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newsycombinator
@newsycombinator
What programming languages were used by the Soviet Union's space program? http://t.co/H4d5Rx1v

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"where links were previously wrapped at most once (average .66 redirects), they are now wrapped twice or more" http://t.co/K9bUMzH7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I loved this short-lived TV show from 1983 http://t.co/Yvr4gZea

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The double and triple shortened links people are putting on Twitter are really bumming me out. One is bad enough.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40 http://t.co/0CbgI7zo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
solution to power bricks with really long cables http://t.co/YIHxTTnO (via @OmarShahine)
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SQL_Kiwi
@SQL_Kiwi
My answer to Stack Exchange Database Administrators Q: Unexpected scans during delete operation using WHERE IN http://t.co ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The symbol of the singularity should be a unicorn. Unicorns also get talked about a lot, and also don't exist. (via @jamesmarcusbach)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"The ship's 40% casualty rate wasn't considered extraordinary for the day" http://t.co/yiEaIWyN (via @psaffo)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
guy answers Final Jeopardy question correctly in 1996, but loses due to never caught show error. Dies in 2005. http://t.co/dH2BG9FT

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
So, how good an estimator are you? http://t.co/l1L5RpBN
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lizardbill
@lizardbill
19 Things That Will Drive Your OCD Self Insane http://t.co/T1rRgheO

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
right, I realize using the vertical mouse wheel works to scroll things horizontally in win8. But why not just make it scroll vertical then?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Windows 8's adoption of *horizontal* scrolling by default is odd. Good thing I have this *vertical* mouse wheel.. http://t.co/Pg0mhqrK

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@Chris_DuPuis oh god I love fondue

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I was so sure it was going to be Nightwing. So very sure. http://t.co/YBFoI8h3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
my only marriage regret: being saddled with the stupid useless wedding gift china. Don't do it kids!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@raimesh it is handy for judges to learn about plumbing on a PLUMBING TRIAL. Duh.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I find the cat and see what they like to do and use that in the show." http://t.co/Q1PSxPce

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Internet is sponsored by the word "actually." http://t.co/hKCWWJln
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JohnDCook
@JohnDCook
The Best Beer in the World http://t.co/Xzz0dWmS

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The 50 Worst Cars of All Time. OF ALL TIME! http://t.co/HKwx9Qx9
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RockBand
@RockBand
Okay, this rules. RT @DEVO Archive Site now features over 450 different #DEVO buttons spanning their 40 year career: http: ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We're no strangers to code golf, you know the rules, and so do I http://t.co/MkTMP9yb

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead http://t.co/DZGgOqRG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I hate press requests for photo because all the photos I can find of me are ridiculous. See? http://t.co/UkfAZ9aG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We’ve watched Pee Wee’s Big Adventure with @rockhardawesome so many times now; a legitimate classic and national treasure @peeweeherman
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tobiasgies
@tobiasgies
Atwood's law still going strong. @codinghorror RT @aza: A 100% accurate IE6 clone written entirely in HTML5 http://t.co/ ...
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wilshipley
@wilshipley
If you like code you wrote a year ago you may not be learning fast enough to be a programmer.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
That's .. advice, I guess http://t.co/KIsC59oF

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"the only sure way to convince them is by actually caring" http://t.co/kZuBbj4K

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
man, Twitter has really ramped up the advertising. BROUGHT TO YOU BY CARL'S JR

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Is it OK to say that I didn't like Diablo 3 very much now? http://t.co/p3YlBTmG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
If Windy had stormy eyes that flashed at the sound of lies, why wasn't she used for police interrogations and trials? http://t.co/kXiCdsXr

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wish more people in our industry were trying to build communities first and products second, like @photomatt with WordPress
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siracusa
@siracusa

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
What should we do about Wikipedia’s porn problem? http://t.co/YA0oClkr

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of The New York Times." http://t.co/FyvyXiap

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
5 Weird Things That Make Me Horny http://t.co/8HCZOUKg
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stevecla
@stevecla
Can We Please Move Past Apple’s Silly, Faux-Real UIs? http://t.co/iVwN5Y6T via @FastCoDesign
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argv0
@argv0
I wonder when restaurants in SF will offer to pre-instagram your food before it even hits the table

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I still haven't broken into the big league yet. Just wait until my next game!" http://t.co/oqm2ZG2Q

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the actual origin of the name for id Software's "Doom" game http://t.co/SDSkPFCS

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
We should endeavor to fix ourselves before accusing the world of being broken. http://t.co/BZywa9Qj
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Hanzo55
@Hanzo55
Son asked, "What's AOL?" Well, son...it was a dark time for us in Internet history...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"[computer] use for education or meaningful content creation is minuscule compared to use for pure entertainment" http://t.co/fd7iEuhn

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
wait, I just visited a website where my cursor was Beiber'ed. That's still possible? http://t.co/hEHFh0oG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Libraries & Information Science, finally public! http://t.co/EtUWAgJv

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I can't even remember the last time I heard the word "shareware"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Mazes and Monsters" was, shock, a press exaggeration http://t.co/ZDRWU2YF

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
if you read @romero's stream, he recommends Masters of Doom non-stop. So it must be accurate from his perspective..
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dalmaer
@dalmaer
Thank god. Clippy is back, and he comes with more Webby! http://t.co/SYOw2DEp

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
reading Masters of Doom on Kindle because @romero told me to. It's good! http://t.co/YCeS3B4Q

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
That said, I actually think Windows 8 looks great. I'll install it on my iPad.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Dear Microsoft: the $99 3rd party licensed OS is no longer a good business model. Everything else is just rearranging deck chairs, etc.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"PHP doesn't even have a language specification" http://t.co/1EW5PvJH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
more video games should have a poetry key. http://t.co/OzHDsIob also, great music http://t.co/YJ5Q173N

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@dozba fuck that noise, I build flash apps.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@dozba live by the hipster, die by the hipster
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lizardbill
@lizardbill
How far human radio broadcasts have reached in the Milky Way. http://t.co/ikWtM4SU /via @reddit
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old_sound
@old_sound
I can't believe that today "Angry Birds" an iPhone game places advertisement in F1 Cars: http://t.co/aPsV7LT4
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ytspar
@ytspar

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"the first person to win, as an individual, both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize" http://t.co/fRgQVuLF
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assaf
@assaf
If your iPad feels a bit too portable, don't worry: you can now hook it up to a typewriter http://t.co/D06cCpBU
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lgrammel
@lgrammel
#stackoverflow documentation for #android and #java matches the actual API usage: http://t.co/Bdfp1Owy http://t.co/gcwuSjDt

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
12 inch Star Wars arcade game! Just because we can! http://t.co/LrUmHjQH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
discovered that the only way to connect with an old high school friend is http://t.co/g0wGiqii, not teh facebooks #nerrrrrds

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
People who agree with me make me far more uncomfortable than those who disagree with me. "You're even crazier than I am!"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"no, no, your we meant your *real* friends this time" http://t.co/gDrKxjF1

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
facebook + opera = SWEET JESUS NO http://t.co/KwaExnzw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
So You Want to be a Programmer http://t.co/uEppvzeR

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
revisiting the "Please Don't Learn to Code" well in a few hours. Prediction: http://t.co/Rhq4gZSh

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
that's it, I'm switching to Android. https://t.co/g8Hgzygf
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ltackmann
@ltackmann
Woot! 2nd edition of "Hacker's Delight" is coming http://t.co/TuddQsUM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I apologize for any harm done as a result of my neglect to consider how quickly the site would spread" -- Zuck http://t.co/aHddx390

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
In the future, all gardens will be walled. Good fences make good neighbors. http://t.co/NF6H1K2Y
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neilkelty
@neilkelty
@codinghorror So I guess this is what happens when politicians learn technology/to code? http://t.co/p72LyIEb

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Still serving at the pleasure of the king http://t.co/thv0N70V

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
remember, if they exceed their goal they'll build Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball too! http://t.co/TZRYfk7Z

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Y'see Theo, each Cosby is getting *worse* than the last, y'see.." http://t.co/xDm9cXct
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karaswisher
@karaswisher
From the Mixed-Up Files of AOL: Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL http://t.co/lyqd5xFC via @CNET

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
. @conanobrien, what is good in life?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I have given this considerable thought, and I no longer believe that greed is good. http://t.co/rCt7Zy7p
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timbray
@timbray
Incredibly juicy! Who’s taking down whom on the Internet: http://t.co/L2HqXV7V
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
My SIL was in the audience for Ivan Boesky's 1986 commencement at UCB. That speech was the inspiration for Gordon Gecko's ...
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greenberg
@greenberg
I'm starting a band. I can't really play any instrument or sing, so I'm looking for a few musical co-founders.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Skydiver Becomes First To Land Without Chute http://t.co/lp8NtcNt
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AntiFreeze
@AntiFreeze
Dying from laughter: RT @jf: http://t.co/punxO8xP

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
50 minute Q&A with me on Stack Overflow and related topics http://t.co/VLqUVyi7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"don't you care about the story?" I care about my story, which is me playing the game. I get to tell that story.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
My problem with technology conferences is that they are like videogame cutscenes. They aren't gameplay. (I also skip Blizzard cutscenes.)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The lesson of Yahoo is that a company with poor leadership is inevitably doomed. "bunch of engineers in a room" is not leadership.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"None of those lectures were as opaque as anything these academics said." http://t.co/EKUL5FR2

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
snowclone: "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, {x}. Now {y}." http://t.co/h0CdIPQ3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"[in Python] the conversion from int to float can't fail, while byte string to unicode string can" http://t.co/a3UYu81p
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textfiles
@textfiles
It gets better! If you have Windows or don't want to install - introducing ARCHIVETEAM WARRIOR: http://t.co/TkAEyj68
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Writepop
@Writepop
"Eighty-seven percent of people think lasers are friggin' awesome." - Pew Pew Pew Research Center

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Q: "Why does this person I know do that weird thing in public?" A: "It's cheaper than therapy."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
more kickstarters should have a "one meeeellion dollars" pledge level where they go all Indecent Proposal on you.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I apologize for linking "The Bachelorette" material but it is @wilshipley's masterwork on so many levels http://t.co/LSAmgd4B

