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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 22, 2018, 12:08:55 AM
In Reply To @pamelafox
@pamelafox I got 62%!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 8:02:17 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer it is true Twitter always finds the perfect answer for everything cc @pinboard
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 7:49:15 PM
In Reply To @maijasauna
@maijasauna This kitty! 😍
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 7:15:13 PM
In Reply To @susanthesquark
@susanthesquark tell them to look you up on wikipedia, works for me
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 4:33:44 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie Why my guitar gently weeps https://t.co/YEYbad8vL9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 6:31:28 AM
In Reply To @DocPop
@DocPop Looks rideable to me, real parts for sure. The vendor makes skateboards regularly afaik
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 6:12:02 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley @mathowie that's awesome
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 3:49:05 AM
In Reply To @joelnet
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 2:45:23 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
"it's an intangible.. 9/10ths of the people don't grasp it" https://t.co/yo8k8Qqiy6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 2:33:07 AM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp real talk: their africa was a bad cover
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 1:59:20 AM
In Reply To @optilude
@optilude HAPPINESS IS FOR THE WEAK MARTIN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 1:58:24 AM
In Reply To @susanthesquark
@susanthesquark Love the stylish tongue out look. One of our twins used to do that all the time!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 12:45:56 AM
In Reply To @fmork
@fmork this one is pretty brutal my man gird your loins
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 12:39:24 AM
In Reply To @fmork
@fmork in tonights idea, they all decided gilead was a bad idea and democratically elected a woman president
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 12:31:35 AM
In Reply To @fmork
@fmork it'd also take a global fertility crash to get that level of crazy IMO. See also: Children of Men
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 21, 2018, 12:11:29 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I'm seriously not sure anyone should be watching this show
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 6:10:54 PM
In Reply To @CharlesSolar
@CharlesSolar nope this dude posted 99% politics, out of 400 posts. On a videogaming forum.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 5:48:54 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie any yoyo that costs under $50 I throw .. right into the trash
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 5:33:31 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer LITERAL MAN™
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 5:03:13 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@Carnage4Life I didn't really understand this until @anildash called me on it a few years ago, and of course now with Trump, the need for active social ostracism on harmful beliefs is even more painfully clear
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 5:00:34 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@Carnage4Life there has to be a "social cost" to harmful beliefs such as bigotry, racism, sexism
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 4:59:54 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life kind of an edge condition; it is morally acceptable (even required) to socially harass people who are openly racist, sexist, etc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 2:56:26 PM
In Reply To @JohnONolan
@JohnONolan @monokrome I think this would be a more compelling set of tweets if it had real world "Ghost ran into this {like so}" examples
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 2:27:57 PM
In Reply To @JohnONolan
@JohnONolan Hasn’t been a problem for us in terms of sales and we are closing BIG deals these days
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 2:03:37 PM
In Reply To @JohnONolan
@JohnONolan Has not been bad in practice for us. Plugins need a diff license though
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 20, 2018, 5:22:06 AM
In Reply To @ianegner
@ianegner That’s exactly what I mean by surrealism!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 19, 2018, 11:19:59 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard @deadprogrammer Y’all need to invent some damn ice cream
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 19, 2018, 10:15:40 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@nicksahler @danielsieradski @github @Microsoft see https://t.co/Y73QOQezEQ and don't @ me on this since I have NOTHING to do with it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 19, 2018, 8:03:54 PM
In Reply To @crankycatcoder
@crankycatcoder chrome version? This is Chrome 67.0.3396.87
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 19, 2018, 7:06:52 PM
In Reply To @bruceoberg
@bruceoberg yeah, exactly that kind of surrealism, that's what I mean!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 19, 2018, 4:41:33 PM
In Reply To @tensorbodega
@nicksahler @danielsieradski @github @Microsoft wasn't this already covered? not sure why you are pinging me. https://t.co/bY7rnBVt2F
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 18, 2018, 11:29:20 PM
In Reply To @b0rk
@b0rk not when you're viewing https traffic it isn't
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 18, 2018, 8:53:24 PM
In Reply To @eej71
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2018, 11:58:44 PM
In Reply To @drewtetz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2018, 10:42:02 PM
In Reply To @Supermathie
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2018, 9:07:37 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard You are living your best life
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2018, 2:59:19 PM
In Reply To @balajesankar
@balajesankar @_vjy Single core perf is most predictive of average performance .. very few things except video encoding can be massively multi core
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2018, 12:46:30 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
cantaloupe is bad and should feel bad
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2018, 10:59:15 PM
In Reply To @Cyanbane
@Cyanbane @waxpancake @rstevens @cabel I can tolerate the toothpaste and lawn clippings flavors, which actually aren't .. too bad
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2018, 10:57:00 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake @rstevens @cabel how about a box full of "dogfood" flavor Mike & Ikes, which is a beanboozled mix choice. So bad. SO BAD.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2018, 10:48:37 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake @rstevens @cabel this is a common flavor in jelly belly mixes, you guys haven't had it before? It's .. not great .. but not super disgusting. If you want super disgusting (for reals) try https://t.co/x0j027CvgP -- actually kinda fun in a group
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2018, 5:03:14 PM
In Reply To @AntonK52
@AntonK52 Oneplus 5 and oneplus 6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2018, 3:02:20 AM
In Reply To @FactorialAdv
@nibhat @anjuan @discourse you can take a look at https://t.co/xtRYvz7geU to see how we do it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2018, 12:50:00 AM
In Reply To @asp_net
@asp_net samsung is pulling a fast one there: “however the current scores which I got on these devices make absolutely no sense” https://t.co/gkPnH1GfUD
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 10:39:03 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
TL;DR if you buy the very latest Snapdragon 845 your phone is.. about as fast as an iPhone 6s. Believe it or not, this is what progress looks like in Android-land.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 7:26:37 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life for this to have a legal leg to stand on, it'd need to be spelled out in current policy (or wayback machine archive at least)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 7:24:43 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
(and yes, I just donated another $1000 to the great slate) https://t.co/dn2Gdx8Ac3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 7:17:25 PM
In Reply To @anjuan
@anjuan this is what we use @discourse for
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 7:06:22 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard my wife @betsyphd is from Iowa and I continue to maintain that "Iowa Is Good People (except for Steve King)" so I suspect we will both be donating
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 7:04:38 PM
In Reply To @LaughingSquid
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 7:02:10 PM
In Reply To @castpixel
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 6:53:03 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake @willsmith which ones would you recommend? I want to try this but gimme the greatest hits
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 6:48:20 PM
In Reply To @jerwood
@jerwood @siracusa @wilshipley you mean twelve super-rich eight year olds, obviously ;) point taken on multiplayer modes, but to me Halo is a vehicle story first and foremost -- the first great FPS with perfect vehicle integration. Never EVER been done before.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 6:44:27 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life does it claim free speech here though? I'm not seeing it https://t.co/KWziQ3N5CX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 6:31:36 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa @wilshipley there were vehicles in Marathon? That's what I remember most about Halo. Really the first FPS (of any consequence) to fully integrate vehicles into play.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 5:23:48 PM
In Reply To @jerwood
@jerwood @wilshipley That's Doom though. So much more influential. Marathon is a footnote.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 4:28:00 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley ehhhh Marathon and Oni weren't really great franchises IMO. Would be nice to see Myth come back though!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 5:25:53 AM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain all right, I donated $500. There's also good links for donations at https://t.co/eaBTyWhDOq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 3:23:41 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
in fact, they often include little free extras in the package, like love notes to a fellow subculture fan. I try to do the same!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 12:24:29 AM
In Reply To @SwiftOnSecurity
@SwiftOnSecurity @geofft @tqbf @NateMeyvis @patio11 You don’t even have a Taylor Swift avatar any more!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 12:17:55 AM
In Reply To @geofft
@geofft @tqbf @NateMeyvis @patio11 So 7 out of 100 programmers will get there, per my poll — and mine was *total* comp which is even easier to get to. If you like those odds, proceed. Otherwise be warned.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 12:14:38 AM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf @geofft @NateMeyvis @patio11 Let me tell you with absolute fucking certainty that this is how it will be interpreted by almost everyone reading it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 12:12:40 AM
In Reply To @geofft
@geofft @tqbf @NateMeyvis @patio11 “Does a thing exist?” was never disputed. “Are the average programmers odds of getting this reasonable?” *absolutely* is. The subtext is that if you don’t make $400k/year, you suck. And if you can’t get that, you suck too.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 12:06:33 AM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf @geofft @NateMeyvis @patio11 There is still time for Stack Overflow to fail
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 12:05:15 AM
In Reply To @tqbf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2018, 12:01:52 AM
In Reply To @geofft
@geofft @tqbf @NateMeyvis @patio11 Which has more intrinsic, strategic, and lasting life value? “I founded {startup}” or “I was a well paid cog in a large, generic machine”
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2018, 11:51:49 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf @geofft @NateMeyvis @patio11 Honestly you could not pay me enough to work for most of those companies. Infinite salary isn’t enough reason to work for Facebook in particular. And being a well paid small cog in a giant machine still.. sucks.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2018, 11:46:36 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf @geofft @NateMeyvis @patio11 Even factoring for (limited) partial stock liquidity, I doubt I made $400k per year on average since 2008, and I founded Stack Overflow. Of course if there is a real liquidity event that would change radically.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2018, 11:40:25 PM
In Reply To @geofft
@geofft @NateMeyvis @patio11 The NBA also exists. Good fucking luck getting in. *That’s* my point. Go relive Hoop Dreams if that’s what you are selling, I guess.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2018, 11:31:31 PM
In Reply To @ID_AA_Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack @contentnow @jsv_vc @jswartz @davidkushner @romero I have to say I would watch the hell out of this, the story would make great TV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2018, 8:06:18 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza @TheLarkInn it's sooo much better than the "explosion at the keyword factory" that PHP is though. And that's already the leaded gasoline you are referring to..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2018, 7:19:27 PM
In Reply To @triketora
@triketora this is a super weird visualization
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2018, 6:57:14 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles @Vordio @SurePetcare "life, uh.. finds a way"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2018, 5:10:27 PM
In Reply To @tottinge
@tottinge wikipedia my dawg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2018, 8:39:20 PM
In Reply To @chetfaliszek
@chetfaliszek @mathowie has a story about this, it is 99% the crash of the online ad market https://t.co/bIzrFVXs0M
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2018, 8:19:44 PM
In Reply To @naikrovek
@naikrovek In case you aren’t joking, this was a joke. Nobody should do it, yet it happens daily
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2018, 3:42:56 PM
In Reply To @joshmillard
@joshmillard @thaaan0s I've become more tolerant of it over time, and there are "good" and bad beers for sure. Budweiser 🤮
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2018, 3:38:31 PM
In Reply To @thaaan0s
@thaaan0s @joshmillard I actually don't care for beer. I forced myself to develop a tolerance for it because it's so socially inconvenient not to drink beer. Being drunk is awesome, beer.. not so much.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2018, 3:23:11 PM
In Reply To @susanthesquark
@susanthesquark I see most of the replies as a (more or less correct) attempt to add humor as in "don't take these kinds of lists seriously, because you shouldn't"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2018, 3:21:20 PM
In Reply To @joshmillard
@joshmillard ehhh beer isn't so great
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2018, 3:20:34 PM
In Reply To @susanthesquark
@susanthesquark I just hate lists in general. I think they're sloppy attempts at shortcuts: https://t.co/Mva5IJrmtb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2018, 5:06:32 AM
In Reply To @sh4na
@sh4na The gulag does not sound like a good time
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 10:55:10 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake @gknauss @mathowie @pbausch I got a selfie of knauss to share but it is too terrifying for social media and small children might inadvertently see it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 10:54:19 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard Stay golden, ponyboy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 6:26:36 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 6:22:21 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd @seesharp all I need is some Slim Jims and this Brawndo.. it's got what plants crave
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 6:20:18 PM
In Reply To @scottcale
@scottcale @patio11 I like antagonism
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 6:07:35 PM
In Reply To @bp256r1
@bpp256r1 YES except I think taking more than two (possibly four?) a day might be.. bad? based on my read of the bottle text
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 6:07:01 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd ICUH8N
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 5:01:01 PM
In Reply To @Pinboard
@Pinboard Henry would say to enjoy the toboggan ride!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 4:46:53 PM
In Reply To @twholman
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 4:00:15 PM
In Reply To @DamienDennehy
@Wrexis ITS TOO LATE ERASE ALL MY HARD DRIVES
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 3:59:58 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
LOL they recorded a song in Gaelic https://t.co/GR8Xu9J6Mf -- english version at https://t.co/HEnF89yQ7N
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 2:43:11 PM
In Reply To @andreipopovici
@andreipopovici @patio11 1.2 percent chance, which is kinda my point — https://t.co/XEGFCRAh7F
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2018, 2:23:31 PM
In Reply To @developerWannab
@developerWannab @chriscoyier Stack Overflow is community college level, not intended for absolute beginners
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