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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 26, 2019, 3:16:20 AM
Battlefield V battle royale aka Firestorm is very *very* good. Worth the wait. I'll be giving out five PC full version digital codes tomorrow so keep your 👀s peeled https://t.co/l5UQ8KuBvS
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meowlivia_ @meowlivia_
Mar 25, 2019, 11:23:54 PM
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Interviewer: Tell me about a time when you had to solve a difficult problem Me: I had a bug in my code and couldn't find a…
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Do flat earthers think all planets are flat or just earth.
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cliffordlevy @cliffordlevy
Mar 25, 2019, 7:07:03 PM
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JUST IN: NY appears poised to become the first city in the US to introduce congestion pricing, putting new electronic tol…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 25, 2019, 4:46:18 AM
I wasn't sure about this Netflix series "Love, Death & Robots" until I got to "When the yogurt took over". 🤣https://t.co/Uc3pNAfLjf
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josh_emerson @josh_emerson
Mar 24, 2019, 11:04:03 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2019, 9:35:54 PM
This tweet from 4 hours ago supposedly has 3 replies but I can't see them, either in my twitter account, logged in as a different twitter account, or in anonymous mode. 😵 https://t.co/kMyfd0C1oj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2019, 5:12:00 PM
One of the greatest accomplishments of the modern web is interactive, dynamic textbooks. Ideally open source https://t.co/WTF1nfyGVe
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2019, 5:06:46 PM
The continuing adventures of Dr. Eval https://t.co/wybZ5QXvUq
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sarah_edo @sarah_edo
Mar 24, 2019, 3:56:24 PM
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Life is short. Tip well.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2019, 5:32:48 AM
I wondered why Dora was trending and OMG they really actually did make that 2012-2013 College Humor sketch into .. the actual .. Dora movie 😱
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 24, 2019, 5:13:08 AM
You know, The Mist (2007) really holds up. I remember the book being extremely bleak, but I read it decades ago.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2019, 9:26:35 PM
"But Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are not where young people go to socialize. Instagram is." Absolutely true in my experience. https://t.co/VZl1kiDtPc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2019, 9:12:24 PM
as an nfstrike customer, I have to say this random pastiche of stock photo white people is quite reassuring https://t.co/spWhLJ8zPF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 23, 2019, 6:46:57 PM
I'm not sure why, but one of the most telltale signs for a spammer is an email address that is a total mismatch to the username. E.g. "Roger Smith" posting from a signup email of "davidhenson612312@gmail.com"
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MichaelGillett @MichaelGillett
Mar 23, 2019, 4:30:28 PM
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Another mix of #PeoplesVoteMarch and Windows! https://t.co/ILid13KuW3
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SarahTaber_bww @SarahTaber_bww
Mar 22, 2019, 10:45:53 PM
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stay in school, kids https://t.co/Sf3Z5NZHj9
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JonHMChan @JonHMChan
Mar 22, 2019, 5:00:56 PM
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After a year of experiments and hard work, the Ask Question Wizard on @StackOverflow is finally live! It's the biggest chang…
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danariely @danariely
Mar 22, 2019, 4:26:40 AM
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It's Spring Already? Physics Explains Why Time Flies as We Age https://t.co/XgVoEOSaqH
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 22, 2019, 2:45:09 AM
I'm going for back to back "Let The Right One In" (original, Swedish) and "Let Me In" (remake, American)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2019, 11:17:27 PM
0 based numbering is wrong. It's the first item in the list, not the zero-th. Don't @ me. https://t.co/VzTDpnctHn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2019, 10:05:19 PM
Battlefield V Battle Royale is looking amazeballs, but I no longer think for-pay games can compete with "freemium" ones https://t.co/dUEeQYO7Ex
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Nothing to see here except a click-install advert for a Chrome extension by https://t.co/7EPdCm3T8o on Facebook. https://t.co/6Mv…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2019, 7:38:24 PM
There isn't really an "internet" as we know it in China https://t.co/74w9kXyyXa
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2019, 7:23:01 PM
It's been 32 years since I learned how cool armageddon could be https://t.co/KAc4oGqCqE
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jbendery @jbendery
Mar 21, 2019, 6:30:38 PM
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We're at the point where teachers in America, who signed up for a job to teach kids things like math and history, are being l…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 21, 2019, 3:00:03 AM
Train to Busan is definitely the best train based zombie movie I've seen! https://t.co/NrN6dIfCh6
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ComputerLove_ @ComputerLove_
Mar 21, 2019, 2:32:08 AM
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Morris the Cat, A Cat For Our Times Calendar (1986) Uploaded to the Internet Archive by Marcin Wichary. https://t.co/qpv…
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aleffert @aleffert
Mar 20, 2019, 10:46:59 PM
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It’s VERY IMPORTANT that we start calling the Year 2038 bug, where 32-bit Unix time overflows, The Epochalypse. Plz spread.
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textfiles @textfiles
Mar 20, 2019, 10:29:45 PM
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Tonight the GDC highlighted the work of Jerry Lawson (https://t.co/y9IlKNAzSL) the engineer who invented the game cartridge…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 20, 2019, 9:16:54 PM
@wavyknife I've seen movies that started off this way
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 20, 2019, 8:37:59 PM
Atlas Shrugged 2: One Hour Later https://t.co/SK9M5iJHBU https://t.co/SE2TZEotZy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 20, 2019, 6:43:59 PM
If I needed to fulfill and ship ~500 items, what service would you recommend for that? Ideally they could do the "buy" page as well as fulfillment. We'll ship the ~500 items to their warehouse for fulfillment.
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BrianRoemmele @BrianRoemmele
Mar 20, 2019, 6:00:02 PM
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Apple AirPods H1 chip (SOCs) has the processing power of an iPhone 4—in each ear! Class 1 Bluetooth 5. H1 die size is ~…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 20, 2019, 5:35:11 PM
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." https://t.co/i0Ba21UB9R
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Super Eight is a new beer from @dogfishbeer that can be used to develop film. I can't wait to Tri-X a pint of it. https://t.co
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DanielPink @DanielPink
Mar 20, 2019, 3:46:17 PM
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Turns out that mentoring helps mentors, too. Police officers who mentored junior colleagues: -- experienced lower levels o…
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francescagino @francescagino
Mar 20, 2019, 3:43:52 PM
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The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report feeling lonely and to report symptoms o…
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AdamParkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko
Mar 20, 2019, 12:06:03 AM
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Worth noting, in the lawsuit filed by Devin Nunes against his cow, the cow had 1,200 followers. In the 24 hours follow…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 19, 2019, 10:45:24 PM
Whitney Houston was wrong: children aren't the future. Thanks to increased human longevity, and massive concentration of wealth and power.. old people are the future. 👴👵 https://t.co/Bd1t5RdsoA
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RavenKwok @RavenKwok
Mar 19, 2019, 8:29:40 PM
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I sorted the entire CJK Unified Ideographs Unicode block based on each glyph's similarity to a pattern, in this case, a shor…
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gabsmashh @gabsmashh
Mar 19, 2019, 7:04:30 PM
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neilhimself @neilhimself
Mar 19, 2019, 5:33:50 PM
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Many years ago, I sent a white-faced silent clown to a friend's wedding. He turned up, sat in the back during the service,…
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sarahjeong @sarahjeong
Mar 19, 2019, 5:30:00 PM
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The internet gets better when the platforms make themselves less functional. What does this say about the situation we're i…
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anildash @anildash
Mar 18, 2019, 11:44:49 PM
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Try @Glitch, we won't extract your blood. Probably! https://t.co/2OJyonsL5S
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 18, 2019, 9:33:01 PM
“I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.” https://t.co/nAX4o5yhsZ
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"lettuce is not food. It’s decorated water." https://t.co/NomOx46SQN
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Carnage4Life @Carnage4Life
Mar 18, 2019, 8:13:40 PM
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Tech press continually fail to appreciate scale of Facebook & YouTube. At 2B users, having 99.9% good users still leaves…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 18, 2019, 7:32:09 PM
@wavyknife @jack I was willing to entertain other notions, but I am after the Alex Jones thing I am done with this dude
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 18, 2019, 7:02:43 PM
"the irony that her anti-consumerist art is being used to sell clothing is not lost on her" https://t.co/I0lmwJH54q
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Carnage4Life @Carnage4Life
Mar 18, 2019, 6:32:52 PM
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Facebook planned to save local journalism with a feature called "Today In" which showed 5 news stories daily from local s…
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CuriousZelda @CuriousZelda
Mar 18, 2019, 5:21:10 PM
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Carpet fluffy
Carpet wide
Carpet always
By my side https://t.co/zefsW4pfyM
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PPathole @PPathole
Mar 18, 2019, 4:48:29 PM
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Sometimes when I’m programming in JavaScript I just want to yell “Fuck this” but I can’t remember what “this” refers to.
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DinaPomeranz @DinaPomeranz
Mar 18, 2019, 5:54:25 AM
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Very cool!

A “Bar Chart Race” showing the changing ranks of the 10 biggest cities in the world since 1500.

By @jburnm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 18, 2019, 5:34:28 AM
After the third unsolicited followup "guest post on your blog" email I couldn't take it any more https://t.co/wG5O1olUBy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 18, 2019, 12:52:01 AM
awright, Google news. Temps in KELVIN? Seriously? https://t.co/9uMu3k8ksg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 18, 2019, 12:27:10 AM
"typically, once the helper rat frees his companion, he follows the liberated rat. He jumps on him and he licks him —apparently to console the distressed animal." https://t.co/r54RmTkgHt
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waxpancake @waxpancake
Mar 17, 2019, 7:42:55 PM
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Myspace accidentally lost all the music uploaded from its first 12 years in a server migration, losing over 50 million song…
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RichRogersIoT @RichRogersIoT
Mar 17, 2019, 7:30:23 PM
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"I bought my boss two copies of The Mythical Man Month so that he could read it twice as fast." - @rkoutnik https://t.co
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lukeoneil47 @lukeoneil47
Mar 17, 2019, 7:15:30 PM
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Dick Dale had to keep touring until he died because he couldn't afford all the medical expenses he had otherwise. Very coo…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2019, 7:14:27 PM
Freedom of Speech ≠ Freedom of Reach
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 17, 2019, 7:13:21 PM
Happy St. Patrick's Day to the Future's Greatest Irishman https://t.co/gvBE2ZVzy4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 16, 2019, 9:30:26 PM
Democracy is hard https://t.co/Cc5CcP1izC
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Staggfilms @Staggfilms
Mar 16, 2019, 5:52:12 PM
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Any 4 pics of Alan Rickman together looks like an amazing 80’s new wave band you wish existed https://t.co/tWe65sfZSI
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SNFaizalKhamisa @SNFaizalKhamisa
Mar 15, 2019, 8:30:05 PM
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Beats the hell out of thoughts and prayers. https://t.co/jX7PoewjTR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2019, 8:29:18 PM
I got new glasses. I had to re-train Windows Hello, but I did *not* have to re-train the iPhone or iPad.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2019, 7:06:03 PM
Meanwhile, in India https://t.co/LFMVSRGqxk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2019, 5:20:42 PM
"Politics = anger." https://t.co/1gOSJS7qdy
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NYC is different man https://t.co/diE9KVpvRo
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2019, 4:07:31 PM
What's your favorite rhyming-but-not-*really* couplet from a song? Mine are My dungarees / make them hungry and His body's a trip, got a booty like Josephine Baker / and a touch of blush make-up
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2019, 3:18:27 PM
@wavyknife thinking-with-gloved-hand-emoji-dot-png
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usnistgov @usnistgov
Mar 15, 2019, 2:56:57 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2019, 4:46:03 AM
I was skeptical, but this Battlefield V Firestorm (Battle Royale) trailer looks amaaaazing https://t.co/wONkm971Jt
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 15, 2019, 1:23:51 AM
Brute force: it works https://t.co/9VE4egoDSq
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mistertodd @mistertodd
Mar 14, 2019, 11:42:51 PM
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The Christchurch shooter posted a manifesto on 8chan and shouted "subscribe to PewDiePie" before opening fire on the mosque…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2019, 5:04:26 PM
Here's how to torture a programmer "Sorry'
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BeccaTaylorEcon @BeccaTaylorEcon
Mar 14, 2019, 4:45:45 PM
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Hot off the press – I wrote an article about my new paper:
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Key finding: Banning plastic carry…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2019, 4:12:17 PM
Why do we even have telephone numbers
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2019, 3:51:56 PM
1:07 of perfection https://t.co/T3jw4UNIQ8
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matt_levine @matt_levine
Mar 14, 2019, 3:06:57 PM
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gonna be weird when facebook launches a word processor tomorrow https://t.co/Vf4ftmY4rQ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 14, 2019, 2:56:31 AM
Me: I dunno about this new Netflix movie, seems kinda cliched Movie: military helicopter suddenly rolls over horizon to the tune of Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Me: 🍿🤩
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kevinmontrose @kevinmontrose
Mar 13, 2019, 6:51:50 PM
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Nothing reminds me I'm actually OK at my job quite like dealing with tickets on my OSS libraries. If you're reading thi…
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GavinNewsom @GavinNewsom
Mar 13, 2019, 4:49:40 PM
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The death penalty has been an abject failure. It discriminates based on the color of your skin or how much money you make.…
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QuinnyPig @QuinnyPig
Mar 13, 2019, 4:43:48 PM
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*pager goes off* My date: “Ooh, are you a doctor?” PagerDuty: “The autoscaling group lost an instance!!!” Me: “…yes. Yes I a…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 13, 2019, 4:13:31 PM
Do they come in "person"? What do you think? https://t.co/hv2kjeVvIF
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eviltrout @eviltrout
Mar 13, 2019, 3:30:24 PM
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In a 24 hour period we learned that Something Awful was in jeopardy because of Lowtax's medical bills, and that Dwarf Fortre…
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KitfoxGames @KitfoxGames
Mar 13, 2019, 3:28:36 PM
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🌟DWARF FORTRESS🌟 The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world. A legendary game with all new graphics/audio. Wishli…
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reathchris @reathchris
Mar 13, 2019, 1:40:54 AM
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apparently my girlfriend doesn't appreciate me calling our dates one-on-ones https://t.co/jzsKVGTwIo
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johnolilly @johnolilly
Mar 12, 2019, 9:56:39 PM
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This is more like the kind of news I'd like to see trending on Twitter over everything that's trending. Way to go, Govern…
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StackOverflow @StackOverflow
Mar 12, 2019, 9:35:35 PM
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Stack Overflow launched in 2008, demonstrating what’s possible with the internet: an open community that gives people kn…
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discourse @discourse
Mar 12, 2019, 8:37:09 PM
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New ✨ in Discourse 2.3 beta! Experienced users and staff will see a friendly little nudge next to first posts by new users,…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 12, 2019, 8:23:39 PM
I found out the hard way that our optional @discourse word replacement code is working pretty well. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, prettyyyy.. well. https://t.co/QG8h3Jiofe
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NateSilver538 @NateSilver538
Mar 12, 2019, 8:17:31 PM
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Betting line on which publication will be the first to publish an "in defense of Felicity Huffman" op-ed: Quillette: 3-…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 12, 2019, 7:03:06 PM
If I have learned anything in my career as a software developer, it is to never trust software.
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I love these two for making a funny to help people remember the difference.

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