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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2012, 10:14:04 PM
In Reply To @GVRV
@GVRV I've seen tons of yellow promoted *tweets* but promoted *who to follow* is new to me. And tacky.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2012, 10:11:40 PM
In Reply To @RadianDigital
@LazywormApps basically, try using your app with the keyboard. Either I'm not smart enough to figure it out, or it's not working. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2012, 9:59:33 PM
In Reply To @rhp7
@rhp7 we had to use science, and a lot of rather expensive science.. was not an easy or automatic process for us, either.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2012, 9:56:52 PM
In Reply To @dagny
@dagny After a friendly hello, I've had multiple unknown toddler girls say "watch me!" to me at playgrounds. *Never* boys. Striking.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2012, 9:50:47 PM
In Reply To @RadianDigital
@LazywormApps I like Tweetro but it is all but unusable via the keyboard currently. Will this be fixed? Mouse is painful..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 10, 2012, 11:58:54 AM
In Reply To @dagny
@dagny the "watch me"s are an order of magnitude higher in girls in my experience
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2012, 8:37:21 PM
In Reply To @mathowie
@mathowie also must watch: Megamind, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and Rango. All excellent.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2012, 2:10:00 AM
In Reply To @_durn_
@durnster the browser is not awesome, and that's a showstopper. It's better than it was, at least. (IE8! now they have an IE9 alike)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2012, 1:51:46 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 8, 2012, 12:10:49 AM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente meh, once I get Chrome on iOS I can use the shared login store and I'm good
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2012, 11:12:16 PM
In Reply To @wrumsby
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2012, 7:41:31 PM
In Reply To @oscargodson
@oscargodson @addy_osmani an hour is the upper bound death penalty maximum limit, not the *goal*.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2012, 7:20:52 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers @annietown that is literally the coolest blog logo I have ever seen. Kudos.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2012, 5:14:58 PM
In Reply To @_e0da_
@splatoperator that's so Raven!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2012, 2:44:25 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers what's a lot worse in my book is optical drives. A *lot* worse, by weight and uselessness.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 7, 2012, 2:43:35 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers I dunno, VGA is still pretty practical as a universal projector output, and most projectors are not hi-def ($$$)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 11:45:18 PM
In Reply To @1Password
@1Password @jamesnvc wrong solution to the wrong problem, sorry. If you have to install software, game over.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 2:46:46 PM
In Reply To @timbray
@timbray unfortunately that's .01% of the audience, and it's an unworkable techno-priest solution for the other 99.99%
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 2:14:24 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles @galoot TOO HIGHBROW FOR ME :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 2:11:45 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles @galoot may I suggest something in the lowbrow art style of Robert Williams? https://t.co/1PunFth1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 2:00:18 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles confirmed, awesome, thanks!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 1:42:03 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash you're kind of glossing over a lot by grouping "voice" and "video" together. Voice way WAY simpler and more reliable.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 1:21:57 PM
In Reply To @Navesink
@Navesink what's to "get"? see big-ass live updating tile (better than static iPad icons), click it. Done.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 12:36:47 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers yes, we encourage multiple forms of id, also we support oauth 2.0 as well as openid
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 12:30:09 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers our "wallet" supports unlimited numbers of credentials now, so we support everything + multiples. Twitter still oauth 1.0a tho
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 11:13:57 AM
In Reply To @rands
@rands it is no Jersey Shore
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 11:04:17 AM
In Reply To @chuq
@chuq @bynkii an opportunity to be hated, feared, and decried. See: every other attempt.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 11:01:43 AM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles well my current beef is that I have no way of discovering the leaderboard URL based on the warrior, do I?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 11:00:12 AM
In Reply To @bynkii
@bynkii @chuq it has to be that way though, email is bedrock. No other solution is even plausible IMO.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 10:49:14 AM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles the warrior should link to the HTML leaderboard in its text UI! Everybody wants to rule the leaderboard!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 10:45:07 AM
In Reply To @vex0rian
@vexorian0 OAuth 2.0 is quite good. OAuth 1.0a .. not so much. The spiritual successor to OpenID is OAuth 2.0..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 6, 2012, 9:46:19 AM
In Reply To @RockBand
@RockBand err that is a pic of guitar hero 4/5/6 kind sirs
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2012, 7:52:10 PM
In Reply To @OmarShahine
@OmarShahine blog it!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 5, 2012, 4:22:49 AM
In Reply To @iceoverflow
@iceoverflow see that's what I mean about crazy difficulty spikes. Use cover and get the machine gun, go for headshots. So tedious.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 3, 2012, 1:12:59 AM
In Reply To @MRSallee
@MRSallee it's a trick question, you should be working instead.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2012, 11:41:38 PM
In Reply To @siberianfruit
@siberianfruit it's best to stop reading and writing about this, and stick to matters of substance. Quora perpetuates so much bullshit.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2012, 11:29:09 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain just wait until you get to the spitting. I also get punched and kicked in the face and groin a lot. But with love.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2012, 6:07:45 PM
In Reply To @ftrain
@ftrain he's probably delicious
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2012, 2:44:04 AM
In Reply To @romero
@romero Brenda worked on Wizardry? How cool is that. :) I hope you're still close with your family, that was a tough part of the book for me
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 2, 2012, 12:11:41 AM
In Reply To @blowdart
@blowdart @markjbrown sort of, but it feels really bad. Can you name any other UI that relies so heavily on (technically) horizontal scroll?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 1, 2012, 12:44:00 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente good job man <salute>
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 1, 2012, 11:43:17 AM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles wish I could! Keep doing God's work!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jun 1, 2012, 10:39:58 AM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo I don’t know which part of being a VC is worse: the money or the groupies
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2012, 6:26:03 PM
In Reply To @rwaldron
@rwaldron @pamelafox well that's the theory here http://t.co/S3dL3994
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2012, 5:52:53 PM
In Reply To @pamelafox
@pamelafox oh great question. The people who are hesitant to ask are almost always the opposite of those you'd want to be hesitant :/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2012, 5:40:25 PM
In Reply To @pamelafox
@pamelafox you should have emailed me! Would have liked to meet you
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 31, 2012, 1:50:37 AM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo @Asymco run the numbers on how much they make from +16gb and +32gb of upgrade memory on iPads. Razor blades, etc.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 30, 2012, 3:04:07 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa @romero I knew most of it from being there and following along. ... every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, etc
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2012, 6:05:34 PM
In Reply To @dehora
@dehora translation: "we are very bad at our jobs."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2012, 1:12:18 PM
In Reply To @davehoover
@redsquirrel @antiheroine @rands do all the things all the time!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 29, 2012, 1:53:28 AM
In Reply To @samsaffron
@samsaffron Ruby doesn't need a spec, it is fashioned from Japanese tears cried from anime eyes that DHH licks mournfully
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2012, 10:40:53 PM
In Reply To @asmartbear
@asmartbear I count three in your stream to this one. "techhustlers" kinda speaks for itself I guess.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2012, 2:39:50 PM
In Reply To @asmartbear
@asmartbear haven’t you retweeted this multiple times already? Is the sixth time the charm?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 28, 2012, 11:57:59 AM
In Reply To @mattslay
@mattslay did you consider reading my blog? I might have mentioned it there, maybe.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2012, 12:07:41 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman I haven't looked.. I get like 2mb/sec down and 300kb/sec up (bytes, not bits), which has seemed sufficient for me..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 27, 2012, 12:02:10 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman I tried, but the cable guy said it would be no cheaper as Internet Only versus Internet + Basic Cable.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 25, 2012, 7:03:20 PM
In Reply To @timbray
@timbray Spolsky used google for that all the time, and it drove me nuts
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 25, 2012, 5:43:44 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 25, 2012, 5:35:46 PM
In Reply To @BillB
@BillB reading http://t.co/viIkAhiv should suffice, even in abbreviated one-web-page form
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 25, 2012, 5:26:32 PM
In Reply To @vex0rian
@vexorian0 more people that failed to read, sadly
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 25, 2012, 3:43:52 PM
In Reply To @shanley
@shanley agreed, but middlemen are the worst
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 25, 2012, 12:03:22 PM
In Reply To @timbray
@timbray agree completely; hope the larger iPhone 5 rumors are correct (but it'll just be "taller"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 24, 2012, 4:14:05 PM
In Reply To @garethadams
@garethadams MM already available in the app! (not quite made it to all platforms yet, but on iOS and Android already for sure)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 24, 2012, 4:01:59 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley I am offended that you even have to ask. PISTOLS AT DAWN SIR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 24, 2012, 3:37:17 PM
In Reply To @rhp7
@rhp7 Q: What does it feel like to be Jeff Atwood? A: http://t.co/jpMlu21V
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 24, 2012, 3:34:24 PM
In Reply To @fmanjoo
@fmanjoo I believe it feels a lot like reading that thread
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 24, 2012, 3:20:07 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd @NathanBowers PUDDIN' POPS!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 24, 2012, 3:09:30 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd @NathanBowers RUDEEEEEEE... THEOOOOOO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 23, 2012, 4:40:54 PM
In Reply To @jon_wingfield
@jon_wingfield when nobody is your manager, everyone is your manager. All systems have pros and cons, that one is a unicorn.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 23, 2012, 2:06:35 PM
In Reply To @a7an
@a7an I mostly recommend this http://t.co/KweIzklB though I guess you could put in ivy bridge now and 64GB to be xtra fancy!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 23, 2012, 11:55:44 AM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles this "time until deadline" needs to be on the project selection page of the Archive Warrior, so we know which is most urgent!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 23, 2012, 3:35:58 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley it's cheaper than two therapists.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 11:46:36 PM
In Reply To @mcguirejpatrick
@mcguirejpatrick Erdos was elvish.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 10:52:25 PM
In Reply To @Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver oh, this is nothing.. wait a few years
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 8:55:48 PM
In Reply To @Nick_Craver
@Nick_Craver congrats! In related news, you are soooo screwed :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 4:56:12 PM
In Reply To @bijan
@bijan did he hurt you? DID HE HURT YOU?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 4:24:40 PM
In Reply To @wrumsby
@wrumsby @Carnage4Life only in the sense that Facebook doesn't even try not to be evil. Beyond that, Google is as lovable as a SERP.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 4:19:28 PM
In Reply To @wrumsby
@wrumsby @Carnage4Life is google lovable and exciting? It's the place where 43 shades of blue duel to the death algorithmically. Yay.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 4:15:43 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life you can easily disprove that by pointing to Google
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 3:33:39 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers nah, there's always Xbox. But cheap computers can't have $99 operating systems; the model is broken. Do the math.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 3:29:15 PM
In Reply To @JeffChausse
@JeffChausse @jongalloway it's OK. We get it. You like small breasts. We don't judge.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 3:21:37 PM
In Reply To @JeffChausse
@JeffChausse let me put this in terms you can understand: not more boobs, bigger boobs. Do I have your attention now? YEAH I DO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 3:20:08 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers IBM should have gone out of business twenty years ago, too, technically.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 2:53:15 PM
In Reply To @JeffChausse
@JeffChausse not multiple. HISTORY. "Those who cannot remember clipboard history.. ah, screw it"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 2:25:55 PM
In Reply To @JeffChausse
@JeffChausse I find your opinions fascinating, but the data in that post disagrees with you (search for "hard data")
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 2:13:33 PM
In Reply To @visir
@visir My current theory is friction from the flap, the flap is new to this model (to me). A little food gets trapped behind there!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 22, 2012, 9:55:55 AM
In Reply To @KimStacks
@SimKimSia well done!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2012, 10:55:24 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers I think it'll do at least as well as Win7 did, probably better. The enemy of the PC is the cheap/awesome tablet, not OS upgd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2012, 4:45:02 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway now there is a kind of coding I can get behind
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2012, 3:47:38 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers IMHO this is the first UI update I've been actually excited about since Win95.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 21, 2012, 11:10:30 AM
In Reply To @JulietWaters
@JulietWaters should be titled "three ways a peanut butter sandwich would make Michael Bloomberg a better mayor"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 20, 2012, 6:53:43 PM
In Reply To @rands
@rands @cjcjameson "shoot yourself" is too politically incorrect?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 19, 2012, 3:48:09 PM
In Reply To @Hanzo55
@Hanzo55 I find it rather meh, myself
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 18, 2012, 10:09:14 PM
In Reply To @aronchick
@aronchick I suggest that your friends stage an intervention :)
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