@lozanotek it doesn't have to be very fast, just not catastrophically n! slow or anything crazy like that

@jongalloway you have to figure in deletions, insertions, and possibly differentiate edits as well. Kind of a fun problem.

@nathanbowers I think you underestimate the sophistication of the audience, see: fart app sales of $10k+ per day.

@siracusa au contraire, the mac is a great gaming machine, after you install XP or Vista on it. =8-D

@thomasjordan on Saints Row 2: "It's like GTA4, if GTA4 had a fun mode." oh snap! two snaps up!

@siracusa you can't blame @gruber . The Mac is like the friggin' kryptonite of gaming. OH YES I WENT THERE

@siracusa wow, the slightly out of sync super HD youtube is really mesmerizing http://bit.ly/MDmW

@siracusa you left out option 3) "sell your baby on eBay for huge windfall". Bidding starts at a dollar, folks.

@jongalloway oh, where I wrote "I agree with this article completely, but let me play devil's advocate for a minute." YEAH. YOU WIN!

@siracusa worst. parent. ever. our baby is getting a netbook and fake plastic guitar fresh out of the womb.

@siracusa bonus points if you can do it using Crayon Physics Deluxe http://www.crayonphysics.com/

@jongalloway link or it didn't happen. also, I am only proposing that if the powers that be are too stupid to fix it the right way.

@jongalloway ok so notepad.exe ships but isn't linked to anything modern in the OS; ship notepad2.exe alongside

@xpaulbettsx crap argument. Lots of people were up in arms about Office 2007 UI changes, practically rioting. Someone moved their cheese!!

@kevindente ... and.. wait for it.. FAIL. Seriously, new paint, new calc, and same old notepad in Windows 7? someone needs suplexing.

@adkinn @migueldeicaza is a happy happy man! well, until you get him on the topic of politics, anyway..

@noahcoad @kevindente yeah, but what about Notepad in Windows 7? That's the real test to see if they get it or not.

@innismir Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

@nathanbowers well, I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they ..

@charlesarthur @haacked the TN was documented in a previous tweet : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000991.html

@jongalloway sweep the leg! sweep the leg! http://tinyurl.com/5up9sy

@breakthesystem monitors are an area where you don't want to go cheap, IMO. At the very least, have a "no TN" policy.

@bradwilson I am anti-Dell. I hate their used car salesman "only suckers pay this" website pricing strategy. It's coupon-tastic!

@jongalloway how does this OpenID selector make you feel inside? http://tinyurl.com/8zvel4

@alabut we like the SAMSUNG 305T, as it is *not* a TN panel (it's S-PVA, which is decent). Apple's is S-IPS which is best, but $799 more.

@robertmclaws you gotta watch out for cheap TN panels though, they are very very bad http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000991.html

@rrwhite I fell off the wagon for about a month, so the new tab isn't deep enough any more. :P

@rrwhite people with 0/1 vote items might have problems I could help with tonight, but I can't get to their feedback/bug.

@rrwhite here's what the bottom of my UserVoice page says: "Show More 1060 ideas not shown". (click) "Show more 1035 ideas not shown" ...

@rrwhite part of the problem is that your scale only goes to zero. I bet a *lot* of our 1k 0 vote items would be negative, if you let 'em be

@rrwhite I'd say fix that first, because allowing downvotes would be a pretty radical change for you guys (but a good one IMO)

@rrwhite @spolsky and I were talking about this today; it's nigh impossible to get to the "long tail" of uservoice reqs with 0/1 votes.

@alabut not talking about downvoting people, but ideas. Agree that votes on PEOPLE are kind of toxic, but that's HotOrNot I guess

@jonskeet @chadmoran I have a strong suspicion our UserVoice top 20 would be different if downvotes were allowed

@kevindente @shanselman isn't Oslo just a "roll your own language" library? Eg, Domain Specific Languages .. such as.. say, SQL, regex, etc

@mattgrommes you misunderstand; these were orphaned tags auto-deleted from the normalized tag table, I never touched a thing

@kevindente wow, it's almost like *you* could build a better site than Remember The Milk, if you put your mind to it!

@shanselman using your 46" HDTV as a 1920x1080 monitor for Vista Media Center, you *need* 120dpi when sitting on the couch. It's valid.

@kevindente "a 17" laptop with 8 hour battery life" yeah, and 10 pounds. Also: typically, lies. Maybe if you stare at a text file for 8 hrs.

@strandloper yeah but BSL and ASL are *totally* different. not a color vs colour, boot vs trunk thing.

@factormystic no, I think that was @spolsky referencing something about Magic Numbers, in the last podcast

@encosia nicer mice store DPI and speed gradations in on-board firmware, so the computer is irrelevant http://is.gd/eEAk

@siracusa you tell @davidpogue ; also, any follow list with Arrington on it is already a failure.

@segdeha I believe @gilesgoatboy was partially reponsible for that awesome ad http://is.gd/eEex

@augustlights i have a minority opinion on this topic (http://is.gd/eEaR) as I believe there is no difference between bugs and features.

@mancha @migueldeicaza "The Frog's Creek?" Not sure I understand, but still funny to me for some reason

@bryanl right, but even when starting out, my attitude was the same. The point is to focus on doing things that satisfy you, not "audience"

@eschaton reminds me of "old shoe or glass bottle?" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000401.html

@donnfelker I'm starting to think that beginning with unit tests is dumb; the important metric is time from real world bug TO unit test.

@derikwhittaker well, I have this file, and I keep compressing it over and over to make it smaller. Eventually it'll be 1 byte!

@digitalmaverick Twin Peaks was great initially, but after a while it became sort of.. self-indulgent wankery.. at some level

@wilshipley if you are in the Bay Area and I don't get to see you at some point I will be a very sad panda. very very sad.

@wilshipley THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!

@siracusa he has a sequel planned, which is EXTRA hilarious given the DNF-level vaporware of his current sequel work! http://bit.ly/4DiW

@orj Here's one thing I learned: it is craaaazy expensive to mail a book to Ghana. Seriously.

@v4us invoked the ultimate penalty: "i'm going to send you an email with my reasons." you have lain me low, sir.

@kevinmarks ah yes, the Clinton defense. "it depends what the definition of 'is' is!". Closely followed by the Dawson's Creek defense.

@wilshipley do you worship at the altar of 80, the GOD OF PORTS?

@omervk I reject your idea that Alan Kay could be a "legend". He only has a couple hundred stackoverflow reputation points. Pff.

@jongalloway @nberardi is friend-squatting on the stackoverflow app name for Facebook if you're inclined.. I can connect you

@deadprogrammer trick question, the only kind of web surfing anyone ever does is egosurfing

@siracusa did you see this? We're reverse engineering the JavaScript WMD editor on github. http://github.com/cky/wmd/tree/master

@NathanBowers although Outlook is impossibly mired in the old desktop .exe world, Lotus Notes is 10^10 times worse. http://is.gd/ezcp

@haacked losing your intarwebs connection entirely is much more dangerous, yes. That's pretty much *game over* in today's world, though.

@jongalloway in my experience on jobs with Lotus Notes (gag) and Outlook, there has been at least as much "downtime" as GMail, if not more.

@shawnwildermuth @encosia what is this "offline" you speak of?

@spolsky @haacked your first mistake was choosing Outlook.

@georgeharito the rails ref is from http://www.globalnerdy.com (which is awesome)

@diovo no idea. I try not to care about high score tables and just do my thing. http://is.gd/ewkF

@john_lam on efficient power supplies, see http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000871.html

@wilshipley we have a national paper.. The USA Today, as featured on The Colbert Report!

@siracusa requiring an app to visit an URL is wrong, and youuuuuuuu know it. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001149.html

@siracusa well, duh, "Welcome to the Jungle" will be on infinite repeat, *obviously*. Sheesh.

@siracusa wow, "we are unable to find iTunes on your computer". That *is* innovative, baby!

@spatacoli hopefully the Windows Live OpenID support will leave test isolation and go "live" soon. GET IT? I said "LIVE"! ROTFLMAO!!1!

@carnage4life OpenID envisions a world where you visit lots of different websites. Facebook Connect is a world where you visit one.

@kevindente they said eventually entering simply "gmail.com" will work, much like "yahoo.com" works right now for OpenID. Simple enough? No?

@NathanBowers exactly why I support SlySoft with my $ and rip all my blu-rays to the hard drive. Single unprotected Blu-Ray video file, BAM!

@ALyman you still require a *reason* to hate and distrust your fellow humans? so unenlightened.

@migueldeicaza aren't the problems in the middle east pretty much unsolvable until we get rid of religion entirely? Not holding my breath.

@dmunsie you're saying my response to your email from October is no good? Well, that's what you get when you let your heart win(tm).

@zombiesheep watch LoudQUIETLoud and you'll see why the Pixies were doomed. Four *incredibly* dysfunctional people. http://is.gd/evhC

@elkoide obviously I'm Robin, I'm presenting with flippin' @cshirky , man! I'm not worthy!

@jpyper digsby looks cool but the problem with these apps is that people, y'know, try to communicate with you through them.

@haacked BOW DOWN TO YOUR MASTER, THE SHOGUN OF HARLEM! (rip) http://is.gd/esUQ

@francip because it's Mary - Joe, Joe - Sarah. Not the same "girl". I highly recommend the book.. http://is.gd/esTE

@deadprogrammer Kindle is sorta like iPhone v1, it's a flawed and expensive (but promising) first try -- the real smart money is on v2.

@starbuxman nope, still working our way through Planet Earth. Also discovered snotites http://tinyurl.com/a3d62e

@ohunt related is HEAVILY weighted toward tags, so if you don't like related, the tags are probably wrong = retag time.

@eaton exactly, lol. Truthiness is overrated.

@rickstrahl phony suck up is not the same as choosing to say nothing @carnage4life some preferences make you a "dick" to other people

@pilotbob it's correct, people just like to conveniently misinterpret the sentence. I copied that sentence out of a book, word for word.

@rickstrahl "Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience."

@nathanbowers did I ever tell you that time I was on a reg'lar diet of beef jerky and Brawndo? The funny part is that I'm not kidding.

@nathanbowers plant murderer. I hope you can get to sleep tonight without hearing the screams of all the broccoli you've silenced.

@mikejr I gave up good smooth scrolling when I switched to Firefox3. Still crap in this regard, compared to IE's ultra smooth 60hz scroll.

@scratchfury I didn't think it'd be *that* controversial. All the agonizing and inferring over the sentence itself is especially amusing.

@secretGeek MSPaint is no DeluxePaint, my friend. http://tinyurl.com/yhg4dd

@wilshipley weird, I know a software company a lot like "Chica Latte".. Melicious Donster or something?

@lefebvre cool, I reposted that as a comment on my chair blog entry http://is.gd/MwU