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Jeff Atwood
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remember, kids: http://goo.gl/tF3u
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betsyphd
@betsyphd
It's amazing how a little olive oil, salt, pepper, and heat can turn something as disgusting as cauliflower into something ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
stack overflow inc now has an international development team: http://goo.gl/piQV -- 64% of our traffic is from outside USA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
http://www.suck.com/netmoguls/ remembering TEH AWESOME
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secretGeek
@secretGeek
Fraser's amazing chain-letter based ERP: forward this business process email to at least 5 colleagues or payroll won't r ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I, for one, welcome our new Keytar-wielding Rock Band 3 overlords http://goo.gl/zn4p

Jeff Atwood
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what? You can write client-side executables in PHP? God help us all http://gtk.php.net/ http://www.php-qt.org/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
okay @omarshahine @carnage4life who exactly do I have to sleep with on the live.com to get OpenID support? I LOVE YOU LONG TIME!!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
this Monkees/Iron Maiden mashup is dementedly wonderful http://goo.gl/478d

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"what? You've solved FizzBuzz AND the Poincaré conjecture? MY GOD MAN YOU ARE HIRED!"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
oh, yes, *PLEASE* email me FizzBuzz solutions directly, so as I can personally acknowledge your programming genius.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
wow this iphone 4 video is vomit inducing. It's just a damn smartphone people, not the freakin' rapture. http://goo.gl/3pMU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
now, FINALLY, something worth spending all my extra millions of dollars on! http://goo.gl/OJP7

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"Single women in your area who are interested in guids: There are no single women in your area who are interested in guids."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@howtogeek about f**king time :)
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splattne
@splattne
@codinghorror Stack Overflow on the "World of Programming" Infographic: http://goo.gl/kI6A

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Mario learns a mindblowing secret http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hzQpGamC9U

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
this "my name is {x} and I need to place an order with you for {y}" email spam is astonishingly effective at evading gmail's filters

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
ah, the old "boil the sea" solution. Who needed a sea anyway? Stupid sea.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
r @kevindente What if ATT is moving everyone's eligibility dates up to lock in contracts before there's a Verizon iPhone in X months?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I am so meh on iPad but I am gonna be a day -1 iPhone HD purchaser. iPhone is EDC.. Every Day Carry.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I think Apple's strategy here is that once you dominate the consumer space, the enterprise inevitably follows http://goo.gl/vYVV

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
by the end of this decade, rooting your phone will be a felony. Copyright issue concerns or in the name of national security? I say both!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I've been saying for a long time that content apps are a bad idea (vs. websites). "Do one thing." http://goo.gl/y1Jq

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Watching a guy unload his sitars from his Prius. Just another typical day in Berkeley.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
our very own plain text greenscreen Stack Overflow (et al), via the API beta! http://goo.gl/wFuy

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
predictor of success: arrogance vs. joy http://haacked.com/archive/2010/06/06/is-arrogance-a-factor-in-success.aspx

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
oh noes! the "<marquee> problem in ie8" user (not a joke, actual question) is quitting Stack Overflow in a huff!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the anti-duckface single serving blog. This one goes out to @jzy http://antiduckface.com/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
it's like the "wilhelm scream" but in newspaper form! http://goo.gl/S3pX (via @portman_wills)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I got Nick Carr's new book The Shallows, but when I try to read it, totally TL;DR. Meh!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
/// <remarks>I have no clue if this shit will work.</remarks>

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
we all begin life as present hedonists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
total WTF but kinda awesome Star Wars Cantina video mashup http://goo.gl/Lrox

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
good times in html5 town! http://i.imgur.com/cT08B.png (via @lazycode)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
minority report UI in TED stage demo (fun starts at about 6 minutes in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YTQJVzwlI

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
per @timbray , wondering why http://www.apple.com/html5/ is "HTML5", yet hard-coded to check for Safari user-agent

Jeff Atwood
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@jasonedelman hey cool! one suggestion, I'd make the minimum interval one minute..
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kevindente
@kevindente
The iPad is magical. No, literally. http://is.gd/cBrzU

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Wire aka "The Best Show EVER MADE" is on sale at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Wire-Complete-Dominic-West/dp/B001FA1P1W

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
added DuckDuckGo to search options http://stackoverflow.com/search @duckduckgo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the ironic thing about all these baby / toddler books around the house is that once you need them, you have NO time to read them

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Weird. I wonder if Marissa Meyer is a Jeff Koons art fan (like me). It's an unusual choice. http://goo.gl/XDf9

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Android app sales figures looking more rosy, thankfully http://goo.gl/Kdrd

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"there's a million different UI's of Android and the hardware is inconsistent across the board" http://goo.gl/LDQu

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
ooh, duckduckgo.com has !so as an alias for Stack Overflow. INCLUDED!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
other than Google and Bing are there any other search engines worth including on a "search us using.." page?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"These people had paid a premium for features they didn't use" http://goo.gl/CBsv

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
LEGO felt tip printer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX09WnGU6ZY
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triciad
@triciad
If you can replace your laptop with an iPad, you must have had a pretty sweet job to begin with!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today? http://goo.gl/Nleo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
used a Lisa Stansfield youtube video to grief our chatroom, then realized I had opened the seventh seal http://goo.gl/SQMu

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
on twitter: "Has there ever been a startup that's had so much success despite itself?" http://goo.gl/uaZx

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The "anything goes" of Android is hugely problematic, but then so is this: http://goo.gl/b1hz

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever.. part deux! http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The Vast and Endless Sea http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/06/the-vast-and-endless-sea.html

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
random hacks of kindness. Am I a jerk for thinking this is .. not effective? http://www.rhok.org/

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Halloween 2010? I have one word for you people. ZARDOZ. http://goo.gl/8R91

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
yep, they actually sell Funky Cold Medina at our local drug store. I've seen it on the shelf. http://goo.gl/fUXA

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I asked the guy, "Why are you so fly?" he said, http://goo.gl/yXC8
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aaronmulder
@aaronmulder
@codinghorror did you have something to do with http://i.imgur.com/BuU65.jpg ?

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
academic papers using Stack Overflow data -- several! http://goo.gl/NNC7
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rickasaurus
@rickasaurus
RT @KristoferA: ...and the "spot the it consultant" screenshot is real... http://www.deansproperty.com.au/Home/Profiles ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the real "secret" of the iPad (and iPod Touch, and even iPhone in a lot of ways) is that it's a serious, major Nintendo killer.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
hey look, the iPad is the exactly the hipster fixie bicycle I predicted it would be! http://www.marco.org/608396721
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secretGeek
@secretGeek
Blogged: "'HOT GUIDS: A hot or not site for guids'" http://secretgeek.net/hotguids.asp

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
best wedding vows ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf9CLhiThsw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"I had a budgie, but it died. I like .. pie." http://goo.gl/VJcw

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
can we stop with the String.Concat(a, b, c) code "optimizations" already? Sheesh. http://goo.gl/1pNJ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
excited about the idea of a netbook running Android? You won't be after reading this. http://goo.gl/XV5l

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
vis-a-vis FarmVille, s**t just got real, you guys http://tweetphoto.com/24644278

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Under Sendek's proposed naming schema, the sun would weigh 2.2 hellatons, and release 0.3 hellawatts of energy http://goo.gl/kmFR

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
highlight of the FoTC concert in Berkeley, for me, was definitely "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor" http://goo.gl/ZABj

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
last night's Flight of the Conchords concert was pretty awesome, though crazily oversold/crowded http://goo.gl/M7Yq
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timoreilly
@timoreilly
The UI on the HTC EVO 4 is mostly better than on the Nexus One. A bit surprised how divergent Android devices are in the ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Ah, why Kathy Sierra quit twitter -- http://goo.gl/4S2g
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SaraJChipps
@SaraJChipps
I've realized I get really excited about new breaking world events only because I can't wait to see the fake twitter ac ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
(still looks bad for such a small non-bold font to be embossed, but subpixel does make it 33% less bad)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
ooh, amendment to previous image -- @cambraca points out that Chrome, unlike Firefox, doesn't subpixel alias the embossing! verified!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
a visual depiction of why font embossing SUCKS for readability (unless bold or very large) http://goo.gl/y1I8
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alanstevens
@alanstevens
OMG, this is a new level of awesome (Shirtless Kirk cologne): http://bit.ly/96mBZc

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
aw, sweet, Spoon's "Don't You Evah" is coming to Rock Band! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPdP1jBfxzo

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"This is a serious HOTAS. A man's HOTAS." http://goo.gl/CcFl

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
oh noes! only 9 hours and 24 minutes of battery life left, after an hour of usage! it's like iPad battery life, in a real computer!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I spend so much time juggling identity across websites in various browsers, it borders on comical. And not the ha-ha kind.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
list of stickers on front of laptop: microsoft, intel, nvidia, altec-lansing, asus x4 (giant ones, too).

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
hey @cshirky 's new book is preorderable for half off! NO BRAINER PEOPLE! make with the clicking! http://goo.gl/CQiH

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
holy cow this little 13.3" Asus ULV30Vt-A1 scores 4.9 on the windows experience index

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
what's wrong with the pc ecosystem in a nutshell: a new machine festooned with 12+ product stickers, 3 pages of "pre-installed" apps

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
just got a new netbook.. my god the orgy of de-stickering would make @nathanbowers blanch http://is.gd/cs6HF
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jasonjwwilliams
@jasonjwwilliams
There are only two hard problems in Comp Sci: 1. Cache invalidation 2. Naming things 3. Off-by-one errors. (via @sp ...

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"no, I mean for my animal rescue. Like in real life." http://goo.gl/206X (via @juanformoso)

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
the first official Facebook Q&A question: "What should I be doing with my life instead of wasting all my time playing Farmville?"

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"they were eventually able to endow a sizeable scholarship fund for Native American students at UNC" http://goo.gl/UuB8

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Facebook to Roll Out Q&A Feature http://bit.ly/ckyNBr (@boltclock this is really about Quora, not us, but fwiw)
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jboner
@jboner
RT @jstrachan Proprietary software has 20-30 defects per 1,000 lines of code. Study of 280 OSS programs--average 0.25 per KLOC

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
interesting that Chrome 5 is doing to Safari 4 what Google hopes Android will do to iPhone -- iterate so fast they can't keep up.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
oh praise the lawd, Chrome 5 was finally released. Fixes some aggravating bugs I can close now.