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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2018, 3:42:50 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd (Stares off into the distance wistfully) I love writing checks
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2018, 12:34:05 AM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp It's also southern in the best possible way. It's among the best things I've ever seen.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2018, 12:30:17 AM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp Don't watch that; watch Rectify. Look it up on metacritic if you wanna know why. https://t.co/q3sgGUNGso
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2018, 12:02:01 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
if I have learned anything in my career, it is the shocking effectiveness of building ... literally the stupidest thing that could work. (And then iterating on it for a decade.)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2018, 6:22:54 PM
In Reply To @TheRobKennedy
@TheRobKennedy @theodoredziuba at any scale beyond "why even bother" $800/year is *literally* nothing for a corp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2018, 4:42:46 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2018, 10:00:07 PM
In Reply To @tobermatt
@tobermatt Wow a whole $400 per month for a full time job, quite a deal
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 9:26:05 PM
In Reply To @marcgravell
@marcgravell I need that unicorn float so bad
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 8:40:31 PM
In Reply To @sgrif
@sgrif kind of expected though, their non-netflix movie selection is pretty damn bad. a bit better for tv shows but the writing is on the wall here: if you don't control the content, you are doomed in the long run
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 8:37:49 PM
In Reply To @sgrif
@sgrif how so? lots of self promotion?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 6:22:31 PM
In Reply To @georgebsocial
@georgeb3dr I expect Google to crack down super hard on sideloading apps as it is a big security exploit in the long run.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 6:04:18 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@georgeb3dr (because of Qualcomm, not anything Android is doing per se. But Qualcomm is a canker sore on the mobile world.)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 6:03:55 PM
In Reply To @georgebsocial
@georgeb3dr Android could walk away from Fortnite no problem IMO.. whereas "big game store" could not. Android devices tend to have really poor CPU perf as well.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 5:48:40 PM
In Reply To @georgebsocial
@georgeb3dr Fortnite can't beat the entirety of Android -- that's much more than games
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 4:32:14 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza see Black Mirror "Hang the DJ" https://t.co/rbYdMx3lVj
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 3:35:10 PM
In Reply To @thrgamon
@thrgamon @susanthesquark book 1 of southern reach was indeed quite good, but by book 3 it was in full on crazy pants town. I dunno what to make of book 3.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 3:21:02 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
OK this is claimed!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 4:32:30 AM
In Reply To @tobermatt
@tobermatt Well, Apple ][ floppy discs were only supposed to last 20 years max, right? We're 33 years in now.. https://t.co/2nORoW4J6D
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2018, 12:28:16 AM
In Reply To @susanthesquark
@susanthesquark I just read this recently, much more psychedelic than I expected
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 8:51:36 PM
In Reply To @vincentriemer
@vincentriemer we don't allow any discussion on GitHub, all discussion is at https://t.co/xtRYvz7geU -- there's nothing stopping anyone from starting a new discussion about their theme. We've had many in the past.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 8:39:48 PM
In Reply To @vincentriemer
@vincentriemer This is an open source project; we regularly accept code contributions that were freely contributed.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 7:29:04 PM
In Reply To @scottwasson
@scottwasson @kwiens will be so proud.. SO PROUD!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 7:24:11 PM
In Reply To @pdp0010
@bayborodin Did you delete it from the Russian SO or the English SO? I don't really have a problem with people saying "Fuck America", nor do I assume it is personally directed at me.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 7:21:02 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza at the core of so much of this is a profound lack of understanding about "punching up vs. punching down". I see it every single day. So common.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 7:05:12 PM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss brb need to make a call
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 6:33:13 PM
In Reply To @grahamparks
@grahamparks We get plenty of open source contributions that we didn't pay anyone for. That's how open source usually works, in fact.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 6:24:08 PM
In Reply To @grahamparks
@grahamparks Absolutely *NOT* true of all our code. Lots of enterprise secret sauce for the big whales.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 6:14:44 PM
In Reply To @vincentriemer
@vincentriemer does this really apply when you're not taking sole ownership of the work? All submissions are MIT and free for anyone to use, forever.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 6:14:10 PM
In Reply To @grahamparks
@grahamparks The submissions we’re asking for are free for anyone in the whole world to utilize along with Discourse under the MIT license.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 6:13:58 PM
In Reply To @flobin
@flobin The submissions we’re asking for are free for anyone in the whole world to utilize along with Discourse under the MIT license.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 5:01:55 PM
In Reply To @YaoihavenReborn
@YaoihavenReborn @discourse I think it possibly got lost because it was in replies to an existing topic, and it wasn't being bumped any more. We'll be sure to reply now that we see it as a distinct topic of its own.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 4:15:03 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard @jorgepinon it is very good, but IMO it should be titled "the web advertising obesity crisis"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 3:55:14 PM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss insufficient sales. "Sure, you could hit your brother.. *or* you could devise a much more insidious way to ruin his life that he'll never see coming.."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 3:12:59 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
and lemme tell you, when you have kids.. you'll be "selling" things to them non-stop. Like "how about we eat our food? MMM SO DELICIOUS" and "how about not hitting your sister?"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 2:49:15 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie everything is sales though https://t.co/qzM5b2ZYdg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 1:56:32 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard @kevindente None of us do
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2018, 1:55:49 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout @Supermathie @joffreyjaffeux Bigger.
Than.
Minecraft.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 6:57:59 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout bigger than Minecraft!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 6:05:53 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
it picks up again here https://t.co/cLl4jW7gf3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 5:00:09 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard if only I could switch my vote to a state where my vote actually mattered!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 4:05:21 PM
In Reply To @tmslft
@tmslft @Pinboard yeah but Android can't be recommended (read the Tech Solidarity pages) because it's too insecure by default
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 3:59:03 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard bluetooth or nearfield (see Apple Pay) should work for this, but saying "works everywhere except your phone!" is, realistically speaking, a death sentence
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 3:57:09 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard Given how prevalent "I do everything on my phone" is, not having physical keys that can readily work with phones (bluetooth? near field? something) is kinda.. crippling
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 3:40:32 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
however we cannot fully rule it out at this time
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 3:36:53 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
hopefully it won't go down like this https://t.co/1J7SNvWPD0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2018, 3:31:34 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer this is bizarre
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 31, 2018, 7:00:24 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie whuuuuuuut 🤯
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 31, 2018, 3:46:22 PM
In Reply To @benedictevans
@BenedictEvans pretty simple in the case of Facebook, though -- make WhatsApp and Instagram completely independent companies again.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 31, 2018, 3:00:34 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
"coordinated inauthentic behavior" is as orwellian a phrase as I've heard in recent memory
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2018, 7:25:36 PM
In Reply To @BrainyAnalyst
@ste1ner @etjossem @discourse yeah basically they figured that out
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2018, 5:13:18 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles swamp: drained
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2018, 10:57:53 PM
In Reply To @burtonachitect
@burtonachitect @DocPop You can't listen to him, he's not a licensed Doctor!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2018, 10:19:01 PM
In Reply To @DocPop
@DocPop A happy ending at last!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2018, 9:55:11 PM
In Reply To @DocPop
@DocPop Is there a religion pitch in there at the end, because if so, now I am even more depressed
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2018, 8:49:44 PM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp if you like it so much why don't you marry it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2018, 8:42:14 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley stay woke shipley
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2018, 5:28:10 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley you didn't see this story?? https://t.co/60GlrtOB76
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2018, 2:41:54 PM
In Reply To @ryanhsumner
@ryanhsumner You’d need to address that q to wasd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2018, 6:21:34 AM
In Reply To @triketora
@triketora I love this kind of game theory stuff
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 10:31:08 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout just is kind of a bad word in general
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 9:04:42 PM
In Reply To @joe3barrera
@joe3barrera Bricolage!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 8:54:29 PM
In Reply To @ironicsans
@ironicsans @waxpancake Per the small print on the last page, only 6pm to 7am during the week? Bizarre
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 7:52:28 PM
In Reply To @hypatiadotca
@hypatiadotca it's also a super bummer when you accidentally write the *exact opposite* of what you meant to write :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 7:19:54 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Here is mine. brb, opening some packages. Then I will probably fight a bear. Probably. https://t.co/0ffWqS9WgK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 6:46:01 PM
In Reply To @hypatiadotca
@hypatiadotca The "funny" thing is that he emailed the security dept about it and the reply was misinterpreted. Comedy of errors. 😭 https://t.co/U7hdZ36FSa
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 6:27:47 PM
In Reply To @martinstraus
@martinstraus go in armed with knowledge. that first year is ROUGH but it gets slowly better every year after that, and your kid gets wayyy more interesting every year past that ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 4:40:07 AM
In Reply To @leedohm
@leedohm @GitHubHelp thank you! I just enabled it and finally it seems to be working? I didn't change anything, so perhaps magic was done on GitHub's end sometime in the last month or so? Anyways all good! https://t.co/YiXCDtAWaB
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 27, 2018, 2:56:27 AM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza I am trying it now. You should watch The Terror, it has a similar .. flavor? https://t.co/obzLZWwToc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 8:39:29 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard @miklb surely someone would be willing to join Pinboard at some discounted rate to help the Tech Solidarity effort?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 8:34:48 PM
In Reply To @miklb
@miklb @Pinboard Not sure if serious, but I really do wish Maciej would get more people in his corps. The Army of One thing he has going on only scales so much, at tremendous personal cost.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 8:33:31 PM
In Reply To @tjhorner
@tjhorner nope, CloudFlare still gets access to the data as a man-in-the-middle...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 8:25:30 PM
In Reply To @quinns
@quinns cloudflare is not real https
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 8:03:05 PM
In Reply To @tjhorner
@tjhorner cloudflare is not real HTTPS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 7:58:41 PM
In Reply To @SuperDalgas
@SuperDalgas I legit don't even want to play this, too real
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 7:34:53 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
If you hate sleep, money, and free time, BY ALL MEANS steal that baby
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 7:20:18 PM
In Reply To @jwz
@jwz fucking white chocolate!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 5:20:59 PM
In Reply To @TeaDrivenDev
@TeaDrivenDev @kazoolist in no case is this true; a smaller more intimate community is *better* for beginners than immediately rolling into New York City
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 4:49:21 PM
In Reply To @merlyndmg
@merlyndmg @pekka_net @TeaDrivenDev Anything C++ is a disaster in the long run. Nature of the beast.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 4:38:20 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza do you recommend watching this? Have you watched it?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 4:14:16 PM
In Reply To @TeaDrivenDev
@TeaDrivenDev there can be more than one website on the internet, with more than one goal ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 26, 2018, 3:13:50 PM
In Reply To @stewart
@stewart Hipchat will .. not be missed
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 8:45:56 PM
In Reply To @AlSweigart
@AlSweigart no using electricity!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 7:24:34 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard The Trump Show Must Go On
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 7:22:12 PM
In Reply To @JohnONolan
@JohnONolan you and I both know that's.. an unhealthy number of sysadmins
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 6:17:12 PM
In Reply To @deanputney
@deanputney monthly recurring contribution
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 6:07:35 PM
In Reply To @ID_AA_Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack if we haven't designed for laziness, then we've failed anyway
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 2:07:10 PM
In Reply To @jhaakana
@jhaakana I meant things OTHER than software of course 🤣
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 11:52:15 AM
In Reply To @chetfaliszek
@chetfaliszek @JonCalvin84 @bossastudios proudly part of the problem since 1970!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 11:35:08 AM
In Reply To @chetfaliszek
@chetfaliszek @JonCalvin84 @bossastudios sometimes when I am bored I look you up on Encyclopedia Dramatica
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 25, 2018, 11:28:23 AM
In Reply To @chetfaliszek
@chetfaliszek @JonCalvin84 @bossastudios it better be left for dead 3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 24, 2018, 10:27:42 PM
In Reply To @susanthesquark
@susanthesquark I always used to tease @betsyphd because as she spoon fed the babies, she would reflexively make the "mouth eating food" motion with every spoonful ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 24, 2018, 6:27:51 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf @dakami @SushiDude @0xdaeda1a it is almost as if Twitter is a very limited medium for expression of complete thoughts
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 24, 2018, 4:55:50 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@Carnage4Life Facebook loves Facebook more than anything else, but they're really good at *execution*, and always have been.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 24, 2018, 4:36:45 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life on the plus side, I do think they've been taking recent criticism seriously and have made real, practical changes (external news fact checking, whatsapp limits on forwarding)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 24, 2018, 4:35:28 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza @HarshilShah1910 what if.. and bear with me here.. they offered a DARK MODE?!?!!?!?!?@!!@!@&^one
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