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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2013, 9:01:39 PM
In Reply To @gdinwiddie
@gdinwiddie @seriouspony it is a sandbox (in good games) so you are the movie. Blow up the bank or dig a tunnel or disguise yourself.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2013, 8:58:31 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles Not me. No opinion on Amazon drones. However your beard is sooooo gayyyy.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2013, 1:07:05 AM
In Reply To @mjsalinger
@mjsalinger not faster, battery life not better (arguably worse), app support, etc. It's a sidegrade IMO from an iPhone 5.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2013, 11:22:26 PM
In Reply To @dweinberger
@dweinberger I quit after binge watching season 1, it had its high points but I could see this was going nowhere fast.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2013, 7:38:38 PM
In Reply To @antirez
@antirez true that is why I fully switch, to live with the other half. Otherwise you are at best a tourist
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2013, 7:32:33 PM
In Reply To @antirez
@antirez I use maybe 5 apps ever on any platform
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2013, 6:32:02 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza THE FRONT PAGE OF THE INTERNETS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2013, 6:18:13 PM
In Reply To @autiomaa
@autiomaa @helsinkijs old Android is more the problem now
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2013, 2:16:16 PM
In Reply To @Jonmchan
@Jonmchan the two 2TB media drives spin down, though the primary SSD doesn't draw that much power anyways
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2013, 11:32:49 AM
In Reply To @TheKanter
@TheKanter no, only on demand expansions. That is the one area we are opinionated about.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 26, 2013, 9:28:56 PM
In Reply To @BillB
@BillB like a bawss
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 25, 2013, 5:51:50 PM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo that's weird, I've never had to do anything other than plug in the 2nd monitor to get it to work in anything remotely recent
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 25, 2013, 5:51:04 PM
In Reply To @stevesi
@stevesi @fmanjoo @edbott tablets are nice ideas, but of dubious value for business users
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 25, 2013, 4:27:31 PM
In Reply To @joshk
@joshk that's every day
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 25, 2013, 4:12:37 AM
In Reply To @ThatGraemeGuy
@ThatGraemeGuy mind = blown
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 25, 2013, 4:10:35 AM
In Reply To @balpha
@balpha @betsyphd all love is based on hate, I mean, obviously
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 25, 2013, 12:37:41 AM
In Reply To @garywhitta
@garywhitta @Greenspeak the future.. of boredom
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 24, 2013, 11:52:09 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd I'm pretty sure @balpha should be suing them for infringement
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 24, 2013, 3:45:35 PM
In Reply To @railsonmaui
@railsonmaui not yet, hardly any kinect games
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 23, 2013, 5:44:24 PM
In Reply To @nickoutprintln
@nickoutprintln yeah for "hardcore" gaming it is shit (think Super Meat Boy), but for casual stuff it is amazing.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 23, 2013, 4:34:35 PM
In Reply To @kevinmontrose
@kevinmontrose NOO YAWK CITAH!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 23, 2013, 12:20:17 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers @kevindente well, in their defense, modern games are 25gb or more. Consoles don't have SSDs..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 7:32:12 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain I see what you did there and it was noted
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 7:24:56 PM
In Reply To @creationnation
@creationnation hey, I saw your reference to http://t.co/psebHPuVKQ here https://t.co/cZ4c6PpOBg and I thought @discourse might work!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 7:01:05 PM
In Reply To @Donny_V
@Donny_V well, you're slower than most and we still like you :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 5:32:59 PM
In Reply To @baconmeteor
@baconmeteor your crazy moon languages will never win
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 4:35:53 PM
In Reply To @drylight
@drylight Thanks!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 4:34:30 PM
In Reply To @drylight
@drylight yeah talk to @samsaffron about that. p.s. Thanks!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 2:22:16 PM
In Reply To @drylight
@drylight Thanks!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 2:07:55 PM
In Reply To @drylight
@drylight Thanks!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2013, 1:51:10 PM
In Reply To @drylight
@drylight Thanks!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 21, 2013, 12:17:47 AM
In Reply To @Greenspeak
@Greenspeak have some more kids! Never too late to start again!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 20, 2013, 7:31:17 PM
In Reply To @amuletofyendor
@amuletofyendor @dudurocha @anildash WHOA WHOA WHOA that innovation is too disruptive. TOO DISRUPTIVE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 20, 2013, 7:22:49 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash exactly, like getting a second opinion from doctors!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 20, 2013, 4:23:47 PM
In Reply To @fredwilson
@fredwilson that looks really good. I have a thing for paprika. I CAN STOP EATING IT ANY TIME I WANT I JUST DONT WANT TO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 19, 2013, 11:18:16 PM
In Reply To @RockBand
@RockBand six years of no Muse. Good times!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 18, 2013, 2:52:16 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles I thought about that, and then I started crying uncontrollably
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 17, 2013, 3:49:06 PM
In Reply To @marcprecipice
@marcprecipice use the nest remote app on your phone to fight it!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 16, 2013, 8:19:09 PM
In Reply To @b33f
@b33f holy crap Twitter has oauth2 now? As of when?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 14, 2013, 8:32:41 PM
In Reply To @lauradobrzynski
@lauradobrzynski @kevinmontrose @Nick_Craver @jarrod_dixon we always knew programming was how to impress the ladies
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 14, 2013, 5:47:11 PM
In Reply To @SuperDalgas
@SuperDalgas @Nick_Craver those cpus are LAZY, put them to work!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 14, 2013, 5:32:47 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway @daveloukola I noticed that per Steam stats, Jon played this "game" for NINETEEN HOURS. That's a long Monty Python skit
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 14, 2013, 3:42:52 PM
In Reply To @zippy1981
@zippy1981 @bobbeauch good question, I would measure mine but it is a real pain to move it out
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 13, 2013, 11:46:45 PM
In Reply To @cocoatype
@Arclite contact WASD
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 12, 2013, 3:45:01 PM
In Reply To @mellowfish
@mellowfish I will happily bet everything against you and on Moore's Law. Particularly on mobile and tablet, where we still get 2x perf/year
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 12, 2013, 3:32:56 PM
In Reply To @mellowfish
@mellowfish discourse is indistinguishable from desktop perf on iPad Air, and iPhone 5s. Quite fast. Only games need native.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 12, 2013, 3:22:26 PM
In Reply To @mellowfish
@mellowfish it is why I shy away from using Android, personally
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 11, 2013, 9:59:35 PM
In Reply To @devinfoley
@devinfoley link to adapter please?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 11, 2013, 9:44:47 PM
In Reply To @joshmillard
@joshmillard let me mansplain somethin to you
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 10, 2013, 7:28:24 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente @Carnage4Life so does Yahoo Answers, if you dig enough. Are you willing to walk through a sewer to get there?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 10, 2013, 6:57:02 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente @Carnage4Life that is like saying we "need" the Weekly World News
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 10, 2013, 6:33:34 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash U MAD BRO?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 10, 2013, 12:45:54 AM
In Reply To @BrittanyBVL
@StyleRepublic that *is* how programmers get out on Saturday nights
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 8, 2013, 8:18:06 PM
In Reply To @bitcrazed
@bitcrazed yep! Hope the project can get solid, high level sponsorship!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 8, 2013, 7:26:39 PM
In Reply To @NotZombies
@NotZombies @BoingBoing the bathroom doesn't have enough graffiti for your tastes, eh? :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 8, 2013, 5:35:31 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy @betsyphd COLORS THAT RHYME WITH URPLE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2013, 5:10:32 PM
In Reply To @deanputney
@deanputney WAIT WHAT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2013, 5:10:23 PM
In Reply To @deanputney
@deanputney that's funny, I just taught your mom about 'regular expressions'
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2013, 1:09:42 PM
In Reply To @scottwasson
@scottwasson @DrPizza @anandshimpi I am 100% sure Mantle is about weaker X86 cores ala PS4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2013, 6:07:44 AM
In Reply To @victorcampeanu
@victorcampeanu @reneritchie no, ipad3 was a tiny bit faster than ipad2. Retina was the main addition.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2013, 6:20:26 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer sort of, longtime SO user Mark Harrison wrote this http://t.co/fc4DP1LCCm
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2013, 5:05:54 PM
In Reply To @jamesholden
@jamesholden depends how many wheels are squeaking and for how long
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2013, 4:51:11 PM
In Reply To @scottwasson
@scottwasson it can't be easy to dissipate 250w on the size of a PCI slot. Still, loving my exhaust mod, it is IMNSHO essential
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2013, 2:56:49 PM
In Reply To @verycoolhacker
@topdownjimmy @wasdkeyboards no worries there is an excellent return policy, I believe.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2013, 3:11:39 AM
In Reply To @scottwasson
@scottwasson @DoktorFunken don't raise fan speed, improve the exhaust airflow to reduce temps: http://t.co/VfFhItPbUs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 4, 2013, 3:25:10 PM
In Reply To @marcprecipice
@marcprecipice and the androids! or you could just build a web site that works fabulously on every device in the world. Crazy talk!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 4, 2013, 2:08:34 PM
In Reply To @marcprecipice
@marcprecipice even worse, it implies they have not started work on the Blackberry and Windows 8 apps.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 4, 2013, 1:35:11 PM
In Reply To @joelmdev
@joelmdev dunno but let me know what you find. Touch Windows Explorer seems like a logical idea
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 4, 2013, 1:34:08 PM
In Reply To @dtanzer
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 3, 2013, 11:11:02 PM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp faster to do an upgrade to win 8.1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 3, 2013, 7:56:23 PM
In Reply To @samkimmel
@samkimmel it is noticeably better. 25% improvement sounds about right, puts it in the 8 hour range for basic wifi web browsing
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2013, 4:50:31 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 they have done 4 server patches so far, but client patches clearly needed too..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2013, 3:04:03 PM
In Reply To @mindbrix
@mindbrix @NathanBowers @tweetbot that's how it is at all big companies. 30 people doing the work of 3.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2013, 2:37:54 PM
In Reply To @jmanici
@jmanici @onedigeratti I will only believe those results after a clean install of Windows 8.1, suspect sony turned "battery saver" mode on
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2013, 1:43:41 PM
In Reply To @knweiss
@knweiss @anandshimpi where is the benchmark data on this RST driver? URL?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2013, 1:43:23 PM
In Reply To @anandshimpi
@anandshimpi what I mean was, did Sony override default out of box Windows power management settings? e.g clean install works too?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2013, 4:30:40 AM
In Reply To @anandshimpi
@anandshimpi hmm, on the Sony VAIO Pro 13 battery life, does this persist with a clean Win 8.1 install?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2013, 10:12:57 PM
In Reply To @Supermathie
@Supermathie sinus victory?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2013, 7:30:43 PM
In Reply To @scottwasson
@scottwasson @DrPizza or you could just zip the directories with no/little compression first, then unzip on the receiving side
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2013, 7:22:39 PM
In Reply To @scottwasson
@scottwasson I dunno, robocopy?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2013, 7:17:32 PM
In Reply To @scottwasson
@scottwasson win8 file copy is quite good IMO, are you still on 7?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2013, 10:26:08 AM
In Reply To @magnayn
@magnayn @jasonpbecker yet again, the future belongs to tablets; laptops are the new desktops.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 31, 2013, 11:43:08 PM
In Reply To @jsonbecker
@jasonpbecker regardless, tablets are the future. Laptops, not so much. Grandmas can use tablets.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 31, 2013, 11:40:42 PM
In Reply To @jsonbecker
@jasonpbecker I use a laptop on my lap about .01% of the time I own it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 31, 2013, 10:15:57 PM
In Reply To @redh4re
@redh4re @halflings any battlefield moment from the series, which dates to around 2001 as I recall
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 31, 2013, 3:43:50 AM
In Reply To @WarrenSeine
@WarrenSeine "I think JavaScript is about as fast as it can get now without some kind of really advanced dynamic compilation scheme" we have
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 30, 2013, 6:56:37 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa you see what twins are like, imagine triplets
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 30, 2013, 3:41:58 PM
In Reply To @Jasconius
@Jasconius I don't know how @DrPizza measures battery life.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 30, 2013, 3:23:10 PM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp real programmers are not up at this hour!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2013, 10:47:00 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2013, 7:36:46 PM
In Reply To @kevinmontrose
@kevinmontrose how do you feel about...

beards
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2013, 3:32:19 PM
In Reply To @Greenspeak
@Greenspeak suggested caption: I just pooped my pants
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2013, 2:04:14 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts ooo looks like they deliver to east bay now!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2013, 10:56:07 PM
In Reply To @JeefBerkey
@JeefBerkey you have a PM :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2013, 7:31:05 PM
In Reply To @craigvn
@craigvn @Carnage4Life 6x perf, 40% weight reduction, massively improved screen.. shit dog, if you're still on iPad 2, stay there forever
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2013, 7:30:29 PM
In Reply To @MortenLinderud
@MortenLinderud I'm sorry :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2013, 7:01:04 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life I think the iPad Air / retina mini is going to sell a LOT. We'll see though, not sure if it's saturated.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 28, 2013, 5:57:53 PM
In Reply To @cmaxw
@cmaxw @discourse ok you have a PM :)
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