@kebernet that's what I thought too until I played Frequency, Amplitude, and Beatmania. Same argument could apply to Wii: controls matter

@deadprogrammer DJ Hero won't be any fun, based on my experience with Beatmania. *real* DJ controls too close to actual gamepads IMO

@spolsky is it cold in NYC? So sorry to hear that. 60f and sunny here! All those those defaulted jumbo mortgages have their perks

@eibrahim google thought *every site on the internet* was spam. pretty big OOPS. http://tinyurl.com/bgqtc6

@jongalloway nah, I'm not really into Pokémon.

@madlep nice left4dead + twitter mashup you created http://ihatevans.com/

@wilshipley LOL at PETA striptease. Oh, PETA. You so crazy. http://tinyurl.com/5q6tm6

@hendrasaputra what they don't tell you is that E.F.Codd was a charlatan and a scalawag http://is.gd/hNbZ

@voyagerfan5761 Obviously it depends, but try to avoid joins in your core bread and butter queries. around the edges it's OK

@thomasjo heh, I'd settle for "not look like ass in some browsers", personally http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/

@warwickp excellent to hear, I distinctly recall the "bad old days" of Gravatar and do not wish to revisit those days :P

@splattne so you're saying this t-shirt I'm wearing that says "FAT N' SASSY" does not become me?

@RyanFox he's not sorry ENOUGH!

@marcoarment there's a predictive, speculative aspect to using RAM as a cache.. you pull in things from disk BEFORE they are requested

@kn0thing my pleasure, I do what I can for the enduring glory of fake plastic rock!

@dorianmuthig vista aggressively pre-caches into memory (eg superfetch). I have 41 mb free out of 8GB right now.

@jongalloway you're just jealous because I am a renaissance man http://tinyurl.com/a96zu

@dorianmuthig indeed, who needs more than 640kb? The point is that it's effectively *FREE*. So why not? Also: dev against so.com db locally

@darkuncle I have a laptop. I use it when I'm travelling. That's what they're for, y'know? Otherwise, desktop = +faster/+cheaper/3 monitors.

@simey all times expressed on the website are UTC

@chriswestbrook why would you *ever* want to have database tables without primary keys? how is that a <airquote>drawback</airquote>?

@crazeegeekchick dang, I can no longer say "oh-eight, don't hate!"

@rt Carnage4Life If you liked YouTube Comment Fight you should love http://tinyurl.com/98pem2

@mikejr I am pro ORM but ultra-lightweight only, linq2sql works well for this. We also have lots of hand-tuned SQL for perf reasons

@omervk yes, if you have been gone from SO for 24 hours, and have new comments or answers, you do get the topbar notify to that page

@brento @schottac @teifion thank @superdalgas, he did 95% of it. I added 4.5% zazz, though. This involves some jazz hands.

@jongalloway "an issue with our regex that matches replies and dm" now you have TWO PROBLEMS! <lol!!!>

@wilshipley oh, you felt left out of Ted? CRY ME A RIVER SHIPLEY!

@news24x7 Apple understands the value of looking good. Most PC vendors (hardware + software) don't, sadly.

@kevindente f you, Hershey, for closing the SF Scharffen Berger! http://tinyurl.com/yo7q8m/c/a/2009/01/27/BU2F15I9DV.DTL

@nathanbowers any extra noise of ANY kind from a hard drive is a very very VERY bad sign. backup immediately.

@encosia funny, I think the logo for the Logo Tournament website kinda sucks :D

@mabster thank @jarrod_dixon he did 99% of the work! I just take the remaining 1% which is all the visible credit, naturally.

@jtyost2 isn't that what we're doing right now? having a *small* conversation? seems to be working just fine from where I'm sitting.

@jtyost2 "converstations are hard to develop on twitter." I call that a feature, personally.

@jwz don't you understand that telling your followers that only makes them want you more? http://is.gd/hm0o

@mbgeek true, it would be nice to have a built-in clickable Twitter conversation view, but something of an edge condition

@georgeharito well played sir. Thompson Twins, yet, three-way holding. http://is.gd/hlus

@nathanbowers DO NOT FEAR! I will save us, together, with.. the glory of love! http://tinyurl.com/cplqw4

@shanselman I always think of the "show all files" button in Visual Studio as the "stop lying to me" button, courtesy of you..

@nathanbowers dang, it's hard to properly cetera you. Somebody has been aggressively de-cetera-ing the youtubes. http://is.gd/hliB

@jarrod_dixon is obsessed with finding the Real Genius soundtrack, but it's uber-rare http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

@jarrod_dixon FYI: your next stackoverflow.com paycheck will be in flooz, backed by swoopo votes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com

@wilshipley describe "systematic testing". http://tinyurl.com/5p5un2

@deliciousbees there is a retail SKU for World of Goo. See: Amazon.

@asteris @timbray not necessarily; same principle that shows bad apples on a team ruin the whole team. Sometimes you cut out the cancer.

@timbray the middle east should be nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Hate, particularly religious hate, is forever.

@robrolls I don't think QuickBooks will make your business fail. It will, however, make you hate yourself. But you deserved it.

@nathanbowers I completely agree; the locked-in one vendor phone model fits apple like a glove. iPhone = future of Apple, period.

@danudey well, these write-back "flushes" block ALL disk activity, so they're pretty traumatic! Only happens on giant ops (3 gb db restore)

@kevindente these are pretty simple queries that are 99% index seeks or scans. Real basic stuff. Obviously not huge datasets, but still.

@bryanwoods I appreciate the sentiment, but don't tip me! we already get paid by selling ads. Suggestion: visit our advertisers! :)

@danmc I tend to agree, but Vista had a *lot* of rough edges. In fact it was (almost) nothing but rough edges. Win7 = incremental.

@jongalloway win7 media center does look sweet! http://blog.retrosight.com/WindowsMediaCenterInThePDCBuildOfWindows7.aspx

@jarrod_dixon do you also have an 8-track tape of Tanya Tucker's TNT album? http://tinyurl.com/bw8ojq

@secretGeek "The program Gus creates in the beginning that supposedly impossible is just a series of PRINT statements when Gus lists it."

@curvyboom you have a cat named "puma" too?

@betsyphd why haven't you knitted the hamburger dress yet? http://joykampia.com/fashion/hamburgerdress.html

@haacked lol, you're famous! I'd rec-a-nize that fivehead anywhere!

@jonathancoulton I *wasn't* joking! Also, I second your version of "Baby Got Back" http://odeo.com/episodes/1519801

@timbray what's funny about a bunch of squares? btw, I {entity} unicode. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001084.html

@jonathancoulton play "Mule Skinner Blues" !! http://tinyurl.com/bztzko

@wilshipley believe it or not, the answer to every situation is not "spend money on Apple products." Although I am so there for iPhone v3.

@mrcarxpert @dorianmuthig verified with my own eyes and hardware. multiple drives, many brands. same results every time.

@migueldeicaza who coined "open source: if it breaks, you get to keep both parts!"?

@nathanbowers wtf with the disgusting image links? I now love you 1% less.

@wilshipley actually 64-bit compatibility is quite good at the moment. The only problem is the "don't make me think" of choosing.

@jzy mini-snowman army! http://tinyurl.com/7pkvo5

@marshall_jones yeah, but if you're small and you're slow then.. you kinda suck (as a website). being large and fast is the challenge.

@migueldeicaza yes but have you ever been to that really *great* Olive Garden? I know the chef there, he's fantastic.

@rrwhite cutesy pastel cupcakes with thought bubbles annoy me, so I choose uservoice over getsatisfaction

@superdalgas programming pro-tip: you should probably run all the code you plan to check in, *before* you check it in. Probably.

@nathanbowers was your superdrive recently exposed to kryptonite? that could explain it.

@shrisha I know, and they said COBOL was dead, too!

@kevindente 4GB became "not enough" when 8GB now costs a friggin lousy hundred dollars. Peanuts I tell you! Peanuts!

@betsyphd showed me a fantastic obama parody poster generator http://tinyurl.com/95r3bp

@timoreilly oh that's fantastic -- Barack Obama linkedin profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama

@cgoldberg yeah Bark at the Moon is way harder, because that sadistic freak Randy Rhoads put a solo at the END. Failed at 94%+ so many times

@kobusb the 28mb clipx_name.ini file in my appdata/local folder disagrees with you. as does task manager.

@spolsky is convinced the ONLY way to run a business is on QuickBooks. I'm not so sure.

@thecryptic 2.5 million chars, so about 2.4 mb? I guess double that for unicode.

@wilshipley I don't get the people who think having an articulate, charismatic president is a bad thing. Seriously: these people are idiots.

@jongalloway it's very inconvenient to mask your IP consistently over time. Slow, awkward, extra effort, etc. Plus, if you forget..

@jongalloway not new, but 1992's "Deep Cover" is excellent and a must see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104073/

@shanselman I was explaining to @betsyphd kilo, mega, giga, tera, exa .. and she somehow invented the "wubba". Yes, wubbabytes.

@jarrod_dixon you think anyone wants a roundhouse kick to the face while I'm wearin' these bad boys? http://is.gd/gxQd

@jongalloway you haven't lived until you've seen the movie Semi-Pro in high-def, man.

@betsyphd @nathanbowers OMG THE PINK HOUSES! http://tinyurl.com/32g974

@ritmeijer RT: "A (renamed) FizzBuzz is part of my test when hiring people. Most devs fail, even experienced ones. Unbelievable"

@wilshipley yeah, just like "Apple, huh? So it must be pretty expensive?" -- another timeless classic!

@timalmond wow, I hadn't heard of Lenslok copy protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenslok

@jongalloway what drivers are you having problems with? is it just the double whammy of beta Win7 OS and 64-bit?

@jeff_tucker yeah, everything should be .Disposed(), except things that shouldn't. Like, say, a DataSet. It's as clear as mud!

@wdr1 no idea what you're talking about. send email with details to the email address on the bottom of every single so.com page

@shanselman thanks for the so.com props! if you know any good candidates for moderators on the IT-themed SO let me know

@rossmasters that was the subject of my latest blog post, actually. Safari and Chrome need to get the hell on the ZoomWagon ASAP

@wilshipley it is true, all the coolest people live in the bay area. Maybe if you live here my in-person dis ratio will decline.

@petesh it's an Adaptec 8k AFAIK; port #6 is clearly fubar. Recognizes (any) drive briefly, then eventually discards it as bad. repeatable.

@segy yeah, well, he also directed such screen gems as "10,000 BC" and "The Day After Tomorrow".

@siracusa coulda been worse. coulda been a Nude Bomb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081249/