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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2008, 6:08:23 PM
In Reply To @timoreilly
@timoreilly good example of dropping the F bomb too much ruining the piece http://tinyurl.com/3q6x3v
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2008, 7:46:11 AM
In Reply To @carpdeus
@carpdeus that was exactly what I was working on tonight btw. We want unanswered questions to have their own section.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2008, 7:33:03 AM
In Reply To @carpdeus
@carpdeus http://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/java try /unanswered/tagged/{space-delimited-tagnames}
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2008, 2:14:28 AM
In Reply To @longzheng
@longzheng amazing how these very attractive women in the ads are still single! AND IN BOTH OF OUR AREAS! They get around, man.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2008, 12:36:20 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway UAC is the poor man's running as non-admin, but it is better than the old Windows status quo. Baby steps I guess.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2008, 12:19:05 AM
In Reply To @paulwhit
@paulwhit haven't done anything with blu-ray on the HTPC yet. Looks like Blu-Ray ROM drives are down to $99 on newegg though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2008, 12:12:30 AM
In Reply To @kch
@kch I can beat that. I dreamt I was at a homecooked dinner with George W. Bush and Merlin Mann had put a signed sticker in his hair
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 10, 2008, 12:11:41 AM
In Reply To @DeftOne
@deftone it's looking like you really want a native 8-pin PSU for the GTX 280, though some people report using adapters/converters. Annoying
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 9, 2008, 5:09:06 PM
In Reply To @BrockLee
@BrockLee the extremely low idle power usage of the GTX 280 sold me on it
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 9, 2008, 5:07:00 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash let me see if I understand. You're saying Wall Street is like Mario Party, ie, the outcome is essentially random?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2008, 8:24:33 PM
In Reply To @kebernet
@kebernet I have a 600w PSU, just not "the right" 600w PSU I guess. Bummer. I knew about 8pins but assumed the two 6-pins would suffice.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2008, 4:54:22 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley this one? Will pick it up! http://tinyurl.com/4kacg7
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2008, 1:30:14 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente why is that? same "controls on mouseover" principle: reduce visual clutter for rarely used per-post items.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2008, 1:28:54 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley sure ensue is a word, just ask Godgle http://tinyurl.com/4mc3k8
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2008, 1:26:34 PM
In Reply To @bradwilson
@bradwilson twitter web UI also has controls on mouseover; that is in fact where the idea is from
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 8, 2008, 4:40:01 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway I don't need extra complexity to remove commercials; I always press 30-sec skip 6-7 times. easy, breezy, beautiful cover girl.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2008, 11:59:09 PM
In Reply To @FrankDigsData
@tableteer I know, right? (@nathanbowers) Imagine how hard it is out there for an erstwhile "analrapist" http://is.gd/5on
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2008, 6:41:04 PM
In Reply To @betsyphd
@betsyphd BURGER KING KETCHUP AND FRIES flavored potato snacks?!?! http://twitpic.com/dlni
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 7, 2008, 5:34:47 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley I'm sorry ITunes thinks you're FAAAAAAAAAAAAABULOUS!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 6, 2008, 2:59:39 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway entering hours is just another way the man is keeping you down
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 6, 2008, 1:54:34 AM
In Reply To @edjez
@edjez I've often wondered why the African continent got it so bad relative to the other continents, civilization-wise
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 5, 2008, 11:37:23 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway not true. I like friendster. It is my preferred social networking website. You know, for friends and friendly activities.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 5, 2008, 9:53:11 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake "Drinks with Matt Haughey and Adam Savage" JEALOUS!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 4, 2008, 10:39:25 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway "Microsoft Tinker: A Tool for Designing Data-Centric Sensor Networks". Wow, your family is sooo boring, man!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 4, 2008, 4:46:18 AM
In Reply To @secretGeek
@secretGeek I'm about to put my cache all up in someone's *face*
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 4, 2008, 1:45:08 AM
In Reply To @skrenta
@skrenta SKRENTABLOG!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 3, 2008, 4:18:56 PM
In Reply To @marksim
@marksim it's actually "when you let your heart win", but... AUUUGH!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 9:50:01 PM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy I am a Maverick, Dog Gone It! You betcha I'm gonna be vee pee!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 9:44:52 PM
In Reply To @ohunt
@ohunt remember, we are on Stack Overflow to learninate ourselves, not to point and laugh. Although that's fun too.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 9:39:53 PM
In Reply To @ohunt
@ohunt vote them down -- leave comments indicating what is wrong. convince the audience.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 7:52:34 PM
In Reply To @calogica
@augustlights I was specifically referring to the Translate part of @damienguard 's answer.. I know how ExecuteCommand() works :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 7:20:52 PM
In Reply To @lukamarinko
@unionpivo "other search engines"? <insert raucous laughter here> http://tinyurl.com/y4mgx9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 7:04:42 PM
In Reply To @damienguard
@damienguard do you have/knowof a blog entry showing the DataContext ExecuteCommand and Translate?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 6:23:30 PM
In Reply To @SRijken
@srijken OK, Now Define "Answered" http://tinyurl.com/4j2ydz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 5:13:53 PM
In Reply To @greghughes
@greghughes are you angry? maybe you should do an ANGRY DANCE! Like from FOOTLOOSE! http://tinyurl.com/6g6rcd
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 2, 2008, 12:34:56 AM
In Reply To @charasan
@charasan I wasn't kidding when I said that Lotus Notes is pretty much everything that is wrong with software development http://is.gd/3pDW
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Oct 1, 2008, 2:54:08 PM
In Reply To @OphCourse
@mpastrana websites are the new "apps", apparently nobody sent you the memo on that? :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 29, 2008, 10:16:02 PM
In Reply To @CaseyMalone
@hmxcasey stairway to heaven on mario paint http://tinyurl.com/47n7q6
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 29, 2008, 6:32:48 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente because the market always goes up? Maybe in the fifty year view, I guess. I figure I'll be dead by then.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 29, 2008, 6:22:22 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley FAIL, though I have so totally been there. Do what I do and learn to love rejection. It's, like, totally sweet and awesome.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 29, 2008, 2:27:57 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers if you like the current status quo of a unique username and password for every website, There Is Something Wrong With You(tm)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 27, 2008, 11:09:19 AM
In Reply To @gruber
@gruber @timbray look up the ASL (american sign language) sign for horseshit (bullshit), it's pretty funny
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 27, 2008, 10:52:42 AM
In Reply To @dogboi
@dogboi @mstum I'm saying that digital distribution precludes all resale, it's a side effect. Big deal when it's 50% of your profits, no?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 25, 2008, 4:36:10 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers in fact it does; the iPhone doesn't like something about our PNG file. this is the 2nd saved version I have tried.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 25, 2008, 3:59:16 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente nice http://is.gd/35t4 HTML sanitization "atwood mode"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 24, 2008, 11:01:42 AM
In Reply To @subdigital
@subdigital pah, that joke is a fine wine -- gets better with age
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 24, 2008, 10:32:09 AM
In Reply To @robfuller
@robfuller we're open to geek NYC lunch/dinner! pitch us a time and date.. maybe Saturday early evening?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 24, 2008, 10:24:38 AM
In Reply To @mikejr
@mikejr THANK YOU, finally someone gets the NYC Salsa joke :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 23, 2008, 12:25:18 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway apparently Google doesn't follow querystring pagination links; lots of stuff was literally unfindable even by quoted strings
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2008, 6:06:53 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley p.s. YARRRR!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2008, 6:06:39 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley ooh, I got this one -- tell them to run pirated OS X on top of pirated VMWare and then pirate your app on top of that!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2008, 4:17:34 PM
In Reply To @KirinDave
@kirindave not in this case; I was troubleshooting an *advertisement* so.. yeah.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2008, 2:14:44 AM
In Reply To @pete_gilbert
@pete_gilbert "if you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife." 'course Belafonte married 3+ times..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2008, 1:50:17 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley I'm beginning to wonder if your taste in games and your taste in women is... uhh.. related.. :P
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2008, 1:48:23 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley very mixed reviews, gap from low to high was large. I recommend Battlefield: Bad Company.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 22, 2008, 1:31:45 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2008, 3:52:10 PM
In Reply To @andrewmy
@andrew_myhre sure, if your "anonymous" account has the requisite 15 rep, it can upvote.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2008, 9:54:35 AM
In Reply To @pbur
@pburleson passwords should be pass phrases; different can of worms. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000342.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2008, 9:38:25 AM
In Reply To @dehora
@dehora what you're talking about is big endian vs. little endian stuff. Platform differences that cause bugs. Not the same thing.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2008, 9:22:11 AM
In Reply To @dehora
@dehora mostly about fifty thousand lost man years in productivity debugging case errors. but hey, who's counting?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2008, 9:10:14 AM
In Reply To @Ernest_CT
@Ernest_CT that's the point. People who care about name case (e e cummings) are *ridiculously* rare. And case sensitivity should be, too.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 20, 2008, 8:40:06 AM
In Reply To @i80and
@i80and next you'll be telling me k.d. lang is not the same as K.D. Lang, man
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2008, 4:03:23 PM
In Reply To @kch
@kch yeah we need tag filtering double plus plus bad. I am working on some indexing to support that now.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2008, 11:43:07 AM
In Reply To @Spatacoli
@spatacoli I told you, his name is Rockhard Awesome. He's going to karate kick his way out of the womb. HEYAAA!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2008, 10:10:36 AM
In Reply To @ninjabot
@ninjabot my apologies. we now require 15 rep to post images.. among other changes. Consider it an internet merit badge of mental anguish.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2008, 8:40:45 AM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life Oh, I thought it was the name of Palin's daughter, Rock Hammer.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2008, 6:14:49 AM
In Reply To @mixwit
@mixwit you're welcome, or possibly I'm sorry. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001162.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 19, 2008, 1:06:25 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers oh, I see it. my user profile is white on white, mostly. pretty subtle, only the 1 outer div edges. not a rounded revolution
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2008, 10:52:27 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers I don't see a single rounded corner on my twitter home page in ANY browser
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2008, 11:00:47 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley I'm outraged at our collective lack of outrage! grrr!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2008, 9:10:25 AM
In Reply To @chriscanal
@chriscanal are you kidding me? if we weren't server would be in a million pieces already. Caching Is Fundamental
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2008, 6:27:40 AM
In Reply To @jwcarroll
@jwcarroll looks fine to me, actually -- downvotes are pushing unhelpful things down
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2008, 5:32:13 AM
In Reply To @a_williams
@a_williams to be clear, I mean over a 24 hour period without killing ff3.exe, not all at once. that's @jongalloway you're thinking of.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2008, 5:28:09 AM
In Reply To @a_williams
@a_williams I'm still a little bitter about all the "oh, it's your extensions" carping when 3.0.1 fixed a *major* problem I had with FF3.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 18, 2008, 5:27:14 AM
In Reply To @a_williams
@a_williams I've been told that before, but I open hundreds of instances of FF3 throughout the day and thousands of tabs. 3 monitors, man.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 17, 2008, 9:48:58 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza not enough rep! I voted up your answer, here: http://is.gd/2Mp3 hint: others should too :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 17, 2008, 5:21:11 AM
In Reply To @chriscanal
@chriscanal that's because they haven't set a username
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 17, 2008, 4:29:13 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway that, or you're bamboozled by the bad UIs of ClaimId and/or Yahoo! OpenID. Still not a good sign, I agree.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 17, 2008, 4:21:25 AM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman ah, it doesn't work in IE7 either.. I couldn't figure out why.. can you help with a fix? That'd be awesome!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 11:12:01 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers I do not think thought leaders call themselves "Thought Leaders", in fact I think it's the other way around.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 8:13:09 PM
In Reply To @bpapa
@bpapa start a new account, email me the URLs and I can merge them
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 8:12:27 PM
In Reply To @bpapa
@bpapa I am adding ClaimID to my list of disliked providers, alongside Yahoo. Too easy for people to be "disabled or hidden" in their UI.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 5:23:42 PM
In Reply To @siracusa
@siracusa I saw that, LOL. And btw we still don't have WMD source for the editor, I email the author every week like clockwork.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 4:05:30 AM
In Reply To @mstum
@mstum you should call them. And record the call. "I placed a pre-order here for Duke Nukem forever ten years ago. Is it in yet?"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 3:54:56 AM
In Reply To @mstum
@mstum when did you place your pre-order for Duke Nukem Forever? Are they still honoring it? Seriously?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 1:57:11 AM
In Reply To @jzy
@jzy so ronry.. so ronry and sadry arone http://tinyurl.com/5kun4v
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 1:42:02 AM
In Reply To @mkellogg
@mkellogg hit me up next time, there will be much rockage in between Stack Overflow and.. oh yes, I do still have a blog..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 16, 2008, 1:38:50 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway microwave parts: every little girl's dream present!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 15, 2008, 5:47:22 PM
In Reply To @quii
@quii are you on the "unanswered" sort? I need to add something in the body for that. gets us too.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 15, 2008, 6:38:25 AM
In Reply To @jcsalterego
@jcsalterego Christian the Lion video, background story http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25797678/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 15, 2008, 12:08:54 AM
In Reply To @jezell
@jezell I think you radically underestimate how fast gzip is on today's hardware. Hell, even in 2002 it was plenty fast at scale.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 14, 2008, 9:47:21 PM
In Reply To @jezell
@jezell idle 5,762 hours, sqlserver 65 hours, w3wp 4 hours. Not 100% accurate because we have killed processes at some point, but still.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 14, 2008, 9:45:09 PM
In Reply To @secretGeek
@secretGeek there is, it's called "build a web app"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 14, 2008, 9:44:16 PM
In Reply To @jezell
@jezell you should see our CPU graphs.. 8 cpu box and it's at *maybe* 5% utilization, ever. We have CPU to burn, big time.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2008, 10:13:20 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers when the alternative is a zillion logins, someone has to stop the madness. Like Toto, I Hold The Line. http://is.gd/2Ani
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 13, 2008, 11:38:42 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway good news: two people think the web needs SVG! Bad news: those are the only two!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 12, 2008, 6:37:26 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway try working with MVC a bit more to understand why caching is really difficult in that environment..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 12, 2008, 8:57:14 AM
In Reply To @jezell
@jezell looking like that's the only way at the moment. Would LOVE to be able to cache partial HTML views, but need SubControllers, I think
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Sep 12, 2008, 8:45:01 AM
In Reply To @karlseguin
@karlseguin you can -- but you're not caching anything interesting because the DB work is done upstream in the Controller every time.
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