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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2010, 5:01:13 AM
remember, kids: http://goo.gl/tF3u
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betsyphd @betsyphd
Jun 9, 2010, 4:49:55 AM
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It's amazing how a little olive oil, salt, pepper, and heat can turn something as disgusting as cauliflower into something ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2010, 4:13:17 AM
stack overflow inc now has an international development team: http://goo.gl/piQV -- 64% of our traffic is from outside USA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2010, 1:12:40 AM
http://www.suck.com/netmoguls/ remembering TEH AWESOME
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secretGeek @secretGeek
Jun 9, 2010, 12:30:45 AM
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Fraser's amazing chain-letter based ERP: forward this business process email to at least 5 colleagues or payroll won't r ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2010, 9:31:11 PM
I, for one, welcome our new Keytar-wielding Rock Band 3 overlords http://goo.gl/zn4p
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2010, 4:36:10 AM
what? You can write client-side executables in PHP? God help us all http://gtk.php.net/ http://www.php-qt.org/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2010, 2:25:54 AM
okay @omarshahine @carnage4life who exactly do I have to sleep with on the live.com to get OpenID support? I LOVE YOU LONG TIME!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2010, 2:23:13 AM
this Monkees/Iron Maiden mashup is dementedly wonderful http://goo.gl/478d
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 10:43:12 PM
"what? You've solved FizzBuzz AND the Poincaré conjecture? MY GOD MAN YOU ARE HIRED!"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 10:42:25 PM
oh, yes, *PLEASE* email me FizzBuzz solutions directly, so as I can personally acknowledge your programming genius.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 5:11:38 PM
wow this iphone 4 video is vomit inducing. It's just a damn smartphone people, not the freakin' rapture. http://goo.gl/3pMU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 4:47:43 PM
now, FINALLY, something worth spending all my extra millions of dollars on! http://goo.gl/OJP7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 4:14:06 PM
"Single women in your area who are interested in guids: There are no single women in your area who are interested in guids."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 4:01:56 PM
@howtogeek about f**king time :)
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splattne @splattne
Jun 7, 2010, 5:21:25 AM
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@codinghorror Stack Overflow on the "World of Programming" Infographic: http://goo.gl/kI6A
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 4:23:40 AM
Mario learns a mindblowing secret http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hzQpGamC9U
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 3:14:13 AM
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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 2:53:46 AM
ah, the old "boil the sea" solution. Who needed a sea anyway? Stupid sea.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 2:41:51 AM
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?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2010, 1:43:38 AM
I am so meh on iPad but I am gonna be a day -1 iPhone HD purchaser. iPhone is EDC.. Every Day Carry.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2010, 10:45:31 PM
I think Apple's strategy here is that once you dominate the consumer space, the enterprise inevitably follows http://goo.gl/vYVV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2010, 10:35:59 PM
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!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2010, 9:48:15 PM
I've been saying for a long time that content apps are a bad idea (vs. websites). "Do one thing." http://goo.gl/y1Jq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2010, 6:54:28 PM
Watching a guy unload his sitars from his Prius. Just another typical day in Berkeley.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2010, 5:01:10 PM
our very own plain text greenscreen Stack Overflow (et al), via the API beta! http://goo.gl/wFuy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2010, 1:34:41 AM
oh noes! the "<marquee> problem in ie8" user (not a joke, actual question) is quitting Stack Overflow in a huff!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2010, 10:14:10 PM
the anti-duckface single serving blog. This one goes out to @jzy http://antiduckface.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2010, 8:56:25 PM
it's like the "wilhelm scream" but in newspaper form! http://goo.gl/S3pX (via @portman_wills)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2010, 2:44:48 PM
I got Nick Carr's new book The Shallows, but when I try to read it, totally TL;DR. Meh!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2010, 6:02:14 AM
/// <remarks>I have no clue if this shit will work.</remarks>
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2010, 2:40:19 AM
we all begin life as present hedonists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2010, 5:34:32 PM
total WTF but kinda awesome Star Wars Cantina video mashup http://goo.gl/Lrox
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2010, 11:45:52 AM
good times in html5 town! http://i.imgur.com/cT08B.png (via @lazycode)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2010, 2:33:06 AM
minority report UI in TED stage demo (fun starts at about 6 minutes in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YTQJVzwlI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2010, 12:35:03 AM
per @timbray , wondering why http://www.apple.com/html5/ is "HTML5", yet hard-coded to check for Safari user-agent
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2010, 12:05:28 AM
@jasonedelman hey cool! one suggestion, I'd make the minimum interval one minute..
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kevindente @kevindente
Jun 3, 2010, 3:59:01 PM
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The iPad is magical. No, literally. http://is.gd/cBrzU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2010, 3:57:35 PM
The Wire aka "The Best Show EVER MADE" is on sale at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Wire-Complete-Dominic-West/dp/B001FA1P1W
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 6:31:28 PM
added DuckDuckGo to search options http://stackoverflow.com/search @duckduckgo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 5:35:05 PM
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
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 5:16:07 PM
Weird. I wonder if Marissa Meyer is a Jeff Koons art fan (like me). It's an unusual choice. http://goo.gl/XDf9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 4:12:24 PM
Android app sales figures looking more rosy, thankfully http://goo.gl/Kdrd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 4:09:41 PM
"there's a million different UI's of Android and the hardware is inconsistent across the board" http://goo.gl/LDQu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 3:57:51 PM
cool, stackoverflow.com made the SD Times 100! http://goo.gl/sFKa (via @piratevsninja)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 2:03:23 PM
ooh, duckduckgo.com has !so as an alias for Stack Overflow. INCLUDED!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 1:56:57 PM
other than Google and Bing are there any other search engines worth including on a "search us using.." page?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 1:14:16 PM
"These people had paid a premium for features they didn't use" http://goo.gl/CBsv
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If you can replace your laptop with an iPad, you must have had a pretty sweet job to begin with!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 1:11:49 AM
Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today? http://goo.gl/Nleo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2010, 12:37:15 AM
used a Lisa Stansfield youtube video to grief our chatroom, then realized I had opened the seventh seal http://goo.gl/SQMu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 1, 2010, 5:27:53 PM
on twitter: "Has there ever been a startup that's had so much success despite itself?" http://goo.gl/uaZx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 1, 2010, 5:23:15 PM
The "anything goes" of Android is hugely problematic, but then so is this: http://goo.gl/b1hz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 1, 2010, 2:28:20 PM
The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever.. part deux! http://toughestdeveloperpuzzleever.com/tdpe2/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 1, 2010, 3:38:32 AM
random hacks of kindness. Am I a jerk for thinking this is .. not effective? http://www.rhok.org/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 1, 2010, 1:20:23 AM
Halloween 2010? I have one word for you people. ZARDOZ. http://goo.gl/8R91
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2010, 5:36:48 PM
yep, they actually sell Funky Cold Medina at our local drug store. I've seen it on the shelf. http://goo.gl/fUXA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2010, 5:36:20 PM
I asked the guy, "Why are you so fly?" he said, http://goo.gl/yXC8
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aaronmulder @aaronmulder
May 31, 2010, 3:11:53 PM
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@codinghorror did you have something to do with http://i.imgur.com/BuU65.jpg ?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2010, 4:15:14 AM
academic papers using Stack Overflow data -- several! http://goo.gl/NNC7
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rickasaurus @rickasaurus
May 31, 2010, 2:42:50 AM
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RT @KristoferA: ...and the "spot the it consultant" screenshot is real... http://www.deansproperty.com.au/Home/Profiles ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 30, 2010, 5:11:52 PM
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.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 30, 2010, 4:50:20 PM
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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AccordionGuy @AccordionGuy
May 30, 2010, 3:25:54 PM
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Scarred for life! http://is.gd/cw0T3
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secretGeek @secretGeek
May 30, 2010, 2:57:10 PM
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Blogged: "'HOT GUIDS: A hot or not site for guids'" http://secretgeek.net/hotguids.asp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 30, 2010, 3:23:14 AM
"I had a budgie, but it died. I like .. pie." http://goo.gl/VJcw
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 30, 2010, 1:42:04 AM
can we stop with the String.Concat(a, b, c) code "optimizations" already? Sheesh. http://goo.gl/1pNJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 30, 2010, 12:58:11 AM
excited about the idea of a netbook running Android? You won't be after reading this. http://goo.gl/XV5l
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2010, 9:11:55 PM
vis-a-vis FarmVille, s**t just got real, you guys http://tweetphoto.com/24644278
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2010, 8:50:10 PM
Under Sendek's proposed naming schema, the sun would weigh 2.2 hellatons, and release 0.3 hellawatts of energy http://goo.gl/kmFR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2010, 4:59:32 PM
highlight of the FoTC concert in Berkeley, for me, was definitely "Too Many Dicks on the Dance Floor" http://goo.gl/ZABj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2010, 4:55:39 PM
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
May 29, 2010, 4:23:19 PM
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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 ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2010, 3:42:46 PM
Ah, why Kathy Sierra quit twitter -- http://goo.gl/4S2g
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SaraJChipps @SaraJChipps
May 28, 2010, 3:14:27 PM
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I've realized I get really excited about new breaking world events only because I can't wait to see the fake twitter ac ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2010, 2:07:08 PM
(still looks bad for such a small non-bold font to be embossed, but subpixel does make it 33% less bad)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2010, 2:06:16 PM
ooh, amendment to previous image -- @cambraca points out that Chrome, unlike Firefox, doesn't subpixel alias the embossing! verified!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2010, 1:40:13 PM
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
May 28, 2010, 11:54:07 AM
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OMG, this is a new level of awesome (Shirtless Kirk cologne): http://bit.ly/96mBZc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2010, 11:01:47 AM
aw, sweet, Spoon's "Don't You Evah" is coming to Rock Band! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPdP1jBfxzo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2010, 10:57:26 AM
"This is a serious HOTAS. A man's HOTAS." http://goo.gl/CcFl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2010, 2:07:23 AM
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!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2010, 1:06:16 AM
I spend so much time juggling identity across websites in various browsers, it borders on comical. And not the ha-ha kind.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 9:34:02 PM
list of stickers on front of laptop: microsoft, intel, nvidia, altec-lansing, asus x4 (giant ones, too).
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 9:21:10 PM
hey @cshirky 's new book is preorderable for half off! NO BRAINER PEOPLE! make with the clicking! http://goo.gl/CQiH
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 6:38:46 PM
holy cow this little 13.3" Asus ULV30Vt-A1 scores 4.9 on the windows experience index
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 5:20:13 PM
what's wrong with the pc ecosystem in a nutshell: a new machine festooned with 12+ product stickers, 3 pages of "pre-installed" apps
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 4:59:40 PM
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
May 27, 2010, 4:42:36 PM
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There are only two hard problems in Comp Sci: 1. Cache invalidation 2. Naming things 3. Off-by-one errors. (via @sp ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 4:40:36 PM
"no, I mean for my animal rescue. Like in real life." http://goo.gl/206X (via @juanformoso)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 3:52:05 PM
the first official Facebook Q&A question: "What should I be doing with my life instead of wasting all my time playing Farmville?"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 3:28:23 PM
"they were eventually able to endow a sizeable scholarship fund for Native American students at UNC" http://goo.gl/UuB8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 3:18:31 PM
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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RT @jstrachan Proprietary software has 20-30 defects per 1,000 lines of code. Study of 280 OSS programs--average 0.25 per KLOC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 4:20:02 AM
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.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2010, 4:13:17 AM
oh praise the lawd, Chrome 5 was finally released. Fixes some aggravating bugs I can close now.
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