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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
why must I hate the Facebooks so much, yet The Social Network movie is getting such rave reviews? LIFE IS CRUEL

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I will be speaking at the Silicon Valley code camp next week: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sessions.aspx?track=13

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@davidsavagejr it's about webapps.. anything that "runs" in a browser.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@JoshStodola funny, I was about to say the same thing about you! but seriously, take it to meta

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
so gargling salt water (or Listerine) *does* work! Thanks mom! http://goo.gl/WCBA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@yetanotherchris sort of, see the "short permalink to this question" in screenshot here: http://goo.gl/wblc

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
dance fortress 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nds1T7U9FqY

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
just found out @mavisbeacon is on twitter. mind? blown.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
you do NOT want me mentoring you. I am awful at it. My idea of good mentoring? "just stop sucking and be awesome!"
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siracusa
@siracusa
So Google can search the entire web in real time as I type, but Gmail still takes 5 seconds to search my few thousand emails?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
How do we rename a domain while preserving PageRank? http://t.co/IteLlU1

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I still use WinAmp to listen to music. DONT JUDGE ME MAN!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@bigjim yeah the preview is good, I might pull the trigger on this one too

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I've actually finally figured out a use for the iPad: old people device. Seriously."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
wow, Trent Friggin' Reznor did the soundtrack for The Social Network movie? Crazy. http://goo.gl/KNmf
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spolsky
@spolsky
World Tour already filled up in 7 cities. Hurry up and register, it's free: http://worldtour.fogcreek.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
for those who missed it late last night: "Subjective questions are dead. Long live subjective questions!" http://goo.gl/ziuE

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
omg inventionland! I might even endure a commute for this! http://goo.gl/y3pS (via @deadprogrammer )

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Stack Exchange Q&A site public beta: Electronics and Robotics http://bit.ly/aexGUl

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Beyond Facebook: How the World's Mathematicians Organize Online http://goo.gl/NSmy

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Subjective questions are dead. Long live subjective questions! http://goo.gl/X0m7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I almost forgot my Promise To America -- namely, dressing as Zardoz this halloween. http://stackapps.com/404

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@howtogeek let us know what you think.. Kindle 3 is amazing (to me at least)!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
not kicking enough ass on the web today? http://erkie.github.com/ (via @michaelfogcreek)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
new global inbox for Stack Overflow and all related network sites: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/new-global-inbox/
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jongalloway
@jongalloway
Windows Live Spaces moving to Wordpress. Win. Millions of GuidUrls cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@VoidSK needs specifics to address

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Stack Overflow and Factionalism: Join or Die. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/factionalism-site-or-tag/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@gortok leadership is more than blindly following what the community thinks it needs. input, yes, but myopic at times.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@gortok it's still subjective stuff.. that doesn't compile (or render in Safari) and isn't provably correct.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Should “Developer Testing” be folded into a more general “Programmers” site? (hint: yes) http://goo.gl/PFMW

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Rock Band 3: pro keyboard, pro drums, pro guitar detail videos! http://goo.gl/v2Cg

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
thanks to @mandlar here's how to opt out of those "The {user name} daily is out!" emails: http://paper.li/stop-mentions.html

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I need to find the person who wrote the "The {user name} daily is out!" twitter-spamming software, and KILL THEM
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FogBugz
@FogBugz
FogBugz 8 is officially launched: http://bit.ly/c9D2Ki And Kiln 2 is out too: http://bit.ly/9K1yEM Get better at everythi ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"It's a better environment than the contentious discussions that used to happen on the syndication mail lists." http://goo.gl/FCZs

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I have no use for moleskines (I'm into typing, not penmanship), but .. WANT http://goo.gl/PwjG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
had to retire my year old MS Natural 4000 with one of the $19 replacement ones I scored; TOTALLY different key feel!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
no, no, no.. a Kindle 3 size iPad. Phones are pocket size which is great for pockets but do you carry books in your pocket?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
a smaller iPad would address literally every complaint I have about the device (stupidly-low-res, heavy, awkward, expensive)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I kinda wanted to see the Facebooks movie before, now that it's getting such rave reviews I REALLY want to see it.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
those faster multi-core CPUs aren't doing much for software, but they're sure making h.264 the new MP3: http://goo.gl/RACd
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jzy
@jzy
RT @tlrobinson: What happens when you hire a datacenter admin with OCD: http://i.imgur.com/D3E8M.jpg
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pickover
@pickover
Wikipedia's list of common misconceptions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misconceptions (rt @quintic)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I just donated to the dd-wrt project! http://goo.gl/p9TV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Apple's Airport Extreme, is Extreme all right.. "Extremely Disappointing" http://goo.gl/1PUs
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mattcutts
@mattcutts
Do you hate software patents? If so, you have until Monday to tell the USPTO: http://goo.gl/V7lg Please RT!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
because everyone needs a (great) router! http://goo.gl/p9TV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
according to NameBench, UltraDNS is fastest for the sites I visit http://code.google.com/p/namebench/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
nneeerrrrrrddddsss! (via @howtogeek) http://goo.gl/sttI

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
it's like a Cosmo article from some alternate, but equally terrible, universe http://goo.gl/EWfU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
if you haven't seen it yet, the Bioshock Infinite trailer is amazing and worth watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0fDEA0BFSM
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DrPizza
@DrPizza
Is that Bill Gates staring back at you from Outlook 2010? http://ping.fm/iCm9m

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
does anyone know anything about triggering "article mode" on the Kindle browser (or similar)? http://goo.gl/dOaL

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10000 head of cattle, don't bother." (dogs = icons)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
(largely irrelevant since to me, the phone is just an awesome pocket web browser, but the point stands)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
when your from-boot phone UI design is "a desktop with a shitload of icons on it", you have failed. utterly.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
windows 7 phone UI vs iphone UI. Apple's "sea of icons on background" approach sucks. http://goo.gl/0kOk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wonder if anyone has told Mark Zuckerberg that his site is down? We should write something on his wall.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"It's weird, it's like in Chicago they don't have multiplication or something." http://goo.gl/jxTk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
37signals .. 37 pieces of flair.. and a *terrific* smile.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
data porn is insidious. Showing just enough data is sexy, showing too much data is a gynecology lesson.. NOT sexy.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
hamster vtec mis-shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDrpPqsXfVU
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NathanBowers
@NathanBowers
How to put together 67 terabytes for $7,867: http://goo.gl/naQk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Stack Exchange Q&A site public beta: OnStartups http://answers.onstartups.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the most awesome image you will see today, guaranteed http://goo.gl/DeJU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
r @kevindente at halloween, it's traditional to scare yourself with your own old bad code.. http://goo.gl/34bX

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"given the British genius for coded utterance, this could all be about something else entirely."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Bob Marley "Legend" songs for Rock Band look like a lot of fun, actually http://goo.gl/Wqn2
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lizardbill
@lizardbill
Businessing: The Kama Sutra of Success http://getbusinessing.com/
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Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life
Six Apart getting sold to an ad network? End of an era - http://tcrn.ch/9h6GjW

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"suck it, DateTime!"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Pandas: they can kinda be dicks sometimes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X21mJh6j9i4

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
if it ain't broke, then you're not trying hard enough. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/11/dont-be-afraid-to-break-stuff.html

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
my router decision is in the superuser chat room (readable by all) http://chat.superuser.com/rooms/19/recommend-me-a-router

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
thinking about upgrading from my old 2007 router http://goo.gl/gr5B. Any recommendations on the new hotness?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Stack Exchange Q&A site public beta: Android Enthusiasts http://android.stackexchange.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I put on my LED headlamp" is my "I put on my robe and wizard hat"
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scrivs
@scrivs
The problem with voice recognition in Scotland. I died laughing. http://bit.ly/ctwD9s

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
A Fair(y) Use Tale by Eric Faden of Bucknell University http://goo.gl/imWq (via @danherbert)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
best practices for fair use of online video (found via wikipedia's fair use entry) http://goo.gl/AJ2q

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
even google chrome is talking like a pirate today.. http://imgur.com/6laqH.png
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MarkFreedman
@MarkFreedman
With #StackOverflow approaching a million questions, I'm wondering if all programming could be learned just by spendin ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Liberace, the Lady Gaga of the 70s, now forgotten http://nyti.ms/aSGiBw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
With @rockhardawesome at a wedding; the phrase "bull in a china shop" comes to mind

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@cannontrodder tell me more about this, first I have heard

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"they've actually gone and built the damn thing -- and it works." http://goo.gl/7fhw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
what css2/3 styles, when applied to a string like [01:00], say "this is a clock time?"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
chat transcripts (all our chat rooms are public / indexable) are finally shaping up http://imgur.com/2gbxP.png
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monkeyfudge
@monkeyfudge
@codinghorror @feylya I wonder if many will be wearing the sexy Elmo costume http://tinyurl.com/3x77ovm

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
awwww snap it's almost slutty halloween again! http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/fashion/19costume.html
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mcsweeneysbooks
@mcsweeneysbooks
Release History of My iPhone Fart App. http://bit.ly/cXWJDb

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I wish I could unwatch the True Blood season 3 finale.
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balpha
@balpha
Wooow! Rounded corners in IE! What's next? Being able to install a browser without rebooting? Meh, I guess that's asking too ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@BernhardHofmann ah I had upvoted that but forgot. I'll update it with the responses from the twitters

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
animated GIFs are kryptonite to Chrome's superman. When will Chrome finally support [esc] to stop animating? Sigh.