@zunama my understanding was that Paul applied the Bayesian filtering to the body *and* the *headers* of the email, which proved to be magic

@timtrueman I think Hacker News is written in Paul Graham's LISP variant ARC, isn't it? Anyway, it's far too slow.

@nathanbowers yep, Chrome is pretty much the best browser on the market. really no contest IMO. Just needs adblock.

@mikejr I just pulled the trigger on the TS-409 Pro. Reviews were stellar. Only downside, not very fast, but for backups that's non-issue

@robertfischer USB hard drives aren't off-site, though I guess we could have @superdalgas manually drive down and do it every day.. :)

@philoUK without me it's just aweso http://is.gd/jonn

@NathanBowers ALL ZUNE ALL THE TIME BABY! FEEL IT!!!1! I imagine it'd be somewhat similar to the MSFT store, which is fairly popular.

@chrispirillo no disrespect intended, I'm a fan. And my wife @betsyphd is from Iowa, too. :) The # is from wikipedia: http://is.gd/jmb4

@DJOuk a few people said Spark could render to a string easily; haven't tried it yet http://dev.dejardin.org/

@sbehnke asks "what programming languages do I need to learn to actually be able to beat @jonskeet in answering a question?"

@dsandler @shawnr true -- it's not quite XSRF. But you do have to hold a cookie for it to work! Better explanation: http://is.gd/gyfn

@spolsky clearly you don't care about writing quality. where were the tests on that writing?

@cisellis that's crazy. I'm not a particularly big fan of Apple's biz model, but what Psystar is doing is so clearly illegal.

@citizenmatt throwing a book of rules at sucky programmers just creates sucky programmers with bruises where the book bounced off their head

@sqldba referenced this great link on the topic of poisoned parameterized queries http://is.gd/jixd

@caderoux I think you're right. just rebuilt all indexes locally and mysteriously it's the same either way now. Hmmm. Any pointers on this?

@secretGeek but it did not result in an useful artifact for anyone else to pick up. Until you blog about it, I guess.

@secretGeek and how many hours of work was this? :) http://tinyurl.com/ylt56a

@simonech NAMBLA explained here http://tinyurl.com/2q8stf

@citizenmatt 1) DRY 2) KISS 3) YAGNI 4) NAMBLA

@jamesmarcusbach philosophy of twitter? see: http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/1174625115

@jamesmarcusbach if the web has taught me anything, it's that reducing barriers to communication can produce profoundly surprising results

@spolsky cut out all my talk of shit http://is.gd/jfvH and fart apps http://is.gd/jfvR in our latest podcast. J'ACCUSE!

@david_low thanks for rec of Verve Remixed 4. Gotta catch 'em all!! http://is.gd/j9Vl

@unclebobmartin thanks for the podcast with @spolsky , I thought it went great! Also, nobody was killed! So far!

@jarrod_dixon sez "why can't humans just lay eggs? wtf"

@e_to_the_m well we are having a baby march 2nd. I wondered aloud if we should put a birth video up and @betsyphd said one word: "divorce."

@omervk you're describing "cloaking" http://tinyurl.com/23e5hd

@tgiff I did not "optimize for google". Show me *one* thing we did that is google-specific.

@Macuyiko 12 GB of DDR3 is $360.. I paid $100 for 8 GB of DDR2. Intel Core i7 is kind of a crap desktop platform at the moment, IMO

@wilshipley Windows Kenny Loggins Edition! http://tinyurl.com/2t37ou

@secretGeek your Quixotic quest to avoid reinstalling your OS is inspiring, in a way http://is.gd/iTp6

@nathanbowers ah yes Mr. Cool ICE http://is.gd/iRAQ he's a classic!

@encosia I just checked and IE6 is still sadly just under 10% of stackoverflow.com traffic :(

@kevindente friendster rocks! it is my preferred social networking tool. Profile: http://profiles.friendster.com/codinghorror

@slimcode probably DNS related. Give it a few hours for the change to propagate

@scratchfury can't repro. www is a CNAME @ alias, so it has no IP attached. Guessing the DNS hasn't propagated to you yet?

@superdalgas and @jarrod_dixon did a great job migrating our stackoverflow.com servers today http://is.gd/iQgQ

@wilshipley without that program to catalog CDs you'd have no ability to effect meaningful change anyway, so it's irrelevant. stored energy

@scottherbert when your boss tells you to "stop being nerdy", time for a new boss :)

@spolsky Slumdog Millionaire is no "The Wrestler"

@lennysan mahalo answers? really? that's what we're going with?

@GraemeF my thoughts exactly. Trust me, I *ONLY* ever type in IP addresses on my local network, eg \\192.168.0.193 or whatever

@shanselman to be clear, OpenDNS interfered with talking to my local machines *by FREAKING IP ADDRESS*. I never use names.

@shanselman well, the naive "set it and forget it" OpenDNS usage results in problems. Current DNS is Good Enough(tm) and problem free.

@mabster that is .. insane .. ? Zod Kitchens. http://tinyurl.com/6xba9h

@timbray get yourself a netbook! they rock! Super-special link for my Canadian buddies, eh: http://is.gd/iIz6

@idisposable no idea what you're talking about, seriously

@shanselman @idisposable @robconery see: http://twitter.com/codinghorror/statuses/797709594

@shanselman OpenDNS caused some subtle but incredibly annoying local networking problems for me. YMMV.

@jongalloway pff, estimation is easy. everything takes 6-8 weeks. DONE AND DONE.

@shanselman what new kindle? unbuyable. hasn't been released yet. this is my point.

@wilshipley so TED is about how the Earth is being destroyed.. and humping? Glad some nobel winning scientist was able to connect the dots

@dorianmuthig we ruled out everything else, literally. I had no idea out of date network drivers could cause that kind of perf carnage

@curvyboom apparently "God told me to do it" is sufficient explanation for pretty much anything you'd ever want to do... and polygamy

@SteveAndrews lol, Ye Olde Unreadable IDE theme http://tinyurl.com/cdgy68

@curvyboom you should watch Big Love. It is disturbing that polygamy goes on, in any form. The fictional version is bad, can't imagine real.

@madhousewife the people who lack ambivalence about themselves are the ones who *really* scare me

@accordionguy it's a variant of the Space Cadet keyboard http://tinyurl.com/6xzmzg

@encosia if it bleeds, it leads

@gshutler thanks -- we're definitely going to be improving this further, but we agree, it's important to know when someone's talking to you

@carnage4life sometimes? try ALL THE TIME

@wilshipley admit it, you just tweet about TED because you secretly want us to feel bad about ourselves.

@quii you and I were pair programming there for a minute, eh? :)

@azuidhof I was making a dumb joke, because we have a podcast with Rands this week http://tinyurl.com/bbglwp

@wilshipley wow, Michael Lopp. Hmm. Where have I heard that name before? Let me think. I'm trying to think but nothing's happening!

@chadmoran some people have issues with the MS Natural 4k spacebar like @jarrod_dixon ; I've never noticed it. Depends on the way you type..

@onyxraven weird UPS / power source issues can cause PC clocks to skew very rapidly in my experience, sometimes +1 sec/hr or more.

@deadprogrammer also, see "keeping time on the PC" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000760.html

@deadprogrammer time skew between db server and web server

@jonskeet eye stabbing comment is here http://tinyurl.com/chy58p

@siracusa does Time Machine ever do *anything* right? I swear all I hear about it on twitter is bitching. Macs = awesome, remember, people.

@nathanbowers nice Planes, Trains, and Automobiles reference there http://tinyurl.com/59yduw

@migueldeicaza I started today singing the Doggy Bounce, and I blame you http://tinyurl.com/674hqk

@samcollett @dorianmuthig certain fonts REQUIRE cleartype. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000356.html

@ohmz I posted about the keyboards on this new-fangled "weblog" I started. http://is.gd/id5N

@wilshipley you find the afterglow of my Hai Karate unsatisfactory? http://tinyurl.com/yt95nd

@stewsnooze we deploy at ~ 2am PST most nights, so you may get intermittent errors if you are unlucky.

@jonskeet the current Intel netbook platform is very hacky, using inefficient desktop chipsets. Pineville is purpose-built: 3x bat life

@superdalgas found a video, Scat Mat vs whippets http://tinyurl.com/cyykgz

@nathanbowers blog about the end of blogs blogging about the end of newspapers, naturally. doy!!

@wdevauld we tried orange spray to deter counter jumping, and it just made our cat sick.. not sure hot spices would be better?

@windley OMG did you look at the "customer images" for the motion activated sprinkler? LOOLL! http://bit.ly/12Lg7

@tatehansen be sure to send me a DM when the singularity finally arrives :)

@foreachdev you recommend this keyboard to me? NO DISRESPECT!! :) http://is.gd/i5GP

@ohmz a magnet that could demagnetize a hard drive would break your arm http://www.dansdata.com/danletters064.htm (scroll to middle)

@wilshipley yes, but did you know Drobo has plans to release the "bare midriff" firmware feature? Hmm?

@ladyreporter Joel decided to have a strong opinion about SOLID ( http://is.gd/eyUw ) , so I'm along for the ride.

@wilshipley you shoulda bought a PC, man. Lots of video cards and driver combinations to choose from. Some of them even work!

@zerozephyr are your ready for DR TRAN QUIET LOG TIME?! http://tinyurl.com/6479xu

@matiasnino @shanselman I'm more open to desktop striping with SSDs because the risk of failure is so much lower

@wilshipley step carefully my friend! Remember, mo' money, mo' problems! That's why I prefer to be poor and blissfully problem-free. Ahhhh.

@wilshipley is the programmeriest programmer who ever programmed a program. in case anyone was wondering.

@marshall_jones I should mention that @superdalgas lives 1 mile from our new hosting provider. He's our human Remote Access Card. :)

@splattne ugh, I hadn't been to wikia answers. I see 4-5 immediate problems, but let's begin with "where can I find hilary duff nude?"

@mrdenny the Dell server prices would have to be 50% off, minimum, to even come close to my Lenovo barebones builds.

@mstum even with everything set to minimum (+non-fake raid controller), the Dell 1u is $2300. I guess the sales guy slashes it in half?

@sarajchipps as my Jethro Tull lovin' high school history teacher used to say: "you're reinforcing all my negative stereotypes of women!"

@jaygilmore I have gotten to the point where I'd prefer users pick IE7 over Opera. OH YES I WENT THERE

@timbray apparently you're not a giggly user http://tinyurl.com/6pqzdk