I am totally fine with people not listening to me, in fact I encourage it; I'm just perplexed by the need to inform me of said preference.

Podcast episode #36, featuring the lovely and talented Eric Sink. Load it on your ZUNE! http://tinyurl.com/a2ol7g

there's something very passive-aggressive about the "FYI, I don't read you any more!!" messages one occasionally gets.

@mitchellsellers no edit info: you get the raw final post text each time, after each person has edited it. Just a string each time.

input is a key,value pair of username, post-text; one entry per edit per user

programmering challenge: give me an algorithm that shows which user "most owns" a post that is edited over time by (n) different users

a moving pictorial retrospective of the first day on the job for @jarrod_dixon and I http://tinyurl.com/32jc6d

kudos to dotnetopenid team for fixing the bugs we reported very quickly. new PayPal donation coming your way..

"Even the banality of evil is too grandiose a concept for 43. He is smaller than life." http://is.gd/ePRH

huh, Saints Row 2 was Yahtzee's GOTY? Guess I better pick up a copy on Steam then! http://is.gd/eNIb

the scene-by-scene accurate RickRoll recreation in Little Big Planet is amusing http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56647

actual PHP error message (not localized, standard): "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" fantastic. just great.

wow, Windows 7 has a new calculator? There's actually hope. Not kidding. http://is.gd/ePrj

@zenpsycho the "maverick" badge: you accepted an answer with -5 or more.

also, whoever was complaining that I link to Peopleware too much, you're high. I link to it because IT'S IMPORTANT: http://is.gd/eOYI

People, Q&A sites are for IMPORTANT questions. Like this one. http://is.gd/eOVn

Torx really are the DRM of screws : any extra "security" is illusory, all you get is extra annoyance for your paying customers.

sweet, so instead of paying $1100 for 10 drive rails, I only have to pay $275! A winner is.. hey, wait a second..

I *have* a Torx set, obviously (and I am offended you guys would think I don't) the point is that it's an intentionally annoying choice :P

oh, and the IBM/Lenovo drive rails use Torx screws, as a sort of bonus "screw you" to customers.

holy crap, these ebay IBM server drive rails work! OUR LONG NATIONAL SERVER DRIVE RAIL NIGHTMARE IS OVER! Halleleujah!

somehow, we ended up with a table where the IsLocked field means Closed and IsClosed field means Locked. PROJECT MANAGEMENT GOLD, PEOPLE!!

"I want to use regular expressions to search for physical objects."

I'm caught between the moon and New York City. http://tinyurl.com/8c6t3m (also, Christopher Cross is one uuuuugly dude)

friends do not let friends buy TN-based LCD displays. Trust me, I'm looking at three of them, and every day I regret my ignorance.

wow, 30" LCDs are down to $999 now? Trying to talk @jarrod_dixon into letting me get him another one.

I had a budgie, but it died. I like pie. http://is.gd/eKLc

voting systems with only upvotes are fatally flawed, IMO. You can't recognize (and potentially filter out) contentious items.

Given the massive struggle for people to *understand* it, I wonder: is Oslo the next COM? Just doesn't bode well, IMHO.

I heard tell that people who hate glossy LCD screens also hate puppies, flowers, and hugs

no, I do not think [navel-gazing], [flex-for-sadists], and [what-am-i-talking-about] are valid tags. USERS U SO CRAZY

oh, I see, @davewiner says killing children is wrong. Well, killing in general is wrong; when has *that* ever stopped anyone?

nice of the hacker-bot to set its user agent to DataCha0s/2.0 , at least

sigh, still haven't received either drive rails I ordered for the servers. Holidays + bad weather played havoc with orders.

nah, that's crazy talk.

avoid going to that dark, dismal place where you start attacking the things you love.

uservoice item: "improve fascist voting system". HEIL!

that $90 heatsink I ordered for our servers finally arrived. Funny part: costs almost as much as a CPU, yet WAY cheaper than Lenovo's part

in checking the junk mail today, I realized there have been *tremendous* advances in fake handwriting font technology

choosing to <blink> is pretty much never the right way to call attention to something in your UI.. http://is.gd/lZW

" only one thing can console me about the death of the inventor of the Hawaiian Shirt - http://is.gd/eHk0 "

another glorious day. beats being dead!

is it just me, or is heavy JavaScript running in the browser the ultimate big ball o' mud coding pattern? Feels miraculous when it works.

sometimes I worry that I have serial killer handwriting

"If every site in the Gawker Network went dark tomorrow, would anyone care?" ask the people who read Weekly World News http://is.gd/eFtN

"Not so on Twitter, where dumb tweets hurt your follower count." I am living, breathing proof that this is not true.

it is so painful to open pages like Kotaku in Chrome. Every goddamn ad is moving and animating. OW MY BALLS! http://is.gd/eFrU

New Edition's "Cool It Now" is actually decent relationship advice, insofar as it goes http://tinyurl.com/5q3y34

it's funny that Clay Shirky alludes to this in his recent interview, because it's true: sometimes change means old people dying.

Hold on a second: there's British Sign Language and American Sign Language? And they're radically different? Whose idea was this?

I just gave @jarrod_dixon the stackoverflow.com new employee orientation speech http://tinyurl.com/4wx4na

"Many, many more people are reading and writing now as part of their daily experience" http://is.gd/cF7p

You people with your lego guitars make me sick. Pick up a real fake plastic guitar, already.

Lego Rock Band? Really? Way to destroy the credibility of the *real* fake plastic rockers, Traveller's Tales. Bah.

"According to the Consumer Price Index, a 99-cent song in 2002 would be worth $1.17 today."

I KID! I KID!

@schwarzwald good news! we're currently in negotations to be bought out by expertsexchange.com.

everyone welcome @jarrod_dixon , who just became Stack Overflow Employee #00002! http://is.gd/eEmh

@drylight "those people need to rethink life and what they're not doing with it" so true

oh, this question is such a bad idea on so many levels. Imagine the door-to-door missionaries for Church of Von Neumann http://is.gd/eE5f

if there's programming in Hell, it's surely Sharepoint-based.

the really odd thing is that so many people I know are obsessed with the web stats. Guess I'm the weird one.

honestly, if it wasn't for needing ad sales, I'm not sure I would track web stats/pageviews at all. I just truly don't care, not at all.

it's cute that the dotnetopenid team thinks their unit tests are as effective as the thousands of users we have authenticating every day.

interesting how quickly your rationale for fixing bugs goes from "makes sense" to "OMG MAKE THE ENDLESS DUPLICATE BUG REPORTS STOP!"

hosted GMail is especially error-prone today. Why is there such a big reliability difference between hosted and vanilla GMail?

yep pbzip2 looks pretty good. sadly the only modern core 2 quad benchmarks I found were in this thread http://is.gd/eDzL

neither 7-zip or rar can do much with 8 CPU cores. Are there *any* win32 archiving programs that will 80-90% load 8 CPU cores??

Wikipedia says there is a Twin Peaks videogame. LIES! ALL LIES! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks

I remember watching Lost when it was called Twin Peaks, back in 1990. Kinda got sick of it back then.

currently on so.com homepage "Recent Badges: 'Good Answer' for Alan Kay". LOLZ

I keep forgetting that when I put on my sales hat, the answer is always "yes". I suck at the business.

@akselsoft I agree, it's a craptastic answer. "it's hard at this point in the cascade". Gee, not for EVERY OTHER BROWSER. Cry me a river.

funny thing is the WebKit monospace "feature" also affects, like, Google Code and stuff. But I was wrong, 16pt norm / 13pt mono is standard.

@akselsoft the presence of "monospace" causes WebKit to freak the f**k out. technical justification here http://is.gd/eAlC

looks like using monospace *anywhere* in the font-family causes this WebKit madness: http://is.gd/eAm3

does anyone know how to emit webkit-specific CSS? Eg Chrome/Safari *only*? this monospace font thing is a bitch. http://is.gd/eAlC

I sent my original dogeared 1994 copy of Code Complete to this young Ghanan programmer http://stackoverflow.com/users/48127 code <3

I intentionally chose not to use "je ne sais quoi" in my latest blog post. You're welcome.

seriously, part of the point is that *it's not intuitive*! That's why it's hard!

ok, after 1,521 comments on the boy-girl thing, it's time to stop the bleeding.

commercial websites using stock photos of people happily using computers (non-ironically) has GOT to f'ing go.

This fake twitter I just signed in to is awesome! it's soooo much better than regular twitter! Too bad YOU can't sign in.

Wikipedia entry on the 1987 game The Fool's Errand http://tinyurl.com/7tv922

A sequel to the legendary game "Fool's Errand" is being released?! http://tinyurl.com/99cax8

rt @nathanbowers Cooper is a cat who takes pictures. This is his Flickr set: http://tr.im/2xqn

OK, so I was incorrectly blaming WebKit for the tiny monospace font issue. Still, the *interpretation* is different, and that sux.

down to merely 1,142 uservoice items left to go through! Pff, a mere pittance!

errrr.. Alan Kay is on Stack Overflow? squeeeeeeeeee http://tinyurl.com/7ntvqs

I think .exe based email / calendaring has been dead for years now, and Outlook has DOS-era baggage. It is a corporate standard, I guess.

hosted (custom domain) gmail has 5x as many errors as vanilla gmail. really annoying.

I <3 Beyond Compare so much, I <4 it. http://www.scootersoftware.com/

Still answering email. Where are my friggin' support concubines? et tu, @wilshipley

Structure Synth and Sunflow http://tinyurl.com/9avgak

I just embiggened @betsyphd 's life by exposing her to "Hard Gay" http://tinyurl.com/yr9t29

"fanatical belief in Rails’ ability to solve any problem, from rapid dev to world peace, curing cancer and fixing erectile dysfunction"

@schwarzwald I think they have some linux types at Fog Creek as well, not everything is Windows

photos of Joel's magnum opus, the new Fog Creek Offices : http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice

public static string RenderFlair(User u)

here, @siracusa , let me show you how the web works. Check out this cool iPhone app! http://www.lexcycle.com/ Look, a BROWSER link! Amazing!