@ianchesal requiring a comment on downvote isn't realistic; people don't work that way. The ones that do, will. The rest not so much.

@jonskeet I guess I mean the ones who are very generous in sharing their opinions, shall we say..

@orj http://goo.gl/dBm0

@jzy wow you suck. I only missed the skiing game, which was a lame question anyway. Yes, WHICH skiing game? bah.

@wilshipley was she at least wearing a helmet?

@siracusa you should get her a Zune. No, that's too cruel.

@wilshipley tonight we're gonna play Rock Band. You know how I know? Because it's Wednesday. And Wednesday night is the night that we..

@raulagrait outstanding, email me with pros and cons after you give it a shot.. always interested in detailed feedback on careers

@cbguder well, except it doesn't search toolbars or dialogs. I'm kind of vehemently anti-menu. Bad paradigm. http://goo.gl/DmmL

@ahruman I guess, as long as it also searches toolbars, dialogs, and any other command vectors for the program (adding dialogs)

@kevindente I don't want a real Mercedes, either. Just FYI.

@jzy Dell has improved a bit, but they are not at desired Ikea levels yet. Apple = Mercedes. PC needs an Ikea.

@kevindente we use PowerGrep for this http://www.powergrep.com/

@kevindente and they'd all quit.

@NathanBowers twitter.com proves that quality is irrelevant, and "good / cheap enough" rules the day. Also, PCs.

@edbott oh yeah, any geek conference, the hotel wifi / network gets saturated into oblivion. This is pretty regular at every MIX I've been

@wilshipley it isn't that's my point. All the user-hostile sins of the past are being recomitted, except this time, open source fairy dust!

@Carnage4Life omg foursqare "unlocked" spam FTL :(

@mattcutts what's next? 30 days without sex? sunshine? happiness? #ontheedgeofmyseat

@OmarShahine ha ha 65w is enormous! The HTPC I built almost 2 years ago pulls 46w TOTAL, you can do way better now http://goo.gl/stRN

@seesharp I approve of these items.

@windley thanks for putting up with our crazy schedule!

@jzy no, not really. Not fast enough for my tastes.

@mstum you should add an answer quote/linking to your post as well since it contains new info. I was going to, but I figured better from you

@mstum see http://superuser.com/questions/118957/converting-displayport-and-or-hdmi-to-dvi-d

@timoreilly MS down -4.0, Android up +4.3. Seems pretty obvious -- Windows Mobile is massive lame duck until 7 is released.

@jeamland http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/the-iphone-software-revolution.html

@wilshipley hey, it's not my fault you're using the Motorola Droid of consoles IM JUST SAYIN

@wilshipley you should be playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and not that MOTS dreck

@Tim_Long as is the single button mouse

@Tullo yeah, exactly -- I can 100% the Tiger Woods golf hacking, whereas the pipes hacking was way more challenging!

@arya199 see http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/41566/why-cant-i-log-onto-stack-overflow-with-my-redirected-openid

@ElizabethSalter pics or it didn't happen. Someone is very camera shy, though..

@luisCielak Yes, the Tufte day course was worthwhile! You also get the books (all of them) as a part of the course cost.

@jonskeet Holly saves the day! Poor Tony...

@ElizabethSalter happy birthday! love the disguise kit -- you know who needs one of those, badly? @jarrod_dixon ..

@HMXCasey BEST. SONG. EVER.

@RockBandAide not worth it even for $5. Those RB1 guitars are sooo bad.

@siracusa weird how things that started out so awesome become so lame. See: Tivo, Palm Pilot. Rust never sleeps, I guess.

@Anauel you totally want that Macaw.

@haacked can I anti-sponsor @robconery to go to mix? like, pay for him to stay home? :)

@RockBandAide you bought a RB2 display kiosk? Where will the vocalist play!?

@mgrouchy "Follow Joel Spolsky at @spolsky" it's right there on my screen. I am not imagining it.

@jbruwer thank YOU for being a part of Stack Overflow

@wilshipley I wouldn't say that Apple is evil, exactly, but Jobs is a "by any means necessary" kind of guy. And now he has lots of means

@NathanBowers "you shouldn't have kids until you can afford to pay someone else to raise them" so true, lol

@mithra62 my condolences, that was not a good day

@siracusa pff, apparently you never played Marble Madness in the arcade. SWIPE FASTER!!

@wilshipley what's your proposed, preferred "wrap it up" conversation ender?

@johnwards not saying search isn't hard as hell, because it is, but search.twitter.com is not even *trying*.

@johnwards just used it to find a post on meta.. typed "gravatar unicorn" in the search and hit enter. What I wanted was the 1st result.

@ivoflipse5 twitter search doesn't even find exact string matches when I specify both the to: and from: users

@rohansingh tried calling, got hung up on twice during some kind of transfer.

@davidhfe I am not hardcore enough to build a laptop, sadly.

@ALyman we don't really have enough info to even make a good question

@mikbre funny, didn't have this problem the last two times I ordered a Dell. I guess nobody ever has a problem buying Macs, ever?

@mikbre I'm complaining about the failed process of ordering a product, not the product itself.

@jzy so does religion, equally worthless. I'll save my design dollars for stuff like furniture that endures more than 10 years, thanks.

@jzy I disagree, I can tell people *exactly* how it is to be a Dad. Most people can't communicate well, or are afraid of the truth.

@ohmz the asus ul80 is nice machine, but I've become very enamored of the studio 14z spec sheet.. 5 GB RAM, 2.53 Ghz Penryn, GeForce, etc

@wonderbits is that a thing? :)

@mrdenny yeah, well, YOU'RE not good for the environment! Nyah! :)

@gilesgoatboy I guess I'm stunned that I *personally* continue to get reports about this stuff, but not surprised it goes on in general

@gilesgoatboy I guess all we can do is push testing -- so every person who hires programmers knows to start with some small technical tests

@secretGeek when you say "Vista" I hear "Windows 7 Beta"

@RoryBecker editing a post (by anyone) makes it eligible for re-voting by everyone

@wilshipley I'M JUST SAYIN!

@wilshipley this bachelor stuff is unfollow-worthy. I'm just sayin'.

@VinayakKamat there were lots of search improvements post-fork. Compare SO and SE results -- they're different.

@kim3er errr... 4 GB and 8 GB USB keys are dirt cheap and bootable. optical drive is a relic at this point, the new floppy drive

@nbarnwell lol, well, hang in there, champ :) that's the one "fun" badge we do

@eyeh8u agreed, but our domestic beer isn't anywhere close to as iconic as "Hershey's Chocolate" and "American Cheese".

@portman_wills sweet, we have 2/3 of those recommended babby travel items. Would have third but others dissed it hard.

@siracusa so you're saying my premium Apple(tm) printer paper was not a good investment?

@siracusa I'm all for apple price premiums when they MEAN something, as in the LCDs. Now, say, the Mac Pro..

@siracusa Apple was definitely a leader in choosing non-suck (albeit more expensive) LCD displays for users. Respek!

@migueldeicaza oh I am certain you can, but is it really fair to compete against the handicapped?

@edbott so unromantic

@donpark newegg regularly does this on hot items

@nutsmuggler while you're busy writing sonnets to your screwdriver, I'll be over here building stuff with mine :)

@seesharp since I can't see your quote, I'm assuming it is "Apple will be supporting Silverlight on the iPad!"

@kevindente ouch my condolences sir. also, JUST WALK IT OFF, WUSSY!

@john_lam but.. but.. think of the angle brackets!!

@archie4oz LIES

@jonskeet I think the compiler optimized away your optimizations.. :)

@NathanBowers drop-down menus as a cornerstone of UI are a fail. Everything downstream of that is collateral damage

@kevindente really? does pressing the "home" button in Mobile Safari get you a new tab? No? I REST MY CASE

@NathanBowers but I also agree any more than two buttons on a device is bad as well (still in favor of hard-wired "always go back" button)

@NathanBowers you're reading that wrong: it's that drop-down menus are bad. Same rule on web. Bad, bad UI.

@wilshipley that's not what @wfs told us.

@DanielSchaffer NO! THAT IS NOT B-ROLL! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItFvB0Upb8

@sdorzak maybe he can do a dump analysis on his blog to figure out why it crashed!

@NathanBowers vista/win7 start has integrated type-to-search-everything. It's all I need..

@ethangunderson did you LOOK at all five forks to see which ones were best? which ones had code worth integrating, or met your needs?

@elehack like wikipedia the "latest greatest" version is all most people should need -- rest is history

@elehack make sure you're editing -- "iterative" on SO means, lots of editing of the question and answers.

@NathanBowers the minifridge is just out of frame on the right below the desk; you can see a fragment of it in the picture!

@izevaka Joel regularly listens to other podcasts whereas I don't, so I'm probably not familiar enough..

@HMXCasey is there anything more *hilarious* than racism? rhetorical question!

@po8crg indeed it is like alchemy of lead to gold except substituting "poop" for lead and "poop" for gold!