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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 13, 2016, 2:24:41 AM
In Reply To @korchev
@korchev :( lots of restriction on bits going over the border
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2016, 10:41:21 PM
In Reply To @ericlaw
@ericlaw <waves hand> no it's not.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2016, 5:40:19 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles lean, mean archiving machine
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 12, 2016, 1:32:10 PM
In Reply To @johnolilly
@johnolilly I'll go further than that: this myth of the mighty programmer, and programming as the "ultimate" skill, is actively harmful
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2016, 6:24:17 PM
In Reply To @Stuartq
@Stuartq see what I just retweeted
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2016, 6:24:07 PM
In Reply To @lloeki
@lloeki @golang well, lots of low hanging fruit in ruby community e.g. https://t.co/xENOZlQEx3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2016, 6:22:46 PM
In Reply To @Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver @fody the K series can still overclock, just not the "non blessed" non-K models. Non-issue
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2016, 6:22:11 PM
In Reply To @andererandre
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2016, 6:15:19 PM
In Reply To @JasonPunyon
@JasonPunyon naw man I knew that shit already
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2016, 3:06:38 AM
In Reply To @ishurmer
@ishurmer depends on the task, but nobody will be serviced any faster, just more people will be serviced in aggregate
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 11, 2016, 3:04:25 AM
In Reply To @ShawnWildermuth
@ShawnWildermuth sort of. Skylake had unusually good per-thread perf bump. Lots n' lots of cores on a die is always a clock-losing game.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2016, 11:27:37 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake cues up "love in an elevator"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2016, 9:50:27 PM
In Reply To @isaiah
@isaiah @wilshipley I blame the bullshit Oracle and Java back ends. Curse you Larry Ellison and your Jobs friendship.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2016, 5:33:51 PM
In Reply To @dantobias
@dantobias I am struggling to understand the limits of @textfiles power. A retroactive robots.txt that wipes out a decade+.. is so, so evil.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2016, 2:54:56 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles this policy needs to be changed.. on your end. Forcefully. Usually you don't have a problem with that, so why this time?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2016, 2:49:58 PM
In Reply To @doryowen
@doryowen @Ogre if you have kids, you will recognize the energy immediately. They are full-tilt all the time. It's exhausting!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 10, 2016, 2:13:50 AM
In Reply To @chx
@chx "very easy for beginners"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2016, 11:22:10 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles hhahahhahaha if programming ides are any indication, enjoy the next 30 years of vim and emacs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2016, 9:59:55 PM
In Reply To @randroid58
@randroid58 millions
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2016, 9:00:43 PM
In Reply To @rands
@rands building things is also a good idea
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2016, 8:45:03 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout nah he has a Wikipedia entry and has been reviewing games since early 90s
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2016, 7:13:41 PM
In Reply To @sh4na
@sh4na wow you read the terms of service
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2016, 5:48:40 PM
In Reply To @rands
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 9, 2016, 5:42:20 PM
In Reply To @rands
@rands personally, I wish we could move the narrative beyond what a logo looks like
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2016, 10:14:07 PM
In Reply To @jennschiffer
@jennschiffer you're the best
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2016, 10:10:23 PM
In Reply To @jennschiffer
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2016, 6:12:46 PM
In Reply To @shog9
@shog9 that's a dumb request to add friction so they don't get downvoted as much. We already have the UI pop-up reminder on downvote..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 8, 2016, 5:45:00 PM
In Reply To @shog9
@shog9 maybe there should be a badge for especially long posts, maybe with a few required self-edits that get lots of upvotes
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 7, 2016, 7:27:31 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza oh yeah what because Cricket is so damn amazing
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2016, 4:12:24 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie AGAIN! AGAIN!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 6, 2016, 4:12:19 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie wheeeeeeee
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 9:07:28 PM
In Reply To @jzy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 5:01:38 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer well you know a lot of people made a ton of money in the app store, too, when it launched? Not so much any more
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 4:56:38 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer zero code = zero bugs. WINNING
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 11:31:29 AM
In Reply To @howtogeek
@howtogeek this should be a blank web page
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 11:22:39 AM
In Reply To @cdpeters
@cdpeters you can search https://t.co/xtRYvz7geU -- first thing to try is new / different browser with no plugins
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 10:28:04 AM
In Reply To @syang
@syang you can't see the feet
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 6:28:11 AM
In Reply To @imalkovitch
@imalkovitch only because you can't see the feet
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 2:06:25 AM
In Reply To @dysinger
@dysinger @andytriboletti wow I swear to god I've never seen that before. I got it from here: https://t.co/GpqQYyC77w
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 5, 2016, 1:56:28 AM
In Reply To @whoisvaibhav
@whoisvaibhav only because you can't see the feet
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 4:52:21 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa in this case, everyone else is more sane. It's programming that warps the mind. If you work every day with a total asshole...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 3:01:28 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa in other words, I watched it and said "yep, that's usually what happens."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 2:58:30 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa surprisingly it never bothered me. The world and programming mindset were never a good fit.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 2:51:19 PM
In Reply To @katienotopoulos
@katienotopoulos @ftrain yes Mark Pilgrim referred to this thing years ago as the nadir of what's popular on Digg, turns out he was right
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 2:41:46 PM
In Reply To @libovness
@libovness yes, but I had to look at the webpage and see what the app did before making the connection
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 4:59:18 AM
In Reply To @Z_guy
@Z_guy now you're talking a language I understand
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 3:53:55 AM
In Reply To @balpha
@balpha @jzy taught me this he's the best https://t.co/U4TlSZD9iK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 3:32:30 AM
In Reply To @giammin
@giammin time for a vacation in California my friend! ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 4, 2016, 1:57:03 AM
In Reply To @agelastic
@agelastic no idea what that is but it looks cool!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 10:10:36 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza regex I am good on, at least.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 8:56:36 PM
In Reply To @johnolilly
@johnolilly pretty much all UNIX all the time, man
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 8:55:00 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout draw me like one of your French girls
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 6:47:02 PM
In Reply To @Supermathie
@Supermathie WRONG ANSWER
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 6:18:22 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente @gortok I did recommend that he do it, but I can't make him do it. Maybe you guys can?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 6:17:54 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente @gortok maybe, not sure if Weyman started the project. It's his company, he'd have to underwrite it all with $$
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 6:16:23 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente @gortok basically hardware takes 5+ yrs to do anything. Particularly from scratch "make a new ergo design" vs "keyboard shape"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 5:56:24 PM
In Reply To @nickg_uk
@nickg_uk those keys are present, look at the "multimedia" section on this page https://t.co/9srVUQSd10
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 5:54:16 PM
In Reply To @StevenIrby
@StevenIrby sure use white in that case. it's also loud on calls too.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 5:25:03 PM
In Reply To @WebReflection
@WebReflection I told them I wanted Ubuntu and that's what I got
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 5:18:59 PM
In Reply To @WebReflection
@WebReflection what the hell are you talking about? These came with Ubuntu on them
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 3, 2016, 4:42:22 PM
In Reply To @WebReflection
@WebReflection I am using Ubuntu on these so licensing is not relevant ;)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 2, 2016, 3:14:14 PM
In Reply To @daverabbich
@daverabbich such a great story though, hats off to the Guardian on this one
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 2, 2016, 3:53:24 AM
In Reply To @splattne
@splattne yeah well your face is stupid
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 2, 2016, 12:36:51 AM
In Reply To @jiveprdigital
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2016, 8:30:40 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain it was pretty good
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2016, 6:11:07 PM
In Reply To @sebbean
@sebbean sorry, snapchat
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2016, 5:05:59 PM
In Reply To @joshmillard
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2016, 4:33:11 PM
In Reply To @tmslft
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2016, 1:32:30 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@eviltrout keep waiting pal
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2016, 1:11:44 PM
In Reply To @soviut
@soviut that's not awesome
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Feb 1, 2016, 1:01:02 AM
In Reply To @grggls
@grggls I had a nexus 5 for a long time. See https://t.co/ZWZdqlTqXY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2016, 4:52:50 PM
In Reply To @cotepatrice
@cotepatrice yeah it's totally fine on Android. It is some shambling frankenstein monster on iOS though
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2016, 4:51:50 PM
In Reply To @firasd
@firasd nah, it's layout and CSS. And dozens of other quirks.. latest is https://t.co/poHsffqC6q
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2016, 3:16:14 PM
In Reply To @Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver but yes JS perf is no longer 1/5 the speed it should be. Still as quirky as IE6.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2016, 3:15:08 PM
In Reply To @Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver no, still quirky. More quirky. See https://t.co/poHsffqC6q
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2016, 3:01:33 AM
In Reply To @cymatiste
@asthesparksfly define "well"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 31, 2016, 2:49:46 AM
In Reply To @tobermatt
@tobermatt June has quite a few, she is steam powered, once she gets a good head of steam going best to stand well back
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 7:24:58 PM
In Reply To @SND_TST
@SND_TST no, this was totally my mistake.. I kept meaning to transfer away from awful GoDaddy and turned auto-renew off
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 6:40:47 PM
In Reply To @robconery
@robconery sorry about that, newbie error, did not renew domain properly. Should be fixed now.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 6:40:14 PM
In Reply To @SND_TST
@SND_TST sorry about that, newbie error, did not renew properly. Should be fixed now.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 6:40:09 PM
In Reply To @ameilij
@ameilij sorry about that, newbie error, did not renew properly. Should be fixed now.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 5:16:39 PM
In Reply To @notwaldorf
@notwaldorf @nedbat ooh this is great, I want to add something similar to @discourse
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 3:47:27 PM
In Reply To @mkotsollaris
@mkotsollaris I know, newbie mistake, renewed just now! I think I had planned to switch registrars and failed to..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 3:47:12 PM
In Reply To @brian_d_wells
@brian_d_wells I know, newbie mistake, renewed just now! I think I had planned to switch registrars and failed to..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 3:47:06 PM
In Reply To @_gkuster
@_gkuster I know, newbie mistake, renewed just now! I think I had planned to switch registrars and failed to..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 4:26:38 AM
In Reply To @penartur
@penartur no, the scene with the 18 month old kid left to die alone on a cold scottish beach firmly places it in horror territory
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 3:55:04 AM
In Reply To @Speledro
@Speledro I wouldn't boo, at all. It's interesting and the score is great, but super mega art house avant garde cinema.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 3:53:11 AM
In Reply To @andrukcho
@andrukcho @thefalken it's an interesting movie. I would not call it terrible at all. Amazing score, but VERY art house. Very.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 30, 2016, 12:08:07 AM
In Reply To @tensorbodega
@nicksahler @eviltrout I haven't played it because I am 95% sure I would not enjoy it. I haaaated Myst so much. And Riven.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 29, 2016, 9:58:56 PM
In Reply To @HenkPoley
@HenkPoley @EllieAsksWhy @DuckKnightRises no, you visibly kick them out. Not with glee, but as a structure.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 29, 2016, 9:15:59 PM
In Reply To @xor
@xor TBH don't think it matters as the UI well is so poisoned here anyway
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 29, 2016, 9:13:00 PM
In Reply To @xor
@xor it will teach a loooooot of users (and sites) to ignore things that look like errors in the address bar
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jan 29, 2016, 9:08:03 PM
In Reply To @xor
@xor it is a little bit shame-y
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