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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2011, 1:08:02 AM
it is criminal how poorly the clipboard is supported out of the box in .. well, basically every OS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2011, 12:56:37 AM
ok so boxee is basically a nice 10-foot-UI wrapper around existing dedicated video web properties? http://www.boxee.tv/
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skippykawakami @skippykawakami
Apr 1, 2011, 7:25:43 PM
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@codinghorror Same thing happened to me. Turns out I had an "inflamed Sponsored Link". Doc prescribed 20mg of HuffPo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 6:23:52 PM
I wish I was kidding about the last tweet. I really do. To be fair, it was a common and minor medical problem ... but still.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 6:18:57 PM
went to the doctor recently (nothing serious) and he diagnosed me using Google on the in-room terminal. :p THX DR GOOGLES!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 5:05:16 PM
our Apple site got an "Iron Like an OSX Lion in Zion" minor redesign http://apple.stackexchange.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 10:28:08 AM
Hearing reports of bugs in voting on http://t.co/Jpyh9yj http://t.co/3xt489c http://t.co/grX7tdy -- anyone repro?
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Do new candidates mine coal during their interview? http://joeloncoal.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 5:32:08 AM
@chrismckee works fine for me, perhaps clear your browser cache?
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Try googling "helvetica" via @sickdesigner
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 2:29:54 AM
"Hey Malkovich, think fast!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-lSUz0Hn10
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jongalloway @jongalloway
Apr 1, 2011, 1:09:52 AM
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@codinghorror Safari-textifier bookmarklet for you: javascript:$('*').css({'font-weight': 'bold', 'text-shadow': '0px 1 ...
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dansdata @dansdata
Apr 1, 2011, 12:33:40 AM
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Was there any Amiga user who DIDN'T at least once play an executable as a sound file? http://bit.ly/eYlweV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 5:19:04 PM
every time you emboss a font in HTML, I kill a puppy. I'm just saying.
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BadAstronomer @BadAstronomer
Mar 31, 2011, 5:02:57 PM
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Look at your man. Now back to me. I'm in a FAQ! http://is.gd/JKcSfH #skepticism
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 2:34:35 AM
IMNSHO, nobody does what we do -- open, self-governing expert Q&A communities -- better than we do. But I'm biased. And a little obsessed.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 1:54:24 AM
@cdrassoc I don't agree with the way Jobs randomly answers email, but I have to defend him as simply *direct*, not rude or confrontational
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 1:20:39 AM
I am mystified why some people think being rude and confrontational is a "strategy". For being ignored, perhaps.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 12:03:33 AM
I find it profoundly disturbing that epic hacker @jwz greenlit *facebook-only* comments on the DNA Lounge blog. :( http://goo.gl/wvSzZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 11:19:24 PM
adding text-shadow may work on Macs with "all bold all the time" font rendering, but looks hideous on Windows http://goo.gl/F4E95
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chriscoyier @chriscoyier
Mar 30, 2011, 9:57:39 PM
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My mom made me google if Forest Whitaker has a lazy eye and found this amazing page: http://t.co/vTm4r1V
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NathanBowers @NathanBowers
Mar 30, 2011, 8:40:05 PM
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750words.com also has the least noisy OpenID-ish login system I've seen. Well done @busterbenson. http://img.ly/3jP8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 6:43:29 PM
eBay / craigslist are flea markets. They're always a little sketchy by nature; that's how neighborhood capitalism works..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 3:33:01 PM
unsubsidized cost of iPhone 3gs 16gb: $599. How much I sold my used *excellent* condition iPhone 3gs for on eBay: $320. That's 53%
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 1:02:55 PM
Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 now supports GitHub http://goo.gl/SUoVE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 12:12:32 PM
can we help @timbray out with his Apple question? http://apple.stackexchange.com/q/11100/101
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 10:40:04 AM
"Stack Overflow is a great site and a fantastic business." http://goo.gl/AnvAN thanks @timoreilly !
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 9:47:48 AM
IE9 is not bad at all. Which release of Windows Phone 7 will use the IE9 code base instead of craptacular IE8?
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samsaffron @samsaffron
Mar 30, 2011, 1:09:27 AM
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Blogged: "How I learned to stop worrying and write my own ORM" http://goo.gl/5rXUj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 8:49:57 PM
The ultimate intersection? Sheeiiiiiiiiiiiiit. #wire http://t.co/9zcK3KV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 8:05:27 PM
Yes I know chrome dev is on some insanely high version. My point is, don't file bugs on us with a bleeding edge browser.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 7:23:19 PM
"I'm using Chrome 12 and your site is broken?" Really? Are you from TEH FUTARRRRR?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 4:23:18 PM
Stack Exchange's "Windows Vista" feature moment http://goo.gl/rxAJJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 1:39:35 PM
apologies in advance, but this is a painful truth you need to hear: the top 10 rap songs white people love. http://goo.gl/9Wg4W
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amazonmp3 @amazonmp3
Mar 29, 2011, 12:26:17 PM
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Get 5GB #clouddrive storage FREE. Buy any album, get automatically upgraded to 20GB. Details: http://amzn.to/hsndh4 #clo ...
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marcgravell @marcgravell
Mar 29, 2011, 12:18:14 PM
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Hope to release the #stackoverflow redis bindings onto google-code soon; we re-wrote @migueldeicaza 's excellent bindin ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 7:26:08 AM
does anyone have info on the "I would like to know if you sell {random product}, let me know models, size, pricing" email spams?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 7:15:50 AM
there doesn't seem to be a "perfect" wireless home theater PC keyboard/mouse out there yet http://goo.gl/OXg0F
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PC vs. post-PC: Android has 12million lines of code. Windows 95 had 15 million, 98 had 18, Windows 2000 29, XP 45, OS X (v10 ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 6:07:28 AM
so many things not to care about, so little time!
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splattne @splattne
Mar 29, 2011, 5:45:36 AM
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Finally available in all major browser versions: text-align: centaur; http://textaligncentaur.com/ (via @mikkohypponen)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 5:17:43 AM
bootstrapping: using feedback from ui.stackexchange to improve Stack Exchange's UI http://ui.stackexchange.com/q/4287/6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 11:01:56 PM
8-bit dark side of the moon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euLdKW_Db1k
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 10:56:47 PM
"I could not ride that... without the matching sweater." http://www.flickr.com/photos/extremecraft/132463341/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 10:19:12 PM
surprisingly, a google image search for "3d anaglyph" is sort of nsfw, right on page 1
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anildash @anildash
Mar 28, 2011, 10:00:20 PM
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Three Mile Island was 32 years ago. I was 10 miles away. So here's facts on radiation, beyond the XKCD graphic: http://2.d ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 9:30:34 PM
"EF is twice as slow as linq 2 sql ... looks like the team at MS have been busy de-optimising" lol
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 7:00:39 PM
urg. http://ur.ly is down -- anyone know status, or a place to get status?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 4:57:06 AM
Revisiting the Home Theater PC http://goo.gl/vXTEN
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Humility lead to undeserved anonymity. Thank you, Mr. Paul Baran. (Possibly the original pioneer of the Internet.) RIP. http://b ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2011, 11:00:48 PM
@apgwoz @j2labs @anildash even anonymous users can edit anything now, go for it! http://goo.gl/moGTN
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MySQL.com compromised via SQL Injection attack. http://bit.ly/foQI7v
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2011, 6:00:30 AM
I can barely watch video that isn't 720p any more #firstworldproblems
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2011, 5:01:04 AM
Vault-Tec Industries sales skyrocket from 20% to 1,000% http://goo.gl/3szQR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2011, 11:59:09 PM
pushing one man's love of George Michael's"Careless Whisper" to the limit. And beyond. http://goo.gl/RuHtM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2011, 11:29:28 PM
bug reports I tend to act on: 1) those that are actively killing small children 2) those that amuse and entertain me
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2011, 10:59:40 PM
who said bug reports can't be AWESOME??? http://goo.gl/0u1bQ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2011, 10:13:31 PM
digging the new HTPC build, very speedy and kill-a-watt says 25w idle average, 30-45w active http://goo.gl/zQp3S
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bramcohen @bramcohen
Mar 26, 2011, 4:11:13 PM
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"90% of coding is debugging. The other 10% is writing bugs"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2011, 3:54:41 AM
"You have to be in the right physical position to comfortably use a tablet." http://goo.gl/VP4Ig
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2011, 8:26:33 PM
The Ig Nobel in medicine was in 2009 awarded to Donald L. Unger for research around cracking his knuckle. http://goo.gl/QslWV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2011, 7:12:46 PM
are you a member of the http://superuser.com community? Like free hardware and writing? see http://goo.gl/ECCCw
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waxpancake @waxpancake
Mar 25, 2011, 5:52:35 PM
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I want to throw a party just so I can project this 1976 Shatner-narrated film about microchips on the walls: http://bit. ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2011, 5:47:21 PM
look, if Facebook and Wikipedia can build generational empires on PHP, quality of tooling is *utterly irrelevant*. It just is.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2011, 5:41:27 PM
yeah, MySpace was *totally* killed by LA and Microsoft, not just plain old INCOMPETENCE. http://goo.gl/B14x9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2011, 3:00:20 AM
“A few days ago, I read that a samurai philosophy is to refrain until you can respond instead of reacting. I must work on that.”
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2011, 1:59:36 AM
@howtogeek that's OK. I'm a terrible boss!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2011, 1:55:05 AM
"I wish I could hire all of you." #stackexchange http://goo.gl/u5brS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2011, 10:48:38 PM
I was gonna work from home making $978 in easy cash from Google but NOOOOooo! http://goo.gl/oxEB8
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jongalloway @jongalloway
Mar 24, 2011, 9:41:22 PM
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Herding Code 108: Jin Yang and Nathan Bowers on Web Design: This episode of Herding Code continues ... http://bit.ly/fO ...
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Nick_Craver @Nick_Craver
Mar 24, 2011, 9:41:07 PM
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best #stackexchange 404/error yet, the #android site: http://android.stackexchange.com/error
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2011, 4:41:28 PM
@howtogeek congrats!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2011, 3:20:42 PM
Q&A for enthusiasts and power users of the Android operating system, now public http://android.stackexchange.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2011, 6:12:26 AM
I'm a bit burned out on Yahtzee's review style but his Kirby's Epic Yarn review was .. epic http://goo.gl/ejYqx
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@codinghorror Firefox is for when you absolutely, positively MUST have a memory leak
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2011, 1:38:00 AM
Wikipedia may incorrectly bless some bad URL construction, but wolfram alpha commits mass genocide against hyperlinks
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2011, 11:16:07 PM
I am wayyyy too cranky to be a public figure, even in the 15ns of fame internet sense of the word.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2011, 11:11:19 PM
"Reliable tag cartography is essential to navigation and exploration in any expert Q&A community" http://goo.gl/7amuZ
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linuxlizard @linuxlizard
Mar 23, 2011, 11:06:35 PM
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@codinghorror I still use Firefox because I can't disable gif animations in Chrome.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2011, 10:02:40 PM
can someone point me to a blog post explaining why Firebug is so much better than Chrome's built in equivalent? Not getting it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2011, 9:57:20 PM
Chrome even out Greasemonkeys Firefox, because Chrome has Greasemonkey support *built into the executable*.
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anildash @anildash
Mar 23, 2011, 9:52:18 PM
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Seems like Skype and iTunes are battling it out for the RealPlayer Memorial Award for Most Annoying Desktop Client App.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2011, 9:50:44 PM
this is the least excited I have ever been for a Firefox release, ever. I struggle to see what Firefox is for when Chrome does it all better
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2011, 9:45:00 PM
I remember reading Groening's "childhood is hell" strip about this years ago, but he was too optimistic -- the fun begins BEFORE dawn.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2011, 9:42:49 PM
I wish there was some way to convince @rockhardawesome not to wake up every day before 6am -- need lazy teenage years!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2011, 5:58:41 AM
kudos to #stackexchange team / sysadmins, lots of great performance work in the last 5 days. PERFORMANCE = FEATURE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 22, 2011, 7:46:48 AM
apologies in advance for the heresy, but I tire of XKCD.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 22, 2011, 7:16:31 AM
the parenting Q&A site proposal is very close to reaching beta http://goo.gl/5Mj9h
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 22, 2011, 6:35:19 AM
What is the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey about? http://t.co/U1pvnt4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 22, 2011, 12:15:16 AM
A collection of first world problems, updated daily http://whitewhine.com/ (via @jacksonh and @kevindente)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2011, 7:33:44 PM
oh software patents, is there no limit to how much you can suck?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2011, 7:05:54 PM
proposed Q&A site for bioinformatics, I need @betsyphd to support this one! http://goo.gl/uwh6N
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2011, 4:10:11 PM
electronics design Q&A -- now public http://electronics.stackexchange.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2011, 6:22:09 AM
some interesting #stackoverflow tag clouds if you are into that sort of thing http://goo.gl/e6ZkV
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