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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2013, 12:44:36 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake @mikerugnetta I heard a lot of good things, I watched two episodes and maybe I picked the wrong two. Was not feeling it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2013, 12:27:19 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake I wanted to like this show, but man I just didn't get it at all.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2013, 11:57:16 AM
In Reply To @WasabiFlux
@WasabiFlux same speed, see relevant Verge pages.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 17, 2013, 11:46:25 AM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy no retina, no sale. I can get x86 haswell anywhere..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2013, 10:24:31 PM
In Reply To @blowdart
@blowdart @jonathanallard @troyhunt it is also very difficult to get into certain colleges and universities. Those jerks!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2013, 10:23:25 PM
In Reply To @jonathanallard
@jonathanallard @troyhunt Yahoo Answers is always available if you want a site where every question is allowed. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2013, 8:39:29 PM
In Reply To @troyhunt
@troyhunt every time I read this it is always "I could not do exactly as I wanted on the Internet, therefore I am angry."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 16, 2013, 1:50:16 PM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo it's the only place you can escape!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2013, 6:52:05 PM
In Reply To @CarlosX360
@CarlosX360 @ForumCon a default install of Discourse with zero official moderators (or never present) can push out trolls.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2013, 4:36:33 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy why can't it be October already? MY LIFE IS SHIT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 15, 2013, 3:54:09 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 shit is about to get real, and I mean really real
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2013, 7:14:09 PM
In Reply To @tshirtforums
@tshirtforums great question, bad titles is a HUGE problem, and that's why we're excited to have forum vets earn that title editing right!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2013, 6:56:50 PM
In Reply To @joshua613
@joshua613 yeah but even the weapon models are like boxes and parallelograms and circles that look like pentagons
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2013, 6:44:42 PM
In Reply To @Spatacoli
@Spatacoli the solution to "I have so much bullshit in my code that I need to hide it" is to .. not have bullshit in your code
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 14, 2013, 2:25:03 PM
In Reply To @jrobertmiles
@jrobertmiles sorry about that, was giving a presentation.. now fixed. We'll try to make it so that's less easy to mess up!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 10:50:45 PM
In Reply To @alexrozanski
@alexrozanski I am guessing PHP devs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 5:10:06 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles my condolences sir
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 2:55:19 PM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss sounds like a job for ohgodivealreadystoppedcaringaboutthis
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 1:42:39 PM
In Reply To @Oobert
@Oobert @rands You'd be surprised who I know that is very motivated by money in my personal experience :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 1:34:27 PM
In Reply To @Oobert
@Oobert @rands everyone has a price. Some people like easy jobs where they make $200k+ a year doing virtually nothing, then home to family.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 1:29:20 PM
In Reply To @rands
@rands depends how much they're paid, in my experience. Golden handcuffs work.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 1:16:57 PM
In Reply To @TechMegan
@TechMegan will do, arriving around 1pm ish
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 11:58:31 AM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles at 600 dpi that should be fine
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 11:39:24 AM
In Reply To @web_craftsman
@web_craftsman totally so pirates, plus kick-dancing!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 11:37:46 AM
In Reply To @joshsusser
@joshsusser it's because you are a woman, isn't it. ISN'T IT.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 13, 2013, 9:48:45 AM
In Reply To @socorose
@socorose @TechMegan you guys are eating nothing but soylent now, as promised, right?? :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 11:39:08 PM
In Reply To @EisenbergEffect
@EisenbergEffect @sumitkm @bennage yep all that stuff is coming! Maybe even in 2013 if we are lucky!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 8:23:46 PM
In Reply To @timbray
@timbray link it up!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 5:59:34 PM
In Reply To @rossrubin
@rossrubin ps Copland sux
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 5:53:18 PM
In Reply To @rossrubin
@rossrubin I feel like after all these years, you are still the Ross Rubin I used to argue with on AOL about Copland. Feels good man. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 5:32:55 PM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo not retina, dead to me
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 4:10:22 PM
In Reply To @tensorbodega
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 3:21:52 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii remind me again how many years between Mac Pro updates? What's the track record here? I think it speaks for itself.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 3:19:46 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii for example, good luck upgrading a 2012 "Darth Pro" from Ivy Bridge to 2013 Haswell: requires new CPU socket.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 3:10:37 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii these daysy unless the mobo is upgradeable it'll last about 12 months, 18 if you are lucky.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 2:41:05 PM
In Reply To @thesulk
@thesulk alternately, take a piss on them to prove otherwise.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 1:58:57 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley also the #1 cause of workplace death for women is homicide. #2 for men.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 1:04:34 PM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo it seems to me you are saying location / time is implied context that should be always carried along. http://t.co/j5ZvGnJckF
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 12:55:20 PM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo not exactly, that just means the words you already use are effectively hashtags. Which is #true.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 12:50:59 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers @flyosity yeah GMail app has the same problem, that damn font they use is way too thin by default.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 12:25:00 PM
In Reply To @kwiens
@kwiens you JERKS are always tearing things down, how about building things up once in a while!!!21!@
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 12, 2013, 11:45:01 AM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii yeah, but requiring "custom everything" to get cooling is just not practical. Passive cooling in 2004: http://t.co/Hf5in3nkma
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 11, 2013, 6:35:47 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii I have dual GPUs and a fairly high end CPU in my machine, these days computers just don't run that hot. So, art.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 11, 2013, 5:42:16 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@mattcutts @dozba might be hard for a company with search in their DNA to stomach offering that choice though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 11, 2013, 5:41:29 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts @dozba I did like his idea of letting users choose between GMail search and encrypt all the things. That's a reasonable choice.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 11, 2013, 4:23:04 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza @anildash that is just the kind of thing I would expect a terrorist to say. Are you on the side of GOOD OR EVIL WHICH IS IT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 6:23:43 PM
In Reply To @wycats
@wycats same problem on iOS Android apps to be fair. Still suuuuucks.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 6:18:28 PM
In Reply To @wycats
@wycats I love the support for copying and pasting text from the book. Oh wait there isn't any.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 5:37:23 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy HOLY CRAP YOU CAN COUNTER A KNIFE KILL NOW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 5:18:04 PM
In Reply To @payco
@payco @pbur @siracusa the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Sorry. PS SUCK IT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 4:14:06 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake he was ALWAYS on the COMPUTER
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 3:33:26 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers exactly, Apple has the money to create more big cats @kevinmontrose
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 2:57:01 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa @pbur oh yeah I'm totally going to stay on top of that for the 319 apps that need updating in this house
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 2:08:13 PM
In Reply To @payco
@payco @pbur @siracusa so for your minor convenience I get to stare at red 99 circles on every iDevice in the house every week. WORTH IT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 2:02:14 PM
In Reply To @pbur
@pbur @siracusa this makes zero sense. "I will use my crystal ball to avoid the updates that break stuff!"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 1:16:26 PM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo SKATE TO WHERE THE PUCK IS GOING MANJOO JESUS MAN GET ON THE 10 YARD LINE HERE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 1:08:51 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente I would take what you get now and double it as a reasonable guess
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 1:01:25 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente er, massively reduced idle *power*, so for the average "all I do is browse teh Facebooks" it's indeed 2x battery on Haswell
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 1:00:49 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente for light web it is true. Haswell is a big deal for massively reduced idle time. The more CPU ramp you get, the less true it is
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 11:53:58 AM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo I've been telling you for years that you should reconsider that "no fat chicks" sticker on your laptop
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 2:44:43 AM
In Reply To @allirense
@allirense @rands I think you misunderstood me. All bugs are features.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 2:18:23 AM
In Reply To @allirense
@allirense @rands all of them?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2013, 1:46:08 AM
In Reply To @history_punk
@history_punk that's the spirit!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 11:33:45 PM
In Reply To @cdixon
@cdixon but, but, free drinks!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 11:26:24 PM
In Reply To @cdixon
@cdixon do casinos trick people? Are they having fun?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 11:20:55 PM
In Reply To @cdixon
@cdixon its almost Zynga-tastic. Still not as evil as Swoopo was though. Special place in hell for those guys.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 10:50:17 PM
In Reply To @cdixon
@cdixon you saw this right? http://t.co/Wq2UCzkeS2
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 3:29:54 PM
In Reply To @whitequark
@whitequark I think that's always been true, though. But agreed.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 1:46:57 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 1:45:48 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza lol at blasty the drone. Where is his twitter account!?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 1:13:06 PM
In Reply To @kevinmarks
@kevinmarks @fmanjoo also a great point but I don't think the articles were paginated in the test cases described. Would be much, much worse
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 9, 2013, 1:00:44 PM
In Reply To @Pogue
@Pogue @fmanjoo wait does this encompass the "height" of comments at the bottom of the article?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2013, 11:11:49 PM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp sorry, schedules are super strict with 3 small children. :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2013, 2:54:33 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 get your Far Cry Blood Dragon on
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2013, 9:05:49 PM
In Reply To @kevinmontrose
@kevinmontrose no lie, totally serious, that is what my mom told me it was called. She's from NC.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2013, 5:00:38 PM
In Reply To @nkennedy
@nkennedy YES EXACTLY, where the gameplay encourages you to grief your teammates, so much so that you could easily be on other team
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2013, 5:00:08 PM
In Reply To @jonhalaas
@jonhalaas you know I am surprisingly meh on that
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2013, 4:43:53 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash I suspect there are a few more women using the web than in 1995
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2013, 6:38:19 PM
In Reply To @anaisbetts
@xpaulbettsx @haacked yeah "Refresh my PC" worked. I guess some part of Windows hated my Haswell upgrade.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2013, 4:57:08 PM
In Reply To @anaisbetts
@xpaulbettsx @haacked yeah there might be other issues. Let me "refresh my PC" in Win8 and see if that helps.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2013, 4:50:30 PM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked and @xpaulbettsx even worse uninstall / delete local files / reinstall does not fix :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2013, 4:50:06 PM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked and @xpaulbettsx I am getting 0xc0000142 error after motherboard upgrade on GitHub for Windows like so: http://t.co/l285gLlKKU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2013, 12:37:48 AM
In Reply To @johnolilly
@johnolilly a pull request at Google? You think?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2013, 11:16:47 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 The Golden Girls, seasons 1 through 8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2013, 12:24:47 PM
In Reply To @Rarst
@Rarst "should" but not definitively confirmed anywhere that I can find!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 11:43:19 PM
In Reply To @rewrffff
@robofuture @evil_trout see http://t.co/DsmesPbVk6 and http://t.co/lmn2Br9QG1 (found with our new user-page search!)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 10:53:18 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii if the culture was right, the community would enforce. But the culture is wrong, and that comes from the top.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 9:09:23 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii @stentontoledo this lackadaisical, resentful attitude towards prohibiting illegal content is endemic to Reddit.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 9:07:45 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii @stentontoledo except they only pay lip service to enforcement of what's legal. "We may remove illegal content, sometimes."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 8:55:35 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii @stentontoledo you really want to have a conversation about whether child pornography should be allowed? (gets popcorn) begin.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 8:48:53 PM
In Reply To @rickhanlonii
@rickhanlonii @stentontoledo freedom for child pornography is the noblest goal that man can attain
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 6:45:06 PM
In Reply To @stentontoledo
@stentontoledo the top-level executive directive seems to be "do as thou wilt", and to me that's abhorrent
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 3:01:15 PM
In Reply To @jbhewitt
@jbhewitt @samsaffron excellent can you email me at jatwood@codinghorror.com ? Are you in or near Sydney?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 4, 2013, 2:52:47 AM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp you gotta listen to bangers part 1 also for the total experience! DOUBLE WINWOOD
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2013, 6:49:13 PM
In Reply To @scottwasson
@scottwasson @knweiss yeah but do we care? Tell me how to feel about this. That's your job man!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2013, 6:45:06 PM
In Reply To @mterrabuio
@mterrabuio forking it into the trash?
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