@ski081 I am thinking this might be the better jQuery intellisense approach now -- a stub http://is.gd/Lri

@deadprogrammer I'm sure, but I bet you don't write slash fiction about it, either. :) http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002914.php

@cshirky I can't even *try* OSX without buying a hardware dongle: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001044.html

@jongalloway "web design is 95% typography" http://tinyurl.com/2v5xan

@kevindente Petzold's Annotated Turing is a great frigging book! http://is.gd/KV9

@talexb I hear you, and partially agree, but "I have OSX" and "can't afford hardware" are sort of mutually exclusive, my friend.

@pilotbob believe me, I am a Vista fan. We are rarer than hen's teeth. There are too many "nobody cares" new features in Vista: pen/voice.

@jongalloway rule of thumb for WIndows OS development: if it's something users would actually care about, it will not ever be updated.

@mdavid glad to hear we're no longer mortal enemies...

@wilshipley no way! AOL forever man! But seriously, I think it has to do with the # of "giggly" users http://is.gd/KJF

@peteonsoftware thanks, will fix!

@jessieshmessie if you're ever in the bay area, let's have a jam session! Now with stage lighting! http://is.gd/KHZ

@dethstryke the bidet part, I am OK with.. the part where it turned into slash fiction, NOTSOMUCH http://is.gd/JyH

@wilshipley I wrote about this here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001113.html

@wilshipley you don't know this? seriously? the music companies are banding together to fight the frankenstein iTunes monster they created.

@tipjoy never have I been so enthralled by a video of absolutely nothing happening http://tinyurl.com/3j6zso

@timbray it'll make you even happier when you build it yourself! Building software, building hardware -- it's all intertwingled.

@siracusa and that's the Mac Pro problem in a nutshell: ersatz, inordinately expensive server hardware on the desktop.

@wilshipley the velociraptor is a double height 2.5" drive. You could argue wd should offer an adapter. Or, y'know, *CABLES*

@wilshipley I see your FAIL and raise you EPIC FAIL! seriously, *cables*. pretty is more important than function?

@wilshipley uh, no, mac pro inability to use standard sata *cables* FAIL

@solotech pardon my french, but those "solutions" are crap and in no way a substitute for real OS integrated ISO mounting.

@secretGeek why isn't ISO mounting built into Windoze by now? UNIX wins again. You bastards!

@carnage4life now you're being silly. Url redirection is best done from the center of the graph, not the edges. Who's in the center? Hmm.

@jongalloway the merge UI is cataclysmically bad in SVN. IMNSHO.

@jongalloway btw we have several failed "oops, lost all my changes" SVN merges under our belt now on the team. It's so easy, RIGHT?

@carnage4life I would argue those blog posts are probably much more relevant to the world than any specs you're going to write. Do the math.

@gilesgoatboy in a world of infinite land, the tragedy of the commons isn't quite the same argument.

@omarshahine yesterday we flew on a small commuter jet so new the overhead lights were high power LEDs (!) had that "new plane" smell, even

@omarshahine I always check the plane's "born on" date while boarding. The year of mfg is stamped on a metal tag in the doorway.

@gilesgoatboy I dunno, if boingboing can have comments -- and some of 'em are great -- it busts the scale argument.

@kevindente also, what? i wasn't listening.

@kevindente you flatter me; if leo laporte left and came back to twitter, nothing I can do.

@chalain you understand that @gilesgoatboy can't enable blog comments because he inspires epic vitriol; comments tend to reply in kind

@kevindente why do you mention Dave Cutler

@demosthe then why not entirely outsource our search to Google? We are considering that as well.

@arcanecode very helpful links on sql 2005 full-text indexing, thx http://shrinkster.com/zoa

@demosthe why sql 2005 full text indexing "abysmal"? link? info?

@lazycoder the GH: On Tour DS game is getting panned, mostly because it's supposedly *incredibly* uncomfortable to hold/play

@cisellis agree, it's not quite the same, but in those (admittedly rare) cases you want to refer to earlier thead msg, it's aggravating

@kevindente Gmail threads are sort of like the #region problem -- everything is collapsed, so "scroll to see older stuff' doesn't work.

@kevindente I am deeply ambivalent, to this day, about the way gmail handles threads. Not sure it's an improvement.

@jongalloway @damienguard dunno about that, but stackoverflow.com is CRAZY STUPID fast. q/a page gets return in .002 sec according to sniffr

@cisellis I was this close to referencing Equilibrium "Gun Katas" in my last post but decided against it. http://is.gd/F83

@bradwilson I would not say one crash per day is "lots of crashing", given how much I use the browser. Could be better, though.

@andru say what you will about IE7 but it was the friggin' rock of gibraltar on my box. Day in, day out, no crashes. Maybe 2 per month.

@jongalloway the zune you didn't pay for? oh, right. You rebel with your free product usage!

@preed holy crap, Ron Jeremy was in Ghostbusters? http://tinyurl.com/2b9ksu

@markzero save yourself, man! You don't want to know what "SOA" means! trust me on this one.

@dehora thinking SOA is a racket? That's like "thinking" the mafia is a racket. SOA: it's got electrolytes!

@lazycoder I'm saying women don't enjoy repeatedly punching a wall as much as guys do. 'cuz they're smarter than us.

@anotherlab only a perf comment; seems like we should be discouraging new people from using twitter (ala beta invitations) until it scales

@carnage4life I find that the people who objected to the XML post tend to be XML fans. Which is odd in itself; it's like being an ASCII fan.

@kevinmarks cool link, but that ipaw site is SERIOUSLY overrun with spam. http://is.gd/AlC

@jcfischer developers tend to think everything is solved by "writing more code". It's a little deeper point I was trying to make.

@timbray I don't think I said that you shouldn't do TDD. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000640.html

@divi I'm expecting a human baby to use the litterbox, is that so unreasonable?

@scottmarlowe yeah, we bit the bullet and paid the $100 for frontline. @alashcraft cat bathing is not so much "the fun times"

@teifion basically, I'm not smart enough to install a linux server. I had a whole twitterstream about it then.

@bump I'm angry every day! I've proven myself right, and that's always annoying: blacklists don't work. http://is.gd/Dst

@donncha I'm done with akismet; there were >5 comments it flagged that weren't even remotely spam. plus, broken on windows server. I' ...

@robertfischer you think Java would have taught us that by now. Platform Independence Is a Lie: Write Once, Debug Everywhere(tm).

@donncha "de-spam marked comments" is a no-op on my box. I've clicked it many, many times. No change.

@jongalloway our audience is programmers. If they can't handle typing a URL into a box, they've got some serious problems, methinks.

@jongalloway we're thinking of dropping the "friendly" drop-down OpenID HTML interface. What does it really add? And it's a pain.

@spatacoli pass #1, ensure only whitelist HTML is shown, pass #2, make sure all HTML tags are closed. Stupid Markdown allows HTML..

@uberfuzzy 8 bold tags to make rounded corners in CSS only (no images) http://jamielesouef.com/tag/ie7/

@macournoyer refactormycode.com is working great -- kudos to you!

@casualjim but I like clicking on a star. Why must you crush my childhood dreams? Dream crusher.

@aanttila congrats on the having a girl news, have a safe trip! Remember, TN is Prince-approved(tm).

@rwaldin Comic Sans, The Movie http://is.gd/CBx

@jongalloway no, there's a third vote there you've forgotten. FAIL / AWESOME / DONTCARE

@damienguard I humbly submit that (?<name>\w+)\s?=\s?(?<value>[^\s]*) is no harder to read than the average bit of Ruby code ...

@voidspace The Joy of Deletion http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000057.html

@TALlama ssshh!! The venture capitalists will hear you!!!!

@innismir I know! It's MY space, damn it! MINE! What are all these other idiots doing on it. Bah.

@benfulton I didn't find it pompous, I'm glad they picked it up; they're much smarter than me http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2862

@damienguard "The decision to “focus” on ClearType hinting instead of black and white hinting was a tough one for us." http://is.gd/CtR

@deadprogrammer giggly users suck. http://tinyurl.com/6pqzdk

@damienguard proof is in pudding: ClearType is the *ONLY* way MSFT "C" fonts look good (great, in fact). Thus, "designed around".

@deadprogrammer "whole foods" is called "whole paycheck" 'round these here parts. Trader Joe's FTW!

@damienguard http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000356.html

@damienguard the MSFT "C" fonts are strongly hinted assuming they're run with ClearType on. Tradeoff: awesome if on, ZOMG terrible if off.

@siracusa You see, I'm a PC. For example, this light grey area of the pie chart could represent "hangout time" ..

@siracusa thanks; it's totally personal preference, but Monaco is too whimsical and over-cleverly curved to my eye. Consolas = no nonsense.

@camflan @nevali thanks. Monaco definitely benefits from the Mac's thick font rendering. Still feels vaguely Comic Sans-y to me, though.

@blowdart use VisualSVN, it completely changed my outlook on Tortoise, which I still think has a wicked bad case of Programmer UI.

@kitroed update your remote desktop exe; newest versions support cleartype over RDP

@siracusa could I trouble you for a screenshot of Consolas and Monaco side by side on the Mac? There's zip on google for this.

@uberfuzzy I don't agree with comment auto-lockout based on age. Maybe auto-moderate, perhaps.

@jcsalterego nice one, I was trying to drink when I read that and nearly had to clean my monitor. LOL

@deadprogrammer FWIW I agree with you, I personally see Monaco as goofball interbreeding of Comic Sans and Lucida Console. Ugly to the bone!

@shanselman welcome to what I call "haterworld". Critics aren't always rational. Don't internalize. Follow your gut.

@deadprogrammer where is andale mono available as a default system font, though?

@bradwilson it's also failing its own saving throw, as it checks for a parent element with class of "prettyprint" and gets nada.

@bradwilson must have, because the behavior is inexplicable. Problem is prettify.js is not "reentrant"; colorizing twice = funked up.

@damienguard excellent CSS monospace style tip -- will use. You meant Liberation Mono, though, right?

@oldmanuk I would, but I doubt Gruber specifies "Consolas" anywhere in his CSS, somehow.. just a wild guess..

@uberfuzzy the problem with monospace as the *first* choice is that it defaults to ASS on windows = Courier New. Ugh. die die die!

@rory_blyth hope you feel better, man! (throws lamely executed caucasian inappropriate gang sign)