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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 18, 2009, 5:15:16 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers I find your beliefs fascinating, but Mr. Cold Hard Data disagrees with you :) http://is.gd/5sTIx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 18, 2009, 5:06:54 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers blurry text is wrong too, because it's hard to read. Like I said, pick your poison. Only real solution: high DPIs.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 18, 2009, 4:57:24 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy turn off is inferior to cleartype pixelgrid snapping at low dpi. "off" is a boil the sea 'option'
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 18, 2009, 3:24:56 AM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked wildcats mappings sounds dangerous!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 18, 2009, 2:00:19 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway I know, against all odds Avatar is getting good reviews. It *looks* comically bad.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 17, 2009, 6:48:58 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@carnage4life people "plan" to do lots of stuff. What matters is where the money actually goes.. everything else is BS.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 17, 2009, 5:28:36 PM
In Reply To @mikehall
@mikehall slavery got a bad rap, man...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 17, 2009, 5:27:48 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley you know OSX is really just Xerox Parc's Alto, right?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 17, 2009, 2:34:48 PM
In Reply To @jacobladams
@jacobladams exactly, lol. GOLDSTAR!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 16, 2009, 3:20:04 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley man you and Windows 7 need to GET A ROOM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 16, 2009, 2:28:54 PM
In Reply To @pawelbrodzinski
@pawelbrodzinski wow, that's an amazing compliment -- thank you! And leave feedback on http://meta.stackoverflow.com if we can improve
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 16, 2009, 2:55:57 AM
In Reply To @samsaffron
@samsaffron not quite -- nowhere in your post did you mention use of the username. Peter Mortensen did, however..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2009, 5:32:49 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente the real analogy is pair programming, and that's sort of intentional. Team up!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2009, 4:16:46 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente ORDERED
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2009, 4:06:08 PM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked you know you CAN delete tweets right? Make it happen :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2009, 1:24:55 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer isn't a lot of stuff moving to solid-state caps?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2009, 12:17:17 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer {{citation needed}} in my experience, it's hard drives and PSUs that fail, all the time. Nothing else even close.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2009, 3:34:31 AM
In Reply To @blowdart
@blowdart white chocolate is made by the DEVIL!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2009, 2:29:50 AM
In Reply To @jonskeet
@jonskeet that *is* serious! get well soon! also, should we send out an advisory to let others know a window of rep opportunity is open? :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 15, 2009, 1:34:38 AM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts I don't know if I'd accept that kind of advice from a "level 1" webmaster with a generic avatar. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 14, 2009, 9:10:20 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@carnage4life facebook's walled garden wasn't evil, just dumb. But selling out your users is undeniably evil. there are other ways.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 14, 2009, 9:01:38 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@carnage4life horny is not the same as evil
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 14, 2009, 4:57:40 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers yeah, that's how I felt when I saw the TechCrunch logo in my twitter stream. Nasty obscene snuff porn image.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 14, 2009, 1:45:37 PM
In Reply To @jarin
@jarin ICUH8N
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 14, 2009, 1:36:04 PM
In Reply To @GollyJer
@gollyjer it's hard to say; feels wrong to me, but maybe the other 53% are static html, which is undeniably faster.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 12, 2009, 9:04:12 PM
In Reply To @kevinmarks
@kevinmarks could I trouble you for an email introduction to @rajbot ?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 12, 2009, 5:29:55 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy I can't think of anything I want to share that should be private. I can think of things I don't want to share, though..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 12, 2009, 5:24:10 PM
In Reply To @portman_wills
@portman_wills you're missing the point: their entire mission statement was wrong. Can't be both things. I hope they die trying, though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 12, 2009, 11:29:38 AM
In Reply To @alexrozanski
@perspx it's not a sympathy problem it's a celebrity problem. I try to use it for good and not evil, but it is inherently unfair.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 11, 2009, 6:05:25 PM
In Reply To @edbott
@edbott yeah, I've had a few bad experiences with the USPS shipping type as well. Erratic. Was a surprise to me..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 11, 2009, 5:32:24 PM
In Reply To @textfiles
@textfiles excellent, thanks -- the images are turning into the tricky bit to recover. I have a partial backup here to 2006..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 11, 2009, 1:45:48 PM
In Reply To @Donny_V
@donny_v it's mapping your single search term to a tag. by-design
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 11, 2009, 12:30:45 PM
In Reply To @flogic
@flogic yeah, but that's why we pay the hosting provider -- to be experts in this stuff. If I need to be, then that's missing the point
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 11, 2009, 4:18:08 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley why aren't you using the 64-bit version? Also, awesome people have 12GB now. 8GB is lame and passe.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 10, 2009, 8:25:35 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman it's definitely in the BIOS options. Just look under SATA settings for each channel or a "mode" selector.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 10, 2009, 8:25:06 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman unlikely; the "mode" of each SATA channel determines if it's AHCI or legacy emulation. Not much difference either way IMHO
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 10, 2009, 3:34:51 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer some family resemblance, I see :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 10, 2009, 3:19:20 PM
In Reply To @adamstel
@adamstel that's why I was thinking of it :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 10, 2009, 4:39:35 AM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman doesn't Acronis True Image offer a free full function trial? Would that work? I've used it before that way
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 10, 2009, 1:20:37 AM
In Reply To @SeifSallam
@seifsallam no, but I think Opera should, absolutely
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 9, 2009, 6:36:33 PM
In Reply To @Spatacoli
@spatacoli it sucked royally, and I eventually sold that 32 GB SSD drive. First gen FT-massive-L.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 9, 2009, 3:50:12 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd "I don't do evites."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 7, 2009, 7:24:23 PM
In Reply To @brunomlopes
@brunomlopes @kevinmarks the issue is that the design is broken; adding "unit tests" is a sloppy band-aid over that
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 7, 2009, 6:02:09 PM
In Reply To @edbott
@edbott they did the same exact thing for Vista -- family pack was gone in the wink of an eye. Lame. :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 7, 2009, 2:55:55 PM
In Reply To @drewm
@drewm I already have existing class names for styles on this page; i ain't rebuilding it. I'm tagging with semantic class names, null style
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 7, 2009, 2:50:00 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy the microformat classes will be null 'styles', they have no styling information defined in the css. Hopefully IE6 can deal with that.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 7, 2009, 2:14:59 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway yeah, it's AWESOME that we already have a "url" styling class defined, which conflicts with the 'meta' "url" class = lame.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 7, 2009, 12:17:47 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts search.. google.. honestly, I'm not seeing the connection there
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2009, 8:50:37 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente some people find the space bar "too stiff" and also have issues with where they put pressure on it. Never had an issue, myself
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 6, 2009, 6:19:31 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway the modern interpretation of zombie is "rage virus", which makes somewhat more sense, though not by much
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2009, 12:33:55 PM
In Reply To @julesdc
@julesdc why so angry? Win7 is what Vista should have been. Solid upgrade.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2009, 12:19:17 PM
In Reply To @dmunsie
@dmunsie it's the motherboard chipset stuff that is responsible for reinstall needs, typically
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 5, 2009, 12:17:06 PM
In Reply To @thecodemonk
@thecodemonk triple channel.. 6 slots x 2 gb each. 4gb dimms are "if you have to ask you can't afford it" expensive
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 4, 2009, 7:58:46 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente GEE PERFORMANCE IS A FEATURE ISNT IT
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 4, 2009, 3:49:22 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers that guy is on twitter, I can't remember his name. ask him.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 3, 2009, 11:46:41 AM
In Reply To @charasan
@charasan I lol'ed!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2009, 10:42:56 PM
In Reply To @RedBlueThing
@Cannonade 3163 has a nice ring to it.. no?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2009, 10:06:51 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts I wanted to vote for that, but BugZilla destroyed my will to live. Again.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2009, 7:19:22 PM
In Reply To @timbray
@timbray Hey, XML is "easy" to read too! Good times. :p
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2009, 4:41:41 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts the page speed data in webmaster tools for stackoverflow.com seems .. *really* off. Average of 3 sec per page? erhm.. uh..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 2, 2009, 12:51:12 AM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy be sure to disable right click as well.. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Dec 1, 2009, 2:55:51 PM
In Reply To @unigram
@mattjeffryes it's not the important, necessary half...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2009, 11:54:50 PM
In Reply To @simey
@simey that's a new one, ask it as a question on http://meta.stackoverflow.com and get community feedback
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2009, 5:00:27 PM
In Reply To @spolsky
@spolsky OMG I TOTALLY HAVE ROCK BAND SKILLS!!!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2009, 11:32:42 AM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd still cheaper than a monthly car payment of $300+!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2009, 10:47:44 AM
In Reply To @RockBandAide
@RockBandAide fair warning, that buy.com deal is a RB1 wireless strat which is IMO *considerably* worse than the RB2 strat
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 30, 2009, 1:36:25 AM
In Reply To @kmh
@kmh LIES! it's teleportation!!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 29, 2009, 8:29:44 PM
In Reply To @timbray
@timbray don't get me wrong, I do appreciate good photos. Just not personally interested in the process. But I do like Star Trek, I swear!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 29, 2009, 8:19:45 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa I figure once the camera mfgs get bored with the idiotic megapixel race, they'll add SLR-class image quality. Anyway: meh.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 29, 2009, 8:11:00 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa easy: turn on the lights, or move where there's more light. Are your kids bats? Problem solved, no $3k enorm-o-camera necessary.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 29, 2009, 7:59:33 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa have you considered .. boating?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2009, 12:26:13 PM
In Reply To @CaseyMalone
@hmxcasey she can't download Abbey Road on Wii. CASE F'ING CLOSED.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 27, 2009, 8:43:46 AM
In Reply To @ALyman
@ALyman lol, been there done that :p our databases are getting so large that I don't think our web tier servers can work as backups!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 26, 2009, 4:05:55 AM
In Reply To @jonskeet
@jonskeet you are sooo lucky I can't downvote that :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 25, 2009, 8:19:45 PM
In Reply To @xinmyname
@xinmyname nope, I have "Windows Firefox (Virtual XP)" in my start menu. Try again!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 25, 2009, 12:48:11 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley in Left4Dead2 you get a F**KING CHAINSAW. 'nuff said.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 23, 2009, 9:04:03 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley borderlands, meh, wasn't feeling it. Now Left 4 Dead 2, that's another story. These zombies ain't gonna kill *themselves*.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 23, 2009, 3:33:45 AM
In Reply To @gvanlee
@gvanlee I'll "fix it" by dropping Firefox like a rock as soon as Chrome v4 (the plugins release) is public.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 22, 2009, 8:28:59 PM
In Reply To @novaspivack
@novaspivack wrong, it's only bad for Bing and Murdoch, and they need to do it so others will treat it as a cautionary tale when it fails
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 20, 2009, 11:07:28 PM
In Reply To @NookTtocs
@lazycoder why do you give me advice for free? Keep that valuable stuff to yourself! :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 20, 2009, 11:02:48 PM
In Reply To @NookTtocs
@lazycoder wake me up when you have the work done for us. I'll be waiting.. oh, and don't make any mistakes or break anything. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 20, 2009, 10:16:53 PM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked css vs. tables: nobody cares. And if you have time to care, then you aren't doing anything worthwhile by definition.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 20, 2009, 10:15:49 PM
In Reply To @CaseyMalone
@hmxcasey crack is wack!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 19, 2009, 9:57:00 PM
In Reply To @psaffo
@psaffo sounds lovely, needs picture!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 19, 2009, 7:09:41 PM
In Reply To @y0mbo
@y0mbo do you know How to Ask Questions the Smart Way? See http://careers.stackoverflow.com/faq
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 19, 2009, 6:51:27 PM
In Reply To @nev
@nev sorry, it's wrong -- my Twitter join date is early 2006. I was there in person, so that's how I know.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 19, 2009, 3:57:05 AM
In Reply To @holgr
@holgr nope, shows 2007 for me but I joined Twitter in early 2006.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 19, 2009, 3:43:14 AM
In Reply To @Scobleizer
@scobleizer http://whendidyoujointwitter.com/ doesn't work; twitter doesn't know of all your messages, they discard the oldest ones. Sucks.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 19, 2009, 1:48:30 AM
In Reply To @tatehansen
@tatehansen it's winter
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 18, 2009, 3:28:42 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 17, 2009, 10:01:28 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente "I was in the room with Ray Ozzie .. Ray definitely didn't say (or mean) that 'apps don't matter'" http://is.gd/4XCjJ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 17, 2009, 9:55:25 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente I'm 99.9% sure Ozzie is being misquoted. Can you find the actual source, the transcript of what he said? My point exactly.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 16, 2009, 8:27:53 AM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa well we have both, fortunately. :) And how "correct" is "correct"?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 12, 2009, 4:37:34 PM
In Reply To @_JCobb
@teamonej hang in there, you only need 10 rep. We have to protect against spammers as we allow 100% anonymous participation.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 12, 2009, 4:44:24 AM
In Reply To @KristoferA
@kristofera I deleted it.
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