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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 2:41:18 AM
"Believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get 8 hours of drugs." http://is.gd/sjtU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 1:19:17 AM
rt @dansdata everything's better with CHEESE! http://www.viruscomix.com/page470.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 9:13:16 PM
the internet has revolutionized the clever t-shirt industry http://is.gd/sh2g
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 9:08:22 PM
via @kevindente the Time Traveler Essentials T http://is.gd/rDxP
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 12:33:09 PM
caveman games (nes) http://is.gd/sc2T
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 11:24:49 AM
the ultimate video game experience: Ghetto Golf! http://is.gd/sbiZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 11:24:03 AM
I've had good luck buying refurb video cards and netbooks, but one thing I will *never* buy refurb? Xbox 360. That's crazy talk, man.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 9:44:43 AM
I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to f-in amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 9:05:14 AM
I personally find the "make all comment text look like a cartoon bubble" design sort of obnoxious. I AM NOT A COMIC BOOK CHARACTER, NKAY?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 6:47:31 AM
rt @betsyphd Rickrolling made it into NYT crossword. "Widespread internet prank involving a bait-and-switch link to a music video."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 6:46:56 AM
I have officially lost all track of time. weekday, weekend, day, night.. it's all the same to me.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 4:08:28 AM
rt @dansdata "You have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that they are each worth a billion dollars." http://bit.ly/vNCZ3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 3:59:33 AM
If there is a programmers' middle east, it is surely Tabs vs Spaces http://tinyurl.com/2az9zn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 3:45:30 AM
Biz Stone is a man who knows how to use Twitter WELL http://twitter.com/biz?page=154
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 2:22:54 AM
oh internets, I've fallen in love with you all over again
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 2:22:31 AM
"Also, occasionally he would just drop by, giving me a surprise back-rub and THEN lurk behind me, watching what I'm doing."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 2:18:05 AM
"I worked [..] for a man who was a pretty dead on 50/50 mix of Michael Scott from The Office and Buster from Arrested Development."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 2:14:54 AM
enjoying the "worst working condition" threads tremendously here http://is.gd/s7dn and here http://is.gd/s7dt
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 11:58:45 PM
so that's how sumo wrestling really works -- http://tinyurl.com/2bcq57
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 10:22:47 PM
"16 decimal places is a lot. Hardly any measured quantity is known to anywhere near that much precision." http://is.gd/s6cc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 3:28:12 PM
I'm with George Carlin: I don't *get* golf.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 4:42:16 AM
"Switching to a restaurant without alcohol would not be financially viable, he said." apparently getting wasted is big biz..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 4:29:06 AM
is it just me or does the flash/silverlight crossdomain.xml seem like a really bad idea, implemented poorly?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 2:40:33 AM
'Intel says it demonstrated a "greater than 10x" reduction in [Moorestown] idle power draw compared to a current Atom [netbook] platform.'
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 4:44:49 PM
I swear there are 10 ways to write any given SQL query, but only 1 of them performs well.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 4:20:42 PM
"my submission included cute animals, Chuck Norris, OSS, bacon, Ron Paul, recession, FAIL, cynicism, Apple, and a Narwhal" http://is.gd/rF4g
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 3:58:35 PM
it's a lot cooler if you stop thinking of it as "having a baby" and start thinking of it as "launching a human rocket ship into the future"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 12:34:11 PM
Granted badge 'Stellar Question' to user 40516 'Princess'
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 12:32:29 PM
rt @jamuraa #1 candidate for google's url shortening service: Google maps links. Those things are like 500 chars long
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 11:28:29 AM
meh, souls are overrated anyways http://is.gd/rSXy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 8:43:04 AM
never design what you can steal, craigslist edition -- http://tinyurl.com/c3rd6s
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 8:23:01 AM
from email: "I learned from [blogs and stack overflow] more than on my university :)."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 6:56:11 AM
I don't think we can turn off code-behind until we have a templating engine that doesn't suck total ass in ASP.NET. Need Spark..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 6:49:18 AM
code-behind off by default in ASP.NET MVC is kind of a dick move, but it is a perfect example of Training Your Users http://is.gd/rUsG
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 6:45:44 AM
Google = Wal*Mart http://tinyurl.com/d6e29d
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 6:00:26 AM
close range 2: chainsaw dawn http://tinyurl.com/d3qozl
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 5:50:33 AM
rt @betsyphd Googling pacifiers, I fell into a Wikipedia wormhole and ended up reading about Adult Baby fetishes. Wish I could unlearn that.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 5:50:03 AM
1782^12 + 1841^12 = 1922^12
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 4:30:43 AM
I don't understand some programmers' obsession with The Weed http://is.gd/rz4j
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 11:19:00 PM
babies are like crack cocaine to old people
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 9:07:38 PM
VPs have what my brother Mike refers to as "Shit's Easy Syndrome"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 8:55:27 PM
TUNNELS OF DOOOM http://is.gd/rRm7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 7:00:48 AM
ah, I see, _why linked to Stack Overflow here http://help.shoooes.net/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 5:41:08 AM
I feel a midlife crisis coming on
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 5:35:22 AM
I just spent six months in a leaky boat http://is.gd/rKBa
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 5:19:43 AM
we will update stack overflow to ASP.NET MVC release on Friday -- been a long time coming.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 4:00:15 AM
"the _why pointed users of Shoes to stackoverflow for support questions" (?)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 3:47:36 AM
having a newborn is sort of like this, but imagine it going on for hours: http://tinyurl.com/6lyhyp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 11:30:24 PM
"On the hottest day, more than 4,000 gray-headed flying foxes dropped dead out of trees" http://is.gd/rxuf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 10:11:12 PM
rt @mattcutts http://bit.ly/ZQ9DP Free, unlimited IP address geolocation. 1.4M records in a MySQL database.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 9:53:49 PM
trying to figure out how much time I spend parenting stackoverflow vs. coding stackoverflow
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 9:49:29 PM
just discovered old canned good in the cupboard that exploded with blackish ichor. That.. is f'ing disgusting
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 9:53:16 AM
rt @mattcutts the all-in-one card stamp. http://bit.ly/dBhN2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 8:31:31 AM
serverfault.com logo winner: http://99designs.com/contests/20088/entries/184 (yes, the font and layout will be normalized with so logo)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 8:16:45 AM
Whenever I see the name "Aziz", I always think "Aziz! Light!". I'm such a total dork.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 7:37:19 AM
on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. http://is.gd/gNvn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 6:25:00 AM
Chasing Ghosts arcade documentary. Screening in LA on Sun, Apr 26. http://is.gd/rzIY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 6:17:24 AM
I can't believe Sir-Mix-A-Lot sold out the booty like that http://tinyurl.com/d4lfg4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 10:14:20 PM
He generally referred to the RSX fork list as the "fork queue".
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 9:30:27 PM
why haven't I built my dream home yet? @wilshipley get on it. http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/3661/bongosdreamhouse.png
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 9:19:22 PM
The only way to "improve" Swoopo is to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 9:14:35 PM
"I am an investor in Swoopo, we want to improve it so that people understand its business model and don’t walk away with a bad taste"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 9:01:24 PM
99designs.com , where I get to wear out my "rate 1 star" button daily.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 8:43:56 PM
blekko status displays -- cool! http://www.flickr.com/photos/skrenta/3424587345/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 10:32:39 AM
ah, PHP. All the charm and elegance of walking through an open sewer into an abbatoir.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 10:08:36 AM
I have XCache PHP accelerator installed. I *think*..? WordPress win32 perf is so bad all the time, it's hard to tell if it's working. sigh.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 8:18:07 AM
do you find yourself struggling with feelings of loneliness? http://is.gd/3Fry
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 7:01:22 AM
"Just think... a generation of children in the third world will learn programming just in order to hack around the anti-porn filters."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 6:04:11 AM
someone on the IIS7 team documented how to get wp-super-cache to actually work on Windows! http://is.gd/rniU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 4:15:03 AM
photoshop disasters: like Where's Waldo for grownups. http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 1:21:18 AM
I'm sorry... that you suck so much! http://tinyurl.com/dl37k9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 12:31:32 AM
via @jzy the Pinocchio Paradox http://is.gd/rkZY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 12:17:51 AM
with the rain comes the inevitable hermaphroditic snail orgies on my front lawn. NOT ON MY WATCH, YOU BASTIGES
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 10:32:34 PM
remember, unicorns are your friends! Err.. sometimes. http://is.gd/rkgL and http://is.gd/rkgS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 10:30:18 PM
Baby Porcupine gets hiccups, eats banana, robs bank. Just kidding about that last part. http://tinyurl.com/2mwatz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 10:24:52 PM
I think watching a preview of Rock Band DLC song "She's a Hottie" just dropped my IQ by about 10 points. Toby Keith FTL.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 10:12:09 PM
who is Nigel, and why are we always having to make plans for him? http://tinyurl.com/5c3flq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 6:45:18 PM
WordPress: still brutally slow(tm)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 8:52:20 AM
the internet isn't killing newspapers. newspapers are killing newspapers. http://daggle.com/090406-225638.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 5:56:25 AM
Twitter won because it was The Stupidest Thing That Could Possibly Work. Note: I'm not kidding. http://is.gd/jgSJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 5:49:17 AM
"Fool-proof systems do not take into account the ingenuity of fools."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 4:44:12 AM
dear stack overflow user, you are reinforcing all my negative stereotypes of Indian coders. http://stackoverflow.com/users/78627/ravi
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 4:36:17 AM
Oh, Ministry, you're so right -- every day really IS Halloween! http://vimeo.com/3522232
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 3:46:14 AM
action figure slow motion punches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgdyBvHdNKY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 3:14:26 AM
their beauty and their style were kinda smooth after a while http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0&fmt=18
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 3:08:00 AM
a visit to ID software, 1993 http://vimeo.com/4022128
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 2:52:45 AM
new banking plan: too crazy to fail! http://is.gd/r9Jj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 2:03:30 AM
the best possible live version of the best possible song in the world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXy0hZDIrmY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 12:10:17 AM
"I think that the asymmetric model better mimics how real attention works…and how it has always worked." DUH! http://is.gd/pyLU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2009, 10:03:22 PM
the recursiveness amuses me http://is.gd/r7Y5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2009, 9:53:16 PM
M. Pryor thinks we should hellban instead of doing timed suspension. I don't think that's healthy on a wiki-type website http://is.gd/r7TE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2009, 9:12:14 PM
I was told by Whitney Houston that Children Are The Future(tm). I no longer believe this to be true.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2009, 6:35:09 PM
possibly the most terrifying image on the entire internet http://www.sophiadembling.com/uploaded_images/coney-clown-767159.jpg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2009, 6:56:15 AM
article on "Biz" Stone. Apparently he made up that name for himself? http://is.gd/qZmp
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