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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2018, 5:22:05 PM
In Reply To @JasonPunyon
@JasonPunyon @chrisrock do you even have any hair Jason
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2018, 4:34:24 PM
In Reply To @chocolim
@chocolim @Everytown sadly, easy to obtain in the USA.. even for a high school kid with mental problems :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 15, 2018, 4:25:35 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
thus I've donated the cost of one assault rifle, $600, to @everytown
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 5:52:44 PM
In Reply To @marcgravell
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 5:36:01 PM
In Reply To @Gwunhar
@Gwunhar this is my collection https://t.co/fJh0IwU3EN has grown a tiny bit since then
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 5:13:06 PM
In Reply To @patio11
@patio11 heyyy we took your advice and raised prices!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 4:53:15 PM
In Reply To @jterhorst
@jterhorst so many ways.. sooo many ways..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 4:04:09 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@textfiles so, imagine that you made these kinds of not-great decisions over and over. That's pretty much the way it is with this particular person. That's on them.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 4:02:56 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles My wife, of all people, mentioned she had gotten in an accidental Twitter argument with Quinn that got so weird she had to mute the convo. So this is a person who is making consistently kinda.. bad.. life decisions. Just FYI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 3:55:28 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Thanks so much for following up @stripe we're all good now!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 2:23:13 PM
In Reply To @thefarseeker
@thefarseeker @imgur @angematic84 @samsaffron I think @eviltrout fixed a bug with that recently
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 3:51:29 AM
In Reply To @patio11
@patio11 always bet on Africa, my friend.. the demographics demand it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 2:17:47 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Maybe not 1932, but most certainly Feb 3 2012 https://t.co/aFztzRRm49
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 1:42:26 AM
In Reply To @AmeliasBrain
@AmeliasBrain @jongalloway this is a beautiful dream
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 1:39:34 AM
In Reply To @adescafeum
@joaoaveiga @mechtroid there is a fair bit of this, plus just plain fake generated card numbers. no way to tell unless you pre-auth
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 1:02:35 AM
In Reply To @stripe
@stripe try to sign up with any credit card using Firefox / Windows at https://t.co/lHKvIkBsQa -- go on, I dare you! I *triple* dog dare you! Also, you have an issue on file I reported 18 days ago..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 12:53:39 AM
In Reply To @tshddx
@baddox we made it a practice after the abuse we got. Way less noise in signups now.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 12:48:56 AM
In Reply To @kwiens
@kwiens @stripe the one response we got was "all us support people are on chromebooks"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 12:47:15 AM
In Reply To @kwiens
@kwiens @stripe Stripe has been generally great, but their 2 week silence on this is infuriating. We gave them perfect repro, and they don't seem to give a shit
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 12:45:48 AM
In Reply To @kwiens
@kwiens @stripe I usually binge-drink one high alcohol content beer plus a sleeping pill to get to sleep these days, every night
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 12:41:19 AM
In Reply To @kwiens
@kwiens @stripe in our testing it is very specific to Firefox / Windows
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 12:07:27 AM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie The cracking can be done by anyone in WiFi range though at extremely high speed. Numbers alone is really weak https://t.co/dlNzFE1BfO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 14, 2018, 12:04:42 AM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie That is an easily bruteforce-able password — at least include punctuation or something
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 7:24:46 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@Popehat @tqbf destroy it all
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 7:24:23 PM
In Reply To @Popehat
@Popehat @tqbf I have a hard time telling if people actually think this, though. I mean, are dog whistles enough? Most people aren't stupid enough to come out and say they are racists, are they? I just don't want to be friends with anyone any more.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 5:13:26 PM
In Reply To @notwaldorf
@notwaldorf sorry it's an occupational hazard
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 4:59:41 PM
In Reply To @notwaldorf
@notwaldorf WELL ACTUALLY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2018, 1:09:55 AM
In Reply To @KryptosFR
@KryptosFR just tested in Edge latest, does not work
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 9:45:14 PM
In Reply To @chetfaliszek
@chetfaliszek Try Fortnite battle royals
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 9:40:28 PM
In Reply To @chetfaliszek
@chetfaliszek Apparently only a Doritos thing
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 8:23:21 PM
In Reply To @s_scarduzio
@s_scarduzio It’s a-me, Mario!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2018, 5:34:32 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie the TL;DR is smartphones + facebooks changed everything. Now everyone is online 24/7. Not true in 2008.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2018, 9:59:23 PM
In Reply To @rands
@rands Its pretty darn great except for the two episode flashback sequence in the middle
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2018, 9:46:44 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer Don’t listen to these lies
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2018, 5:45:43 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles have you considered some impromptu line dancing
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2018, 5:20:05 PM
In Reply To @rossrubin
@rossrubin not entirely true, they have refined a number of edges over the years
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2018, 7:22:16 PM
In Reply To @EnglishLFC
@EnglishLFC @kpyke number 11 is the most difficult one for me
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 11:28:09 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy BEHOLD THEIR GLORIOUS SPLENDOR https://t.co/BUsysdHYxs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 9:13:36 PM
In Reply To @BillB
@BillB Nine... nine... nine...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 5:15:02 PM
In Reply To @j_metzmeier
@j_metzmeier @krosaen look closer though -- "Hansson first released Rails as open source in July 2004, but did not share commit rights to the project until February 2005."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 3:31:58 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf It's the peanut butter sandwich advice. So generic that it works for anything, including peanut butter sandwiches.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 2:34:51 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life We do this on mobile because there is significant variance that doesn’t exist in desktop
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 6:11:27 AM
In Reply To @alvaro_montoro
@alvaro_montoro @JasonPunyon on the other hand screamo was actually pretty darn bad
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2018, 12:37:31 AM
In Reply To @notwaldorf
@notwaldorf Could be worse. Could be nickelback.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 9:21:01 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout that's gotta be an expensive domain name
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 9:20:10 PM
In Reply To @ChikkaChiChi
@ChikkaChiChi wasn't really a framework though
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 8:45:29 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@jhchen @sevenseacat hmm the plot thickens, per wikipedia "Hansson first released Rails as open source in July 2004, but did not share commit rights to the project until February 2005."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 8:41:09 PM
In Reply To @jhchen
@jhchen aha oh wow you are right, rails was December 2005, I should have paid closer attention to dates @sevenseacat
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 8:35:55 PM
In Reply To @sevenseacat
@sevenseacat per wikipedia dates those were all reactions to Rails do not predate it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 8:34:58 PM
In Reply To @CodingItWrong
@CodingItWrong looks like May 2000 here https://t.co/ARvkM9egcQ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 8:31:59 PM
In Reply To @aranhajerusalem
@aranhajerusalem We checked and it looks like 1 year later
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2018, 8:31:57 PM
In Reply To @krosaen
@krosaen We checked and it looks like 1 year later
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2018, 10:46:11 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles @ID_AA_Carmack @romero @ThatTomHall Have you seen The Bronze? Highly recommended in same vein
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 2, 2018, 11:50:39 PM
In Reply To @nodesman
@nodesman @postgresql Was not reported by me, someone on our team
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 2, 2018, 11:42:34 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd It is missing rule 8!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 2, 2018, 12:06:35 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway this is #dadops cc @Supermathie
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2018, 7:00:59 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life Solution: have an on-demand click that will check to see if the tweet was edited. So you always show the latest form, but a new HTTP request asking if it was edited, will run a different query to tell you (and show older versions?)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2018, 1:00:10 AM
In Reply To @wingedpig
@wingedpig I'm legit impressed
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 8:53:52 PM
In Reply To @AlSweigart
@AlSweigart The comments do; feel free to add to the comments as needed
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 6:26:55 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@pamelafox I would also add that all good programmers should know at least two different languages very well
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 6:26:10 PM
In Reply To @pamelafox
@pamelafox JavaScript, without question, for the next 30 years
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 5:40:55 PM
In Reply To @sarahjeong
@sarahjeong LOL Twitter thinks that is "haitian creole" 🤣 https://t.co/T4xRYrNcVW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 2:35:10 PM
In Reply To @TheOmnigamer
@TheOmnigamer @DanDanikov yeah for me the pattern of just blatantly false scores he entered was quite damning.. look at the centipede score.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 2:33:24 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 ugh I had to stop after season 2 episode 1, I kept with season 1 because parts of it were good and quite funny but it's too much
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 3:28:02 AM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles it beats the alternative
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2018, 2:47:03 AM
In Reply To @DanDanikov
@DanDanikov @TheOmnigamer see data provided at https://t.co/HuBCqE9vvu it is compelling
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2018, 11:40:30 PM
In Reply To @TheOmnigamer
@TheOmnigamer When your whole identity is tied up in something, you will go to incredible lengths to protect it, otherwise, you cease to exist
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2018, 4:14:20 PM
In Reply To @samsaffron
@samsaffron @jongalloway @robconery @markrendle @discourse this is why I only buy audiobooks with Gilbert Gottfried as the narrator
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2018, 3:56:13 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd that is my job 🤗
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 29, 2018, 3:41:31 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza with tons of light (outdoors) it'd probably be fine, but low light is crazy talk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 28, 2018, 11:42:43 PM
In Reply To @LeaVerou
@LeaVerou I call this "programming"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 28, 2018, 4:00:54 AM
In Reply To @LeaVerou
@LeaVerou I'm OK with dying even without any clones.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 27, 2018, 9:05:02 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life @nytimes More bots on FB than Twitter?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 27, 2018, 9:03:49 PM
In Reply To @jhalbrecht
@jhalbrecht You are right — that stat is interesting
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 27, 2018, 8:57:41 PM
In Reply To @openbuddha
@loremgibson @donpark Yeah as you get older you want more generic works everywhere and less tweaky customization
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 27, 2018, 8:53:54 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life @nytimes Yeah but this would be exposed by daily active users if you measure some action users perform in a day (more than logging in)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 26, 2018, 7:27:25 PM
In Reply To @RobinDotNet
@RobinDotNet yes that is a problem when watching romance "videos"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 26, 2018, 7:07:58 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf this is so wrong, yet so fundamentally right
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 26, 2018, 4:48:19 PM
In Reply To @dweinberger
@dweinberger turns out there is statistical proof of this -- politics is one of the most dynastic fields, of any profession. I tweeted a link to some data a while ago but I can't dig it up.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 26, 2018, 4:29:31 AM
In Reply To @razzmuzzen
@razzmuzzen @toomuchnick No, I saw it somewhere else as well, I didn't "coin" it. 🤣
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 25, 2018, 7:54:01 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles One podcast patreon get on it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 25, 2018, 4:44:25 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer needs blog entry
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 25, 2018, 4:39:52 PM
In Reply To @maijasauna
@maijasauna the kids these days are all about the instagram
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 25, 2018, 2:18:59 AM
In Reply To @GoldenredDragon
@GoldenredDragon I'd like to thank my mom, and also your calendaring app
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 9:32:49 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie Given how squicked out people are by the CGI people in the latest Star Wars movies that cost millions, not really convinced this real-time pasting is gonna be that effective?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 9:17:36 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie That Princess Leia CGI comparison was quite damning
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 9:16:51 PM
In Reply To @mathdancing
@mathdancing @jengallardo @patio11 Sago mini also excellent and recommendable!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 6:52:04 PM
In Reply To @bangoker
@bangoker @sul4bh become rich
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 6:39:18 PM
In Reply To @sul4bh
@sul4bh OLED or death
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 6:16:23 PM
In Reply To @cambel
@cambel @patio11 oh yeah the glass screen protectors are cheap and essential, I should have mentioned that.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 6:02:35 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Per online calculators, by 2032 college will "only" cost between $190,000 and $390,000 depending where you go
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 5:42:06 PM
In Reply To @s_m_i
@s_m_i A day with nothing on my calendar -- that's my stretch goal
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 5:37:30 PM
In Reply To @timbray
@timbray I was disappointed in that post. We compete with Uber real hard .. that's your rallying cry?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 24, 2018, 5:36:47 PM
In Reply To @patio11
@patio11 I want to reiterate that the iPad with large bumper case is a near optimal kid computer experience. So many great play and learn apps. Start by purchasing the entire Toca Boca app catalog.. trust me on this!
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