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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 10:33:19 PM
Your Pokemon Card Game Championship Winners Are... http://bit.ly/2eiM4d
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 9:20:45 PM
wow. momentary google outage in this locale. somebody hold me, the internet stopped working.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 8:46:20 PM
r @cshirky @bartvandermeij niche is the future of the internet. A billion channels, and nothing's on.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 8:44:10 PM
"That ratio seems about right. For every 100 or so emails I look at, I respond to about one." http://is.gd/2ufjb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 7:58:45 PM
that "ultimate star wars collection" is incredible, even by internet standards http://blog.naver.com/woong0731/60068323022
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 7:53:36 PM
rt @jzy KFC Has A Bacon Sandwich That Uses Fried Chicken As "Bread" http://bit.ly/H5A7h
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 7:19:32 AM
"Coulda-Shoulda #1. We exposed ourselves to a huge single point of failure called Facebook." http://is.gd/2ttv0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 4:49:08 AM
r @kch wordpress on windows is just the same "write once run anywhere" poison in a new bottle. Unsustainible.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 3:36:02 AM
r @jonskeet that's because I do actual *work* :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 22, 2009, 12:42:49 AM
insane movie award leftovers. seriously. insane. http://bit.ly/jYV12
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 11:52:37 PM
"new Google is the old Microsoft." Author choice seems.. odd. http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/52839567.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 10:16:55 PM
r @jzy actually the jDome video for the racing game is way more compelling IMO http://bit.ly/2wjXU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 9:49:35 PM
r @howtogeek real nerd love is spelled out in 5x5 rubik's cubes, my friend http://twitpic.com/esrat
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 9:11:18 PM
r @howtogeek that lawyer of the day is hilarious, and a little scary http://bit.ly/11WMtj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 8:26:45 PM
wordpress should stop even pretending to offer support for windows server because it is a giant bag of fail.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 7:28:21 PM
I love woot, and all, but I gotta say that shirt.woot is awfully lame compared to threadless
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 7:13:47 PM
Us Versus Hyphen http://bit.ly/uWjdY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 6:31:52 PM
bonus points if you spot the celebrity cameo in the previous video link.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 6:30:34 PM
"You guys are dorking up my vibe with all the dicks." http://bit.ly/IUR5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 6:29:15 PM
yet another user who kept his cookie-based account alive for ELEVEN MONTHS. Stunning.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 5:17:51 PM
rt @ImNickArmstrong The Economist has about as much journalistic integrity as Letters to Penthouse.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 5:13:46 PM
so apparently lots of people read "The Economist", whatever that is, which I was quoted (as "blogger") in.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 5:09:26 PM
like twitter, but the MINIMUM post is 1400 characters, lol. http://woofertime.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 4:34:24 PM
r @micahlmartin we serve jquery through google api http://is.gd/2spWu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 4:24:08 PM
r @betsyphd did you just have a Champagne Jam?!? http://bit.ly/1qgOC9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 4:56:11 AM
like Rock Band? Have an Xbox 360? Stage Kit down to $39. No brainer! http://is.gd/2rB4G
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 2:50:48 AM
insane! like tigers and pigs living together! http://bit.ly/s0qb5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 21, 2009, 2:28:55 AM
keyboard cat "3 wolf moon" parody T-shirt?? NOBODY TOLD ME! http://bit.ly/d3HOM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 9:24:35 PM
I think Knol is Google's Microsoft Bob.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 9:10:01 PM
man, the Wii screenshots of COD: Modern Warfare are just *embarrassing*. Not even PC game from 1999 quality. http://is.gd/2qUs3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 8:51:59 PM
aw, snap -- Lego Rock Band has Ghostbusters in it??!?! Who you gonna call?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 7:31:51 PM
rt @omarshahine One of the best things about the Apple AppStore..all apps have family pricing. Each purchase can be used on up to 4 iPhones
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 12:30:04 PM
"The internet: where people try to become successful on the internet by showing others how to become successful on the internet."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 12:23:41 PM
hey wow! @hotdogsladies getting serious. Didn't think it was possible. Good stuff. http://bit.ly/x1TQp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 10:53:30 AM
r @aanttila you want to be a pampered artist? Show me what you've done that could be considered "art", first :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 10:27:36 AM
good lord people. _why isn't *dead*. Harden the hell up. He did what tortured artists often do: retreat.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 8:11:07 AM
"Most of our early songs are based on 1 chord. As the years have gone on, now we're up to 7 chords." http://is.gd/2q7ea
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 5:10:54 AM
r @lgerbarg fantastic real-world ECC study, exactly what I was looking for! (pdf) http://bit.ly/3wTEzz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 4:03:08 AM
rt @jonskeet I want to be part of the ultimate C# book: "Beginning Pro Visual C# in a Deeply Effective Nutshell for Dummies in 21 days"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 2:29:37 AM
I think @timbray was right; _why is more of an artist than a coder (though good at both) and with artistry comes sensitivity.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 2:24:10 AM
r @rickstrahl err.. click the giant "google" logo is pretty dark easy for most folks w/r/t OpenID.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 2:09:52 AM
database as heisenbug engine: yet again, we needed OPTION (OPTIMIZE FOR UNKNOWN) http://is.gd/2pGBH
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 20, 2009, 12:01:04 AM
iPhone is a product so good it could *only* be made by arrogant, secretive jerks. discuss.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 11:58:00 PM
r @drylight at 200+ reputation the top stack overflow ad banners are suppressed. :) Being a member has its benefits..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 11:51:04 PM
remember, kids, overloading the equals operator brings the pain. http://bit.ly/6AS6T
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 11:45:38 PM
I was peeved at my jury duty summons, then realized my schedule is so flexible I have it easy compared to most. plus, CIVIC DUTY BADGE!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 11:27:34 PM
Speaking as a pedant, I am furious about this! I never noticed it before, but since it's been pointed out, I'll never be able to ignore it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 11:10:14 PM
"purchasers of the full album Abbey Road DLC will have the option to play the famous 16-minute B-side medley as a single continuous track."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 10:45:19 PM
r @timbray "Trying to figure out how to get at my pre-Jan-2008 tweets." if you figure out let me know, I want mine back to 2006
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 9:11:46 PM
rt @spolsky logo designers: design @fogbugz a friend http://99designs.com/contests/27011
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 8:17:49 PM
r @jzy smarties/m&ms -- that's because European chocolate > American chocolate. http://is.gd/2p6BE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 7:43:16 PM
ReCaptcha is a killer band name generator. I just got "Grandmother Slithery"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 8:43:17 AM
my true geek love match would own a 100-sided die, the most shameful of all RPG dice!! http://is.gd/2oqYm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 8:41:45 AM
r @dotnetwill "because you're married?" oh that's what @betsyphd thinks, eh? oops, she follows me on twitter. OUTED!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 8:35:59 AM
wow, a geek-specific dating site. Why have I never heard of this before? http://www.gk2gk.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 7:23:39 AM
the Tron soundtrack is $1.99 today on Amazon! Novelty factor aside it's quite good IMO http://is.gd/2om37
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 2:45:56 AM
I don't understand why my proposed "Diablo II Hardcore mode" healthcare plan isn't more popular.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 2:30:54 AM
solid http://superuser.com launch, only one crazy incomprehensible email received = success!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 19, 2009, 12:25:48 AM
"Leonard Skinner, who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair." http://is.gd/2nTjm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 8:51:25 PM
The British should spell LOL as LOUL http://is.gd/2nAbR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 8:30:55 PM
r @maggiel it's an abusive relationship, to be sure. they need counseling
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 7:52:29 PM
rt @kevindente "the real issue is that Microsoft is the Enterprise's bitch."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 6:53:19 PM
New playstation 3, only marginally less fugly than the old playstation 3. Sony: keeping third place REAL, YO!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 5:48:38 PM
a flowchart for Total Eclipse of The Heart. http://bit.ly/WhMD4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 5:30:03 PM
"There is only one platform you should trust your business on: the interwebs. Building on Facebook or the iPhone is a recipe for disaster."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 5:28:36 PM
you know, @hotdogsladies is 10 years and 10,000 markov chain snarks away from becoming our Andy Rooney.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 5:07:41 PM
rt @sklacy "So, who registered http://expert-sex-change.com and made it redirect to stack overflow?" me: LOL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 5:02:13 PM
rt @secretGeek people in tech who think something on their computer happened 'randomly'... don't belong in tech.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 4:56:04 PM
Sky Mall is f**king terrifying. http://bit.ly/aGulM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 8:09:03 AM
oh, sure, you're a geek, but are you a SUPER GEEK? http://is.gd/2mMyY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 5:47:04 AM
Expert-sex-change makes our life so, so very easy. Don't ever change, you magnificent bastards!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 4:25:23 AM
we're now 302 redirecting our favicon.ico on all 4 sites to sstatic.net (via url rewriting). Seems crazy, but it works.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 18, 2009, 2:28:29 AM
"the x86 architecture is the only architecture the world will ever need." http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/6866/3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 11:52:20 PM
r @stimms awesome. "I brought a few sinibombs just in case." http://angryflower.com/coffee.gif
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 9:23:02 PM
I hereby propose that PST be renamed "AWESOME STANDARD TIME" and all other timezones be abolished. Because they suck.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 7:26:52 PM
like Sinistar before me, I hunger. http://bit.ly/3tthkJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 7:20:27 PM
"I hate every programming language. I would write my own language, but I also hate myself."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 6:13:27 PM
trying to figure out which of our dependencies is causing System.Web.Mobile to load and have 5,831 live instances. I <3 dependencies!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 5:58:18 PM
r daggmano well http://bit.ly/Wc3Sp doesn't resemble me in the slightest! I SWEAR!!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 6:16:51 AM
as predicted, my SmartFTP license has "expired" and I gotta go fix it. Licensing is a game where there are only losers. http://is.gd/2kZzG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 1:25:44 AM
ah @pmylund and @cebjyre are correct; I guess all the robots.txt directives are reset in each section. Wow, that's not intuitive at all.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 1:20:41 AM
I invoke @jonskeet on my robots.txt question. I have tried 3-4 different variants of robots.txt, and webmaster tools still says it's allowed
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 17, 2009, 1:08:46 AM
given our robots.txt (http://is.gd/2kGoP) WTF is Google webmaster tools telling me /revisions/1234/list is ALLOWED??
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 10:03:19 PM
"If everything you wanted a program to do already existed ready-made, it wouldn't be called programming any more. I'd be called shopping."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 9:49:20 PM
if you think wikipedia is ruled by deletionists name 1 comic book or cartoon character of ANY kind without a wikipedia entry
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 7:18:23 PM
watched True Blood episode 1. Meh. Not into the whole "vampires as ultra-obvious metaphor for sex" thing, I guess.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 6:13:16 PM
latest svn checkin comment "switch out lolcat error for one that is even lollier and cattier" ps I LOVE MY JOB
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 6:02:50 PM
papercraft ceiling cat is watching you {verb} http://bit.ly/deI4e
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 5:59:47 PM
a very brief history of micro-media http://bit.ly/tBgpp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 3:09:33 PM
I tire of "Wait, I'll fix it" failcat. What funny/disarming image should we use for Stack Overflow errors -- suggestions?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 2:19:03 AM
That's why Fiji water tastes so good. It's made of tears. http://bit.ly/10SYvG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 1:51:19 AM
"I want to unread this. Give me my time back."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 1:47:56 AM
rt @bradwilson: Nine Inch Nails + Rick Astley = Rickroll you want to watch! http://bit.ly/XJGmK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 1:17:09 AM
r @HMXCasey Kilmer <tooth snap> http://is.gd/2jbTd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 12:55:32 AM
rt @donpark I just explained to my son that knowing how to search for information will be the *most important* skill of his lifetime.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 16, 2009, 12:35:43 AM
Harmonix makes some beautiful game UIs http://bit.ly/3GSlhY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 15, 2009, 10:14:56 PM
I mean, seriously, did you not pay attention for the last TWENTY YEARS of Apple? Hello, McFly! Comes with the territory.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 15, 2009, 10:12:11 PM
I don't get all the outcry over the iPhone App Store. This is *news* to people? That Apple are arrogant, secretive jerks? Really?
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