@wilshipley it would be a metric crap-ton of work in terms of programming and support as well. I agree it's totally unrealistic at scale.

@wilshipley obviously money isn't the motivating factor, doing stuff you love at a small tightly focused company is. I get it, believe me.

@wilshipley to be fair, you'd probably make a ton of money if you ported to Windows. Look at the iPod -- was a dud when Mac-only.

@wilshipley it's @hotdogsladies fault; he "OPTED IN" to Loopt telepathically.

@wilshipley your relentless pursuit of midriffs shames you and your family

@hotdogsladies "SMSs cost money. Like real money. Not popped collar polo shirt money." you're *killing* me here, man

@hotdogsladies "At the recipient’s expense. And without prior permission. And, apparently, without user confirmation. [This is Bad.]" orly?

@cisellis Rock Bnad + Chick-Fil-A + EATING WITH THE COW MASCOT!1! = best birthday ever http://is.gd/TvE

@ChrisGrace you're gonna make me cry. And put it on YouTube. You beast.

@jdiller "pragmatists vs. zealots: eventually it's pragmatic to stop arguing with zealots"

@omarshahine "start with an empty web.config file and add stuff as needed" why aren't *you* in charge of DevDiv, then :)

@haacked make that release quick! I think I have a MVC routing bug w/ELMAH! (see email from Rob)

@importantshock "[Wall-E is] the greatest animated movie of all time"? Really? REALLY? C'mon. It was good, and all, but.. Iron Giant, man.

@senordanimal I find crying to be a skill that does not move one significantly forward in life, and I don't like to see it rewarded. SHRUG^9

@senordanimal had to be said. sick of reading about it. Reinforces negative stereotypes of women (eg cry to get what you want). Shrug, YMMV.

@dlmcgraw I dunno, the more I reflect on Wall-E, the less I like it. I'd rate many Pixar movies ahead of it -- Incredibles, Nemo, Toy Story

@robertfischer we allow revisions, which means we need to know tag history between versions of a post.

@robertfischer no, we're using SQL 2005; all our pages show detailed per-page query stats and ms execution time

@superdalgas you got a MINI HELICOPTER! http://is.gd/SzL

@carnage4life saw new design because we're having a "discussion" about denormalization and someone cited your post http://is.gd/SyU

@carnage4life btw great choice of photo on your new blog design header, always liked that one

@dan90266 the 10x (!) perf difference between CLR dbo.RegexMatch() and LIKE is already making me pretty damn sad.

@deadprogrammer you bought an ostrich egg? Holy crap http://tinyurl.com/5gsrgx

@HisShadow I love Tenacious D and I own the masterworks DVD, but Pick of Destiny was just.. bad.

@mattgrommes this is awesome http://www.bandgeekhero.com/ -- Recorder Hero.

@anildash "back of my neck getting dirty and gritty!"

@edraper I will buy GH: World Tour, but Harmonix is the real deal. They're all musicians with MIT Media Lab background. No contest IMO.

@jbogard "learning to be a better rock band drummer" has that answer and more http://is.gd/S0U

@deadprogrammer I *expect* crap. It is the norm. Most code is Daily WTF material. That IsHuman() PHP code was horrible, for example.

@ChrisWeiss crap, the "call delete twice in your build file with failonerror=false the 1st time" did not work. Build fail. Good idea though.

@dublin_casper I vote every individual line of code should have its own expandable #region . You know, to make it easier to navigate.

@wilshipley pff whatever my hand built system is a BAG OF AWESOME. And I get to use a velociraptor, too!

@secretGeek where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Hmph. Steve!

@justinweiss "See: ruby on windows" the pain must never end. I'm only imagining.

@randomstep "use each platform for what it is best suited, rather than sticking with one." Totally agree; had epic fail on linux install.

@nevali I am looking at the ishuman() PHP code now. agree the differences are subtle and aggravating; most PHP devs don't test on windows.

@lazycoder Akismet (works, sort of, but UI actions busted), wp-spamfree, recaptcha, Yawasp

@jwalkerjr well, yeah, "orange" does work surprisingly well. You'd think of the umpteen zillion WordPress plugins ONE WOULD WORK

@carnage4life RIP RROD. Thank goodness MS did the right thing and extended warranties. Insufficient designed cooling, I guess.

@omarshahine if you're there on the first day, you opted in to pain. No sympathy, my friend. :)

@y0mbo on the other hand, both top and bottom should be used, too, because they are both infinitely tall.

@y0mbo that's a good point; top is nearer the toolbars and tabs you already use

@wilshipley "I always tip 30% (because, Christ, wait-people have *real* jobs, and work so fucking hard)" amen. Me too, but I do 20%.

@kevindente @jongalloway that's a good point too -- use Acronis to take a drive snapshot of your "good" install and store it on USB HDD!

@jongalloway that's crushingly ironic coming from the guy who didn't "feel" a 2x improvement in machine specs on day to day dev.

@subdigital we are using DataDude on stack overflow ; why'd you rip it out?

@jongalloway the crazy kids are all using virtual machines to test things safely these days.. it's like unit testing for your OS!

@subdigital no way man! 5 inner joins per query is good times! wheee! (head explodes)

@nevali you don't understand; live editing of css/html in the webpage is exactly what webdev does. Try it yourself.

@onyxraven web developer has live editing of CSS files and HTML files (html edit is under "miscellaneous" for some bizarre reason)

@john_mark @lazycoder I use ctrl+shift+f "inspect" in webdev -- not sure what the difference is with Firebug inspect

@boredzo ask on the refactor site and I'll tell you why

@wilshipley for shame, it's c#! keyword VAR baby! @jcsalterego no consideration of bad-nestingness, I should add that to comments

@bradwilson next week's Rock Band 2 DLC is epic: Best of The Who (12 tracks) http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53394

@carnage4life ok, fair enough, but don't let your admiration blind you to the (many, many, MANY) flaws. :)

@carnage4life I don't get your unabashed love for Facebook. It's like a complete critical blindspot for you.

@deadprogrammer CT unwilling to compromise on price, so I guess 4GB it is. Not willing to DOUBLE monthly charge for 4GB -> 8GB ram

@kenlefeb people will pay as long as the opportunity cost of paying is lower than piracy, so as piracy becomes trivial.. blog post subject.

@wilshipley isn't DRM fun? Wheeeeee! DRM! We hate our customers, because they're lying, stealing bastards! Yayy!

@wilshipley did they even have CSS in 1995? Wasn't the internet powered by a hand-turned crank back then? Also, we are old and will die soon

@wilshipley "It looks like you're writing a web browser! Would you like some help with that?" http://youtube.com/watch?v=4Rl5SOuq6-g

@jongalloway just pointed out that my HTML tag balance algorithm sucks. Why yes, it does! unsucking.. (types) unsucking.. (types)

@haacked why spend time on things with low effort-to-benefit ratio? This is one reason why I, personally, quit my job.

@booboojeebies great, evil wins again. Truemors is an embarrassment.

@wilshipley I think everyone in that doggy chain was pretty screwed, personally :) Programming Is Hard, Let's Go Scripting! http://is.gd/PYr

@wilshipley because you "know C", obviously.. Joel seems to think this "C" thing is important, whatever it is.

@wilshipley Joel said your v2 launch was a "rookie mistake", and I am directly quoting at this point. Go ask him. :)

@wilshipley re: ObjectiveC "The last time I dealt with a header file and felt OK about it was in 1992."

@wilshipley I'm coming around to the idea that UNIX-alikes should win on consistency / longevity

@kiwibastard as much crap as people give Vista, I can't even REMEMBER the last time I had a data-losing OS fault (bluescreen)

@pvponline Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html

@jeremyross crashing != crashing OS X. He actually had data loss in the virtual machine he was running at the time (stackoverflow code!)

@kevindente there's maybe 2-3 days per year AC is necessary in our location. Amazing how many "microclimates" there are in the bay area.

@ezyang I've heard great things, but PHP code doesn't integrate well into a C# codebase for some crazy reason.. :)

@haacked people who work for MSFT appear to disappear into the collective, never to be heard from again. Massive productivity tax.

@kevindente you can't not find no nothing nowhere none?

@jcsalterego right now I'm using a stack to push and pop the tags that need to be closed, anything left at the end gets popped off as /tag

@carnage4life regex sanitize is working great, actually; the 2nd pass is to close orphaned tags, which can occur even in "sanitized" HTML.

@haacked you just mocked my world.

@wilshipley CCR went to the high school 3 blocks from here. My barber used to cut the hair of the "Fogerty boys", as he calls them.

@kevindente welcome to the wide, wide world of MDI-SDI-WTF http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000262.html

@wilshipley I need you to respond to my emails and direct messages, I have something important to tell you plskthxbye

@erator one of the commenters on my blog left it! See, Joel, comments = awesome.

@JonathanRauch wow, you're right. Of course Yegge is probably 100x the coder I am, but maybe he should take his code advice on writing? LOL

@carnage4life reading TechCrunch is scientifically proven to make people stupider. Who needs the dain bramage?

@jongalloway been there, done that -- see user reviews here http://tinyurl.com/6lx2bq

@kevindente you better get in here and back me up, homey http://is.gd/Nyd

@deadprogrammer "There's something inherently unreadable about FriendFeed's layout." I know, right? I saw that too.

@jongalloway an arrested development movie is in the works, too.

@timoreilly agree, prefer Twitter's minimalism to FriendFeed's kitchen sink -- with insanely difficult to read grey-on-white text.

@wilshipley iTunes is anti-web. SUCK IT PHOBOS.APPLE.COM

@nathanbowers sorry, I should have linked to the "printable" version -- usually a good shortcut for arbitrary page-sliced articles

@deadprogrammer just went to a back store and tried the Humanscale Liberty/Freedom chairs. Definitely not at all impressed.

@bradwilson I am a University of Virginia graduate so I am required by law to <3 Thomas Jefferson. Still, cutting up the bible is awe ...

@deadprogrammer agree (iMac "puck" mouse, anyone?), but at least keyboards and mice are cheap and easy to substitute

@voidspace I sat in the Mirra and liked it better. The Aeron is generally not a good recliner -- I broke my Aeron recline pin once!

@wilshipley screw that, I'm writing in Dubya for a third term. The constitution is overrated.

@kevindente compare scolling this page http://www.schillmania.com/projects/dialog2/ in FF3 and IE7. Radical difference.

@carnage4life lots of users are offended by porn and will flag it -- nobody is "offended" by copyright violations

@kevindente have you tried JS intellisense with the beta of SP1? I can't because we're in active development. The hotfix seemed safe enough.