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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 17, 2009, 4:55:38 AM
In Reply To @rschu
@rschu from the BEST WEBSITE IN THE WORLD.. naturally. rhymes with "macknovertow"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 11:47:10 PM
In Reply To @ohunt
@ohunt already fixed. Wasn't aware that *SOMEONE* had recreated a twitter UI mistake -- deleting characters that go over the comment limit!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 6:42:09 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente it'd be easier to understand your needs if you blogged about it instead of writing 12+ back and forth tweets
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 6:25:42 PM
In Reply To @danudey
@danudey "I know some people for whom it makes sense" this is a thinly veiled version of Godwin's Law, you realize that, right?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 6:21:11 PM
In Reply To @spolsky
@spolsky says the guy who has his own "teh facebooks!!1!" account. Twitter is just IRC for the web. Long tradition of this: http://is.gd/lR1
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 6:07:19 PM
In Reply To @kch
@kch "are unixy tricks on the mac or obscure property list settings are within the valid serverfault question spectrum" yes
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 6:06:02 PM
In Reply To @pseale
@pseale not even remotely the same issue
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 4:11:00 AM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy just created a pretty sweet CSS reskin for serverfault.com
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 3:22:05 AM
In Reply To @atl
@atl when you run a site that has approx 1,000 XKCD comics posted per day, you start to get a little.. bored.. with typical programmer jokes
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 16, 2009, 3:19:19 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway I'm pretty sure hotmail.com is in the IE8 "compatibility view" list as well
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2009, 9:30:49 PM
In Reply To @AccordionGuy
@accordionguy try to work this cartoon into your post http://gunshowcomic.com/d/20081121.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2009, 9:00:05 PM
In Reply To @danudey
@danudey well, exactly. We have enough REAL joke programming languages already. Like the P.ersonal H.ome P.age one.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2009, 5:20:50 PM
In Reply To @zachleat
@zachleat you dispute the truthiness of my statements? "I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist." http://is.gd/kB5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 15, 2009, 3:20:00 AM
In Reply To @macbirdie
@macbirdie I had seen one episode, didn't realize there was a whole channel of Simon's Cat http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 11:04:10 PM
In Reply To @CaseyMalone
@HMXCasey yes, but eating it.. might make you gay! Well, even gayer. http://is.gd/suG6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 10:23:52 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway Share Hard II: Share Harder.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 10:20:56 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@carnage4life for some reason your description of grad school as a "sucka move" made me LOL. I think I imagined Mr. T as an advisor.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 8:52:39 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley is it like on the price is right? Then I bid one dollar, because you suckers all overbid! winner: ME
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 8:48:18 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley you know what helps bidding wars? giving them more publicity.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 8:25:34 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley I still buy CDs, sometimes, because the music I want tends to be obscure collections
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 7:00:00 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente yep I blogged about the Russians that Saved the World in 2006 http://is.gd/ssPK
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 6:07:13 PM
In Reply To @deliciousbees
@deliciousbees did you really dismiss the complaints about people who don't like "Visions" coming up in random sets?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 4:56:53 AM
In Reply To @ojtibi
@ojtibi that it sucks? wasn't designed for this kind of use, and it shows. Sort of like using Lotus Notes as an email system. NUFFSAID
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 4:55:58 AM
In Reply To @LostInTangent
@lostintangent I'm saying we now fully and thoroughly regret choosing the default ASP.NET view engine. Switching (to Spark) will be pain^3
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 14, 2009, 4:07:27 AM
In Reply To @AdamSadler300
@davwhite this is the other side of the story, which is not linked there http://tinyurl.com/cqjgry
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 4:38:05 AM
In Reply To @snurre
@snurre "the article about tabs and spaces was too biased for me" awesome, lol
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 3:47:18 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers hates the Google User Experience rules SO MUCH, OMG http://www.google.com/corporate/ux.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 13, 2009, 12:19:10 AM
In Reply To @CaseyMalone
@HMXCasey gotta go with Jack Black on this one. The Bends is the best Radiohead album, by far http://is.gd/s6K4
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 10:30:49 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente clearly "is a leaky abstraction" is a leaky abstraction.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 12:36:43 PM
In Reply To @schottac
@schottac you *can* switch to IE6 on the Mac -- you're just not switching hard enough. SWITCH HARDER.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 11:53:31 AM
In Reply To @wdr1
@wdr1 you mean the source article was wrong. I'm a blogger, I don't write anything, I just ctrl+c, ctrl+v blockquote and add LOLZ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 11:49:35 AM
In Reply To @Encosia
@encosia they'll get my IE6 when they claw it out of my cold, dead hands! http://www.saveie6.com
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 11:34:31 AM
In Reply To @hotdogsladies
@hotdogsladies apparently you are unfamiliar with the Politics of Dancing http://is.gd/s2WN
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 12, 2009, 9:18:17 AM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@carnage4life epic lolz, cuil.com as a success story http://tinyurl.com/8mw32t
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 11:17:29 PM
In Reply To @bradwilson
@bradwilson reminded me that Wing is still kicking out the jams http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/listen.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 3:50:32 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley think like a programmer, man! use a GUID for the name! "hey did you guys install the 5C2C1D6A-26DA-11DE-AC49-ECF755D89593 app??"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 1:35:12 PM
In Reply To @wdr1
@wdr1 you willingly worked for TicketBastard? Why do you hate the world so much? :P
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 1:33:59 PM
In Reply To @skrenta
@skrenta "newspapers don't link out much" that's the understatement of the century
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 12:24:14 PM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts as I've said before, Google needs to introduce an url shortening service. No, search isn't the same thing. You guys = center.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 10:25:35 AM
In Reply To @windley
@windley errr.. "Easter Egg dying time" .. I'll be declining any invitations to your easter parties, kthx
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 9:39:23 AM
In Reply To @splattne
@splattne my opinion on that topic is not a popular one, but I stand behind it (with some clarifications I'll get to next week)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 8:31:20 AM
In Reply To @robdiana
@robdiana uni teaches you how to live outside your parents' home without killing yourself or anyone else. In theory.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 7:17:48 AM
In Reply To @CaseySoftware
@caseysoftware one of the big, big lies of MVC (in general) is that tag soup is somehow more maintainable than code. It ain't..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 7:13:23 AM
In Reply To @CaseySoftware
@caseysoftware "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 11, 2009, 4:51:11 AM
In Reply To @lepinkainen
@lepinkainen you know what's irrational? Focusing on one irrational decision in a FLIPPIN' SEA OF THEM
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 9:39:29 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd says that high class call girls is not a valid form of birth control. I respectfully disagree.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 8:58:28 PM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked I use UnitUnit for testing.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 10, 2009, 7:45:06 PM
In Reply To @aaronlerch
@aaronlerch perhaps but we can agree that @jeffmoser is great, no?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 10:17:44 PM
In Reply To @skrenta
@skrenta information wants to be free! even if we have to drag it, kicking and screaming!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 5:17:59 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@carnage4life yeah, the Digg framing is intensely lame and should be dropped
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 10:02:03 AM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza "Many ideologues do not contribute code." <-- needs blog entry
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 10:01:25 AM
In Reply To @beckleyworks
@beckleyworks did you SEE some of the other logos? I think some of those "designers" were overpaid at $0.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 6:59:02 AM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman ah yes, Ethiopian food, or as I like to refer to it, "Ace Bandages n' Slop". I'm.. not a fan. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 6:40:48 AM
In Reply To @bertlamb
@bertlamb via @marcoarment touché. With the accent. You earned it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 9, 2009, 1:18:46 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers gave stackoverflow the "center square" -- just like Paul Lynde!! http://is.gd/rxKV
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 11:43:05 PM
In Reply To @willie
@willie @marcoarment and I sort of know each other, in a way.. it's not a serious disagreement. But I am totally right for the record! :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 9:16:48 PM
In Reply To @marcoarment
@marcoarment believe me, I respect that PHP is following a tradition in computer science where the crappiest *possible* language wins
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 9:15:24 PM
In Reply To @marcoarment
@marcoarment Really? This insane WordPress code I'm looking at in my editor isn't PHP? Interesting.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 8:58:32 PM
In Reply To @marcoarment
@marcoarment ooh, you gonna call PHP's im_very_angry_with_you_sir_take_it_back() function on me? eh? :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 10:24:22 AM
In Reply To @wpvibe
@wpanswers HALF seems to cause the page cache generation time to stay stable across refreshes in incognito mode, at least.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 10:20:02 AM
In Reply To @wpvibe
@wpanswers wp-super-cache is still wonky for me in IIS7. The "cache generated" date changes on *every* page load, even in incognito mode.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 8:13:19 AM
In Reply To @FliesOpen
@ColinYounger it's a judgment call, but I think some people can change their behavior, given sufficient.. motivation
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 8:08:28 AM
In Reply To @FliesOpen
@ColinYounger it gives me no pleasure, but it has to be dealt with. Social software is people, like 'em or not.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 4:50:59 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers this obscure 80s video is for you: http://tinyurl.com/6rtjdv
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 8, 2009, 12:33:09 AM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente Twitter: still sort of unreliable. Still doesn't matter. It's like our alcoholic friend!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 9:11:49 PM
In Reply To @longzheng
@longzheng the last time I looked at wp-super-cache it broke horribly on Windows, in subtle and painful ways
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 8:52:02 PM
In Reply To @Japh
@Japh thanks, I'll give DB-Cache a shot for WordPress : http://tinyurl.com/8gyumr
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 8:49:00 AM
In Reply To @dannysullivan
@dannysullivan "debated whether the paper should go to CompuServe, AOL, MSN or freaking Prodigy" There's your mistake: shoulda gone Prodigy!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 7:21:05 AM
In Reply To @secretGeek
@secretGeek LOL, Windows Forms! What year is it again?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 5:38:21 AM
In Reply To @LaTtEX
@LaTtEX so is OpenID; some barriers exist for a reason
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 7, 2009, 5:15:29 AM
In Reply To @ben_sim
@ben_sim no doubt, and in fact the answers are far more gracious than I would have been!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 6, 2009, 7:09:26 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman I haven't looked at MAME front ends in *years*. Are there any good WPF MAME front ends?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2009, 10:01:35 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa I was going to ask why your mother was following me.. OH SNAP
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2009, 6:58:21 PM
In Reply To @mwpolen
@mwpolen I was -- and I couldn't afford the original Mac. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001051.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2009, 9:47:53 AM
In Reply To @kch
@kch you know in your heart that PST is the only timezone that matters
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2009, 4:39:19 AM
In Reply To @niniane
@niniane my apologies; apparently my Sherlock Holmes (or Gregory House M.D.) skills are lacking. But your brother works on the Sims!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2009, 3:26:48 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers Matrix 2 wasn't *too* bad, but Matrix 3 was face-meltingly bad. Lesson: Zion (the real world) sucks. I knew that.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2009, 1:33:23 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley but to be fair the Lotus Elise is a pretty crap car, isn't it? :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 5, 2009, 12:43:34 AM
In Reply To @tariqh
@tariqh I don't recommend the new Intel Core i7 on the desktop until they release a refresh. Stick with a fast Core 2 Duo/Quad for now.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2009, 9:09:36 PM
In Reply To @CaseyMalone
@HMXCasey AAH! CHANGE IT BACK! CHANGE IT BACK! I kid, I kid. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2009, 11:07:58 AM
In Reply To @AccordionGuy
@accordionguy I don't care how much positive buzz there is for Windows 7. I'm straight up old school, VISTA 4 LYFE!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2009, 12:52:46 AM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts why doesn't Google offer an url-shortening service?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 4, 2009, 12:01:53 AM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente here's a cloud computing theme song for your deployment enjoyment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMIXgCaJPQ
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2009, 7:04:35 AM
In Reply To @JimAAnderson
@JimAAnderson God also invented sleep, no?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2009, 2:14:27 AM
In Reply To @fearphage
@fearphage stackoverflow.com browser stats: 93% IE6, 7% Chrome. http://www.saveie6.com/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 3, 2009, 1:59:04 AM
In Reply To @mattcutts
@mattcutts chrome is 7.3% of stackoverflow.com visitors. Now hurry up and ship v2 with add-ons. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 10:52:29 PM
In Reply To @marcoarment
@marcoarment Daniel Rutter is brilliant, huge fan, have loved his work for *years* .. see: @dansdata
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 9:51:42 PM
In Reply To @spolsky
@spolsky isn't @wilshipley going to do a talk at Business of Software 2009 as well?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 9:24:56 PM
In Reply To @spolsky
@spolsky , when will you learn that @kathysierra is just not that into you?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 6:10:30 PM
In Reply To @kylecronin
@nobody_ I don't even like any of the alternative serverfault.com names enough to put them up to a vote. We may vote on the logo, however.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 8:32:15 AM
In Reply To @cornify
@cornify says Stack Overflow was cornified 129,000 times yesterday. Unicorns are kickass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n2VVTUXHgA
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 8:24:41 AM
In Reply To @jxpx777
@jxpx777 yeah, I know, I am ambivalent about spec work too. But we're not asking for massive time investment, and this time 2nd/3rd prizes.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 7:32:40 AM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa computers. can't live with 'em, can't smash 'em into tiny pieces. Wait! Actually, you can!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 4:37:40 AM
In Reply To @HalloranElder
@halloranelder you gotta keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars. That's all I'm saying.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 3:39:03 AM
In Reply To @LaTtEX
@LaTtEX congrats on achieving c# mvp!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 2, 2009, 1:04:40 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers I pick Jeff Koons, but I'm freaky. "tell her you're freaky, Bret. Tell her you're freaky." http://is.gd/qeE5
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2009, 9:12:30 PM
In Reply To @timoreilly
@timoreilly "MS can teach us all a lot about how to adapt our products to the enterprise" I think *enterprise* adapted to *MS*.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2009, 8:03:39 AM
In Reply To @cornify
@cornify YOU ROCK! and you know why :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Apr 1, 2009, 4:20:29 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers only 31 rep? weaksauce
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