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@cadred the other two aren't password related, and even the one I just disclosed isn't *exactly* about the password IMO

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@encosia yeah, but it's no G9 aka the Mouse Of The Gods http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000977.html

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@paddyslacker I know, next I'm buying a gun and learning how to become a soldier instead of wasting my time playing Call of Duty 4..

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@jongalloway the flagship "ships with WIndows and built with .NET" app is still Media Center http://is.gd/ww8m

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@dansdata there is something wrong with chocolate coated potato chips? http://is.gd/whPV

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@timlara Mike Post is a genius; the greatest american hero theme is also on those DVDs I burned for @nathanbowers too

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@mattcutts Philosophical Q: If a site is in the Windows Live Search penalty box, could anyone *tell*? Oh noes! I lost 0.2% of my traffic!

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@mbcharbonneau long tail "way after the fact" comments are often quite good; I can cite hundreds (!) of posts and examples

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@segdeha "close comments after 15 days" is a boil the sea 'solution'. I officially dub that lame. http://is.gd/wdcQ

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@xenolinguist it's not really rickrolling if you own the 12" remix. Lesser men would not admit to this.

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@alexstapleton I mean that some people seem to grok stuff without as much verbose explanation around it, not that they agree with me

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@jongalloway stuff like "from the beginning of last week" is not easy in c#. try it yourself, sir.

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@accordionguy Jewish Wolverine is KILLING me, man http://is.gd/w3ya

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@wilshipley you need to carry around a baby, that's like the ultimate self-perpetuating chick magnet. You can borrow @rockhardawesome

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@wilshipley before you jump off the bridge, I call dibs on your pinball machines. Also, good luck in the next life!

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@shanselman @raylinder if I went offline for 2 weeks, I'd be out of a job. Two jobs, actually

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@tod1d I'm just relating what the data is telling me. Don't yell at me, yell at the data.

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@CVertex no you don't. GOTCHA!

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@nathanbowers http://is.gd/vJem , it's like a giant pretentious-coated ball o' pretentious with pretentious filling. Gag.

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@rmdrimmie I think this milk is bad.. TASTE IT!

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@david_andries #regions are like wire coat hangers, you use them, I beat you with them http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001147.html

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@klmr congrats, man! we've always said that stackoverflow is about showing how awesome our fellow *programmers* are, not the website / us.

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@wilshipley congrats! what's your ETA on moving to SF?

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@hkarthik excellent, anything that kills off the craptacular TN LCD panel type is a win for everyone

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@shanselman @kevindente if it's a TN LCD panel, it's crap and you don't want it anyway http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000991.html

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@alyman "I think it should be possible to downvote my own posts" that's the spirit, sir!

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@nberardi I am going on record stating that "baby kick twitter" thing is just *lame*. http://is.gd/bjXv

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@mattcutts this is still by far the best GEICO ad: http://tinyurl.com/36yhpk

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@john_lam this is very cool, twenty-three GPUs folding away -- http://atlasfolding.com/

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@anildash just promised me he's going to do some auto-tune for upcoming sixapart feature launches. THE INTERNET IS MY WITNESS!

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@kevindente all OSes pretty much eat dirt if you allocate all available memory and then some..

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@siovene the first two frames are BRILLIANT and SO TRUE http://tinyurl.com/6qksq9

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@marcoschierhorn couple million a day

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@nathanbowers where is that mini-URL linked from on their site, though?

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@antdev no; the rules of life: 1) nobody gives a crap, 2) nobody gives a crap, and last and most importantly 3) nobody gives a crap

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@nathanbowers is @billy for real? Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, the guy wears a giant quasi-futuristic quilted dress on stage

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@burielwebwerx no, THIS is the American Stonehenge! http://www.carhenge.com/

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@shanselman @mrcarxpert what they don't tell you is that "plant" mode is like a bataan death march, but without the fun uniforms

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@bsimser my pocketknife has the Pulp Fiction joke going.. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000251.html

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@omarshahine OMG dot matrix printout wallet!! WANT http://tinyurl.com/ca8t2e

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@millenomi but recreating the indexes is pretty darn fast in my experience.. I guess if you had 100 GB+ of data?

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@nathanbowers "Would you ever spend hours coding something that you and the world can never use?" this is every internal IT job ever, FYI

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@nathanbowers I guess what I'm saying is I don't see the "no spec" thing as quite as black and white as some would make it out to be

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@nathanbowers it isn't always free, though; there are biz models around open source, just like threadless has a biz model around artists

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@nathanbowers I think of it more like open sourcing design. hey, people who write software like to get paid, too..

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@nathanbowers I don't understand why people care who is following them.. why would that matter?

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@dustmachine we should have a big worldwide convention for a cappella groups. And then "accidentally" destroy the building. Oops. Our bad!

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@antonolsen "My Adsense revenue is about 1/100th what it was 2 years ago." I have no history with adsense.. why do you think that is?

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@eschaton sadly, no, but send all my love to @wilshipley

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@spolsky was in town with Michael and we played Rock Band together, finally! He rocked "Don't Fear the Reaper" on vox, 99% score

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@kevindente more apt: they like being in school so much they want to spend all their time there, and help manage the school.

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@marcoarment "you shouldn't do this" is fine if it is accompanied by an explanation. But as a one liner I would downvote it, as should all.

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@carnage4life I believe in creating customer problems so I can be paid to solve them.

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@wickedshimmy true. Omen is one of those movies I saw as a kid that I really.. uh.. shouldn't have. We'll try to keep @rockhardawesome safe.

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@grumpydev it's a metaphor explaining what it feels like to implement a feature that you think makes the software worse. JOKE RUINER.

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@ebruchez the point is, keep the meta stuff in its own area so it doesn't pollute the place where people actually DO things. eg "talk" pages

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@onyxraven that's strange, I've always pronounced it "mytzlplk"

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@spolsky just pronounced Ada "Ay Dee Ay". as in, the american dental association. Hilarity ensues. http://is.gd/21n6

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@donttrythis Neighbor's junky RV for sale, we'd love the mythbusters to buy & blow it up. Interested? We're local! http://twitpic.com/3r5o8

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@siracusa apparently THAT is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!! http://bit.ly/M71cU

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@jongalloway moses would have blogged it instead.

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@jongalloway "writing a book" <-- bad idea. Stop wasting your time with that and spend it on something useful, instead!

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@wilshipley corollary to that, though, is that it is world-negative to hide (potentially) beautiful things you've done. Just don't seek out.

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@cjsharp I go through mad points because I buy almost all DLC for fake plastic rock games. Best prices obtained so far: $35 for $50 card.

Jeff Atwood
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@betsyphd reminded me that having money means you can buy things to destroy them. Like our neighbors' junky RV perma-parked on the block.

Jeff Atwood
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@donpark one thing the sf paper does is "promote" editorially selected comments to top and hide the rest. so does dailywtf.com

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@kevindente "Oh yeah, and then sell me that version for my desktop too." OH SNAP!!! BALLMER YOU JUST GOT SERVED!

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@mattcutts I've been advocating triple monitors since 2004! "I recently went from two to three panels" http://is.gd/kOVN

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@jstratmann Swoopo: Profitable Until Deemed Illegal http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001196.html

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@cbguder monday night (tonight) we will have better support for display names with hats and/or beards..

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@boomtopper ooh, I forgot the umlaut, source of much \m/ http://tinyurl.com/b2towa

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@jongalloway I don't get microformats. How are these things improving my life? Seems like markup wankery on some level to me. JUST SAYIN'

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@jongalloway they could at least namespace the classes, like "hcard.region". Then I could view source and see "oh, hcard".

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@pilky lack of AdBlock/firefox plugin ecosystem (or Google's outstanding Chrome) "features" as well? iphone is nice, but netbook = real web

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@pilky you must have very low standards; Mobile Safari is an excellent effort, but 1024x600 @ 9" plus REAL browser (uh, flash?) is WIN

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@jongalloway iPhone is the world's most expensive netbook. $199 + $80 * months. That's over $2000 for 2 years of use. BARGAIN!

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@timbray joked about blocking yahoo and live search, but you might as well. They aren't worth the bandwidth they consume -- 0.5% of traffic

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@mattcutts welcome to the Prestigious Triple Monitor Club! We're always looking for new members! http://is.gd/toce

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@cshirky oh god, the incredible mouth-breathing lameness of 4-20 day tomorrow. Great. I say we turn the internet off for a day, instead.

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@hunter (shrug) "If there's a problem yo, I'll solve it. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it." If the RAID is *unfixable*, then yes.

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@nathanbowers http://dorkyearbook.com/ is so awesome, omg I have some pics I need to put in there..

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@timoreilly for the record, stack overflow user pages inclde rel="me", *and* we un-nofollow your URL when you achieve enough rep

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@roytang my bad. Here are some videos from the SF4 US championship. http://is.gd/tj8W

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@lectronice disagree; Google search is uncluttered and simple. Reddit is a sprawling mess of numbers, icons, and tiny text.

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@jbeckh2 asks "do you ever sleep?" I invite you to meet @rockhardawesome aka the "you'll never sleep again device". Sleep is for WUSSES!

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@jongalloway "OSS Antipattern: Patch Driven Development" needs blog post..

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@shamam are you saying I don't ask you to put the lotion in the basket nicely enough? http://tinyurl.com/6ngtfs

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@kevindente @haacked "how about a small embedded CRC code in the source" @secretgeek has proposed this as well.. perhaps he can comment

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@lazycoder wait for next gen netbook platform from intel. Current is hacky as hell (bad supporting chipset) and very power inefficient.

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@jzy the reddit guys sent a crowbar to the CERN scientist http://tinyurl.com/5savxy

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@kevindente I vote we rename the term TDD to "inflammable". And then set it on fire. BURN!

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@waxpancake twitter search was regular source of errors for me, and is progressively sucking more and more.

Jeff Atwood
@codinghorror
@kevindente if you get the name wrong, you get everything wrong. Remember when I said naming was hard? Well, here's your case study in why.

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@mattcutts Google's OpenID support is superb (URL could be better, tho). Disqus doesn't support OpenID??

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@tgibbs I do not approve of this quote http://tinyurl.com/dayc72

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@codinghorror
@hotdogsladies your serious questions frighten and disturb me. Please to be resuming with regularly scheduled clever clever verbal hijinx