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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 12, 2009, 8:18:20 PM
ok this is weird. I posted twitter messages *other people have responded to* that don't show up in my twitter stream #twitterusocrazy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 12, 2009, 7:51:00 PM
dang, I was hoping iPhone v3 would have a dual core CPU. looks like 2x memory, 2x storage, CPU speed++, camera++ http://is.gd/zfAI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 10:40:19 PM
popping the why stack http://bit.ly/4rx0kO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 9:14:37 PM
who can I turn to? you give me something I can hold on to. http://danstheman.com/Jenny.htm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 8:22:16 PM
voting for google doodles by age range http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 8:15:12 PM
Shall I walk, or shall I ride? "Ride," Pleasure said. "Walk," Joy replied.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 5:43:57 PM
rt @anildash People who are willfully ignorant of pop culture = those who refuse to the learn the culture of foreign countries they visit.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 9:10:46 AM
ok last #plantsvszombies I swear. This is the best "last stand" money machine layout http://twitpic.com/4z1sb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 8:17:39 AM
really not a fan of these ONE BIG ASS GIANT FONT AD adsense banner ads google is allowing people to run now. Fugly. http://is.gd/yQ0o
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 5:25:11 AM
team fortress 2 scout does the Slap Chop http://bit.ly/zfJaD
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 1:11:18 AM
good money making layout for #plantsvszombies -- for "last stand" minigame http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1346/plantsvszombieslaststan.jpg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2009, 12:24:02 AM
The official sequel to "d**k in a box". Really! http://bit.ly/mZvVY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 10, 2009, 9:39:39 PM
just taught grandma about emoticons on skype. old people are so adorable! =8D
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 10, 2009, 8:03:33 AM
"WHAT!? I thought that Macs never crashed?" -- "They do crash, but in a more sophisticated manner."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 10, 2009, 4:58:55 AM
ahh, so if you run the #plantsvszombies Zen Garden in windowed mode, you make money in backbround! sweeeet.. mo money, mo money, mo money..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 9, 2009, 9:50:07 PM
plants vs. zombies is great, but digger zombies are some seeeerious bullshit. I'm just sayin'.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 9, 2009, 2:35:32 AM
getting kind of sick of hearing about how great Windows 7 is. get a room, you freaks. VISTA 4 LYFE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 11:53:25 PM
why is every wikipedia talk page completely unintelligible to me? It is seriously bad, bad UI.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 8:03:52 PM
change: I fear and hate it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 7:37:46 PM
drummers: so lame, they can be replaced by tractors http://bit.ly/o8UlP
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 9:13:16 AM
are you truly alive, or are you really playing an extremely elaborate version of Roller Coaster Tycoon? There's no way to tell. Fun!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 7:15:02 AM
based on some of the emails I get there is a surprisingly fine line between "enthusiastic" and "sort of crazy"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 5:28:13 AM
Steve Ballmer is a total goofball, but I have to admit I get a kick out of him http://bit.ly/D1JMP
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 5:15:54 AM
is this advice about "writing scripts to a page" still true? strikes me as.. very odd. http://jennifermadden.com/javascript/writeMethod.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 3:56:50 AM
"The 3 most dangerous things in the world: programmer with a soldering iron, hardware guy with a software patch, user with an idea."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 2:44:52 AM
For my money, there is nothing more intimidating than Val Kilmer's signature tooth snap move in Top Gun. (bite)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2009, 2:43:41 AM
having to educate @jarrod_dixon on the finer points of Top Gun song lyrics. It's HIGHWAY to the danger zone, mav. http://is.gd/kItT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 8:41:03 PM
hilarious "speed run" of Family Feud on the SNES. SURVEY.. SAYS..! http://bit.ly/Hps9C
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 5:20:42 PM
Guitar Hero: Van Halen confirmed. Jamie cries. http://bit.ly/DzE3o
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 4:57:46 AM
so @spolsky is putting secret audio at the end of our podcasts that I thought was off-mic. Oh, I see, you want prison rules podcasting..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 4:13:06 AM
this dragonforce parody video slays me every time http://bit.ly/ri9td
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 3:24:14 AM
yet again using stack oveflow answers to help us build stack overflow.. regex selectors in jquery: http://is.gd/xqEN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 1:44:27 AM
ok maybe that answer was not *technically* correct, but its truthiness cannot be denied.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 1:43:49 AM
when programming job interviewer asks, "How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?" the correct answer is always "f**k you."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 1:23:55 AM
whoever greenlit all these "I cured my yellow teeth" hotmail ads needs to be defenestrated. It's like reading a damn medical manual .. email
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 7, 2009, 1:14:21 AM
rt @daveman692 Weave screencast showing Weave / OpenID integration to log in to StackOverflow http://bit.ly/mDoVl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 10:32:42 PM
rt @kevindente "Reading on Screen IS The Future of Reading" http://is.gd/xo0t
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 10:18:47 PM
because cute overload is old and busted: http://uglyoverload.blogspot.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 10:01:22 PM
my approach to site moderation? there is no crying in stackoverflow!! yt for @bluej100 http://bit.ly/5d49e
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 9:26:30 PM
what kids learn in college http://bit.ly/Wt5SS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 7:50:33 PM
having a kid is like signing up for a front row seat to human evolution. and let me tell you, MAN we start out lame.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 7:41:33 PM
maximo, the swishiest Mexican wrestler ever (see "fainting" at ~2m in) http://bit.ly/tb6Lb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 6:32:00 PM
I demand that you click on this picture of @rockhardawesome . CLICK IT NOW http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/641/rockhardawesomesitsup.jpg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 6:03:08 PM
all you need to know about the new Kindle in one picture http://bit.ly/1amhKY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 5:32:48 PM
rt @timalmond [37Signals is] just keeping their passwords real.. real INSECURE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 5:15:06 PM
37signals stores user passwords as PLAIN TEXT? wtf? http://bit.ly/thWXo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 8:40:04 AM
You tell them to "salt your passwords to prevent dictionary attacks" and all they hear is "blah blah passwords blah blah blah blah". LOL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 6, 2009, 3:28:57 AM
I have had it with these monkey-fighting zombies on my monday-to-friday lawn! http://is.gd/tunZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 5, 2009, 3:10:02 PM
we refer to remote desktop-ing into our production servers as "hanselman" now. "hey, looks like an issue, you better hanselman into prod"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 5, 2009, 2:49:32 AM
trivia: @superdalgas gave me my only virus, ever, back in the day.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy99 thanks man!!1!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 5, 2009, 1:03:14 AM
really getting sick of IIS locks on sitemap.xml (10 mb XML file, presumably being modem-served) causing our builds to fail. grrrr.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 11:00:03 PM
nifty chalkboard animation http://vimeo.com/4347460
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 6:58:13 PM
trac supports OpenID? WIN!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 6:12:44 PM
Tales of the Black Dilbert http://blackdilbert.blogspot.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 5:41:02 PM
rt @ottoradke "google apps limits you to 500 unique emails per day" behold the immense power of rate limits http://is.gd/kVvl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 5:28:37 PM
someone just correctly pointed out this is the third time someone has gained access to my so.com credentials. (third is undisclosed) :'(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 5:23:16 PM
suck. gmail hosted has decided that I'm a spammer because I am sending out so many serverfault.com email beta access grant emails.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 4:53:51 PM
any sysadmin types who would like access to serverfault.com beta, please email team@stackoverflow.com with your OpenID URL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 4:19:04 PM
oh "elite hackers", lol. takes me back to my 300-baud BBS days. Hacker News YOU SO CRAZY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 4:18:35 PM
"I'd prefer if we saw many fewer codinghorror articles here.. I believe the interests of his fans and elite hackers are mutually exclusive."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 4:14:51 PM
I just saw this "there's a 1 in 2 chance" episode of the Daily Show. The guy is a *teacher*! http://is.gd/wzL2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 10:59:45 PM
ah, so in the The Beatles: Rock Band, the game supports the two guitarists singing together, as suspected.. http://is.gd/tJ9k
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 7:52:08 PM
"like Gravitar meets H.E.R.O. meets Fort Apocalypse meets Scorched Earth + a ton of fluid dynamics" http://is.gd/vihu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 7:02:53 PM
NewTek Video Toaster http://tinyurl.com/dfcurm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 5:43:04 PM
just "paid" someone who found series of subtle security holes in Stack Overflow with full Rock Band 2 Wii setup.. best money I ever spent
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 2:56:34 PM
Cirque de Soleil meets Hee-Haw in 1944 http://tinyurl.com/43zflf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 4:49:50 AM
cuts like a 2000-watt ytterbium fiber laser through butter~! http://is.gd/wki0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 12:36:44 AM
now that I think about it, everything should be chocolate coated, up to and possibly including chocolate.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 12:16:52 AM
Do not anger the Scalia http://tinyurl.com/crbzjg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 11:09:19 PM
meet Maru the cat http://tinyurl.com/7vtenx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 6:26:33 PM
I just created a new anti-spam form data encryption scheme so lame it makes a Caesar Cipher look like Blowfish http://is.gd/1qvv
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 6:03:37 PM
just realized that I am bopping along to a 12" remix of Never Gonna Give You Up in my playlist. Related: what has happened to my life?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 5:29:44 PM
rt @betsyphd The death rate for cancer, adjusted for size and age of population, dropped only 5% from 1950-2005. http://tinyurl.com/csaja4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 4:56:59 PM
baby, cats, wife, there are officially too many things that require love and attention in this house now. 1 has to go. Sorry @betsyphd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 2:21:07 PM
Joel Spolsky's recent talk about Stack Overflow at Google http://tinyurl.com/cwxoc7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 2:11:36 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 4:12:21 AM
the weird thing about internet scale: you can sort of optimize for people who read your mind.. say stuff, then find the people who "get it"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 3:36:07 AM
@johnmcc stop kicking PHP while it's taking over the world, damn you! http://is.gd/w4fq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 3:06:53 AM
wow, date math sucks. I want a metric calendar, damn it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 12:45:10 AM
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I've got 67,450 Xbox Live points coast to coast
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 8:57:16 PM
"my pary are with the father who lost his bacon" http://tinyurl.com/csd6tf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 8:37:34 PM
SELL THE KIDS FOR FOOD! specifically, this kid! http://tinyurl.com/cldm3g
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 8:18:51 PM
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous" http://tinyurl.com/2b3mbr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 5:44:27 PM
@dominicchamon it's mostly because adsense kinda sucks; there are some hilariously bad keyword matches. I try to ban URLs, but... can't fix.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 5:29:17 PM
I turned off adblock so I could work on our own ads (much hilarity ensues when you don't) and surprisingly flashblock gets most of 'em
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 4:52:14 PM
new meme alert: Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat http://tinyurl.com/c8lwlg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 4:12:43 PM
being alive: it beats the alternatives
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 2:55:12 PM
meetings are like f***in' productivity kryptonite
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 2:53:12 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 2:20:09 PM
it is really satisfying to get upvotes on a quality post you spent time constructing, I must say..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 2:59:13 AM
my team@serverfault.com mailbox is full of emails that really should be titled "HELLO I CANNOT FOLLOW BASIC INSTRUCTIONS!!111@!"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 9:49:20 PM
Kazookeylele - Ukulele - The final countdown http://tinyurl.com/45k8xw
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 9:42:30 PM
"how to get other programmers to answer your blatant homework question" Pro-Tip(tm): use a female name when posting.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 9:22:08 PM
Oh, the Conan Memories http://tinyurl.com/6bpo4z
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 6:01:48 PM
the whole "racy slides in ruby preso" controversy is so useless I literally feel dumber having been exposed to it http://is.gd/vFh1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 5:53:47 PM
real life twitter is pretty funny http://is.gd/vmGI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 5:48:09 PM
you know what I think Ruby presentations need more of? Hardcore pornography. For that matter, *all* presentations do.
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