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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 11, 2009, 7:05:47 PM
In Reply To @greatseth
@greatseth ads have been in place since March! Are you referring to the >200 rep requirement for reduced ads?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 9, 2009, 2:54:18 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley that sounds SO INCREDIBLY BORING. GOD!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 8, 2009, 10:53:28 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers so broad as to be meaningless. Take it on the road to a productivity seminar, man!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 8, 2009, 7:33:05 AM
In Reply To @klmr
@klmr that's not good; looking at it now
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2009, 7:12:11 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake I had something like that too. Full month of being sick. It totally suuuuucked. Hang in there.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 7, 2009, 2:28:32 AM
In Reply To @splattne
@splattne not in this case; basically we need a hint that tells the optimizer "just sort this in memory kthxbye."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2009, 8:11:39 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers too bad you can't replace the battery on your 3G
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 6, 2009, 10:41:59 AM
In Reply To @vvoyer
@vvoyer looks compressed to me.. http://bit.ly/16CaZY
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 9:40:34 PM
In Reply To @KentBeck
@kentbeck consensus is that programmers are one of the worst possible adsense audiences, so it's an outlier
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 10:54:45 AM
In Reply To @CaseyMalone
@HMXCasey unless that stress is about the secret Rock Band 3 crap you guys better be working on, keep it to yourself, pal! :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 10:53:07 AM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake in practice, OpenID pretty much means "click giant Google logo" now. Versus "click giant Facebook logo". Difference?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 8:02:51 AM
In Reply To @rbonini
@rbonini damn you, you're right! :p
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 7:49:05 AM
In Reply To @balpha
@balpha next you'll be telling me Elvis is still alive. Suuuure.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 7:40:23 AM
In Reply To @balpha
@balpha I have been there. I got his xmas 2007 email. I STILL can't tell. He's THAT GOOD.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 7:28:15 AM
In Reply To @secretGeek
@secretGeek I demand a site where we can discuss the process of designing a MVC site for building MVC sites.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 7:02:15 AM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake no openid support for kickstarter, only walled garden of facebook? :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 4:50:31 AM
In Reply To @Scobleizer
@scobleizer because clouds typically charge $6k+/year for servers you could buy at half the price? Classic lease vs. buy argument.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 5, 2009, 2:37:05 AM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente that might work if you're into dudes. otherwise, not so much.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 3, 2009, 9:06:23 PM
In Reply To @ghoppe
@ghoppe send an email to the address at the bottom of every page
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 3, 2009, 6:20:51 PM
In Reply To @mrtomahawk
@mrtomahawk absolutely! note that your SF account, if associated, will show on your *public* cv. We're working on extending that.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 3, 2009, 5:35:58 PM
In Reply To @a_weiker
@aweiker you can; it's only shown on the public CV side at the moment. We're adding a more finely grained level of control soon.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 3, 2009, 2:44:48 AM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash bah, expertise is overrated!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2009, 10:34:55 PM
In Reply To @ArtemR
@artemr I think there's an android stackexchange http://twitter.com/readyState/status/4964558108
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2009, 10:30:36 PM
In Reply To @mattwdelong
@mattwdelong you don't grok the difference between flash and non-flash? do you see any flash ads on our sites? QED.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2009, 3:22:53 AM
In Reply To @drewm
@drewm it's corrupt if you're running Safari under latest OSX. In all other browsers and operating systems, it is not corrupt. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 2, 2009, 3:12:33 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley I guess your OS X and your PS3 OS have that in common, then.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2009, 5:14:54 PM
In Reply To @voidspace
@voidspace correct, it was font +1 so we do support that! It's the font +2 and beyond people that are crazy. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2009, 1:19:39 PM
In Reply To @danwilson11
@danwilson11 @spolsky changing openid login to reflect your feedback. Note that the topbar changes to "register" *once a user posts*.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Nov 1, 2009, 11:11:20 AM
In Reply To @voidspace
@voidspace I fixed that one. We officially only support font +1 and font -1, otherwise, use page zoom: http://is.gd/4KcZb
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 31, 2009, 4:22:28 PM
In Reply To @kch
@kch you're right it probably should be in retrospect
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2009, 12:20:43 AM
In Reply To @sids
@sids thanks, I forwarded that on to our hard working team! We wanted to get forms "right".
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 29, 2009, 12:12:13 AM
In Reply To @tooshel
@tooshel no need, just visit the "associate" tab in the UI and it's totally self-service
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 27, 2009, 6:21:35 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers you can use commas, semicolons or spaces.. all work
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 27, 2009, 10:52:50 AM
In Reply To @topley
@topley been to Mexico and Canada, Caribbean, never to Europe as an adult, though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 25, 2009, 1:07:20 AM
In Reply To @grokfail
@grokfail ok, include email address so I can send it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 25, 2009, 12:49:16 AM
In Reply To @NookTtocs
@lazycoder lol, $15k. FOSS baby. $0. the app_offline serves a http status code haproxy doesn't like, is all.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 24, 2009, 9:01:31 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy perhaps, but ONLY firefox has massive scroll lag with large visibility:hidden. I tested 3-4 other browsers, it's the only one.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 23, 2009, 9:05:52 PM
In Reply To @mpjoyn
@mpjoyn touche, but I never said we were "Thinking Different", just "Less Evil" :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 23, 2009, 3:04:49 AM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman you are unable to read your children's UML diagrams? Tsk.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 22, 2009, 11:14:37 AM
In Reply To @LaTtEX
@LaTtEX only Fog Creek can fix, not us
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 22, 2009, 10:25:38 AM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza agree on mail Apis -- do you have recommendations?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 22, 2009, 2:01:30 AM
In Reply To @jonskeet
@jonskeet I posted a bunch of test posts, which you can peruse.. seems ok to me
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 22, 2009, 1:43:43 AM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp this message will only be seen by people who follow BOTH of us. Invisible to everyone else on twitter.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 21, 2009, 5:29:46 PM
In Reply To @troygilbert
@troygilbert OK I misremembered it's $242 shipped. http://is.gd/4uIig http://is.gd/4uIj1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 21, 2009, 3:18:22 PM
In Reply To @seesharp
@seesharp good to know the adults are stealing H1N1 vac from the old people and babies that really actually needed it :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 21, 2009, 3:17:21 PM
In Reply To @fire_wally
@lucydb8 Chrome/Win renders it correctly for me. What OS are you running?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 21, 2009, 3:00:08 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers font rendering services are provided by the OS. That's why websites look so bad on Linux most of the time.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 21, 2009, 2:50:33 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers no, it's wrong. sorry. Please to be checking your reality distortion field :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 21, 2009, 2:42:37 PM
In Reply To @jeannicolas
@jeannicolas nope, iphone and safari 4 fail. OS fail, really. http://bit.ly/3UoiyL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 21, 2009, 12:25:43 PM
In Reply To @troygilbert
@troygilbert $319 for a netbook? OUTRAGEOUS!!!1! I paid $199 for our Acer Aspire Ones.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 21, 2009, 12:36:56 AM
In Reply To @aspinei
@aspinei "Google is trying to get mobile owners on their websites" everyone has Webkit. Not everyone has App Store.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 20, 2009, 4:52:44 PM
In Reply To @teyc
@teyc this is a wordpress thing, has nothing to do with so proper.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 19, 2009, 11:42:47 AM
In Reply To @MehrdadA
@mehrdada @betsyphd only if you like keynotes consisting entirely of "phppppbbbtttbtbt!".
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 17, 2009, 8:20:23 PM
In Reply To @ScottMuc
@scottmuc GREAT idea, can you post it on http://meta.stackoverflow.com tagged careers? I'll vote for it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 15, 2009, 2:20:40 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley i guess, but that's like moving into a house and worrying if your plumbing is copper or PVC.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 14, 2009, 9:30:05 PM
In Reply To @richardtallent
@richardtallent that's fine in theory but in practice I can rar and 7zip these sql server compressed files all day long to no effect
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 14, 2009, 6:47:26 PM
In Reply To @jeffl8n
@jeffl8n I use my laptop about once per month, max. Every time is an orgy of updates and syncing.. bah.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 14, 2009, 6:15:40 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers don't forget the blood red in the logo!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 14, 2009, 2:12:32 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers ugh, the new logo is horrible. http://bit.ly/12rigw
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 14, 2009, 1:44:08 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers don't forget the Pepsi logo redesign tragedy.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 12, 2009, 2:51:42 PM
In Reply To @bear
@bear looks like a winner, seems simple and applicable -- will use <rs:rank> !
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 12, 2009, 2:17:46 PM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked @betsyphd I just checked and it was definitely a pee not peer review.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 12, 2009, 1:07:10 AM
In Reply To @barrkel
@barrkel you're right, it TOTALLY should have said "N problems". so awesome!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 11, 2009, 6:00:31 PM
In Reply To @Scobleizer
@scobleizer oops, lol. I'm sorry. Following you is like following the weather -- it's all around us! email to jatwood@codinghorror.com
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2009, 2:43:54 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers I wish I could go to Taco Zone :(
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 9, 2009, 8:29:13 PM
In Reply To @mattgrommes
@mattgrommes {{citation needed}}
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 9, 2009, 6:45:48 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway wow, 100% dual core CPU usage. Didn't think a web page could do that. Congrats, web page!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 9, 2009, 2:44:52 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2009, 1:01:59 PM
In Reply To @febuiles
@febuiles yes, this is a known issue.. http://bit.ly/sPHFp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2009, 11:42:34 AM
In Reply To @ruslany
@ruslany Thanks your blog entries are grrrreat! (and sorry I was a doofus, iis7 rules!)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2009, 3:15:20 AM
In Reply To @Grumpydev
@grumpydev rewriting is one of the ULTRA gray areas between SO and SF, but I believe my job title is "programmer" (in this case), so..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2009, 2:52:40 AM
In Reply To @kitt
@kitt not lately due to http://careers.stackoverflow.com but hopefully I will be able to soon. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2009, 12:18:56 AM
In Reply To @downpourapp
@howsthedotcom tell 'em stack overflow / jeff atwood sent you! very nice folks, used them for coding horror stickers as well.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 4:24:37 PM
In Reply To @timheuer
@timheuer there is integration with SO via account association tab; synced via openid
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 3:52:19 PM
In Reply To @hotdogsladies
@hotdogsladies I swear the Clemons sax thing is the only actually funny thing you've said in a FUCKING YEAR. Just sayin'. But it was good.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 2:55:29 PM
In Reply To @scottcowan
@scottcowan depends how hot the date is, right? :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 2:51:07 PM
In Reply To @RockBandAide
@rockbandaide fyi, I've bought every RB DLC track, ever. Well, except that Naked Brothers nickolodeon crap and Spongebob.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 2:44:52 PM
In Reply To @RockBandAide
@rockbandaide I kid, I kid. After friggin' Jimmy Buffett, there are no limits. On the bottom, anyway. Choice is good! :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 2:39:06 PM
In Reply To @RockBandAide
@rockbandaide .. and who can I talk to to keep them *out* of Rock Band?! :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 2:30:43 AM
In Reply To @Grumpydev
@grumpydev ugh, that's the ONLY workaround? writing your own mail class from scratch?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 2:27:54 AM
In Reply To @Grumpydev
@grumpydev code sample? hyperlink?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2009, 1:08:13 AM
In Reply To @bsimser
@bsimser he hardly cries at all now; the whole thing took maybe 4 days tops and there really wasn't that much crying. Comforted at intervals
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 6, 2009, 7:36:27 PM
In Reply To @Spatacoli
@spatacoli ICUH8N
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 6, 2009, 6:06:42 PM
In Reply To @orhunt
@orhunt wow, TTFAF on 5-button drums. crazy! http://bit.ly/gRabC
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 6, 2009, 5:01:03 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts here's a relatively-short distance dedication from me, to you: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001302.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 6, 2009, 4:06:38 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers "the process that preceded the painting of the new portrait" http://is.gd/40224
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 6, 2009, 4:05:17 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers 1996 is a painting, they're all paintings http://bit.ly/3AZe6w
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 4, 2009, 8:16:28 AM
In Reply To @edbott
@edbott so how does one go about getting a tuner, then? ebay only?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 4, 2009, 4:20:41 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley boxed in? like this? http://bit.ly/e1ih0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 4, 2009, 2:15:45 AM
In Reply To @bmitchelmore
@the_real_blair how much AI does a missile need?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2009, 2:27:26 AM
In Reply To @splattne
@splattne don't be ridiculous. We have to get Stack Overflow integration with Facebook and Twitter up and running 1st.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2009, 1:02:58 AM
In Reply To @mmazur
@mmazur Boston, the first one, on the 7th. tick tick tick!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2009, 4:08:28 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake I don't mean to be a grump, but what's the point of these hipster helps-nobody funny projects on Kickstarter? Needs utility.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2009, 3:41:55 PM
In Reply To @BasharSupreme
@dickymathews did you really put effort into that one, though? http://is.gd/3qoGz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 14, 2009, 12:08:10 PM
In Reply To @nicksdjohnson
@nicksdjohnson I field at least one email per day from a user confused why their "real google" openid is not working.. and it's not real!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2009, 8:22:11 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley someone stole your wood? TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW, amirite??
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2009, 1:16:45 AM
In Reply To @jamesmarcusbach
@jamesmarcusbach did you ever consider your "kinder, gentler machine gun hand" style of discourse is actually undermining your message?
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