C is good in that it's not assembly language, and bad in.. well, uh.. every other way.

but, for the record, I am a wussy who thinks C syntax / language is one of the worst ever foisted on poor programmers.

r @wilshipley is Obj-C less efficient than C++? It causes my mind grapes to hurt almost as bad as C++, anyway.

if someone apologizes to you in good faith and you can't "win" without belittling them.. man, that's just lame.

dear @technosailor you're either borderline autistic or a total dick. Either way, congratulations.

a great @scobleizer post. This is why we discourage discussion on Stack Overflow, by the way. Not many get it. http://is.gd/4KNFE

the awesome giant trackpad on macs is the one thing I truly envy. The rest, meh, just a spendy, DRM-blessed x86.

I blame IBM/Lenovo and their absurd fascination with that stupid trackpoint nipple. Which sucks. http://is.gd/4KLMY

rt @betsyphd "Check out my shellacked decorative vegetables, a**holes." http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/10/20nissan.html

that said, Apple does touchpads better than *anyone*. Is there even 1 PC vendor with a touchpad as large/awesome as new macbooks?

Microsoft: "we copy all of Apple's ideas, including the really, really bad ones." http://is.gd/4KLei

I think 37signals goes much too far in worshipping at the altar of constraints. Ultimate goal: deliver a blank page.

it sucks that you have to make things less than 140 chars so people can rt properly. constraints are good, but sometimes more is more.

"everywhere I looked, I saw companies that were having trouble recruiting programmers, and not treating programmers well" http://is.gd/4KKh6

the *Crunch sites (techcrunch, etc) are by far the most masturbatory, hard-core money porn on the net.

"he'll save the children, but not the British children." this song was on perma-repeat in my head while in the UK http://is.gd/4KFvA

you're only competing with yourself. everything else is irrelevant. If you believe otherwise, you're doing it wrong.

the amount of hand-wringing over "who is competing with us" is so totally unwarranted. I want all the time I've spent discussing this BACK.

there are now as many Foo Fighters songs in Rock Band as there are Van Halen songs in Guitar Hero: Van Halen.

I don't understand why @scobleizer has a "job" working for anyone but himself

EA rickrolls Yahtzee http://bit.ly/15XexG

obligatory "check out the ridiculous costume we made our child wear for halloween" picture. YARR!! http://is.gd/4JBM9

Getting a whopping 22 wpm on the iPhone typing tester.

FTW: a @rockhardawesome lolbabby pic in my cambridge #devdays presentation http://is.gd/4IXFf

rt @perspx recorded and uploaded @codinghorror's talk at Cambridge yesterday http://vimeo.com/7355062 #devdays

nobody told me how much I'd miss @rockhardawesome on my UK trip. It's crazy! Children ruin you!

here's one thing I learned on my UK trip. You get INCREDIBLE battery life on the iphone when you turn off wifi and cellular :)

got a bottle of Salmiakki vodka from some kind Finnish developers as thanks for stackoverflow.com!

new and improved for Cambridge #devdays: free public http://careers.stackoverflow.com CVs http://is.gd/4GHqV

apparently, mice are design kryptonite to Apple. So odd.

R @zmanian no but your stack overflow life will be easier if you use a named openid ala myopenid.com

technically what Google is doing with openid is allowed, just.. unfortunate. You can't opt out of the "privacy" or have a named endpoint

in other words, Google issues a new, unique openid string for EVERY SINGLE DOMAIN.. per user. nobody else does that. shrug.

r @nathanbowers you can blame google for that -- they are the *only* openid provider to use per-domain urls, breaking our scheme.

related, via @spolsky How CMU increased number of women in CS from 7% to 37% (pdf) http://is.gd/4GKaG

yes, there *were* female developers at #devdays, and I can prove it: I met @SaraS85 and @rachellaycock in person!

new: free public careers.stackoverflow.com CVs, unveiled at London #devdays http://is.gd/4GHqV

Thanks London for a great #devdays! Now I know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.. http://is.gd/4GDbx

hey @jzy they're on to you! http://9gag.com/photo/13495_540.jpg

watching @jonskeet present at #devdays London. Note: includes sockpuppets as WE HAVE ALWAYS SUSPECTED!

the iPhone: Newton done right.

ok so apparently the UK is *not* part of Europe, or so I am told. Stupid MAPS!!

wow london #devdays is standing room only, go figure

rt @jarrod_dixon wish I could have attended the London #stackoverflow #devdays - "there's Big Ben; there's Parliament!" http://is.gd/4FvKy

rt @blahspam Richard Stallman's first tweet! http://twitter.com/rmstallman/status/3102221010

How hard core is @jonskeet ? Answered a stack overflow q during speaker dinner! (and it was accepted!) http://twitpic.com/n6xfo

r @otac0n battleship AI question looks accepted by the community to me, it got 9 upvotes already http://bit.ly/1QvwQC

rt @robfe the plugs hold fuses! Over here [in the UK] it's safe to gnaw live electrical cables!

if it says "baggage reclaim" instead of "baggage claim", you may be in England. Also: ridiculously large power plugs. Fascinating.

Just had an off-by-one seating error. I feel so ... programmery.

Guy boarding plane recognized my Sea Battle t and used to play Utopia. George Plimpton would be soo proud

#devdays is great, but honestly? I'm going to England for the chocolate. http://is.gd/4Dm4Q

my credit card was on hold, because I was using it to test the stack overflow careers billing with invalid info. lol.

Headed to SFO for flight to London #devdays

so I had this friend. he made fun of my Intellivision Sea Battle t-shirt. we are no longer friends.

wow, so Band Hero is now officially "Band Hero Featuring Taylor Swift" in Amazon product listings. IMMA LET U FINISH, etc etc.

ah, correction, as of iPhone 2.0 you can be in airplane mode and turn on wifi selectively. sweet!

yeah, but I don't want to jailbreak. Too bad iPhone doesn't allow you to turn off the phone part :( http://is.gd/4D2Id

I am not even going to turn on my iPhone in the UK, due to AT&T rape. Just planning to buy a cheap prepaid mobile.

rt @maggiel Have you met @hotamishchick yet?

I was so-so on the Business of Software 2009 conference until I saw the speaker list http://www.businessofsoftware.org/speakers.aspx

the Business of Software conference has a "talk to me about (this will appear on your badge)" field. PONIES!

best Logo joke ever: "SETXY Make the turtle do an alluring dance." Hey, it's Logo, we don't have much material to work with here.

r @wilshipley I suggest browsing just the "right" tags, you programming language RACIST! Here you go: http://is.gd/4C6VQ

rt @wilshipley I like to log into stackoverflow and add ignore tags for stupid languages until all the questions go away. So... peaceful...

apparently I'm not smart enough to understand either Lotus Notes or iTunes. C'est la vie.

iTunes "Makes Me Think". All I want to do is load music, and I have so many "how the heck do I do this? wtf is going on?" moments.

r @orj so many reasons to hate iTunes. First, because I love the web, and it is *virulently* anti-web. http://is.gd/4C538

iTunes is so f'ing horrible. Worst "feature" of iPhone, by far. Dear Apple: Stick to Standalone Hardware. kthxbye.

My SFO -> LHR fight is through United not Virgin, so no in-flight wifi. lame. :(

@jonsterling join the club, we do that too, when we have time. :)

rt @TehGrumpyDude [in response to: killing zombies never gets old] http://is.gd/4BDd3 indeed :)

killing zombies just never gets old http://bit.ly/CcE5x

r @shanselman @portman_wills do not agree that 64gb is enough as a boot drive. Say hello to my leetle friend /winsxs !! 128gb safest.

Here is @rockhardawesome writing a blog entry telling y'all how very wrong you are! http://twitpic.com/mynpd

Vista wasn't that bad, and similarly, Windows 7 isn't that good. All about perception, I guess.

I gotta stop responding to the emails that piss me off the most, because it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/quotes

r @marcoarment is right, Apple does do LCD monitors right, almost every time. Shame about the mice though. :) http://is.gd/4BqCG

r @anildash it's different because it's 140 characters. Email has many problems, and chief among them: length.

"we use WYSIWYG editors on all our Microsoft web properties, and that's why they're so awesome!" uh.. er.. yeah.. (gouges eyes out)

from http://moms4mom.com : "Also, sometimes you really feel like yelling, Stop whining!" this also applies to adults. Sadly.

rt @jwz tonight @bootie saw some white dude with tupac-esque tied bandana AND trucker cap, AND popped collar. He was a walking mash-up.

"If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don't bother." http://is.gd/4Azwn

rt @iA Psychology of the blog comment section in a nutshell: "How can I prove to myself and the world that I'm smarter than the author?"

some "user" without 1k rep was trying to send me a twitter message, Shil Wipley or something? my reaction: http://is.gd/4AoJp

disturbing things I learned from @scobleizer : BOGU. This means "Bend Over and Grease Up." http://is.gd/4AjPv

r @elliottcable the fourth in the trilogy. http://bit.ly/3wddb5

left 4 dead multiplayer is crazy fun. I went through a month long period last November where I played it.. er.. a lot. :P

rt @helloandre i missed your invite because i was playing L4D 1!! [lol]

ok, that was fast, all three Left 4 Dead 2 copies sent! Remember, Stack Overflow <3 s you! Well, some of you. Others, not so much.

this is a perk for Trilogy users! be sure to include the URL to your trilogy user page, and your email address.

I have three Steam copies of Left 4 Dead 2 to give away. You *must* have a Trilogy account with 1k+ rep, and a Steam account. At msg me.

yep, we have to install critical windows updates sometimes. HAProxy deals poorly with app_offline.htm, unfortunately.

Is a generic "Submit" button on a html form *really* better than describing the specific thing that button will do for you?

starting next week, I'll be travelling to London for #devdays and I will be on Stack Overflow's official clock -- JST: Jon Skeet Time

r @inkedmn you're right -- it was display:none versus visibility:hidden. Firefox *hates* visibility:hidden!

experiencing some *very* laggy scrolling in firefox with large, hidden absolutely positioned <div>s. totally FF specific -- ideas?

I wish I had more time to actually answer questions on the sites I run :(

r @gruber I actually agree with you on the <br> thing, but it needs to be a configurable option. Lots of users get flummoxed by that one.