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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 14, 2016, 5:18:05 PM
In Reply To @RichFelker
@RichFelker @scaleway what are the specs of each core? These are Broadwell i5 2/4 at significant clock rate. They're quite fast.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 14, 2016, 4:44:35 PM
In Reply To @calbertof
@calbertof @kickstarter this is a real computer, intel celeron. pi is super slow.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 14, 2016, 1:59:28 AM
In Reply To @ojrask
@ojrask Like I was gonna hump my 10 year old ass all the way to the library for that!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 7:28:39 PM
In Reply To @davidlee
@davidlee @Headspace ohhhhh but they have 'em
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 7:26:11 PM
In Reply To @davidlee
@davidlee @Headspace I just like to hear kids opinions directly about this kind of stuff. Adults have their own ideas ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 6:33:38 PM
In Reply To @Headspace
@Headspace @davidlee wait do your kids do this? what do they say about it?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 6:23:48 PM
In Reply To @antumbral
@antumbral @Pinboard @deadprogrammer hugo nominated author lol
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 3:38:07 PM
In Reply To @deanputney
@deanputney @Beschizza nah, it's like Instagram couldn't happen until cell phones with nominally non-shitty cameras existed
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 3:28:06 PM
In Reply To @deanputney
@deanputney @Beschizza I think we are at stage 0 of this game's virality, as well. Just the super early adopters now.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 3:27:13 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza sure, until the many zillion app store / play store clone games start appearing in 3..2..1..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 3:17:05 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza we will see, but I doubt it. The AR is a big part of this game's narrative. The Pokemon are "there"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 3:10:29 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza the Wii turned out to be an unsustainable gimmick in the long run. But it was still huge for a few years.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 3:06:38 PM
In Reply To @nexusCFX
@nexusCFX that's not bad, 20% faster. But not exactly earth shattering. Thanks for checking!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 2:53:55 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza would there hav e been such buzz about a traditional 2d pokemon mobile game? or a VR pokemon game? I don't think so..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 6:54:21 AM
In Reply To @literally_tho
@literally_tho @mathowie @monteiro it just feels like this kind of shit is inevitable if we accept that every human has a default FB account
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 4:09:58 AM
In Reply To @andrewhatfield
@andrewhatfield pretty sure that's the lesson
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 3:23:37 AM
In Reply To @seanparsons
@seanparsons yeah musically it's not super awesome. The videos are incredible though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 3:07:25 AM
In Reply To @jpdanner
@jpdanner it will be our president
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 13, 2016, 2:11:08 AM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie @monteiro that's a gift! I've self-banned from it until I die.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 12, 2016, 8:57:08 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza with sound off, I don't find that mega objectionable
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 12, 2016, 6:46:09 PM
In Reply To @sufferingwave
@nerdblogpl 8 slow cores isn't better than 2 very fast cores. Quite the opposite.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 12, 2016, 6:45:23 PM
In Reply To @GoodBrain
@GoodBrain @nagendra_rao that would be more credible if Firefox on Android didn't perform _even worse_ than Chrome
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 12, 2016, 4:02:25 PM
In Reply To @nexusCFX
@nexusCFX how does it do on https://t.co/CEEtY9vndK with just "render complex list" and Ember 1.11 selected?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 12, 2016, 3:53:28 PM
In Reply To @nexusCFX
@nexusCFX there is a "snapdragon (cpu) browser??"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 12, 2016, 3:37:42 PM
In Reply To @_johlym
@theeJL 10% faster per qualcomm.. eh.. https://t.co/mF9GGVxUrK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 12, 2016, 3:23:09 PM
In Reply To @ID_AA_Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack the best binary update mechanism of all time is Google's Courgette: https://t.co/WjIZSQ7JlC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 11, 2016, 5:22:38 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza SHUT UP AND GIVE ME MORE LIFE HAX
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 11, 2016, 1:25:22 AM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo @nabeel certainly it can't be worse than the horrid clash of clans https://t.co/vuX1ehpXZS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 11, 2016, 12:39:25 AM
In Reply To @tshddx
@baddox @tqbf I don't think people that do it are de facto bad people. But is it a bad strategy for society in general? Yes.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 11, 2016, 12:36:46 AM
In Reply To @joshmillard
@joshmillard Delete your account.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 11:46:59 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf bootcamps are public, in a fashion, wayyy less opaque than say.. Uber. It is a well trodden, well understood path of education.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 11:36:25 PM
In Reply To @tshddx
@baddox @tqbf subtext: the problem with home schooling is isolation, socially and otherwise. Same with programming. Do it in public.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 11:33:40 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf basically I don't trust anyone, including myself.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 11:33:16 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf I just don't trust rando programmers to mentor other programmers in private without literal public oversight. That's Stack Overflow.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 11:28:12 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf let people of similar skill teach each other. There is always someone with more Kung Fu than you.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 11:26:41 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf paying for (higher) education is a well understood convention of society, isn't it?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 11:25:38 PM
In Reply To @tshddx
@baddox @tqbf the world would be a measurably poorer place if all parents "should be willing to" home school their children.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 9:19:17 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf this is also like saying "everyone should home school their children, how hard can it be?"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 9:08:28 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf or we could just build Stack Overflow. That worked for me. YMMV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 9:08:01 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf I would gladly pay $20k to not have my time absorbed by one on one mentoring of new programmers. It'd be a huge cost savings.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 8:48:12 PM
In Reply To @tqbf
@tqbf holy shit newbie starting-from-scratch programmers will absorb all the time of one senior dev at *minimum*
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 8:20:06 PM
In Reply To @Frauenfelder
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 3:33:13 PM
In Reply To @bradwilson
@bradwilson @JasonImison @xunit so long as everything fits in the "issue" bucket and can be "resolved"!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 3:06:28 PM
In Reply To @bradwilson
@bradwilson @JasonImison @xunit provided you never, ever need to remember anything past the last 10,000 chat replies ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 2:53:41 PM
In Reply To @jakejgordon
@jakejgordon sorry about that, try again. Some stuff was updated.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 2:12:47 PM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp sports is really bad in SD, lots of distant camera shots :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 11:58:53 AM
In Reply To @rkoutnik
@rkoutnik both cats died at the end of 2015 :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 10, 2016, 12:56:19 AM
In Reply To @xor
@xor I solve this problem by giving no fucks about Pokemans
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 9, 2016, 3:36:10 PM
In Reply To @nso95
@nso95 I guess I did not realize tattoos were so mainstream
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 8, 2016, 7:10:58 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles Kansas is pretty good
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 8, 2016, 12:55:56 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout it's funny because in this specific case it was you!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 8, 2016, 2:20:18 AM
In Reply To @_SCdF_
@SCdF47 this is avoiding the harder truths and realities.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 8, 2016, 2:19:48 AM
In Reply To @_SCdF_
@SCdF47 people like to humor themselves and think that it isn't.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 8, 2016, 2:19:17 AM
In Reply To @_SCdF_
@SCdF47 it is though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 8, 2016, 2:17:26 AM
In Reply To @_SCdF_
@SCdF47 there is a buttload of casual and barely sublimated racism out there, for starters.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2016, 10:59:08 PM
In Reply To @JasonPunyon
@JasonPunyon the only time I have resented banks for failing to crush a company
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2016, 10:58:14 PM
In Reply To @nscottg
@nscottg you don't even know what it feels like to be alive
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2016, 8:03:56 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout OH EMM GEEE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2016, 11:59:43 AM
In Reply To @toncijukic
@toncijukic stupidity and human mistakes can never be fixed, just made less inherently lethal
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 7, 2016, 2:09:47 AM
In Reply To @stevie_wilks
@stevie_wilks I am saying a lot of human stupidity could be a whole lot less fatal
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 6, 2016, 8:29:12 PM
In Reply To @hoverbird
@hoverbird THIS AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND, MAN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 6, 2016, 3:06:36 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy sorry I am so awesome at English
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 4, 2016, 8:57:07 PM
In Reply To @kevinmontrose
@kevinmontrose too happy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 4, 2016, 1:39:19 PM
In Reply To @davidlee
@davidlee living the dream
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 4, 2016, 1:36:14 PM
In Reply To @kwiens
@kwiens isn't that from Smite?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 4, 2016, 1:30:54 PM
In Reply To @johnolilly
@johnolilly I honestly think he does not understand the difference
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 3, 2016, 11:01:50 AM
In Reply To @patio11
@patio11 funnel: optimized
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 3, 2016, 11:00:35 AM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss in the US that baby would have been tried and executed already
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 3, 2016, 12:08:36 AM
In Reply To @anaisbetts
@paulcbetts @Nick_Craver @Daneel3001 @shanselman LOOK COOL PEOPLE JUST SAY CRYSTAL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 6:12:46 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
@KristyT or "gender is a societal construct" or "gender is something we indoctrinate our children in"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 6:12:06 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
@KristyT gender is fluid, anyone could be male or female at any time, gender differences are not significant
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 5:48:56 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
@KristyT I am of the "gender is not destiny, exactly, but it is the source of the biggest real, measurable differences in human beings" camp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 5:21:08 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
@KristyT they relate better to future-possible-kings than future-never-ever-gonna-be-kings ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 5:18:28 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
@KristyT it's similar. It says gender differences are big enough that fathers relate better to sons than daughters.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 5:05:49 PM
In Reply To @KristyT
@KristyT funny how this traces all the way back to "produce a male heir" :P https://t.co/1P4pofnlrA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 4:33:36 PM
In Reply To @Daneel3001
@Daneel3001 @paulcbetts @shanselman @Nick_Craver probably depends on your BIOS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 3:02:58 PM
In Reply To @AdamMaras
@AdamMaras I came here to complain about this
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 2, 2016, 2:43:06 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman @Nick_Craver the 850 Pro is the pinnacle of SATA based SSD. But if you want gigabytes/sec .. https://t.co/Io0v3vGKn6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 1, 2016, 7:37:02 PM
In Reply To @Gryzor
@Gryzor well that is a bummer. But yeah, it's way overpriced for what it is, no question. Ours haven't had random disconnects though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 1, 2016, 6:48:04 PM
In Reply To @Gryzor
@Gryzor weird we haven't seen cover not connected errors on our two. I agree it's not worth much extra $ though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 1, 2016, 2:44:29 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life slightly increased prices isn't listed?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 1, 2016, 6:47:39 AM
In Reply To @TedDennison
@TedDennison dude that is in Unicode 9 look it up https://t.co/Hib2LAHYhb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 9:04:04 PM
In Reply To @liamstack
@liamstack @johnolilly I got the impression they wanted someone more diverse, e.g. not Yet Another White Person
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 8:55:18 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain woop woop
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 8:54:57 PM
In Reply To @Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver @kevinmontrose also, tech debt can be handled when you are a richer company in the future with more employees, too.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 6:28:17 PM
In Reply To @SampsonMSFT
@SampsonMSFT OK DM away!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 6:07:28 PM
In Reply To @SampsonMSFT
@SampsonMSFT We'd only be distributing PNG versions at "typical" resolutions, no vectors.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 6:03:17 PM
In Reply To @SampsonMSFT
@SampsonMSFT please, I want to fold these in, they're great: https://t.co/ObcLna3n7f
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 5:12:22 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie I noticed this long ago on https://t.co/BQo9ZuibzA, cyclists vs motorists *always* a trigger topic. Very controversial.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 3:48:54 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer yeah all about sour milk from what I understand. American chocolate sucks, because Hershey's.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 3:14:34 PM
In Reply To @cikkuuu
@wwaibochi omg @deadprogrammer is this a thing?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 30, 2016, 12:37:25 AM
In Reply To @xor
@xor I remember Prodigy doing the floppy disk thing, a little bit there towards the end?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 29, 2016, 6:48:27 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway nice adding it to comments here https://t.co/7uImjOzA17
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 29, 2016, 6:20:53 PM
In Reply To @ID_AA_Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack what's the measured latency of a bluetooth controller?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 29, 2016, 6:04:16 PM
In Reply To @InterviewCake
@InterviewCake I do love me some @patio11 so let me try them!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 29, 2016, 5:12:22 PM
In Reply To @ILOVETHEHAWK
@ILOVETHEHAWK seems reasonable
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 29, 2016, 5:07:35 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain O M G
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