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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 5:35:17 PM
In Reply To @cadred
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 5:24:02 PM
In Reply To @Encosia
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 2:44:44 AM
In Reply To @paddyslacker
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 4, 2009, 12:57:33 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway the flagship "ships with WIndows and built with .NET" app is still Media Center http://is.gd/ww8m
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 3, 2009, 12:35:59 AM
In Reply To @dansdata
@dansdata there is something wrong with chocolate coated potato chips? http://is.gd/whPV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 9:01:24 PM
In Reply To @timlara
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 8:46:27 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 7:54:02 PM
In Reply To @mbcharbonneau
@mbcharbonneau long tail "way after the fact" comments are often quite good; I can cite hundreds (!) of posts and examples
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 7:34:59 PM
In Reply To @segdeha
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 6:27:35 PM
In Reply To @xenolinguist
@xenolinguist it's not really rickrolling if you own the 12" remix. Lesser men would not admit to this.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 5:09:05 AM
In Reply To @alexstapleton
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 3:35:07 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway stuff like "from the beginning of last week" is not easy in c#. try it yourself, sir.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 2, 2009, 2:37:50 AM
In Reply To @AccordionGuy
@accordionguy Jewish Wolverine is KILLING me, man http://is.gd/w3ya
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 8:25:49 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
May 1, 2009, 8:15:47 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 11:56:47 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman @raylinder if I went offline for 2 weeks, I'd be out of a job. Two jobs, actually
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 9:45:01 PM
In Reply To @tod1d
@tod1d I'm just relating what the data is telling me. Don't yell at me, yell at the data.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 9:06:13 PM
In Reply To @CVertex
@CVertex no you don't. GOTCHA!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 7:11:11 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers http://is.gd/vJem , it's like a giant pretentious-coated ball o' pretentious with pretentious filling. Gag.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 6:05:38 PM
In Reply To @RobDrimmie
@rmdrimmie I think this milk is bad.. TASTE IT!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 5:44:51 PM
In Reply To @david_andries
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 30, 2009, 5:03:43 PM
In Reply To @klmr
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 29, 2009, 8:33:22 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley congrats! what's your ETA on moving to SF?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 29, 2009, 7:14:06 PM
In Reply To @hkarthik
@hkarthik excellent, anything that kills off the craptacular TN LCD panel type is a win for everyone
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 29, 2009, 6:58:21 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 29, 2009, 5:40:03 PM
In Reply To @spolsky
@spolsky @rversaw new users can comment on their *own* question and any *answers* to it, even with 1 rep.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 29, 2009, 1:51:51 AM
In Reply To @ALyman
@alyman "I think it should be possible to downvote my own posts" that's the spirit, sir!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 28, 2009, 11:02:57 PM
In Reply To @nberardi
@nberardi I am going on record stating that "baby kick twitter" thing is just *lame*. http://is.gd/bjXv
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 28, 2009, 7:12:20 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts this is still by far the best GEICO ad: http://tinyurl.com/36yhpk
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 28, 2009, 5:08:35 PM
In Reply To @john_lam
@john_lam this is very cool, twenty-three GPUs folding away -- http://atlasfolding.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 28, 2009, 4:52:56 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 28, 2009, 1:38:32 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente all OSes pretty much eat dirt if you allocate all available memory and then some..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 28, 2009, 4:22:05 AM
In Reply To @siovene
@siovene the first two frames are BRILLIANT and SO TRUE http://tinyurl.com/6qksq9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 28, 2009, 4:06:59 AM
In Reply To @marcoschierhorn
@marcoschierhorn couple million a day
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 27, 2009, 6:47:47 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers where is that mini-URL linked from on their site, though?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 27, 2009, 3:38:24 PM
In Reply To @antdev
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 27, 2009, 3:35:15 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 27, 2009, 4:05:47 AM
In Reply To @HikingLifter
@burielwebwerx no, THIS is the American Stonehenge! http://www.carhenge.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 27, 2009, 12:23:42 AM
In Reply To @shanselman
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 26, 2009, 2:35:28 PM
In Reply To @bsimser
@bsimser my pocketknife has the Pulp Fiction joke going.. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000251.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 26, 2009, 2:19:39 PM
In Reply To @OmarShahine
@omarshahine OMG dot matrix printout wallet!! WANT http://tinyurl.com/ca8t2e
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 26, 2009, 5:54:05 AM
In Reply To @millenomi
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 25, 2009, 4:46:27 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 25, 2009, 4:10:19 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 25, 2009, 4:01:50 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 25, 2009, 3:35:04 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers I think of it more like open sourcing design. hey, people who write software like to get paid, too..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 25, 2009, 2:52:24 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers I don't understand why people care who is following them.. why would that matter?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 24, 2009, 10:27:22 PM
In Reply To @dustmachine
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 24, 2009, 2:22:13 PM
In Reply To @AntonOlsen
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 24, 2009, 12:11:22 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente I've tried that ASP.NET cache tool, it's not very good. http://is.gd/ukeR
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 9:00:10 PM
In Reply To @eschaton
@eschaton sadly, no, but send all my love to @wilshipley
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 8:12:09 PM
In Reply To @spolsky
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 11:54:37 AM
In Reply To @kevindente
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 10:55:46 AM
In Reply To @marcoarment
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 10:52:11 AM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@carnage4life I believe in creating customer problems so I can be paid to solve them.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 5:51:02 AM
In Reply To @wickedshimmy
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 5:12:08 AM
In Reply To @Grumpydev
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 3:42:40 AM
In Reply To @StClairJohn
@stclairjohn @fukue the news auto-tuning is GREAT http://tinyurl.com/coyn52
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 23, 2009, 1:09:02 AM
In Reply To @ebruchez
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2009, 12:51:42 PM
In Reply To @onyxraven
@onyxraven that's strange, I've always pronounced it "mytzlplk"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2009, 12:12:15 PM
In Reply To @spolsky
@spolsky just pronounced Ada "Ay Dee Ay". as in, the american dental association. Hilarity ensues. http://is.gd/21n6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2009, 10:44:29 AM
In Reply To @donttrythis
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2009, 9:56:22 AM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa apparently THAT is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!! http://bit.ly/M71cU
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2009, 3:09:32 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway moses would have blogged it instead.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2009, 2:38:15 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway "writing a book" <-- bad idea. Stop wasting your time with that and spend it on something useful, instead!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2009, 2:19:50 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 22, 2009, 1:22:13 AM
In Reply To @cjsharp
@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.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2009, 7:53:34 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd reminded me that having money means you can buy things to destroy them. Like our neighbors' junky RV perma-parked on the block.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 21, 2009, 2:48:18 AM
In Reply To @donpark
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 12:08:44 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente "Oh yeah, and then sell me that version for my desktop too." OH SNAP!!! BALLMER YOU JUST GOT SERVED!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 12:02:56 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 11:59:24 AM
In Reply To @jstratmann
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 9:39:17 AM
In Reply To @cbguder
@cbguder monday night (tonight) we will have better support for display names with hats and/or beards..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 6:56:17 AM
In Reply To @boomplugin
@boomtopper ooh, I forgot the umlaut, source of much \m/ http://tinyurl.com/b2towa
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 6:47:44 AM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa aha! that's where you're *WRONG* I always have to be harassed into doing everything! just ask @spolsky !
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 5:01:46 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 4:49:24 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway they could at least namespace the classes, like "hcard.region". Then I could view source and see "oh, hcard".
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 3:56:10 AM
In Reply To @pilky
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 3:40:42 AM
In Reply To @pilky
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 2:57:10 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 1:44:58 AM
In Reply To @timbray
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 20, 2009, 1:00:54 AM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts welcome to the Prestigious Triple Monitor Club! We're always looking for new members! http://is.gd/toce
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2009, 10:54:33 PM
In Reply To @cshirky
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2009, 9:25:17 PM
In Reply To @hunter
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2009, 9:18:34 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers http://dorkyearbook.com/ is so awesome, omg I have some pics I need to put in there..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2009, 11:59:16 AM
In Reply To @timoreilly
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 19, 2009, 11:13:21 AM
In Reply To @roytang
@roytang my bad. Here are some videos from the SF4 US championship. http://is.gd/tj8W
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2009, 2:29:09 PM
In Reply To @lectronice
@lectronice disagree; Google search is uncluttered and simple. Reddit is a sprawling mess of numbers, icons, and tiny text.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2009, 5:19:29 AM
In Reply To @jbeckh2
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2009, 2:32:52 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway "OSS Antipattern: Patch Driven Development" needs blog post..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2009, 12:29:13 AM
In Reply To @shamam
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 18, 2009, 12:19:10 AM
In Reply To @kevindente
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 11:21:18 PM
In Reply To @NookTtocs
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 8:49:19 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy the reddit guys sent a crowbar to the CERN scientist http://tinyurl.com/5savxy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 7:30:18 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente I vote we rename the term TDD to "inflammable". And then set it on fire. BURN!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 7:29:07 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake twitter search was regular source of errors for me, and is progressively sucking more and more.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 7:18:06 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@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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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 7:02:01 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts Google's OpenID support is superb (URL could be better, tho). Disqus doesn't support OpenID??
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 6:57:38 PM
In Reply To @tgibbs
@tgibbs I do not approve of this quote http://tinyurl.com/dayc72
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 7:47:16 AM
In Reply To @hotdogsladies
@hotdogsladies your serious questions frighten and disturb me. Please to be resuming with regularly scheduled clever clever verbal hijinx
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