@fictoris you realize AMD *already* sells a 3 core desktop chip, right? http://techreport.com/articles.x/14606

@fictoris I'd definitely like to see 8 cores on a die, so we can go with cheaper single-socket solutions; beyond that, dunno!

@toshok it's true; people are jealous of my mad fake plastic rock skills. ICUH8N!

@betsyphd "The salon is offering a 'Getting rid of Bush' waxing special. LOL!" you gotta love the Berkeley

@kevindente browser text-zoom needs to die immediately. Breaks pretty much everything. full page zoom is infinitely better.

@jongalloway @blakesorrell ah yes so that is how babby is formed! http://www.otherthings.com/howtobaby/

@timbray you weren't kidding. Gibson links to maggot-infested cheese. For EATING. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

@kevindente like I said -- our BaseController does db.Dispose(). I don't know how to say it any clearer than that. Do you?

@varveris I'd need to see a blog post with considerable detail and examples. "Call dispose() or you will suffer" is an unconvincing rule.

@varveris programmers never met an edge condition they didn't love more than life itself. It's like an addiction.

@jongalloway you can't just use Beyond Compare 3 to diff them and generate a patch? It does that..

@mkedobbs letting it fall out of scope and dispose itself (in the typical case) is even easier. Less code trumps more code.

@carnage4life "because it decreases connectedness of the social graph" my life is not a 'social graph'. the facebooks can suck it.

@secretGeek I'm a professional professional. FEEL IT.

@jeffmoser nicely done; leave a comment on the blog as well!

@jarrod_dixon http://tinyurl.com/8mggbv is awesome -- Trebek on pebcak

@bhaaratcrckt I wasn't *planning* to, but I can't find any other names substantively better than rackoverflow.com at the moment

@nathanbowers that's how it is when your niche tech goes mainstream: dull. it can't be all bangy-bangy any more.

@siracusa we're like Mac users, but we pay half as much for the same exact thing. Well, more like 1/3rd as much in the Mac Pro case.

@jongalloway you have to sweet talk the Dell sales rep apparently. Not my thing; I'd rather fight than switch. You go for it.

@migueldeicaza freedom isn't free; no, there's a hefty f**kin' fee.And if you don't give your buck-oh-five, who will? http://is.gd/fW13

@nberardi part of it is that I'm learning the server biz model. They all cheese you in similar ways, just different degrees. ENTERPRISEY!

@timtrueman thanks for http://www.siliconmechanics.com ref; surprisingly, the Lenovo servers are a better deal for $, minus aggravations

@kevindente it's this thing. Of COURSE they can't include it. http://is.gd/fVEU server business models, bah. worse than Nintendo.

@jzy your desk should always be facing your backlit Swingers movie poster / shrine.

@cisellis not a poke at you at all; I'm just agreeing with you that Dane Cook is f**king horrible!

@cisellis once told me a particular rant of mine "sounded like Dane Cook". I don't think I've ever shut up faster. I was humiliated.

@carnage4life if http://bit.ly/qJCM is the dumbest article you've read all year, dude, you need to do a lot more reading

@rrwhite you should legally change your name to Richard Uservoice. Then we'd know you are serious. So would the facebooks.

@rrwhite RICHARD USERVOICE! you corporate shills make me sick.

@timbray I bet you don't like the Barenaked Ladies, either. Way to sell out your mother country, man.

@paulandstorm do those commercials for that scammy autobill freecreditreport.com site? really? for shame.

@jongalloway I've heard enough jam band / freeform jazz wankery to know that "dynamic music creation" isn't all it's cracked up to be.

@jongalloway you conveniently forget the part where so much of music is about *repetition*. Create once, play zillions of times over.

@jongalloway but the most effective form of that "communication" is to start a competing project / company. It lights fires. :)

@jongalloway "Isn't working code that demonstrates a different opinion effective communication? More expressive than a blog rant?" yes!

@nathanbowers hey, @betsyphd and I have a karaoke request for you. Sex Dwarf. http://tinyurl.com/7fsw6g

@mstum it's WordPress on Windows. it already barely works. shrug.

@jimzim we'd move session to memory (eg, memcached) before we store it in the db. wayyy too slow. not seeing web garden as a win, really.

@jimzim web garden (multiple IIS instances) would break session state, which we do use a bit. sort of a non-starter

@aanttila another product that should be a parody; the DeLorean of computer workstations http://tinyurl.com/8hyqum

@rrwhite Facebook has given you the greatest gift of all -- freedom. Take advantage of it.

@ogre yes, but to be fair, 4 years is an eternity in server-hardware-years. I'm sure these boxes will seem positively stupid in 2013

@bertcraven spoken like a man who hasn't seen Intel's chipset power consumption numbers, which are STUPID high, still.

@fastchicken no, Atom 330 is real dual core. remember atom is hyperhthreaded. So it'd be "four" CPUs.

@kevindente this is comedy gold: Dana Carvey with young Steve Carell http://tinyurl.com/86qgrl

@arsen3d no, 5am PST is not early. It's very, very late.

@dustinson "rage against the build machine" @jarrod_dixon was definitely doing some of that tonight, lol

@james_a_hart using 80% grey is downright logical, unlike "ecofont"; in fact I've seen printer drivers that offer this toner-save mode..

@jonskeet the 3:2 pulldown conversion of movie 24fps -> television 60fps can cause visible pauses or lurches in playback

@wilshipley Apple is *destroying* the competition in phones. Beyond that, they make nice premium x86 boxes. phones > pcs. Much >.

@wilshipley NEW MSFT FRAMEWORKS?!!? WHERE!!! must.. blog.. about..

@kevindente we were at Ikea yesterday, and I thought the same thing. What good is this global economic apocalypse without CONVENIENCE??

@redwolves I am thinking close should cost a little rep now

@splattne wow, you're right, Alan Kay is *really* using SO now http://is.gd/flOg

@judithlewis stand proud; let your geek flag fly!

@nathanbowers wake me up when you get to "Karma Chameleon"

@nathanbowers barring tracklist issues, Rock Band has completely obsoleted bare plain karaoke for me. Karaoke + 3 bandmates = FTUltimateWin

@shanselman NPH respect at maximum? how about now? http://is.gd/fjhb

@jeffhandley when you artificially reduce the set to 0..x you lose information, compared to -x..0..x

@jongalloway @robconery Vista had *zero* polish, though. It was all rough edges. So if Win 7 adds polish, long overdue IMO.

@jzy It's EDUCATIONAL! http://tinyurl.com/9zg4gh

@wilshipley send salmon here, our cats will get buck wild on that. cats that knew hunger on the streets as kittens = kibbleaholics

@saraford go to extras menu, enter code, rybrrbbryb (from memory, should be correct tho)

@kristofera we are using a 6 drive raid 10 array so it WILL be possible to pull 2 drives!

@shanselman I hear this whole "having a baby" thing is not new, either. Must be a total yawner. DO NOT CRUSH MY DREAMS YOU BASTIGES

@kevindente is the dreamcrusher. It is not new, but it is new for me to see, touch, and experience. Sort of like having a baby? Just sayin'.

@nathanbowers but more importantly, does she have pictures?

@splattne it's definitely the same Alan Kay, as he's got the same cookie. Seems legit, he is known to comment on blogs, etc.

@waxpancake oh, outstanding, online scrapbooking. http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/explore

@kimolias we are about to remove the ability for people to delete questions if they have significantly upvoted answers

@secretgeek the only failure mode is not listening to your users. well, except for the other failure mode, which is listening to your users.

@timbray I feel the c# MVC stuff we're doing is not all that inconvenient, honestly, and perf is awesome. Not like it's C++, sheesh

@blue_fenix @andysowards for shizzle? http://tinyurl.com/53ezae

@gilesgoatboy it is true that Markus was there at the dawn of AdSense, and gamed PageRank from day one. Still: be free, be leaner, be better

@lancer383 there are 17 people on the "about us" page of okcupid. There's the problem, right there.

@steveandrews I like rasslin-style smackdowns.. needs more drama http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000630.html

@wilshipley you know eNom is from MSFT folks, right? so when you use them, you're supporting MSFT?

@jarrod_dixon "search for text when I start typing" is not a default feature in my Firefox3, at least

@secretGeek is on fire today

@spolsky you should hear them at *startup*. they spin down, I just have very high low noise standards http://is.gd/9s9

@oblique_chirps is cool -- see http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/

@jzy that browser wars illustration is awesome, but.. no Chrome? http://www.pixellabs.com/images/browserwars.png

@shanselman you need to wean yourself off your Dell Mini crack addiction. Netbook that can't install regular 2.5" HDDs = scent of fail

@deadprogrammer Domain Clown Posse? I was thinking GoDaddy, myself.

@cshirky asks "When you restart FF with, say, 87 tabs, and one of them starts playing audio, is there a quick way to find *that one*"

@allajunaki longview: I predict apple will be successful in phones to a degree that will make their cpu/ipods look like historical footnotes

@jonathancoulton I SMELL A NEW SONG

@siracusa apple has won the phone wars so very decisively, in my opinion, that nobody else matters any more

@kevindente anyhoo, as I was saying..

@jonskeet you'll just make the other users feel inadequate :) "why can't you be more like Jon Skeet? Gosh!"

@mistermfc we support easy multiple/alt OpenIDs; there's also a fallback of email resets, like every other website.

@kneath outsourcing username/password security to people who don't suck at it is one of the BIGGEST wins of OpenID. see: Twitter.

@dehora well, until that function is being passed one ENORMOUS object full of fields.. then it sucks. A lot.

@cisellis are you on the twitter now? I thought you were on the facebooks.

@wilshipley it is a bit like porn in that it's embarrassing to tell your girlfriend's parents: "I'm a millionaire fart app creator."

@patrick_mc good points, take them to the SO.com question so I can keep it all in one place http://is.gd/eRH5

@jzy I think blizzard/WoW programmers are probably the most experienced social network programmers on the *planet*

@accordionguy "Oy, It's So Humid" parody is definitely new to me, lol http://tinyurl.com/67x48a

@heanster nobody ever said being a programmer would be easy, man!