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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2022, 11:15:53 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
@KristyT @Carnage4Life I'm glad you did! I made 150k/year as CEO of Stack Overflow way back in 2010-2011! Times have changed.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2022, 10:41:19 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life They're making bad hires, but they don't know that yet. The only good interview is a paid audition project.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2022, 10:39:35 PM
In Reply To @paulg
@paulg @jdcmedlock where you live: % of households with 2 parents, % of residents who are college grads, and % of residents who return census forms. That's it. That's all. Everything else is nature. https://t.co/ZrG7XxrbtH
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2022, 10:17:17 PM
In Reply To @TheSunUS
@TheSunUS Donald Trump
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2022, 10:14:07 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
protip: this also applies to companies you start
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2022, 10:35:25 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Turns out there is a big gender disparity here so my poll won’t be that useful https://t.co/bAt1J2tNjO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2022, 10:31:34 AM
In Reply To @MattWilcox
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2022, 6:30:09 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I used to look at the box art on those old cartridges and dream about the day we’d have video games that looked anywhere remotely that good https://t.co/B2cY1HUWnp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2022, 6:21:56 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I'm not really a fan of curved monitors for general use, but for gaming, and especially driving games, they are {chef's kiss}
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2022, 6:20:37 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I've always liked the GRID series; GRID Legends is excellent, and on sale https://t.co/iDT8b2gX8r
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2022, 1:29:24 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@Strongdoctah @epvh @discourse IMO the threshold for decent (native app-like) performance is ~50. Good performance (equivalent to native app) starts at ~100.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2022, 1:28:33 PM
In Reply To @Strongdoctah
@Strongdoctah @epvh They do for us at @discourse since we're an Ember app (one of the frameworks that is part of the Speedometer test). Really low speedometer scores are synonymous with "bad javascript app user experience" aka older Android phones :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2022, 12:56:24 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 @eviltrout I'll believe it when we get a game that has anywhere near believable AI bot opponents. Haven't played a *single* one yet, which to me, is a tell.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2022, 12:53:07 PM
In Reply To @alt_tag
@alt_tag @nearcyan oh yes I know several people who worked for that particular con empire and they have really scary stories to share.. taking advantage of desperate, lonely folks :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2022, 7:56:54 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I donated the amount of (1) Daniel Defense DDM4 M4 style rifle. It's all I can do. https://t.co/NXeoS3xh4K https://t.co/SnjgChk3ws
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2022, 6:58:19 PM
In Reply To @ballmatthew
@ballmatthew @TimSweeneyEpic Good thing we have the open web and not just apps and app stores then, I'd say. Bet on the web. 🎲
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2022, 6:50:00 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie The uncomfortable truth is something I am now painfully learning from the rise of Discord webchat as mainstream: forgetting is, in fact, a *feature*.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2022, 6:41:43 PM
In Reply To @xor
@xor Try it with Ruby! (same problem, really)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2022, 8:05:23 PM
In Reply To @N8Dunn
@N8Dunn Which keys would you make blue? Hard to decide..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2022, 8:04:17 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
It's from here: https://t.co/fHrVhHBkQu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 23, 2022, 5:37:04 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa yeah I hope they go in a very different direction after Destiny. This just didn't do it at all for me. So many aspects of gameplay are just .. frustrating, confusing and/or fundamentally not enjoyable in Destiny. Could be RPG/FPS is impossible to do "right".
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 23, 2022, 2:46:45 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa My friend and I gave up. Four hours in and we were just not having any fun. I did finish the original campaign years ago and it was ok.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 23, 2022, 2:44:21 PM
In Reply To @genegoykhman
@genegoykhman Was playing with a friend, had to give up. Just wasn’t having any fun at all..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2022, 4:30:11 AM
In Reply To @anderseknert
@anderseknert @Carnage4Life I did just watch "WeCrashed" so I might be a bit biased at the moment ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 9:27:32 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life Mostly true, but a not insignificant percent of people have serious difficulty with life/work balance without *some* other place to go to every day, and coworking is.. eh. At least in my experience this is true.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 9:18:46 PM
In Reply To @djentboy
@djentboy yes, I agree! I don't want Bungie to fail here, they created amazing games in the past but Destiny is one giant head shake from me. I truly do NOT get it. At all.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 9:11:08 PM
In Reply To @ardalis
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 9:07:46 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
And for all that, at least Destiny 2 is (barely) in the top 10 Steam games for multiplayer! https://t.co/uidoagJuEZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 9:01:55 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
and just so that I'm not singling Destiny out, Battlefield 2042 (except the Portal mix&match mode, which basically lets you recreate Bad Company 2) has the whole "let's make this *super* complex" self inflicted wound as well: https://t.co/eNeu13gpww
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 8:50:36 PM
In Reply To @number5
@number5 I do that and I have no idea where I am going or what is happening. Endless waves of the same respawning enemies?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 8:20:11 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa It could be that the FPS/RPG hybrid is inherently too complex, but I'll also say that I personally really dislike the aesthetic of Destiny.. like.. a lot. A *lot* a lot. "Space Marines" definitely gets old by Halo 6 for sure, but at least it's simple and understandable.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 8:16:19 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I have no idea what I am doing in Destiny 2, what any of it means, how any of it works.. it's a big ball of confusion.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2022, 8:09:44 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Trying once more for Witch Queen but whatever Bungie does next.. please.. different direction
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 19, 2022, 11:01:36 AM
In Reply To @donpark
@donpark It’s an intentional reporting error to obfuscate actual sizes. Very bizarre design choice by Chrome. Google it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 19, 2022, 10:49:24 AM
In Reply To @lexfridman
@lexfridman That’s why Trump is on the WWF website and has been for years. Unfortunate.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 17, 2022, 2:33:18 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
A few more today.. in 10+ years of using GMail I've never seen such a simple pattern be so effective at evading their spam filters! Title "Invoice", body is just an image. I'm surprised they don't OCR all the images and send that OCR text to the classifier..? https://t.co/nSnI40Y8zp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 16, 2022, 5:30:00 PM
In Reply To @lizardbill
@lizardbill Sheesh Star Trek was remarkably egalitarian for its time! https://t.co/rWULa7OHdy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 16, 2022, 3:19:38 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
“…the chance of dying after a Covid infection is 6,000 micromorts—“a little more risky than one year of active service in Afghanistan in 2011.”
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 12, 2022, 1:56:03 PM
In Reply To @DrHeadgear
@DrHeadgear well, I'm having a full solar system installed on the house (with batteries!), so I think this small use will balance out
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 11, 2022, 11:41:04 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Oh, and also, this towel warmer. In about 10 minutes, it's as if you grabbed a towel right out of the dryer 🤤 https://t.co/E6AuT1tewy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2022, 11:44:06 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
You can hack a GPU's BIOS to deliver 890 watts of power: https://t.co/o7h0k5mZEM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2022, 11:39:43 PM
In Reply To @mattdarveniza
@mattdarveniza well, you could argue that furmark and prime95 AVX/AVX2 are "power viruses", in that they are so unusual as use cases.. nobody is doing 24/7 prime calculation or furmarking for any practical reason?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2022, 8:09:12 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Oh and that's for the Nvidia RTX 3090, not the newer 3090 Ti which presumably pulls even more power 😱
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 8, 2022, 4:21:55 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
“Until Mad #4, the magazine had not been one of EC's top-selling titles, but "Superduperman" revolutionized their format and led to sales success.” https://t.co/FEHGyFokVr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 5, 2022, 3:32:11 PM
In Reply To @ofcAnthony
@ofcAnthony I hadn’t seen this until now.. that’s nuts!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 5, 2022, 3:30:26 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
More potentially good news! https://t.co/GBLfxQhLWr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2022, 4:20:23 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
It's back, with MOAR RGB! https://t.co/tEcM5hnOsf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2022, 8:12:12 PM
In Reply To @chetfaliszek
@chetfaliszek the problem is that we have no way to help other than sending money and voting. Once you've voted, what else is there to do? (and you have a full time job + family, so you can't just "volunteer".) Serious question.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2022, 7:40:42 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer bruises from police beatings?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2022, 3:06:10 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Congrats @aephemera ! You have been chosen by RNGesus. Thanks to everyone who donated, we raised ~$1,200 to support Ukraine! 🙌 https://t.co/aCGlJzG0M8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2022, 11:30:32 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
OK! Closing this up today, entries are officially closed. Thank you to everyone who contributed, will randomly pick winner today.. and please remember winner must be in USA for shipping reasons as stated in first tweet!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2022, 2:25:48 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I'll also pitch in (this obviously does not count as an entry, can you imagine? "Hey everyone! Looks like I won my own contest! Lucky me!") https://t.co/IOf3dSEwwX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2022, 2:22:15 PM
In Reply To @SkaveRat
@SkaveRat yes, for sure, but only shipping to USA as indicated, international shipping is a bit too difficult
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2022, 2:21:43 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
specs are Ryzen 7 4800U, Vega 6 GPU, 1TB NVMe SSD, 16GB RAM, registered Windows 11 preinstalled. Review here https://t.co/M9zfabrsB8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 29, 2022, 4:44:30 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Here's my lawn soil analysis result for what it's worth https://t.co/fEYWa4rISf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 27, 2022, 1:28:16 PM
In Reply To @a_glassman
@a_glassman @Mark0x1 One nice little tweak is to include an "only YOU should enter this code" warning to the SMS code, like so: https://t.co/YahcnkGWy0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 27, 2022, 12:40:55 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
even more examples of the "Invoice" image only email today. This formula, as simple as it is, clearly works..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 26, 2022, 8:07:46 PM
In Reply To @burtonachitect
@burtonachitect @ehuston101 @discourse yes! That's what it is designed for, it is open source software like wordpress, except with a community / teamwork focus. https://t.co/7y4dRfCbwS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 25, 2022, 3:47:03 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Another one today. Simple formula. That single word "Invoice" must have a lot of 'ham' weight..? https://t.co/2dzVVSb8Rk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2022, 2:04:25 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
And the Daniels made this interesting music video with Gary Newman and Battles https://t.co/wbw0XMeHyJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2022, 2:07:40 PM
In Reply To @nhwilly
@nhwilly I literally could not believe what I was reading. They should be advertising the show Dopesick (exec produced by Michael Keaton, and very well I might add) https://t.co/DpHb5AZ30t
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2022, 2:05:58 PM
In Reply To @dcdace
@dcdace @Grady_Booch @martinfowler @spolsky My answer is the same as it has always been.. read peopleware! Several times! https://t.co/ASdTMd8Yqw
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2022, 2:05:09 PM
In Reply To @ashic
@ashic @JakubKonecki I wrote about it but I didn't coin the phrase! https://t.co/m1ZpnpSutd I did meet @brada once, he might know more about the origin?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2022, 2:01:38 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 oh man I hope nothing was seriously damaged
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2022, 7:27:26 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I'm fully on board for their next film: https://t.co/9wRsFQWJsk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2022, 6:45:42 PM
In Reply To @ofcAnthony
@ofcAnthony yeah odd that they picked a different spelling, I guess they wanted to avoid any legal shenanigans?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2022, 6:44:21 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Mask removed from avatar. April 4th 2020 - April 21st 2022. I still think masking is prudent when you are indoors in crowded places, and I'm glad masking is more normalized, because viruses aren't going away..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2022, 6:28:05 PM
In Reply To @ayn
@ayn @wilshipley @amazon Weird. If you figure it out post why!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2022, 5:55:26 PM
In Reply To @JacobEthanWhite
@JacobEthanWhite I worried about that lol and thought the same thing
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2022, 3:50:24 PM
In Reply To @nhwilly
@nhwilly yeah sell opioids directly over the counter, no prescription required, what could possibly go wrong?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2022, 12:15:30 AM
In Reply To @codinghorror
This is a terrifying movie; if the main VC actually said Uber’s TK was the alien in this movie, as he does in the show, that’s.. real bad. https://t.co/w8IEtLyQxP
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2022, 4:16:29 PM
In Reply To @troldann
@troldann @VinylAlchemist @judoscott lack of sales revenue is the most likely reason
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2022, 4:13:43 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
here's the max data, perhaps I should increase the interval from every 10 minutes https://t.co/IlltnENKqY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2022, 4:56:35 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
here's a non-camera, all-digital HDMI sniffing version. I always worry about these little HDMI passthrough boxes because piracy / ripping would work in the same exact way. https://t.co/q5xjxlSFdO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2022, 4:45:07 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life I have been thinking a lot about this lately. When we started Stack Overflow, in the very earliest calls, I remember @spolsky asking me what I would do if we had a big outcome. I said, "I would like to own my home." And for the renters, no equity at all..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2022, 4:07:36 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa you should launch a website like wordle and take this movie-frame-guessing game phenomenon global!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2022, 4:05:17 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life Another example of Poe's Law? https://t.co/Rqcjeh2vcK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2022, 3:51:51 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley I remember imagining how amazing the world could be if everyone had single-speed CD-ROM (that's 150 kilobytes/sec) connections to the internet.. 💿
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2022, 9:26:12 PM
In Reply To @NeelChaks
@NeelChaks the soil testing is for the traditional lawn treatments
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2022, 9:10:35 PM
In Reply To @donw
@donw I wanna say around $150/year? They have 3 tiers in the classic configuration.. I did the lowest plan
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2022, 8:46:25 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
We installed artificial turf in rear (and xeriscaping in front) at our prior home, but I was surprised to read that wirecutter doesn't recommend artificial turf *at all* https://t.co/3nRn3r4Vi2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2022, 5:50:39 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
If interested, here’s a discount referral link through their website https://t.co/9UQeQSSLh7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2022, 4:14:54 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
This ad is more typical, sadly. Free money! https://t.co/C9gnioEdWL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2022, 7:22:43 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
I didn't realize Jody Watley was in Shalamar: https://t.co/X4AtZcjbcZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2022, 6:51:51 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
and of course it's worth a read https://t.co/PD1A0WoiZk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2022, 5:21:01 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain It’s times like these where I prefer to fall back on religion. Nope, God did this to us.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2022, 2:00:03 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
To our friends in Ukraine: we are still with you! https://t.co/yRTNxGTATt
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2022, 2:27:16 PM
In Reply To @billjohnston
@billjohnston The nicer chromebooks are great. I wish I could get an Apple M1 based chromebook! Avoid the super inexpensive ones.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2022, 1:08:16 PM
In Reply To @cwodtke
@cwodtke I thought you were referencing the show Severance! But yeah what he is doing is trolling
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2022, 1:04:01 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie Also works for stores / shops!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2022, 12:27:07 PM
In Reply To @billjohnston
@billjohnston I love nice chromebooks for what it’s worth. But I am all in on browser-as-OS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 11:10:41 PM
In Reply To @super_concepts
@stuartdotnet @pekkagaiser It was kind of a sequel wasn’t it?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 5:32:38 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
ohh look at meeee look I can flyyy https://t.co/HlL7bk6rs0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 3:15:58 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
This is the one I am using and so far it is working well: https://t.co/5ZtU8X3VMX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 1:20:37 PM
In Reply To @cabbey
@cabbey @AaronHugginsDev Makes sense; wework did fill a niche and made coworking kinda “cool” instead of corporate
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2022, 1:16:07 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
Here is a 1994 update from Gilder on the last chapter, a page of which was pictured above https://t.co/j0aa8uzqaI
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2022, 4:08:09 PM
In Reply To @AaronHugginsDev
@AaronHugginsDev Pretty much. They put hip coworking on the map but were never remotely a tech company.
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