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nota_bennett
@nota_bennett
The other 10% is being able to tell when you are mad because you are hungry https://t.co/O7sHC9RMaB

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Wow: warshipping. This is cool. https://t.co/LlOGGu0T5y
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ProtomCannon
@ProtomCannon
So what happened? A few years ago, SRK got hit by a double whammy: first, a general softening of the web-based ad market.…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Free galaxy brain business idea: make your business Slack font Comic Sans so employees don't waste too much time there. https://t.co/RDRC5xhFW3
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jwangARK
@jwangARK
1/ Cerebras just built a chip with 50x the transistor count, 1,000x the memory and 10,000x the bandwidth of Nvidia’s flagship…
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Electric is so much better of an overall experience, in so many ways, that you begin to wonder: why did we ever do it tha…
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RayRedacted
@RayRedacted
When you finally decide to implement the stricter network access controls and firewall rules ! https://t.co/kncXfL7PQz
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weschow
@weschow
Kid: are we there yet?
Me: no
Kid: are we there yet?
Me: no
Kid: are we there yet?
Me: no
Kid: are we there yet?
Me: let me…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@mempko I don’t buy this logic. Battery tech sucked for decades; even modern nimh wasn’t enough, we had to get to lithium ion

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Electric is so much better of an overall experience, in so many ways, that you begin to wonder: why did we ever do it that way? https://t.co/BiOKNagf49 https://t.co/clg5gpBawS
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rachelmillman
@rachelmillman
today is the 100 year anniversary of a woman cyclist beating up a catcaller and scaring off his friends in Albany https:…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Wait there are Jungle Hunt t-shirts? NOBODY TOLD ME https://t.co/SEw6bM6Kaf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Paging @pinboard! “of course the article ignores its own device and is a 1.4MB page containing 10x more JS than HTML” https://t.co/1TyyXxWyGN
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teggas
@teggas
Magnavox Odyssey 2 game catalog (1982) scanned and uploaded to the Internet Archive. Covers 52 games (12 more than the 1981 ver…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
15 years later, I don't think anyone has ever topped this particular list https://t.co/uKP6QravR0
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textfiles
@textfiles
However, decades of improvement in storage and processing means that we're moving away from that dark pronouncement, and one…
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dsquintana
@dsquintana
Rabbits love getting stroked on their nose https://t.co/aYOZGAY6kP

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Sinner season 2 with Nora from The Leftovers as a cult leader? Oh hellllllllllls yes https://t.co/Sp6d6RKkR1
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LaurenHerschel
@LaurenHerschel
After what has been a surprisingly okayish Christmas, I had a moment today in SuperStore. Saw a lady who reminded me of…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I feel like the high score table for this iOS game did not quite survive the 32 bit to 64 bit transition intact https://t.co/JbDbzddM4x
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JonErlichman
@JonErlichman
Total number of employees at Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google & Facebook:
2019: 940,000
2009: 80,000
1999: 14,000

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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waxpancake
@waxpancake
60 years ago today, Miles Davis released Kind of Blue.
And 10 years ago today, I released Kind of Bloop, an 8-bit tribute…
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benjedwards
@benjedwards
I love this example of vintage game graphics rendered on their intended target, a CRT, vs. modern pixel-perfect emulation.…
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washingtonpost
@washingtonpost
In amassing one of the world’s largest porn collections, Ralph Whittington, who died at 74, applied the rigor of a prof…
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coburgirl
@coburgirl
I was laughing all afternoon at this cat's reaction after sniffing durian https://t.co/tToLPpLPPe

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
My Dad recommended this book Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder: A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science and it is indeed great -- and kinda nuts! https://t.co/ZKd0SmZwWL

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The hunt was on. https://t.co/V569Mp5MdC

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@loydcase interesting how most of the problem is the stuff around the scooters (vandalism, moving them with cars every day/night) etc

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
BEHOLD this button, a heartbreaking work of staggering software genius https://t.co/8Z3TbmvKjr

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@3Dfx_Aslinger @Nullcast the *very* first one commercially available.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"[in 2001] Pope John Paul II compounded his misfortune by proposing (evidently) to nominate him as the patron saint of the internet." https://t.co/YWqCBlvZLM

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Digging through ancient email archives, this is what I was working on just about 20 years ago. I guess you can see the genesis of @discourse and @stackoverflow in there, somewhere! https://t.co/XuFFElchfe
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Pinboard
@Pinboard
Hello, my name is Pinboard, and I am smart, but I am not smart enough to correctly use or understand a password manager. I am…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
These https://t.co/KiPFpMkU6I kits are really neat https://t.co/uZrUaQBg6b

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Google Drive has.. added.. uhh.. hyperlinks? 😖 https://t.co/0AWubDDqUC

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
The dawn of real 3D gaming on the PC circa 1996! RIP 3dfx. https://t.co/ZPouno5S9v

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
It's weird how a decade in, you start to expect typos to work at the command line the way they do in Google searches. "You clearly must have meant {x}, so I'm doing that instead."

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@whiskersedge assuming you want one of Google's FREE webfonts, sure!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
"But fonts aren’t scripts. They can’t be executed to do malicious things. So the deeper question is, what’s the motivation behind this?" 🤔 https://t.co/nfICLVvcJy
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computerfact
@computerfact
if a computer bites you you eventually turn into a computer so watch out
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Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life
Interesting attempt to making fact checks go viral on WhatsApp by encouraging users to forward a message sent to a group…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
So much of modern technology would be dead in the water without Lithium-Ion batteries, especially compared to Ye Olde n Busted NiMH. That makes me wonder: what’s the next big battery chemistry transformation? 🤔
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samsaffron
@samsaffron
We are hiring at @discourse! more details at: https://t.co/GM5bxRo3qe. My DMs are open if you have any questions
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postlocal
@postlocal
Someone left old TVs outside 50 homes in Virginia while wearing a TV on his head. No one knows why. https://t.co/LYvEgntG5B…
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meghamohan
@meghamohan
Love this 🎥
A group of Nigerian teens are creating viral sci-fi shorts using very basic green screen in a garage with sma…
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JimMFelton
@JimMFelton
“Lads I’ve solved knife crime”
“Have you?”
“Yes”
“Have you though?”
“It’s as good as gone”
“Really though have you?
...
“Ok…
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NAChristakis
@NAChristakis
I love it when this fact comes to wide attention. The same sort of thing is happening in higher education (administrators…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Massage chairs are like bidets — it is worth getting your kids to use them just to watch their faces https://t.co/xiFP1fPLAy
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DocPop
@DocPop
Re-reading Murphy’s Rules, the 1980s cartoon strip that ran in Space Gamer magazine and made fun of weird rules from popular ga…
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staceyabrams
@staceyabrams
I am excited to announce the launch of #FairFight2020, a comprehensive initiative to staff, fund, and train voter protect…
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__apf__
@__apf__
Mother Earth claims an artifact of a lost culture https://t.co/vkB88KQ8I9
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seesharp
@seesharp
The Wool series of science fiction books is alive in this Times stories of underground bunker villages: https://t.co/O49i0Zax…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I had forgotten that I used to own this for my Amiga https://t.co/2VRB2VmmQG

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This is why it is tough to be a sysadmin in Australia https://t.co/66cLfVXSnP
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joshtpm
@joshtpm
Cuccinelli: That statue of liberty poem was about "people coming from Europe." https://t.co/nrDcUGJsU3
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sarahjeong
@sarahjeong
This brilliant cover story by Nitasha Tiku is a must-read. https://t.co/i9tDcTNaZt
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garywhitta
@garywhitta
If you asked me to name the most criminally under-appreciated movie of the modern age it would be CHILDREN OF MEN. https://…
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fwdays
@fwdays
The 3rd edition of #hlfwdays conference is approaching fast 🔥
Only 1 month left to submit the talk and join us on October 5 in…
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KyleErf
@KyleErf
4th grade: "You can't hand it in late!! When you grow up and hand things in late, you don't get a bad grade, you get fired!!!"…
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waxpancake
@waxpancake
Bought by Yahoo for $1.1 billion, sold to Automattic for under $3 million. https://t.co/V1wOi8U5m9
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katerutter
@katerutter

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Null — breaking programmers’ hearts since 1969 💔 https://t.co/HmRg9KHb5m

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@lowellheddings I understand what was said and what was meant, but smaller is inevitable minus screen challenges. Phablets won big for a reason
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magencubed
@magencubed
Social media doesn't work the way you think it does. It's a marketing platform. Those horrible people you keep responding t…
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chetfaliszek
@chetfaliszek
Some AR I can get behind - the continuous sampling of the leaves is a great idea instead of just trying to get that perfe…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
This “pied” coloration is so crazy. You did not finish coloring your snek! https://t.co/SX2ykHSdjI

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@lowellheddings Some part of it is inevitable — computers have to keep getting smaller. Screen space is an issue tho
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janerichsen
@janerichsen
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EpsteinJeffrey
@EpsteinJeffrey
Friends: So Jeffrey, how was your weekend?
Me: https://t.co/u5sVKYVftk
Me: https://t.co/u5sVKYVftk

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@wavyknife @PoliticusSarah I am in Iowa now and they have “corn kernel voting” at the state fair where you drop the kernel in a jar indicating the labeled candidate. I saw many, many people dropping them in the Trump jar.
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nobi
@nobi
Why is the “Save” button on MS Excel represented by the picture of vending machine? (with purchased drink at the bottom)
— a ques…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
#statefairlifegoals https://t.co/RNa2U8a3vy

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Disabled motion smoothing on my brother-in-law’s TV sets, you’re welcome Tom Cruise https://t.co/uO7fLIlsjF
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PavelASamsonov
@PavelASamsonov
The correct number of developers on a project depends entirely on the type of summoning circle you want to construct.…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Obligatory “they’re always after me Lucky Charms” joke goes here https://t.co/5XeUg3r4lh
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DatesInMovies
@DatesInMovies
Aug 10th 1988 - Zero Cool was in the New York Times for crashing 1,507 computer systems #Hackers #HackThePlanet https://…

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Gotta try the scorpion lollipop at the Phoenix airport https://t.co/r2cvJWXTAZ

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
MAY I OFFER YOU THE SAME COMPLIMENT? I HAVE NEVER REALLY BEEN CERTAIN IF YOU WERE MACHINE OR HUMAN EITHER. https://t.co/BlDlz6Bfoe
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ShortFormErnie
@ShortFormErnie
Brilliant intro on this @reallygoodemail newsletter https://t.co/YlAqgVqJvf

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
RNGesus giveth and RNGesus taketh away https://t.co/0WflHrzWJW

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
Check out my giant sword. No, I don’t know why I bought this. Yes, I am happy to see you. https://t.co/vdWlV2ZPcI
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apaprocki
@apaprocki
My 8yo hacked around @Apple Screen Time, discovering a loophole that they consider iMessage widgets “social networking” inst…
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Hoffm
@Hoffm
My colleague named her wifi network “oldbayseasoning”.
Then this happened outside her apartment.
*** @OLDBAYSeasoning is watch…
Then this happened outside her apartment.
*** @OLDBAYSeasoning is watch…
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jray05
@jray05
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Fahrenthold
@Fahrenthold
As electric vehicles rise, gas station owners try to prepare for a future w/out gas buyers. https://t.co/ujXF41K4W3

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
There are a truly comical number of these pirate Pandora’s Box arcade machines on Amazon now. Here’s a double sided one. https://t.co/7y7tEnHLdr

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I absolutely love that Forbes has rebranded itself into the best place to get Fortnite information. And.. it really is.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I just made the joke "pretty soon we'll be implanting smartphones into babies at birth haha lol" and then realized that isn't technically a joke because that's definitely coming

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
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Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
I legit want to see this new Dora movie because they slyly channeled that hilarious College Humor bit https://t.co/EyOxPGuHej
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clairecmc
@clairecmc
When 600 agents were making a show of arresting 680 undocumented immigrants working at Mississippi processing plants, did a…
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Bondcliff2008
@Bondcliff2008
in the 1980s when I used to play Battlezone in the arcade I would sometimes spend a long time trying to drive to the mou…


























