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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 7:45:49 PM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked your twitters should cover what you're working on and why. That might be interesting in a way that "I'M WALKIN HOME WOOT!" isn't
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 7:29:21 PM
In Reply To @anildash
@anildash Dr. Bronner's Peppermint soap is nice enough, but you know what'd be *totally* sweet? A Dr. Bronner's Butternut Reduction soap.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 7:28:21 PM
In Reply To @frohman
@frohman you now owe me $1.37 for reading your twitter message.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 6:25:58 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers don't ever try to read all the text on a Dr. Bronner's product, head asplode http://is.gd/1hzf
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 5:12:50 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente I think http://is.gd/1gsa is performance art, and useful performance art at that. Seriously.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 5:02:20 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente this is the only GEM system I support on .NET http://tinyurl.com/yahpqh
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 3:50:34 PM
In Reply To @adkinn
@adkinn deep zoom working well in Firefox 3 http://tinyurl.com/6x3cgy
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 3:40:45 PM
In Reply To @OmarShahine
@omarshahine I've been seeing tons of laptops with Vista x64. Seems to be a function of cheap memory and vendors desire to use all of it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 3:08:18 PM
In Reply To @gkra
@gkra running Xbox 360 games from HDD (w/disc in drive) is coming in a dashboard update this year.. soon-ish..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 3:04:26 PM
In Reply To @deadprogrammer
@deadprogrammer I can't decide if calling our site "addictive" is bad or good. I'm going with "good". Also, the first hit is free, man.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 3:02:43 PM
In Reply To @MBoffin
@MBoffin many thanks! And reminder: Stack Overflow beta signup: http://tinyurl.com/6j9pm9
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 2:11:54 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 3:22:31 AM
In Reply To @secretGeek
@secretgeek LOL, that's a VB.NET parody classic. Hadn't seen that one.. http://secretgeek.net/refactvb.asp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 6, 2008, 1:20:34 AM
In Reply To @hotdogsladies
@hotdogsladies some days I only write one word. To my credit, that word is usually "poop".
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2008, 11:03:03 PM
In Reply To @ericholscher
@ericholscher the best code is no code at all. And if you don't believe that, with all due respect, you *are* doing it wrong.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2008, 8:05:05 PM
In Reply To @Spatacoli
@spatacoli short answer: OpenID attribute exchange is hella useful, but sketchy as CRAP to implement right now.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2008, 7:35:51 PM
In Reply To @mattpodwysocki
@mattpodwysocki nm, I found out altnet site bars Yahoo OpenIDs, which means it's epic fail for us
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2008, 7:23:04 PM
In Reply To @westerveldname
@westerveldname I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to f**kin amuse you?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2008, 7:14:59 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@nathanbowers he moves his mouth away from the mic.. SO HE CAN BREATHE http://tinyurl.com/2otw3b
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2008, 6:43:16 PM
In Reply To @jarin
@jarinudom good idea, but I think I'll provide *your* email address.. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2008, 2:05:34 AM
In Reply To @IDisposable
@IDisposable don't be ridiculous. No mere comment filter can stop the irresistible force that is @bellware
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 5, 2008, 2:04:00 AM
In Reply To @mdhughes
@mdhughes "But MS Windows ships with nothing. No BASIC. No C compiler." er.. .net framework 2.0 is on Vista out of box.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 9:58:23 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman for shame -- post your 256 value key states question on Stack Overflow -- it is all about lazyweb!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 9:44:54 PM
In Reply To @edjez
@edjez waiting for *your* blog post on this topic.. :)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 9:43:26 PM
In Reply To @lewsid
@lewsid is your icon from Bruce Lee, the 16-bit era game? I think it is.. http://www.planetflibble.com/blitz/
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 6:46:58 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza if I have room with the "quote" (20+ chars) I provide URL, if not, assume google search (ctrl+c, ctrl+shift+g for me..)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 6:10:41 PM
In Reply To @mdhughes
@mdhughes agree on shipping OSS issue. That could be the fatal flaw that brings down MSFT in the end. http://is.gd/LEz
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 5:20:06 PM
In Reply To @gruber
@gruber I am enjoying the posts where you act as an Apple watchdog instead of an Apple apologist
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 5:14:53 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers I like to think as my work as a vacation from life. I'm probably Doing It Wrong.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 5:00:07 PM
In Reply To @danmaharry
@hmobius no donkey, but several asses
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 4:27:30 PM
In Reply To @marxity
@marxidad yes, but that OpenID may not be "enabled" and they may have no idea how to *use* it -- important details
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 3:23:32 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers damn, there goes "Project Google". I was so looking forward to that one.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 4, 2008, 2:02:17 AM
In Reply To @rexm
@rexm it's hard to predict (or *control*) how people will use things; I've been very pleased with the quality of content so far
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2008, 3:49:19 PM
In Reply To @jeresig
@jeresig oops -- we already found the 1.4pre of jquery.validate.js ; does not fix Opera error on our end! thought you had something else..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2008, 3:40:26 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers would it be rude to say I preferred the old design? :P
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2008, 2:21:30 PM
In Reply To @jeresig
@jeresig thanks man -- you rock!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2008, 1:54:51 PM
In Reply To @jeresig
@jeresig yep, we are trying to validate a textarea in Opera and it fails
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2008, 1:19:53 PM
In Reply To @jeresig
@jeresig thx for response. turns out it's the 3rd party jquery.validator library at fault. What would you recommend instead?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2008, 2:09:09 AM
In Reply To @marxity
@marxidad -- we looked but don't "get" clickpass. What does it add over OpenID alone?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 3, 2008, 1:14:29 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley that's NSAwesome, NSMan!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2008, 12:11:41 PM
In Reply To @Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life heh, one stackoverflow.uservoice.com feedback item was "add a tag cloud!"
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2008, 9:47:54 AM
In Reply To @NookTtocs
@lazycoder if you're a MSFT centric developer and you ever have to pay your *own* money for a MSFT product "you're doing it wrong."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2008, 9:33:06 AM
In Reply To @zbowling
@zbowling good point; OS X is effectively subsidized by the cost of the hardware dongle necessary to run it. Hadn't considered that.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2008, 9:32:16 AM
In Reply To @kebernet
@kebernet well, I think most mainstream users are hysterical "you moved my cheese" idiots. But that's just me.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2008, 8:10:06 AM
In Reply To @cogitor0
@garethjenkins hard not to see knol as knee-jerk fear of wikipedia from Google. A world where all #1 SERP links have NO ADS.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 2, 2008, 7:38:22 AM
In Reply To @secretGeek
@secretgeek "Knife driven development - code it or i'll cut you" http://www.secretgeek.net/a2z_dd.asp
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 9:39:10 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley you should blog these open source opinions. I expect they would be, uh, "popular".
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 9:31:38 PM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers Lifehacker has been one long uninterrupted Knievel-esque shark-jump from day one. To be fair, I'm not the intended audience.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 7:11:58 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente try the "add four spaces in front" firefox extension and see if that fixes it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 6:18:58 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente I had two complete blog posts researching this with hundreds of comments, so, yes -- Markdown is, in fact, the concensus...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 6:11:43 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente it's markdown, man. That's how it works. You can also do <pre></pre> manually, but html-escaping is on you at th ...
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 6:10:21 PM
In Reply To @timoreilly
@timoreilly I find it highly ironic that @sexyseo is complaining about women in tech issues. Hey, look, a HOT GIRL IN A BIKINI! Laaaaaaame.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 5:42:27 PM
In Reply To @waxpancake
@waxpancake enjoying a 2007 era windows mobile feature: tethering for cellular access. :) Granted, WAY better web browser..
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 4:48:10 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente nice +1 wife power!!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 2:20:23 PM
In Reply To @98codes
@ghurlman I've never subscribed to the idea that stack traces are this huge security risk, personally.. convince me!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Aug 1, 2008, 7:15:59 AM
In Reply To @masto
@masto private beta should not go on too long. 1 month max, I'm guessing.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 31, 2008, 11:46:46 PM
In Reply To @hotdogsladies
@hotdogsladies do these scummy pyramid scheme/seo/webmonetizer people try to "network" with you a lot? I don't get it.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 31, 2008, 10:31:47 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley clients #2 and #3 are saying "who wrote this crap?" http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000992.html
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 31, 2008, 2:42:03 PM
In Reply To @kevindente
@kevindente good thing they didn't put the "ejector seat" button next to that! phew!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 31, 2008, 1:53:22 AM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway I find mental abuse to be more effective for long-term childhood trauma
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 7:50:07 PM
In Reply To @hotdogsladies
@hotdogsladies SO uncool. Just for that, vintage Elvis Costello -- song is also in Rock Band 2 http://tinyurl.com/55gc6e
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 6:44:34 PM
In Reply To @seancolombo
@seancolombo yes, but have you tried searching pressflip for you searching pressflip?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 6:43:39 PM
In Reply To @shanselman
@shanselman it can take 2-3 seconds for Firefox 3 to launch a new instance, depending on how many instances+tabs I already have open
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 4:55:27 PM
In Reply To @hotdogsladies
@hotdogsladies that is the weakest griefing I've ever seen. Seriously... weak.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 3:27:56 PM
In Reply To @pickleshy
@pickleshy are you serious? I've met door to door evangelists who were less vocal than the average Opera user.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 1:36:08 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway Apple may develop their own custom mobo chipsets, really a non-issue. The cpu will still be Intel.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 12:04:15 PM
In Reply To @jongalloway
@jongalloway another SVN weirdness: had to delete, then undo (re-get) file because the solution would no longer run, no matter what I tried
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 11:57:29 AM
In Reply To @bradwilson
@bradwilson my favorite is the people who said they coded in Comic Sans. but hey, Comic Serif! http://is.gd/197E
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 11:29:16 AM
In Reply To @leebrandt
@leebrandt an interesting idea, the Eee PC as Kindle-alike. Hey, it supports *real* PDFs! No built in cell wireless though.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 10:30:39 AM
In Reply To @timbray
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 12:35:52 AM
In Reply To @NathanBowers
@NathanBowers I'll have to have you over for some SingStar / Rock Band vocals. Did I mention I have "Ice, Ice Baby" on Singstar PS2?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 12:34:10 AM
In Reply To @mdhughes
@mdhughes Wil blogged it. QED. "the opposite of love is not hate, but indifference."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 12:29:46 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley oh, don't even get me started on the Mac G4 = supercomputer ad bullshit. http://is.gd/18wz that's just embarrassing.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 12:26:43 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley dude, it's marketing, not science. The GOAL is to get people talking about it. Nobody gave a crap about "wow". Mojave = talk.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 30, 2008, 12:21:57 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley if you're talking about the marketing, it's effective marketing. Nobody blogged the crappy Vista "wow" campaign.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 10:00:19 PM
In Reply To @manvsmachine
@manvsmachine stupidity is, apparently, timeless
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 9:58:26 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley next to Kho Bowl and The Java House?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 9:26:15 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley your ZIP file is corrupted; it doesn't run under Windows Vista.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 7:24:24 PM
In Reply To @joshu
@joshu @timoreilly because you're not going to respond to EVERY comment left on your blog? Well, unless you're totally batshit insane.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 5:55:21 PM
In Reply To @ai
@anandiyer see what happens when you make me go to valleywag? Bad Things. http://is.gd/18ee
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 5:31:08 PM
In Reply To @Spatacoli
@Spatacoli that last tweet has to hurt, eh? CP&B is the ad agency that did the last few years of Burger King weirdness (subservient chicken)
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 5:40:43 AM
In Reply To @gbevin
@gbevin I'm trying to get really good with my plasma rifle first. And my m-16. And my Formula 1. Let me get back to you on that.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 5:37:51 AM
In Reply To @nevali
@iwork when h2 floats left, it .. er.. ain't really a "heading" any more, is it? That's what I mean. #crazy h2 fine, but not h2.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 5:31:53 AM
In Reply To @gbevin
@gbevin I still prefer to be a famous multi-millionaire international playboy, but somehow that ain't happening, either http://is.gd/17i0
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 5:05:24 AM
In Reply To @salmonmoose
@salmonmoose oh, next you'll be telling me I shouldn't use spacer.gif. What are you, some kind of HTML-ization wizard?
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 4:59:47 AM
In Reply To @jkale
@jkale yeah, but tables work well for tabular data, too... just scratching my head over the font sizing irregularities in table text
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 29, 2008, 4:26:58 AM
In Reply To @secretGeek
@secretGeek the first ninety percent of development takes ninety percent of the time; the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 10:37:16 PM
In Reply To @wspr
@wspr the whole reason Wikipedia *works* is the non-profit, everyone can participate nature. Knol breaks both of those. Useless.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 7:09:54 PM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley "Tevis sheepishly broke the news to his mom: she needed to step in front of a camera. 4 people have given enough to get a DVD."
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 6:43:07 PM
In Reply To @haacked
@haacked not everyone is the same amount of awesome, either.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 5:02:08 PM
In Reply To @hotdogsladies
@hotdogsladies yeah, well, Dooce is the Dooce of the internet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 4:38:04 PM
In Reply To @skrenta
@skrenta trick question! the right result for EVERY query is Wikipedia!
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 4:17:37 PM
In Reply To @migueldeicaza
@migueldeicaza why has @carnage4life "become" so bitter? he's just bittersweet, really.
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 5:40:24 AM
In Reply To @gilesgoatboy
@gilesgoatboy it's .. interesting .. that you know enough about these "web celebrities" to write in such exquisite detail about them
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 2:29:12 AM
In Reply To @wfs
@wfs "First iPhone app: a quiz game that generates questions for employees at the Whole Foods fish counter." OMG I'M DYIN' OVER HERE LOLLL
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Jeff Atwood @codinghorror
Jul 28, 2008, 2:28:25 AM
In Reply To @wilshipley
@wilshipley gamerankings.com -- live it, learn it, love it! Get Battlefield: Bad Company, it actually got *good* reviews!
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