.co/mRtMjM9Z
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 3:30:01 PM
Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period. http://t.co/3tb3q86s
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inafried @inafried
Aug 14, 2012, 1:51:14 PM
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Why @billgates gives a @#$% about toilets http://t.co/hOIah2A2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 5:07:07 AM
The $230,000 watch is a really, really nice watch. http://t.co/6xlbijbg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 4:46:27 AM
Look, I think http://t.co/jqo6IbeA is crazy. But give @daltonc credit: he is building stuff, and he reached his funding goal. Good on him.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 4:41:52 AM
How cool would it be if @margaretatwood was my mother? Sadly, no.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 14, 2012, 1:31:53 AM
Baby Got Back supercut? Is that the correct term @waxpancake ? http://t.co/INQnh5nv
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"If you are insured by Progressive, they will defend your killer in court in order to not pay you your policy." http://t.co ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 4:25:22 PM
Sweet Delaware, the Promised Land of Incorporation
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 4:05:12 PM
"top performers overwhelmingly worked for companies that [provided] privacy, space ... and freedom from interruption" http://t.co/bZQuI2iC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 3:24:22 PM
When @betsyphd says to me, "I don't get @horse_ebooks", I'm thinking to myself this is maybe divorce material
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 3:11:14 PM
only two screens? pff. amateur. http://t.co/ECBvQjXn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 2:32:35 PM
The Twitter engineer who decided animated GIF avatars were OK and allowed: we must go back in time and kill this person.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 1:57:02 PM
Win8 is noticeably faster than Win7 in every way: install, booting, sleep/resume, file operations, you name it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 1:44:01 PM
Windows 8'ed all 5 PCs in the house. Best and fastest Windows upgrade experience I've ever had.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 12:50:50 PM
Some community feedback is useful. Others, not so much. http://t.co/RmZvrAuY
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@codinghorror Paul Graham has those: http://t.co/A3f4LjjV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 12:44:53 PM
Clearly, we need a RAQ. Rarely Asked Questions.
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shit_hn_says @shit_hn_says
Aug 13, 2012, 12:42:51 PM
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If you are hiring for a job that requires the top 1% of intelligence, it is no surprise that you are going to have mor ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 12:06:01 PM
Say what you will about Skype but its audio quality is off-the-charts amazing compared to the average cell phone voice call. So bad.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 10:32:42 AM
The more I use the Nexus 7 the more I believe it is finally the first truly credible alternative to the iPad. Amazing it took this long.
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RockBand @RockBand
Aug 13, 2012, 10:29:44 AM
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The complete 25 song setlist for #RockBandBlitz has been revealed! Releasing 8/28 for $14.99, so mark your calendars! htt ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 13, 2012, 12:44:32 AM
Sculley should've stuck with selling sugar water.
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This is a brilliant idea: http://t.co/GiA17AQW
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StackCodeGolf @StackCodeGolf
Aug 11, 2012, 4:10:56 PM
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Output a number in PrettyFont http://t.co/ilv9dWR9 #codegolf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 10, 2012, 5:54:37 PM
oh snap! Google will downgrade sites in SERPs with lots of copyright removal requests. http://t.co/EfkHPbNL
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textfiles @textfiles
Aug 10, 2012, 5:44:50 PM
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http://t.co/450HKwoQ to the rescue. http://t.co/oDyimQSA and http://t.co/MP2K9VAT - torrent that thing! Spread the music!
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textfiles @textfiles
Aug 10, 2012, 5:43:39 PM
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They had a kickstarter in 2010. Asked for $11k, got $68k. Bravo. http://t.co/J6HCXghM - But where to release the final la ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 10, 2012, 5:38:25 PM
the most amazing thing about that Carly Rae Jepsen video: people still *use* Chatroulette?! http://t.co/pCNMR8To
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 10, 2012, 4:10:26 PM
"here I was in a never-ending debate over whether a string ... should be Title Case, Capitols, or Sentence Case." http://t.co/Q1Lvnnoq
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The Incident is now two years old, and for a short time, totally free! Get it: http://t.co/ua8u9uRi
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brianleroux @brianleroux
Aug 10, 2012, 1:53:48 PM
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First time seeing this in a bookstore. http://t.co/pSJg25i6
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vilhalmer @vilhalmer
Aug 10, 2012, 11:00:15 AM
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@codinghorror I got the Hacking Construction Set running on my Apple IIc, works perfectly! http://t.co/uTNrfUfT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 10, 2012, 4:46:34 AM
An amazingly great retro computing blog: http://t.co/Q0yvPHZA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 10, 2012, 4:38:40 AM
A Yegge is approximately 4000 words, or 25 kilobytes. http://t.co/1c9v0kJv
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NASA's Curiosity camera project manager explains why they used 2MP cameras http://t.co/BXAs2krN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 9, 2012, 4:01:26 PM
Information Cube 2.0, now with TWIST ENDING!!1!@!one http://t.co/Bjtgzbii
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inscitekjeff @inscitekjeff
Aug 9, 2012, 11:22:44 AM
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Somebody is trying to tell me something. I woke up with a Unicorn head on my desk this morning. http://t.co/8wKlgybO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 9, 2012, 4:13:57 AM
I Was a Teenage Hacker http://t.co/04n3o9OI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 9, 2012, 2:24:47 AM
when I say "twins" what you should hear is "two f**king babies at the same time"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 9, 2012, 1:38:19 AM
Listening to these songs to objectively decide which is worse. http://t.co/IBebE5pV http://t.co/j3BfjQMY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 11:43:30 PM
I never understood the "leadership" ethos of just throwing a bunch of smart engineers in a room. Perhaps if you consider Google Wave success
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 11:20:04 PM
I haven't seen this much Twitter Fail Whale since like 2007. THANKS OBAMA.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 7:20:13 PM
I need a chocolate PEZ speed-loader for @rockhardawesome http://t.co/X9UQcnYu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 7:15:32 PM
@johnsheehan well, actually, it's just smart hackers pointing out assumptions you may have missed. Probably because you're a dumbass.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 6:33:29 PM
This disclaimer should come on all listicles (articles that are nothing but numbered/bulleted lists): http://t.co/P4S8e0it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 6:17:22 PM
If you haven't yet read The Pragmatic Programmer, you should. Here's why: http://t.co/AopUJLUl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 6:04:48 PM
To those of you replying that iOS is a gatekeeper, it is a teeny-tiny gate. Compare with $40k *per update* on Xbox: http://t.co/fMNNUNkC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 4:27:54 PM
The world has already changed irreversibly since Indie Game was filmed: kickstarter for funding, iOS/Android remove bs console gatekeepers
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 4:10:10 PM
Enjoying Indie Game the movie, but I really dislike platform games. How about indie-ing beyond ancient Mario tropes please?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 3:21:25 PM
Remember when things were awesome? LIKE RIGHT NOW?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 8, 2012, 2:13:08 PM
You cannot retweet yourself. Filing this as a bug in twitter, because https://t.co/Y94zOpEc
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maxsteenbergen @maxsteenbergen
Aug 8, 2012, 1:39:45 PM
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Never use black http://t.co/duNT0aD9 Quite the eye opener or me personally. /via @ninh
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. @jzy on designing for Stack Exchange: http://t.co/hG1icZ1y
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NathanBowers @NathanBowers
Aug 8, 2012, 1:25:35 PM
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The first app that's Stringer Bell approved. http://t.co/SDSLGel9
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