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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2013, 6:22:56 PM
In Reply To @fromedome
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2013, 12:12:21 AM
In Reply To @ernmando
@ernmando maybe I was busy having 35 children and leaving one company and starting another one. :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2013, 11:31:10 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash we've already forgiven the "Video Games can't be art" thing?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2013, 7:03:11 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake 50 minutes is 3,000 seconds. It's possible to shout one name every 1.18 seconds?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2013, 6:36:07 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles look, your cheese wasn't exactly dressed for church. that's all I'm saying!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2013, 6:20:26 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles I dunno, I've been on the other design side of that with Stack Overflow and Discourse. Cheese gets moved, man.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2013, 6:07:53 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles shrug. stability is overrated. People change. The world changes. (insert deal-with-it gif here)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2013, 5:58:59 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles yeah, but there is an aspect of incoherent cheese-moving rage as well. Or the "product" with 300 checkboxes to "configure"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2013, 5:08:39 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles THIS AGGRESSION WILL NOT STAND, MAN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2013, 5:08:42 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie oh that. well, I tend to look up related info, so it works OK for me as a sub-window. The formatting thing is a pain though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2013, 5:04:47 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie I like it personally, but formatting becomes multiple clicks. Presumably data shows 99.9% of users don't format at all.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2013, 4:57:07 PM
In Reply To @andrey_butov
@andrey_butov Godspeed
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2013, 3:35:58 PM
In Reply To @billwasik
@billwasik that is nuts
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2013, 3:27:05 PM
In Reply To @splattne
@splattne it was either that or link to the Huffington Post Content Turbines
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2013, 2:36:01 PM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss it's ok, little buddy. It'll all be over soon.. ish.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2013, 2:14:21 PM
In Reply To @jasonfitzpatric
@jasonfitzpatric well that's quite the compliment, thank you! Real work done by @evil_trout @samsaffron @neill @Supermathie
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2013, 8:41:38 PM
In Reply To @rossrubin
@rossrubin did you notice there is almost a half aisle of iPhone and iPad game accessories at the local Target? I was shocked.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2013, 3:32:26 PM
In Reply To @tensorbodega
@nicksahler made from the best glass on earth http://t.co/9x1ULub52n
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2013, 1:19:02 PM
In Reply To @Rarst
@Rarst very unlikely
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2013, 2:47:48 AM
In Reply To @jessemcnelis
@jessemcnelis that is kind of the way I see it too
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 11:14:26 PM
In Reply To @Greenspeak
@Greenspeak is this a song about sexing?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 10:51:58 PM
In Reply To @garychou
@garychou green mayonnaise. nasty.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 10:40:08 PM
In Reply To @landongn
@landongn you will have to ask @balpha not me
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 7:31:47 PM
In Reply To @donpark
@donpark I just email them usually
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 6:10:18 PM
In Reply To @mabster
@mabster @kevindente kind of, I covered this a while ago too. But searches are too plastic, you really want point-in-time
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 6:07:35 PM
In Reply To @JasonPunyon
@JasonPunyon that is a great idea, but as @kevindente pointed out, could be a blog-agnostic service too
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 6:06:25 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa Skyrim
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 6:04:11 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente point taken, but pretty crappy experience for the user.. half your clicks seriously misfire, what does that teach you?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 3:26:11 PM
In Reply To @sonnes
@sonnes @discourse we want to support lots of email configs, but we don't outsource core competencies (hosting, etc)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 3:25:35 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life @ckindel Jesus, I hope you can help because Amazon's device software is awful, easily the worst in the industry.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 2:42:55 PM
In Reply To @Beschizza
@Beschizza That's So Raven. You're So Raven.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 2:11:52 PM
In Reply To @tinkertim
@tinkertim @lizardbill you guys should be teaching that class
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 2:10:27 PM
In Reply To @codinghorror
@baconmeteor this is the problem with all Harvard Facebook emigre products, they are all secretly about social status, not information.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 1:55:15 PM
In Reply To @baconmeteor
@baconmeteor was it ever interesting? Mostly Quora was B through F list circlejerking.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 1:13:22 PM
In Reply To @_Jordan
@jordanekay sure it is
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 12:53:44 PM
In Reply To @Greenspeak
@Greenspeak Try Super Monday Night Combat instead. The show voiceovers are insanely great. http://t.co/DGdcFkBTIg
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 11:14:46 AM
In Reply To @landongn
@landongn so awesome
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 11:13:36 AM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake @evgenymorozov he wrote the ultimate TL;DR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 11:10:02 AM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa @cdespinosa so another "I lived through the depression so I keep all my money in mattresses, not banks" story?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2013, 10:57:39 AM
In Reply To @deadsquid
@deadsquid @johnolilly an excellent policy I try to follow as well
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 7:27:06 PM
In Reply To @TheEvanCarroll
@TheEvanCarroll if you ran seriously I would vote for you without hesitation
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 4:25:07 AM
In Reply To @iandevlin
@iandevlin Thanks for taking the time to complain though. Cheers!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 4:24:12 AM
In Reply To @jwz
@jwz AHH MY TENDER EYEBALLS
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 3:53:35 AM
In Reply To @iandevlin
@iandevlin you read every single tweet? Sure you didn't miss any? May I quiz you back to 2007?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 2:41:57 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway @robconery node is just javascript on the server. What jQuery is for node is yet to be established even a little.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 2:05:22 AM
In Reply To @robconery
@robconery @jongalloway can you point to a rails-equiv? I haven't heard anything. Just cancers!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 1:48:51 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway maybe but the existing state of node "frameworks" is pretty lame to the point of nonexistence. Where's the baby?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 1:36:48 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway can't argue with Atwood's law. It's about 5 years from where it needs to be, there is no "rails" for it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 12:16:04 AM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@evil_trout .. And then you woke up!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2013, 12:09:50 AM
In Reply To @michaelpinto
@michaelpinto I'm remembering that the Mac was Jobs baby and it was, and is, an awful gaming platform.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 11:55:06 PM
In Reply To @zcichy
@zcichy an official controller accessory would be a literal game changer, on a couple different levels
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 11:51:15 PM
In Reply To @zcichy
@zcichy @jdalrymple sure, I said, "if true". Historically has been gimped because nobody at Apple was willing to embrace gaming as a target.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 11:50:05 PM
In Reply To @cdixon
@cdixon my standards are.. pretty high http://t.co/7m8lbHvxw1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 7:52:24 PM
In Reply To @hayvok
@hayvok there are some amazing COBOL projects out there, for sure. But the future, it ain't.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 7:07:50 PM
In Reply To @Donny_V
@Donny_V ruby 2.0 is 20% faster for us.. Lots of room for speedier versions.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 6:56:09 PM
In Reply To @hayvok
@hayvok I hear there are still people writing COBOL. Who am I to judge these people?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 3:25:01 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 2:31:55 PM
In Reply To @_
@_ I am sure they exist, but hardly common, and not what one expects to load on a web page or forum!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 1:52:03 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash not really that hard to understand. Ever seen a 90 second animated gig?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2013, 1:38:07 PM
In Reply To @Greenspeak
@Greenspeak yeah but the story gets kind of absurd by the end, veering into "and then you woke up!" territory
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2013, 5:39:26 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway @ericlaw oh yeah my machine is TOTALLY compromised right now. Totally. I'm not even typing this, russian mobsters are.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2013, 2:41:51 PM
In Reply To @jorm
@jorm wasn't that basically the storyline of Braid? SPOILER ALERT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2013, 12:41:26 PM
In Reply To @kyletolle
@kyletolle it's shockingly good. I barely even liked 2.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2013, 12:33:24 PM
In Reply To @anandshimpi
@anandshimpi you and me both, brother. Imagine the alternate reality where Atom hadn't been intentionally crippled for 5 years.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2013, 10:32:58 AM
In Reply To @cap
@cap "we came to the conclusion that Twitter's public follow model was broken" is completely nuts. Like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest nuts.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2013, 12:02:04 AM
In Reply To @lxcid
@lxcid glad you found it useful!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 11:20:22 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain I wish someone would break in then I wouldn't be so lonely all the time, wait we have 3 children I will never be alone again ever
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 9:06:17 PM
In Reply To @whiskeysteve
@whiskeysteve @ftrain if you do it right trolling is poetry
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 7:35:02 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain are you doing poetry right now? is this poetry? is that what's going on? is this what the kids are into?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 5:29:43 PM
In Reply To @sebbean
@sebbean snake related, e.g. http://t.co/uJjzD3ercO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 5:28:46 PM
In Reply To @BillB
@BillB all those laws are supposed to be funny in the beginning, then they stop being funny and become deadly serious one day
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 4:21:43 PM
In Reply To @ericlaw
@ericlaw I do kinda regret that the random country chooser (not joking, I used one) picked Bulgaria for that post.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 4:21:04 PM
In Reply To @rkoutnik
@RecodingBlog I know, and most applicants to Harvard are rejected for "not being good enough". JERKS. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 4:15:42 PM
In Reply To @BillB
@BillB you should have written it in Node.js man. NEWBIE MISTAKE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 3:45:57 PM
In Reply To @rkoutnik
@RecodingBlog yeah, if by 'respect' you mean 'we want to have discussions here, like a forum'
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 3:27:57 PM
In Reply To @rich_in_mn
@richwag was not referring to her comments, hers are a recipe for help vampire burnout IMO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 3:07:41 PM
In Reply To @kylotan
@kylotan @dotnetchris Depends what kinds of change you're proposing. Power windows? Sure. Add a truck bed to the car.. notsomuch
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 3:03:14 PM
In Reply To @kylotan
@kylotan @dotnetchris well, at least there was a conversation about it, that is what meta is for.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 2:58:16 PM
In Reply To @kylotan
@kylotan @dotnetchris they should! If you have specific examples, please do take it up on http://t.co/MTyjVmiJwf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 2:45:23 PM
In Reply To @balpha
@balpha I need to delete this tweet from the Internet
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 2:39:08 PM
In Reply To @kylotan
@kylotan @dotnetchris well, SE is not a discussion forum -- were you treating it as one? It's a common misconception. No discussions.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 2:34:16 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@evil_trout seems legit
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 2:17:01 PM
In Reply To @david_dhont
@Blaxus discuss it on http://t.co/MVKbgsCznt e.g. http://t.co/t4WdQdHBd0 and see "linked" and "related" in the right column there
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 1:41:19 PM
In Reply To @NateSilver538
@fivethirtyeight decide if you want a touch laptop first http://t.co/6ABJ45tiWU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 1:39:38 PM
In Reply To @gabrielroth
@gabrielroth well that is THE LAW, man
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 1:34:56 PM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss I reject "do nothing". That's an empty, soulless void. Do SOMETHING, for God's sake.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 1:15:06 PM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss Guns don't kill people. Wayne LaPierre kills people.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 1:04:34 PM
In Reply To @vbullinger
@vbullinger @m_grady well, except that people will need food and shelter and education forever. That "problem" goes on forever.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 12:50:29 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 @AwesomeRobot that's new, I hadn't seen that. http://t.co/PwEGTUPsmW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2013, 11:44:00 AM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo do you even lift, bro?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2013, 8:44:04 PM
In Reply To @mklin
@mklin @hyperink I recall hearing this before, I think the error message is incorrect (and perhaps unclear?)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2013, 2:59:40 PM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss if your kids actually said this they are the coolest kids ever
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2013, 2:59:11 PM
In Reply To @baconmeteor
@baconmeteor wow she wasn't even trying on that one, was she? Just.. fuck it, why not?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2013, 2:25:33 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@evil_trout for single player only it's definitely a letdown by definition. The multiplayer sandbox is amazing though, so many stories!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2013, 2:24:07 PM
In Reply To @bertlamb
@bertlamb @BKBMG no way Omar was in the BF4 trailer. Rock on.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2013, 2:18:43 PM
In Reply To @eviltrout
@evil_trout I spent 6 hours in single player BF3, and 200+ in the amazing multiplayer sandbox. Guess which part matters more?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2013, 1:51:09 PM
In Reply To @garbaczd
@garbaczd the multiplayer sandbox is not though!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 27, 2013, 12:57:07 PM
In Reply To @infspacestudios
@infspacestudios @throctukes when doing open source I prefer to pick a platform that was born open source and is natively open source
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