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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2011, 3:19:58 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway I don't understand your craigslist jokes, hipster
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2011, 5:55:34 PM
In Reply To @monteiro
@Mike_FTW @jzy apparently you haven't seen this http://goo.gl/gRuE1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2011, 5:28:18 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente my Yar shall have its Revenge upon thee for these blasphemous statements!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2011, 4:32:32 PM
In Reply To @roybahat
@roybahat thanks for having me and thanks @ai for setting it up!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2011, 12:25:06 PM
In Reply To @sujamthe
@sujamthe yes -- thank you again for generously offering to host at short notice!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2011, 5:28:47 AM
In Reply To @thekarladam
@thekarladam @bbum what? here's a list of historical edits on any post. http://goo.gl/wSr5L just click the date and time on the edit field
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 4:22:31 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy @jongalloway @kevindente haha! joke is on you! I have always been a pompous ass!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 4:09:56 PM
In Reply To @kinnevosv
@TechBASV done, apologies.. hate the way twitter does that!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 3:27:58 PM
In Reply To @glompix
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 3:15:32 PM
In Reply To @sujamthe
@sujamthe @lordbron @Paypal we deeply appreciate the offer -- where is the PayPal campus located?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 2:35:06 PM
In Reply To @kinnevosv
@TechBASV @dfect ok who should I email to confirm for tomorrow? I really appreciate this!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 2:24:51 AM
In Reply To @timbray
@timbray I hope it's OK, I used your tweet as an example here: http://goo.gl/r999C <3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 2:20:19 AM
In Reply To @Olipro
@Olipro usually I destroyed so many of the army attacks that they stop coming. Late game you get really powerful..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 12:17:13 AM
In Reply To @kinnevosv
@TechBASV thank you very much! we might take you up on that. And Wed 7pm is a workable time?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2011, 12:04:59 AM
In Reply To @semanticseed
@semanticseed thanks! we need a location in Silicon Valley proper(ish) that can work for 50 geeks 7pm April 6th.. ?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 11:25:21 PM
In Reply To @jarrod_dixon
@jarrod_dixon .. TO YOUR HOVEL!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 11:24:52 PM
In Reply To @schwa
@schwa to be fair, if it was up to the users every question would be "favorite programming cartoon". There is a balance. I'm just sayin'
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 11:17:18 PM
In Reply To @schwa
@schwa it can be, but if there is a clear pattern, why deviate from the pattern? Particularly since these questions can be contentious
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 11:11:55 PM
In Reply To @schwa
@schwa just standardizing on a nomenclature for questions of this type, see for yourself: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/hidden-features
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 11:07:27 PM
In Reply To @schwa
@schwa the "hidden features" questions are accepted per previous meta discussion, and this makes that clear. It is the same thing.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 11:04:14 PM
In Reply To @schwa
@schwa @bbum but that one only has 13 answers. At some point you HAVE to funnel people to "hey, edit what's here to make it better first!"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 10:52:38 PM
In Reply To @bbum
@bbum @pbur @schwa sorry, random can be.. random. I translated his post for you. I think extensive moderation makes people hard, myself inc.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 10:38:42 PM
In Reply To @eschaton
@eschaton @bbum @schwa "questions with infinite and ever growing answers" are problematic. We don't REMOVE them but they have to be capped.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 9:22:06 PM
In Reply To @rory_blyth
@rory_blyth this... does not seem like a good idea
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 9:21:47 PM
In Reply To @robconery
@robconery we are pinching your head! we are crushing your head! http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 6:26:59 PM
In Reply To @mrdenny
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 6:25:00 PM
In Reply To @jonathancoulton
@jonathancoulton @tmbg you pretty much broke their idea just now, whatever it was
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 6:22:24 PM
In Reply To @skrenta
@skrenta PR in a nutshell
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 5:22:16 PM
In Reply To @ctp
@ctp good idea, doing that
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 5:06:41 PM
In Reply To @AntiFreeze
@AntiFreeze @CitizenSpace @semanticseed @missrogue er wait, is this space in Silicon Valley? there's already a SF meetup with a venue.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 4:43:42 PM
In Reply To @AntiFreeze
@AntiFreeze @CitizenSpace @semanticseed @missrogue awesome, if the space is available Wed at 7pm, I'd love to book it: http://goo.gl/v5mMu
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 3:18:13 PM
In Reply To @AntiFreeze
@AntiFreeze any news?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 2:21:21 PM
In Reply To @dorkitude
@dorkitude I think your javascript is out of date perhaps? did you ctrl+f5 hard refresh?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 6:42:11 AM
In Reply To @markuskobler
@markuskobler actually, you can search for some GUIDs in very early SO posts -- almost nobody is actually posting those
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 4:38:30 AM
In Reply To @MehrdadA
@MehrdadA are there ever NOT stickers? :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 3:55:30 AM
In Reply To @7WP
@7WP takes 50 rep to comment. Flag such "answers"..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2011, 2:35:43 AM
In Reply To @reedolsen
@reedolsen me too! but we're still securing a venue.. :( http://twitter.com/#!/codinghorror/status/54739165237084160
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2011, 10:03:49 PM
In Reply To @AntiFreeze
@AntiFreeze @missrogue @citizenspace awesome, thank you guys!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2011, 7:51:39 PM
In Reply To @amageed
@amageed those are sent out every 2 months
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2011, 4:36:38 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway @NathanBowers probably The Strategy Tax again. Apple benefits from having a clear top-down dictatorship.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2011, 2:13:39 AM
In Reply To @unclebobmartin
@unclebobmartin looks like you have some fans! :) http://goo.gl/sIxua
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2011, 2:09:04 AM
In Reply To @BradGrenz
@BradGrenz yeah 50ft was kind of ridiculous
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 8:53:20 PM
In Reply To @rosevibe
@rosevibe excellent!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 8:50:12 PM
In Reply To @mpjoyn
@mpjoyn awesome
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 5:39:14 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake defining "creative" as "destroying video to make it work" means they've won. Mirroring the video seems to work, but audio..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 11:49:21 AM
In Reply To @jrotech
@jrotech I recommend voting
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2011, 11:48:59 AM
In Reply To @alvaroflara
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 6:31:13 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers ironically embossing is designers' misguided ghetto attempt at font sharpening. Cuz they're too bold on Mac..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 6:11:19 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers you know, if we all had 400 DPI displays, this would all be moot. That's the real problem.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 5:31:42 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers just the sloppy ones. But interestingly, the hardware rendering paths in Firefox 4 seem to negate embossing.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 2:45:46 AM
In Reply To @counternotions
@counternotions openness means something on general purpose PCs, but on phones and "devices" (Xbox, Kindle, etc), not so much.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 2:44:44 AM
In Reply To @counternotions
@counternotions well, I believe phones are a fundamentally closed ecosystem and work best that way, hence play massively to Apple strengths
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 2:21:48 AM
In Reply To @counternotions
@counternotions you're reinforcing all my negative stereotypes of pretentious Apple users, man! :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 2:05:59 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley how will Apple have plausible deniability that your feedback actually matters in that case? Don't be silly!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 1:01:06 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley Mini Shipley! p.s. DORK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 12:38:59 AM
In Reply To @jwz
@jwz regardless: big fan, love the club, love your work, and thank you for responding!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 12:25:51 AM
In Reply To @jwz
@jwz it's your jam, but I'd recommend turning comments off. Someone of your stature advocating, even indirectly, a facebook-only web: scary
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 12:16:05 AM
In Reply To @jwz
@jwz I'm in no way saying boycott Facebook, I'm saying "Facebook and.. {twitter and openid}". Isn't the web about, er, openness?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 31, 2011, 12:06:04 AM
In Reply To @mgspross
@mgspross well, the leagues are limited to users with 200+ rep to start: http://goo.gl/K6EpC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 11:52:15 PM
In Reply To @ajstiles
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 11:46:26 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash compuserve + modems, user group disk swaps.. computing has always been social, just at a slower pace and less *obviously* so.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 11:44:59 PM
In Reply To @drylight
@drylight using Macs makes one accustomed to all bold fonts as the norm.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 8:40:16 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers I don't, actually.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 6:07:08 PM
In Reply To @ShoeBlogger
@shoeblogger you are quite welcome! I did it for the shoes! Oh and maybe a little for the @betsyphd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 5:17:17 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers we're men. men take room.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 3:43:48 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers @mrgan @jzy I use eBay all the time for buying and selling... Do you? In my experience, it's a VERY accurate value calculator.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 3:37:50 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers @mrgan @jzy eBay is a far more accurate measure of fair market. The other numbers are IMNSHO bullshit.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 3:28:20 PM
In Reply To @splattne
@splattne blu-ray doesn't seem too healthy to me as a format, either
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 3:19:58 PM
In Reply To @mrgan
@mrgan @gknauss I agree that Apple hardware retains its value far better than other tech. But an iPhone4 off contract is worth $599.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 3:11:44 PM
In Reply To @mrgan
@mrgan @gknauss really? You sold them for 90% of the *UNSUBSIDIZED* cost? I'm just saying.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 10:52:20 AM
In Reply To @gknauss
@gknauss meanwhile Chrome is on version INFINITY PLUS ONE
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 10:09:18 AM
In Reply To @ajstiles
@ajstiles @appengine ok great, keep us advised -- all historical links from @stackexchange are broken :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 30, 2011, 8:33:11 AM
In Reply To @jonskeet
@jonskeet @samsaffron added server-side draft saving every 45 seconds a while ago, glad to hear it's working!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 7:27:18 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley OF COURSE DUH. That was right as I was leaving the apple scene though. Captain Midnight!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 7:09:36 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley what are you buying? YOUR POKEMANS, SHOW US THEM!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 1:13:57 PM
In Reply To @jeef3
@jeef3 meh, I like to play games, I like to alt+tab over and look stuff up on wikipedia, also server GUI stuff.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 12:41:06 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza we like anti-social coding
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 12:35:52 PM
In Reply To @growse
@growse oh you could easily do passive. Well, one very low speed fan. "Pure" passive is a bit of fool's gold IMHO .. way too hard.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 12:34:59 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza @marcgravell he's just being nice. YOUR CODE NOT ENTERPRISE SCALE!@!!@!!1! :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 9:33:16 AM
In Reply To @growse
@growse the i3 is incredibly powerful relative to everything else in its watt class. You can go lower watts, but less grunt.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 8:25:43 AM
In Reply To @lloeki
@lloeki the remote handles up/down/left/right 10 foot navigation.. the keyboard + mouse combo is for "everything else"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 29, 2011, 6:25:11 AM
In Reply To @secretGeek
@secretGeek HERE IS HOW: PROGRAMMING, MOTHERF**KER, DO YOU SPEAK IT? http://programming-motherfucker.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 7:36:47 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza it is like our universe, but smaller
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 7:29:30 PM
In Reply To @jzawodn
@jzawodn @dozba why%20do%20you%20say%20that%3F
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 7:18:01 PM
In Reply To @sidecut
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 7:17:08 PM
In Reply To @jarrod_dixon
@jarrod_dixon he stays cool in that outfit
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 6:26:35 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers I CAN GO ALL DAY LONG!!!!!1!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 6:12:05 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers He should be next in line for succession when Jobs passes. I'm not actually joking, either.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 6:08:34 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers he should get the Nobel fuckin' Prize
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 9:41:44 AM
In Reply To @coltfred
@coltfred that's the beauty of the configuration on my blog: it does everything well. I have 2.5 tb of laptop hdds in mine!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 5:20:17 AM
In Reply To @twith2sugars
@twith2sugars I like the Revo a lot, they had a CULV version too -- the Atom CPU performance is just too :( for me
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Mar 28, 2011, 1:59:24 AM
In Reply To @jarrod_dixon
@jarrod_dixon zardoz would be able to sleep.
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