12:15 am to 2 am outage -- that is not very comcastic! though, to be fair, comcast bay area has been quite reliable for me over time

This Just In: Stack Overflow Defeats Google http://bit.ly/yYO0a

welcome to canada http://bit.ly/Ch5MG

hey! hey! heeey! http://bit.ly/aCedw

Journeying Electronic Facsimile Fabricated for Accurate Troubleshooting, Worldwide Observation and Online Destruction http://is.gd/1t1FR

iPhone manual focus + magnetic-attached macro lens = awesome. http://yfrog.com/0rxlaj

one thing you learn as a new parent: babies are programmed for happiness. So what happens to us as adults to suck that out of us?

Darth Vader in Love (part 1) http://bit.ly/76P2R

Dub Fx beat looping a whole song with his voice only. Watch out Bobby McFerrin! http://vimeo.com/2707661

If even Superman is losing it, what hope have us mere mortals? http://is.gd/1rNZi

Dear "Facebook -- you must log in to see this page" brick wall page: f**k you. Sincerely, and with the deepest respect, Jeff Atwood, esq.

holy crap @rockhardawesome can laugh now!! And we can *make* him laugh! TTL (time to laugh) = 4 months.

in other words like @marcoarment is saying, the file needs to be in memory, then 4/8 cpus can get all parallelize-y on it.

for those of you saying "waah! nobody needs 12 GB on the desktop! waah!", I say to you -- 10 GB database queries + 2.5 GB logfile queries.

I'm using PowerGREP, which I totally <3, ( http://is.gd/1rInN ) but it only uses 1 CPU to parse these 2.5GB+ logs. Gotta be a way..

are there any windows grep tools that can parallelize queries? working with these 2.5 GB+ daily lIS og files is not so much 'fast'

dartboard driven design http://bit.ly/2lIWGu

DRY, KISS, YAGNI, NAMBLA. Live it, learn it, LOVE IT http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000856.html

@gortok smart move, you are gonna love the mirra!

Dear Web Site - if I have to watch a flash video to understand your service, you auto-fail

Overheard at MSFT: "I serve at the pleasure of The Gu."

chatting at http://tinychat.com/thinkvitamin #tinychat

rule of programming #67: when in doubt, imagineer a solution to a problem that nobody actually has.

don't just fail. fail *spectacularly*.

well, then, which is worse: a reply to your email in 3-6 months, or an immediate "nae! I canna do it cap'n!!" response?

I need, like .. six .. 4th of July holidays to even get close to catching up on my email backlog. Or, just declare email holidays!

testing is for the weak. real developers use The Force, because in your heart you just *know* that sucker is gonna work!

gundam 1/1 scale http://bit.ly/u0EOM

English localization of Street Fighter 4 http://bit.ly/VmCeG

r @maggiel but what if I secretly *AM* a genius programmer??!? http://is.gd/1qqtx

rt @jzy @elliottkember: To those of you posting developer jobs: DO IT MORE LIKE THIS http://bit.ly/lqZ5b

ok so I just had to apologize to @spolsky for calling him "Ballmeresque". It is absolutely true, he is FAR less sweaty than Steve.

r @tintop when google is 90% of your traffic, the correct answer is always "thank you sir, may I have another!"

r @liquidpt it was a google indexing related spike. not typical, but the gzip disabling makes it a double whammy

great, so by *default*, if CPU spikes to 90%, gzip is disabled, and won't be re-enabled until CPU goes below 50%. welcome to CRAZYTOWN!

Hmm. I am smelling what dynamicCompressionDisableCpuUsage is cooking, and I don't think I like it

"DYNAMIC_COMPRESSION_NOT_SUCCESS reason: 2 COMPRESSION_DISABLED" well, that's news to me, as it is ENABLED in the config

arrgh! all our IIS7 instances have stopped serving up gzipped content for no reason whatsoever. :(

this software is free as in "f**k you." http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/

a whimsical exchange amongst gentlemen http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonlounge/2008/07/

way too much drama for a Tuesday morning

meta: Will Open Sourcing Stack Overflow Destroy Our Business Model? http://is.gd/1pOea

rt @jonskeet C# in Depth 1st edition - 50% off, today only. Use code twtr0708 at http://manning.com/skeet

r @neiled well, @jonskeet says "As someone who has to deal with time zones all the time, I'd advise .. to stay away from them" [if you can]

I've been telling @spolsky for a while now that they need to fork and go full-on *enterprisey*. There's your differentiation.

r @walterchisenski "will StackExchange offer things like MSFT AD integration (SSO) or other enterprise features that differentiate it?"

I am hoping to have @migueldeicaza on tomorrow's podcast with @spolsky to spend 10-15 minutes discussing open sourcing SO pros and cons

r @johnsheehan Six Apart seems to open source their core Movable Type product while hosting it. Is it BLACK MAGIC??

r @johnsheehan but hosted FogBugz ( like http://stackexchange.com ) already has LOTS of open source competition, and they seem to do OK.

(note, open sourcing #stackoverflow is just something we are *discussing*, with a timeline of > 1 year from now)

so @spolsky is convinced that open sourcing #stackoverflow would be a "destroy the company" moment. Very ballmeresque.

the tire that longed to be with its family http://bit.ly/rQuE1

"there is no suitable codec that all [browser] vendors are willing to implement and ship" http://is.gd/1pzrC

someone retweeted me with [sic]? OH NO YOU D'INT! s**t just got real up in here!

I just realized why stack overflow works better for me than UserVoice: speed. It's *way* faster. Speed = feature.

programming language popularity. they should award tiaras! http://langpop.com/

complacency : http://www.8164.org/complacency/

r @wdesmet amazing the things you learn working on a "simple" web app, like how brutal the font situation really is. Arial Everywhere FTL :(

r @wdesmet radically different widths for "similar" fonts is a silent killer. As is "similar" fonts which render smaller at same pt size

the art museum toilet museum of art http://www.artmuseumtoilet.org/home.asp.htm

r @patrik_hagne lol, a little of both, I guess. :) hey, it's not my fault that it's always someone else's fault!

Things I've learned, #4,273: being a whiny, shrill complainer is not the best way to effect change in the world.

running into this really nasty ie-specific cookie subdomain bug. Apparently it's "wontfix" as IE8 has same problem. http://is.gd/1oBuY

many of the edge conditions where multi-core CPUs are big wins (like video encoding) are *much* faster on a GPU http://is.gd/1ormN

Here's what I want on my tombstone: "If you're horrified by what you see in the mirror, you are not alone."

r @ghoseb "We lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now, big things can be done for love."

it is exciting to see many of the programmery queries I run every day start to have good Stack Overflow search results. WORLD++!

Weird Al on MJ's passing. http://twitter.com/alyankovic/status/2373964518

R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet is already sorta a parody, but still: Weird Al for the win http://bit.ly/16gEDk

compuserve finally shut down :'( http://bit.ly/Nxi1l

Windows 7 RTM on track for July 13th? Man, that's fast. I'll admit it: I was wrong, I said they'd never ship it this year.

r @carnage4life yes, but zone pricing is legal; see your local gas station http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000323.html

r @ianwin no doubt, Dwarf Fortress is the ne plus ultra of ASCII gaming http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/screens.html

r @kevdog au contraire mon frere; I am Loving Every Minute Of It. The Loverboy, I mean. http://bit.ly/12e8VT

I sorta regret buying "Loverboy - Super Hits". I'm not sure why. Everyone loves weekends, right? http://bit.ly/9iMBC

got an iphone? get must.eat.birds http://bit.ly/15vL7P
at a buck it is STEAL

I want an ASCII chart like Edward Tufte would design it. Internet, start your engines..

I can't find a good ASCII chart I like online. Yes, I've been to every link in the first page of google results. Give me something AWESOME

I think R. Lee Ermey might be in serious danger of being typecast at this point. He needs to do High School Musical 6.

You know what iPhone needs? A back button. In hardware

r @sheebz good to hear that the 2008 server situation is a little more sane. 4 GB memory limit for "standard" 2003 server? ouch!

rt @bradwilson Ballmer is to "Developers! Developers! Developers!" as Jobs is to "Consumers! Consumers! Money! Erm, Consumers!" :)

r @marcoarment I just don't understand why Apple is so compelled to shoot themselves in the foot with the needless and harmful secrecy.

"And I'll search the world over, for my angel in black." http://bit.ly/12rgP4

r @jongalloway my argument isn't really about the money, but the mental friction. I'm sick of dealing with marketing weasel feature matrices

tiered cloud pricing is 90% charging the rich customers more. Inasmuch as those "enterprise" features "cost more to develop".

"tiered pricing is fair for cloud products!" er, ok, then I guess it costs 37signals an extra $50 a month to "host" 10 GB more data for us?

r @gazzonyx "comparing SP1 to SP2 is like comparing House Party 2 to House Party 1!" http://bit.ly/13UuwI

Service Pack 2: way more service packier than 1.

wow. just got this from ReCaptcha: BIPOLAR OCD. I think I need some .. time .. to be alone now.

"It was a giant middle finger to iPhone developers." because Apple is just not a developer-friendly company. http://www.marco.org/122990476

Oh, "First!" guy, I've fallen in love with you all over again.

do not believe what you read here

shameless one time plug: got an awesome product for software developers? want to advertise it on Coding Horror? jatwood@codinghorror.com

seriously, if I have to enter my timezone on another website, I'm going to cut someone. Or myself.

ok so firefox 3.5 improvements blah blah blah, do they finally include the user's timezone in the damn headers?

the amount of ads on the eweek.com site is borderline obscene. OW MY BALLS! http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000772.html

kodu: programming as creative medium. http://bit.ly/O8xvu

"A slightly humorous fact is that Sculley himself took the taste test and picked Coke instead of Pepsi." http://is.gd/1lcXX

the "not-me" ghost has caused unimaginable damage to civilization as we know it http://bit.ly/eop0G