@wilshipley speaking of screaming certain death, try the Left 4 Dead demo through Steam. It's grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat.

@jongalloway massive honkin' dependency, plus 100+ lines of code to do what I do in, like 35 lines. WIth ZERO dependencies. Just sayin'.

@charlesarthur no, I don't.

@jongalloway actually we need someone to man up and port Beautiful Soup to .NET. The existing solutions are ass IMNSHO.

@nathanbowers you know Shirley Manson is a robot, right?

@humancompiler I'm a little behind on email. The only thing we need from the linq 2 sql team is .. well, a few things, actually..

@bradwilson depends on the game (and resolution), but true, in the last 3 years the GPU has become disproportionately significant.

@bradwilson gaming *is* performance. Everything else is cake in comparison.

@aditya I don't; I just saw a conversational fragment which reminded me why I don't.

@bradwilson I find your beliefs fascinating, but the cold, hard data tells a different story: http://is.gd/6ZIN

@techcrunch is an asshole.

@timoreilly RE: "how to get more followers"? The good news is that I pay my followers. The bad news is that it's in Pepsi Points. ALL HAIL!

@lazycoder you're insane. x64 is incredibly stable and mature under Vista. 64-bit XP is a one way ticket to paintown.

@superdalgas whoa! good thing you got moved in before the contractions started! good luck and godspeed!

@timbray after all these problems, surely there are other options to back up your mac besides Time Machine?

@shanselman OMG that link is full of win! The Better Off Dead Camaro Lives! http://www.betteroffdeadcamaro.com/

@arcanecode we protect childrens from on-screen sexuality here in the US of A. We prefer violence, natch.

@shanselman I really don't recommend small/cheap SSDs, they perform *much* worse than typical laptop HDDs, and no power savings.

@wilshipley terrifying that Obama is teaching small white children the terrorist fist bump. http://tinyurl.com/5tbtqv also, SOCIALISM!

@betsyphd "Rahm Emanuel's brother is Ari Emanuel, aka Ari Gold" SO AWESOME

@ninjabot Far Cry 2 isn't really a FPS game. I was surprised too. Whatever it is, it's bad.

@bradwilson the GH:WT drumkit is solid, particularly if you want to experience GH:WT drum songs "as intended".

@bradwilson you need fake plastic cymbals. you. NEED. THEM. http://tinyurl.com/5hspox

@wilshipley so your metric of "success" is how much your net worth changes? are you a republican or something?

@nihiliad *hispanic* + black voters are a (much) larger percentage of the CA electorate than that post accounts for.

@cshirky analyst consensus is that minorities voted *very* disproportionately for prop 8, so it's a sort of side-effect of the Obama vote.

@foxxtrot nah, we just post snarky blog entries in our jammies to combat injustice. WE'LL SHOW YOU!!

@aydsman flat with liberal/easy quoting *works*. No "threaded" alternative I've seen is worth a damn. Reddit is painful, too.

@kevindente MCCAIN LANDSLIDE! I already called it last night. Old news!

@haacked Anders' talks are so popular, you're sitting in one right now.

@skrenta what's the URL of that guy you follow for CA vote recommendations?

@dkplewis I'm not so sure -- lots of analysts pointing to Palin dragging down the ticket: she cost votes. That's poison.

@migueldeicaza AND GET A MEXICAN ROLL!!

@timoreilly I responded to your DM. Just wanted to make sure you got it.. twitter does not, shall we say, "inspire confidence"

@bradwilson that AC/DC concert was recorded in 1992, though http://is.gd/5ACC

@jhlagado that classic ac/dc video is awesome http://tinyurl.com/yq5953

@iveldesigns it's not a cover, it's a live concert recording by the band. some (there are 18) are more "album-ey" than others

@bradwilson the drum arrangement in GH:WT is problematic and less flexible than the RB2 set. It's essentially "jazz drums" in GH:WT

@iWork matter of principle at this point. worked perfectly in 2005, giant f**ing catastrophe in 2008. un-suck yourselves, sql team!

@jonathaneunice very interesting discussion about zivity sponsoring a women in tech event: http://www.identitywoman.net/?p=782

@jonathaneunice I'm starting to see how zivity.com affords their $8k/month SF offices, I guess (per the nytimes article)

@1kevgriff points out that the Presidents have a new album / song. It's actually pretty good! and Weird Al directs! http://snipr.com/4vi4z

@orcmid you actually have multiple Knuth checks? showoff. :)

@accordionguy is covering Britney Spears live on the floor at PDC

@lazycoder where is "the j club"?

@saraford headed back to conc center now. where are you guys at?

@shanselman just said Jethro Tull's "aqualung" is not music. OH NO YOU DI-INT.

@wilshipley oh, and I never see you tweet about Apple API problems. Earth to Shipley: software sucks.

@kevindente yeah it's pretty much bullshit. "Here's our new SQL product! It's slower and will cause your site to fall over! UPGRADE NOW!"

@chris_mahan no, "upgrades" that produce measurably and benchmarkably worse performance in full-text -- that's the bottleneck.

@shanselman WE ARE THE "A" PEOPLE!!!

@wilshipley @curvyboom is that even *possible?* (follows)

@cammerman wishful thinking, I guess. @bentayloruk exactly -- more pink stuff to attract women! IDEs, chairs, type systems.. :)

@haacked what room is the speaker lounge?

@accordionguy cool -- clay and I have a gig together next year! I'll keep an eye out at PDC any accordion-lookin' fellows..

@areiamus articles on the "singularity" like http://is.gd/4SDg -- is it serious? parody? parody of parody? who can tell??

@bradwilson even worse, I can't play for an entire week. PDC + mini-vacation. how will my fake fans survive without my fake plastic rock?

@wilshipley sure, I have GH:WT preordered too. Daddy needs his fake plastic rock. Did you know *18* of the GH:WT songs are in Rock Band?

@dhelper no worries! just fix that bug and blog about it :)

@accordionguy I'm with you! Well, as soon as I arrive in LA for PDC later today, I'm with you!

@JonSpriggs a commenter on my blog said that some Linux distros now come with paid crapware. Maybe s/he's full of crap, I asked followup Q.

@shanselman encourages people to smash babies. story at 11.

@anotherlab I found that too, didn't help. Some numbers: ~160ms vs ~220ms ; ~375ms vs ~485ms. It's clearly worse, even after drop/rebuild.

@nathanbowers Lorem Ipsum? anguish languish, duh. http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/anguish.html

@skrenta is right -- performance is a feature

@sethbienek denormalization: it's like performance crack!

@carpdeus joins are more expensive than not doing joins. surprisingly so.

@secretGeek far dwarfed by the element Stupidium , more prevalent than Carbon

@wilshipley I SAID MAVERICK GOD DAMN IT!

@wilshipley MAVERICK!

@shanselman ooh, the new .net logo is pretty http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PDC2008NewNETLogo.aspx

@erator it'll be somewhat close on Nov. 5th, but honestly, republicans are f**cked IMO. People are seriously pissed about the economy.

@harriyott just not sure what traffic levels are meaningful, I have literally no idea. Not a "stats" guy, though I guess I'll be one now.

@rasmuskl @parsifal I just put links to server + development stack info here http://blog.stackoverflow.com/about/

@klmr I built "related questions" so thank you. :) Still, it's expensive.

@teifion as an aside, voting every answer up will also push your question higher in the "hot" list algorithm so it's actually beneficial

@timbray Knuth's Potrzrebie series of measurements never gets enough love. http://www.google.com/search?q=potrzebie

@ikeif oh, and don't forget to test on each platform (Mac/Win/Unix), too, since there are differences there as well..

@ikeif did you test your JavaScript code on Opera, IE6, IE7, FF3, FF2, Safari2, Safari3, Chrome? If not then how do you know it works?

@jongalloway is that the best programmer's method to dealing with this problem? Have you asked on SO?

@wilshipley Need a scary programming halloween costume? DUH, look on Stack Overflow for the answer! http://is.gd/4Gv0

@anildash "I'm a white guy, I'm extremely white. I walk with my buttocks extremely tight." http://is.gd/4GuO

@nberardi except Coding Horror. Everything posted there is 100% solid gold and you can take that to the bank!

@colin_jack Warhead is Crysis with only the good bits. Don't take my word for it; read the reviews.

@colin_jack Far Cry 2 is painfully boring, and Crysis: Warhead is incredible fun. Other than that, they are completely identical!

@hisshadow simpsons already did it. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000524.html

@asbjornu XP does well on a netbook. Go look up the minimum system reqs for XP, they're positively prehistoric.

@pawelmaczewski the aspire one is a great little machine. really digging it. 3 hours? maybe 2.5 in typical case with default small battery

@MBoffin I got it from here http://is.gd/4dWN but the price went up $20 since I ordered. Odd.

@wilshipley wow, thanks for the Stack Overflow kudos!

@breakthesystem openid is not required to ask or answer; it's like traditional blog comments

@koenig_stefan THE ADS ARE PLACEHOLDERS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

@bpapa you haven't met some of the 1k+ rep users I have..

@keith_duncan if people want to block our ads, I am not going to stop them. They should all be on-topic ads (eg programmery) at least.

@lukamarinko ok, so -1 on the video ads.. what about the pop-up ads we're planning? also, how do you feel about punching monkeys?

@bradwilson where the heck did you get that "you suck unless you click ads"? Good lord man, programmers don't click crap. We all suck!

@bradwilson I'm filing a bug with Microsoft: your software product costs money, and that sucks. Change it. Will you accept this bug?

@bradwilson you're being irrational. it's a community generated site. you're part of the community. what would you like to see?

@bradwilson I'm not shooting the messenger; I'm not hearing any viable alternatives.

@bradwilson it's in a color so you know it's an ad, and not part of the normal content. Should I blend it so it looks like a question? WTH?