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TheBeatWithAri @TheBeatWithAri
Nov 9, 2018, 9:48:50 PM
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How does @george_clinton stay funky?

"Watch your kids, the music that gets on your nerves, that's the new funk!" https…
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“Candidates in Cook County changing their names to Irish-sounding names happened often enough that Illinois passed a law requirin…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 9, 2018, 8:24:18 PM
near as I can tell, I literally wore out the left click on my G Pro mouse.. I'm a "claw" gripper. #claw4lyfe https://t.co/XjNHQ8xHvh
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 9, 2018, 7:04:42 PM
"When an MP3 player compresses music by anyone from Courtney Love to Kenny G, it is replicating the way that Brandenburg heard Suzanne Vega." https://t.co/pEmXaZ8OUt
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LosFelizDaycare @LosFelizDaycare
Nov 9, 2018, 2:47:55 PM
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{\__/} ( • . •) / >📱 GIVE A CHILD A PODCAST, YOU’VE FED THEM WITH THREE FREE BLUE APRON MEALS... {\__/} ( • . •) / >🎙…
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kbennhold @kbennhold
Nov 9, 2018, 1:15:19 PM
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Hello everyone, I wanted to share with you the most surprising findings from my recent reporting trips to East Germany. Is t…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 9, 2018, 5:26:49 AM
Lyndon B. Johnson was a fascinating political figure: https://t.co/CXWswI9Gw8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 8, 2018, 7:18:01 PM
Battlefield V is a very good game and quite different from BF1. If you didn't like BF1 (but like BF games in general) I'd give it a try. https://t.co/CNmpi7h5Pi
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Steam_Spy @Steam_Spy
Nov 8, 2018, 7:12:14 PM
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Fortnite now has 8.3M peak players. Steam, for comparison, has around 5M peak players across ALL games and 16M peak users…
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laurennnjoness2 @laurennnjoness2
Nov 8, 2018, 2:29:00 PM
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my history professor is tired of our shit https://t.co/iYqe0N2tOc
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ProudResister @ProudResister
Nov 7, 2018, 11:49:21 PM
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“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”—George Or…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2018, 10:04:06 PM
I keep in touch the modern way, with stickers https://t.co/wae10nPzEr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2018, 8:39:11 PM
I am all-in on face login now: surface pro, desktop (Windows 10 hello), iPhone X, iPad Pro 2018. Imagine having to log in with your fingerprint like SOME KIND OF ANIMAL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2018, 5:43:19 PM
I'm not sure what is going on over at Amazon with their in-house shipping service "AMZL US" but I've seen multiple catastrophic shipping fails with them lately. https://t.co/wi6DeV13Yx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2018, 5:05:36 PM
We're replacing all font glyphs with SVG glyphs in @discourse and it is a genius change because it is now a one-liner to make all glyphs the ULTIMATE GLYPH OF ALL TIME https://t.co/JhZJRAxjtf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2018, 4:04:56 PM
Brain: you should probably stop spending so much time in front of a screen
Me: https://t.co/fCnRpFhfCZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2018, 3:12:58 PM
"group chat used sparingly in a few very specific situations makes a lot of sense. What makes a lot less sense is chat as the primary, default method of communication inside an organization." https://t.co/RnjeU0xJjg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2018, 2:22:22 PM
Welp, it's finally happened. https://t.co/Ily3kiXmQT results for 2018 iPad Pro A12X -- 128. Results for desktop overclocked i7-7700k -- 117. Kudos to Apple. I have *no* idea why they haven't released a laptop with this SoC yet.
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evavivalt @evavivalt
Nov 7, 2018, 1:44:02 PM
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100 women in the House. That's still not enough, but it's a damn fine start. For reference, here is a plot of women in the H…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2018, 2:52:06 AM
I had forgotten how legitimately funny Bulletstorm is. It might be the pinacle of goofy brainless doesn't-take-itself-seriously shooter action. https://t.co/7oAkmloIbn
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2018, 6:48:41 PM
The Cat Concerto from Tom and Jerry, performed live https://t.co/NjOKQ1sMAH
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danariely @danariely
Nov 6, 2018, 3:27:36 PM
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What Voting and Flu Shots Have in Common https://t.co/1azNB8PDaR via @behscientist
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2018, 2:05:59 PM
"So this is what programming with Satan is like." https://t.co/hxVjiYfhQf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2018, 1:38:23 PM
Voting! Roll the dice and let’s see what happens! https://t.co/tE4jvt9kZR
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dylanmarron @dylanmarron
Nov 6, 2018, 2:13:30 AM
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Lord grant me the confidence of a person who raises their hand at a Q&A with, well, not exactly a question per se, more of…
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ChloeCondon @ChloeCondon
Nov 5, 2018, 8:11:05 PM
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The 7 scariest words, in order, are: Turn To The Person Next To You. 😱😰😬😢😭😓😟💀⚰️
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jamesglynn @jamesglynn
Nov 5, 2018, 7:33:13 PM
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Have the self belief of this llama taking a taxi. https://t.co/aVYHgTdJAg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2018, 6:52:39 PM
You know who understands that rules are fuuuunnnn.. prooogrrammmerrss... that's what we dooo allll dayyy loooonnnggg https://t.co/8oZbVsxB0I
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2018, 4:37:07 PM
If you, or someone you 💖, is new to Discourse and looking for some tips .. share this link! https://t.co/9e0M2Fdsh4 https://t.co/1Yc1yGaPQP
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Apathy generation is a facilitator of authoritarianism. My new NYT oped on our vicious cycle of losing trust in democratic inst…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2018, 3:31:37 PM
This.. has a surprise ending, if you read all the way to the end. https://t.co/ltu7zd46Pv
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SarahTaber_bww @SarahTaber_bww
Nov 5, 2018, 3:21:31 PM
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thoughts & prayers for those affected https://t.co/YzsI0qkz9Y
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arstechnica @arstechnica
Nov 5, 2018, 12:39:56 PM
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Phew. "No existing or imminent VR hardware is good enough to go truly mainstream, even at a price of $0.00." https://t.co/…
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NateSilver538 @NateSilver538
Nov 4, 2018, 5:10:09 PM
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The one thing I have no patience for is dudes (it's almost *always* dudes) who spend 15 minutes on something you've been…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 4, 2018, 2:36:40 AM
Nobody told me the sequel to Human Resource Machine was out! https://t.co/j1OJbxNq2N https://t.co/ySrjK5iela
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Papapishu @Papapishu
Nov 3, 2018, 11:26:12 PM
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Never give me chrome cast access https://t.co/lWlkL6pZqf
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Nov 3, 2018, 7:45:40 PM
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A donor will give $1 per RT of this tweet to the Great Slate. This is a year long effort to help red state Democrats who were…
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Sierra_OffLine @Sierra_OffLine
Nov 3, 2018, 4:40:07 PM
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Softsel top 10 Recreational Games, July 9, 1984. Presumably sales across all home and personal computer platforms (no i…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 3, 2018, 3:20:05 PM
“it’s become a routine observation that centuries-old pieces in oak or mahogany are often cheaper — if they sell at all — than their contemporary flat-pack equivalents” https://t.co/srd0v6bavx
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It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974. This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windows 10, d…
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MillenPolitics @MillenPolitics
Nov 2, 2018, 8:57:38 PM
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Millennials — are you suffering from chronic apathy, civic constipation or electile dysfunction? Voting|RX® might be f…
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ID_AA_Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack
Nov 2, 2018, 8:39:29 PM
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Cell phones only consume a few dollars worth of energy over their lifetime, but a GPU running at high utilization in a s…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2018, 12:06:27 PM
Every time I see a stock photo of a child blowing on a dandelion and making a wish, I can only think, "I bet that damn kid is wishing for more weeds" https://t.co/a4CHuTNi5n
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2018, 9:34:20 PM
I thought I never wanted to see another FizzBuzz solution as long as I lived, but then Vi Hart goes and knocks it out of the dang park https://t.co/lXs4fQoIP0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2018, 8:57:18 PM
Map nerds are the best kind of nerds https://t.co/sqKWRDroAy
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Crazy thing: my friends who run a high traffic coffee shop just found this thing under their bar. It turns out to be a super chea…
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stroughtonsmith @stroughtonsmith
Nov 1, 2018, 3:34:52 PM
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Just to make the iMac Pro people miserable: if you look at Geekbench's LLVM component, the iPad Pro's A12X handily out…
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benthompson @benthompson
Nov 1, 2018, 2:43:43 PM
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My daughter deleted an entire report because, after only using Google Docs previously, she had to use Word. She was comple…
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TheDweck @TheDweck
Oct 31, 2018, 11:03:58 PM
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Ted Cruz is the only person who pretends to be a serial killer to be MORE likable https://t.co/W3hcR6ILSm
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Justin_Ling @Justin_Ling
Oct 31, 2018, 7:02:08 PM
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This is, in a word, fucking bonkers. https://t.co/IqoYzIroUb https://t.co/RG4CiWLRgk
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CompSciFact @CompSciFact
Oct 31, 2018, 2:50:20 PM
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Q: Why can’t programmers tell the difference between Halloween and Christmas? A: Because oct 31 = dec 25. #oldprogrammer…
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revrrlewis @revrrlewis
Oct 31, 2018, 2:36:28 PM
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your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should https://t.co/F…
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aengelbro @aengelbro
Oct 31, 2018, 2:35:15 PM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 31, 2018, 12:21:01 AM
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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tenderlove @tenderlove
Oct 31, 2018, 12:10:38 AM
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With most sales being done online, we've eliminated the need for traveling salesman thus solving the traveling salesman pro…
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iPad Pro vs. original iPad. 8.5 years of engineering: 50% thinner 30% lighter 35x faster CPU 1000x faster graphics 5x pixels…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 30, 2018, 6:21:44 PM
I normally resell my prev gen iThings to Amazon, but let's raise some money for the Great Slate instead. Reply w/ screenshot of $40 donation or more, you can be one of 20 chances to win a pre-owned 2017 12.9" iPad Pro: https://t.co/5qDWP0szsh
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JoshDComp @JoshDComp
Oct 30, 2018, 5:40:26 PM
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Finally, somebody (@notwaldorf) defines what CORS means #JAMstack_conf https://t.co/xSi2RVMi9U
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David3141593 @David3141593
Oct 30, 2018, 5:27:26 PM
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Assuming this all works out, the image in this tweet is also a valid ZIP archive, containing a multipart RAR archive, con…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 30, 2018, 4:08:41 PM
“He always saw the best in people,” said a longtime confidant who asked not to be identified. “Which wasn’t a great thing all the time.” https://t.co/HZdHK1CWmH
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 30, 2018, 3:27:51 PM
“Apple mentioned during the keynote that the new A12X is more powerful than 92% of the available laptops in the market, which isn’t very surprising given the performance levels we saw on the A12.” https://t.co/QCccdLCUzy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 30, 2018, 12:12:19 AM
"a failure to win next week means [white nationalism] will have proven [itself] as an electoral weapon that brings no adverse consequences to those who deploy it." https://t.co/ECTPCs3xhx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2018, 11:52:02 PM
Well, this is a first. Reading through some old forum drama circa 2012 involving raised money for charities going majorly sideways.. at some point the main actor's MOTHER comes on the forum and starts posting about the guy. Do you.. ever come back from that? https://t.co/dFLkikApKq
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Commodork @Commodork
Oct 29, 2018, 10:08:42 PM
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Pre-ordered. #VHS #VHSclassic https://t.co/PRCQ06RzAg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2018, 9:43:15 PM
Hey guess which company I predict is gonna win this particular tech slapfight? Hint: not the one with the near-monopoly on crappy, slow SoCs https://t.co/Zt2oRAngfZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2018, 9:36:17 PM
“He thinks so far out of the box he hasn’t found the box yet.” https://t.co/yRPvJOQ7p2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2018, 8:36:47 PM
"The way I look at it, it's not so much that there are 10x people out there, more that there are enough 0.1x people to make the rest look like geniuses in comparison."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2018, 8:07:10 PM
At @discourse we're very good at .. GRAPHS https://t.co/eNobmx026Q
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SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity
Oct 29, 2018, 5:43:11 PM
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Normal brain: Tax Google to pay for schools Cosmic brain: Tax IPv4 addresses to pay for IPv6 education
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leighalexander @leighalexander
Oct 29, 2018, 9:49:36 AM
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"Grown-ups now feel so disenfranchised that they implicitly self-identify as young children... The conflict over who ge…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2018, 9:47:16 AM
If you think Twitter is a viable platform for “debate”, you are already so far off into cloud-cuckoo-land that nothing else you say after that matters https://t.co/rPT44jvcSI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2018, 7:52:26 PM
@robdaemon @DenisTrailin @rgardler yep, good luck finding any citations from >2 days ago. Near as I can tell, there aren't any.
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Made a new Codepen about estimating fonts with Fourier series.

A typographic low-pass filter, if you will.

https://t.co/AhINj…
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Interior @Interior
Oct 28, 2018, 6:49:13 PM
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Our most popular post last week: This pea-sized baby octopus 🐙 that biologists at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park f…
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samsaffron @samsaffron
Oct 28, 2018, 6:26:53 PM
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Not measuring "interruption count" is a huge metric failure for "screen time". You can use your phone for a total of 1 hour…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2018, 3:41:47 PM
The world's oldest road trip https://t.co/3pI1FJQPb6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2018, 3:20:17 PM
250k followers? I'd like to thank everyone* following my inevitable spiraling descent into madness. I promise to keep it entertaining! 🙃 * who isn't a bot
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tomwarren @tomwarren
Oct 28, 2018, 2:26:31 PM
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IBM has acquired Red Hat in a $34 billion deal https://t.co/UnB49kyYIt
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2018, 2:14:24 AM
I was looking at @DocPop's early adopter Instagram blog post and.. wow, I had kinda forgotten how hideous the cameras were on phones back in 2011 https://t.co/J1DqpZAU2n
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 27, 2018, 6:58:21 PM
If you work at Microsoft, you should know this violence-inciting hate site is hosted on Azure, where you work. It's time to change that, isn't it? https://t.co/FfnlRKQdTH https://t.co/JbdsYTTPGb
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Pinboard @Pinboard
Oct 27, 2018, 5:58:34 PM
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A thing US people can do tonight to feel less helpless and hopeless is make a political donation to J.D. Scholten in Iowa's 4…
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darraghcurran @darraghcurran
Oct 27, 2018, 5:40:07 PM
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@codinghorror 💯 - and is really the core idea in https://t.co/6cC0eO79Im
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MichaelSkolnik @MichaelSkolnik
Oct 27, 2018, 3:59:03 PM
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Aurora: AR-15 Orlando: AR-15 Parkland: AR-15 Las Vegas: AR-15 Sandy Hook: AR-15 Umpqua CC: AR-15 Waffle House: AR-15 Te…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 27, 2018, 3:44:05 PM
Interesting youtube unboxing ad experiment. I kinda suspect if he had gone to GIANT YT channels (500k to 1m+ subscribers), the results would have been very different. https://t.co/I2sDhWT1dF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 27, 2018, 2:15:13 PM
I got my own pocket HAL 9000 https://t.co/GAFFR6qfDE
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nickstenning @nickstenning
Oct 27, 2018, 1:50:47 PM
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Satya, as you know, the platforms we are building aren’t neutral. Now is the time to follow through on the discussions fr…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 26, 2018, 10:22:58 PM
I saw a teenager wearing this Clickbait University hoodie last weekend. Seems apropos https://t.co/zsQ5FcIrm5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 26, 2018, 7:36:26 PM
The inestimable @kwiens brought me this lockpicking kit and it is *disturbingly* easy to pick a lock! My six year old was able to do it (once, after much flailing), and after about 30 mins of practice I literally closed my eyes and was still able to do it! https://t.co/5cQ2GTaDMc
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TheOnion @TheOnion
Oct 26, 2018, 5:48:56 PM
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Fox News Now Just Airing Continuous Blood-Red Screen With Disembodied Voice Chanting ‘They’re Coming To Kill You’ https://t.c
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 26, 2018, 4:41:23 PM
That's it, I am dead. This article has killed me. RIP me https://t.co/OtD4NhZr85 https://t.co/Bgwdp3KBdn
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Madison's promise: A Congress "dependent on the people alone," where by "the People" he meant "not the rich more than the poor.…
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 26, 2018, 6:19:32 AM
"In 2015, a Tallahassee Smash event coordinator feared losing their biweekly tournament slot after locals apparently labeled it 'stinky day.'" https://t.co/0c1DgJDLSZ
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