@edbott indeed it does, which is unexpected; the cost of "scales to any size uniformly" is apparently "looks a bit crappier all the time"

@edbott told me IE9 RC was safe to install, so I am installing it. Somebody hold me.

@mattcuba try the rest of the network; I like to think it is all of similarly high quality! http://stackexchange.com/sites

@jonesabi we unapologetically optimize for learning, and that requires suppressing (but not eliminating) fun

@jonesabi I think it's the reputation system; there is peer pressure for the reputation system to stay "untainted" by non-technical stuff

@anildash congrats! Also, see http://mobile.twitter.com/codinghorror/status/22416656017915904

@vdenial my high score is 7414, what's yours? p.s. teleport spell is a beast

@SelfTaughtLife self centered AWESOME jerk you mean?

@ryanwi I get asked the same questions.. A LOT. Like, a lot a lot A LOT. try this: http://goo.gl/VRxUL

@ryanwi read the /faqs on each site please, otherwise you're wasting your time and my time

@marcoarment the SLC vs MLC divide is alive and well, maybe for good reason: http://goo.gl/66eSl

@timbray so there is no sweet spot today, then? It's either performance and hellish complexity, or pretty and slow?

@timbray in your opinion, what's the wide finder "best performance without insane complexity" sweet spot today?

@ShawnWildermuth don't you have to put the version in the URL?

@MichaelHafner http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139137&cm_re=ssdnow-_-20-139-137-_-Product

@arturferreira no, these are dual core CULV http://goo.gl/3i8h

@donpark with Crazy Aaron's Putty http://puttyworld.com I noticed people tend to make two shapes. Guess what those shapes are?

@syedur no, just http://money.stackexchange.com/

@_ds I would say medium edits are ok too, it's the extra small ones that are discouraged. 6 chars min!

@_ds true, but is the post otherwise so perfect that it cannot be improved in any way?

@_ds the mental processing cost of edits (they must be looked at) is not zero, therefore.. Make em count

@mediaelementjs this is actually something we strongly discourage: http://goo.gl/J8X5P

@NathanBowers complex. have you read the rules page? it's like one whole giant monitor screen. http://goo.gl/z9TiR

@haacked blow some s**t up for me!

@jongalloway yeah the connect with twitter / facebook there is very tricksy, it's just to spam your social circle, no login used

@mgrdcm well played

@HackerNewsTips my disaster recovery plan: stop sucking and BE AWESOME.

@mathowie perfect, lol

@SQLSocialite we can have http://dba.stackexchange.com sponsor you guys! what do you need?

@jackabraham @dozba @lgastako you guys realize you're at.. *eBay*.. right?

@dcsobral weird, might have been a build blip. fixed!

@jonskeet the perils of JST : Jon Skeet Timezone!

@mipearson @ryanbigg @zedshaw ICUH8N

@wilshipley I am starring your tweet because it mentioned blowjobs.

@troethom what are you talking about? this is a database schema change.

@breakthesystem well, there's really two strategies: one is better for low res, the other for high res. I favor correct for circumstances

@splattne bah, still low res per commenters. iPad has pixels the size of goddamn grapefruits.

@shanselman @spolsky miscommunication is the issue, then! p.s. I blame @spolsky

@seesharp I APPROVE OF THESE ACTIVITIES

@seesharp congrats all!!

@johnnypasteles I know, it sucks!

@NathanBowers amend that to ".. or extreme OCD" and it is correct

@ojmason @spolsky by being awesome? :)

@wilshipley most normal people just buy an Xbox.

@ojmason @spolsky if you want to know about motorcycles, do you yell out your question in a crowded football stadium? where would you go?

@NathanBowers @spolsky "ask the experts". or, y'know.. Yahoo Answers.

@jpobst there is a nice halo effect -- if the Q&A genre is "hot" then we get talked about. And if we don't, we fix that.

@jonoabroad isn't every invention ultimately to scratch an itch the inventor had?

@iceoverflow spam questions / answers is the quickest way to kill a Q&A site. sorry.

@kevindente are you one of the Mozy abusers? :)

@balarajagopal bounty drop-down now. slider had a dumb jQuery UI dependency

@wilshipley Xbox is the Mac of consoles.

@NathanBowers @kevindente identity has to move into the browser

@MikeGrace @pilky rep actually accrues to cookie unreg users just fine; you can have thousands (but no voting, it's true)

@pilky I'm sorry, what else is essential on a Q&A site besides QUESTIONS and ANSWERS?

@pilky oh, but there is another option -- we don't require registration to ask or answer.. have users with 12 month old cookie accts

@kevindente Atwood's Law baby

@Gryzor LIES!

@daniel_carvalho entirely not the point. The status quo is unacceptable risk.

@EmilStenstrom meh, you can always email a one-use login token in that case. And Google and Facebook will not ever be "down".

@drylight non search websites. I mean regular websites, not "global search engines".

@drylight can you cite some other websites that behave this way? Just curious.

@wilshipley your entire life is one big fat lie isn't it? ISN'T IT?

@wilshipley well, that's programmers.se which is the "whiteboard, blue sky, no code compiles here" zone. http://goo.gl/VRxUL

@seesharp for me that song is http://goo.gl/zkzB

@ftrain FIRST!

@tooshel try http://stackoverflow.com/network-login-help

@ALyman I don't know about it yet either. not every site we create can or will survive beta, and this is OK.

@kwiens also call me crazy, but 2% of all searches .. even 0.5% of searches.. is still a lot IMO

@anildash partly that, partly insane tech bubble nobody outside the tech industry knows about (thanks, Sarbanes-Oxley!)

@Logrythmik you should be able to, as you log out of google/gmail before initiating log in. Only matters at the time of login for us.

@seriocomic GET IN LINE PAL! :D

@Logrythmik er, that's the way it is supposed to work

@richardcmcguire Fog Creek has had very negative experiences with Lucene, based on the email I got sent

@mattcutts http://twitter.com/#!/codinghorror/status/21727098545

@fascinated http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/designing-for-evil.html

@mrdenny if you ever need http://serverfault.com swag just ping me

@kevindente oh I am sure you will have more comments as you use it.. this I am SURE of..

@kevindente did you ever give me feedback on search? Your bitching-to-feedback ratio is all wrong!

@Ang3lFir3 @codereflection wtf are you guys talking about? link?

@wayne_douglas @kevindente we decided it doesn't matter since Lucene isn't a project that needs to change.. it's a solved problem.

@kevindente search on SO.. better? worse? FEEDBACKS REQUESTED http://goo.gl/Ncn1P

@MehrdadA to be fair, the 37signals implementation of OpenID was, literally: type in a URL.

@jtbandes see http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/12/on-the-meaning-of-coding-horror.html

@john_lam is it the sun? IT BURNS

@jhanssens short version: it was 1% of their customers and their UI for it was, I kid you not, "type in URL". Surprising, eh?

@Chris_Kasten now you're just hurting my feelings!

@fakingfantastic <looks around uncomfortably, shifts in chair>

@whrde we fully support creative commons and proper attribution for remix / reuse!

@jzy NO

@wilshipley why you gotta be hatin' on my favorite sweaty billionaire?

@Danbo shrug, the community wanted it created. "Does this code make my ass look fat?" is off-topic at SO. http://goo.gl/y8rSy

@NathanBowers wow I thought you were joking, that's amazing

@wilshipley I wish I could follow you like 5 times right now, for FIVE TIMES THE BACHELOR FUN!

@deadprogrammer uh, yeah, I ran my blog that way for 5 years. It sucks.

@ryantate see discussion at http://goo.gl/Mi3Lp

@deadprogrammer that post is 2 billion words of crazy

@ryantate ultimately it is about entertainment versus learning. http://stackexchange.com/sites is many niches

@gmlaws ack you found it first. Bad attribution. <3

@bsimser I make really bad life choices.