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@codinghorror

Indoor enthusiast. Co-founder of and . Abyss domain expert. Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Bay Area, CA
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Joined April 2007
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    11 Aug 2015

    If we don't solve the password problem for users in my lifetime I am gonna haunt you from beyond the grave as a ghost

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    12 hours ago

    When I was 12, 13, and 14, my parents sent me to the fields to pick berries. It's a pretty common summer job in Oregon, but I didn't have a passion or talent for it, so I made about $1 a week. 1/4

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  3. 13 hours ago

    Also try signing up for and using a long password of 20 plus chars. You will get a ton of spurious errors telling you complete nonsense until you make it much shorter (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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    Jun 30

    The gentleman sitting behind us has an eyepatch, which my unfiltered 6yo commented on. I cringed until he responded to her in a pirate voice & asked her if she wanted one too. He has continued to talk in a pirate voice ever since. Bravo, sir.

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    Jun 30

    Jessica Livingston, co-founder of Y-combinator, which funded Dropbox, Reddit, AirBnB, Herold & many others tells her story

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    Jun 30

    Just finished marathoning all 4 seasons. If you touch a keyboard in any capacity, you need to watch this show. 10/10.

    This was the absolute high point of Halt and Catch Fire for me. "But most of all, beware of each other."
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    Jun 28

    Today seems like the right time to do a thread I've been thinking about for a while on how to handle the seemingly never-ending deluge of depressing and disturbing news. My tips are based on my time as a CIA military analyst in which I dealt daily with disturbing content. (1/)

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  8. Jun 30

    Those wacky astrophysicists, planning for a trillion years from now

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    Jun 29

    The Flamin' Hot Cheetos movie: How a Frito-Lay janitor created one of America's most popular snacks

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  10. Jun 29

    How I will actually be remembered

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  11. Jun 29

    How I wish to be remembered

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    Jun 29

    me: did u catch the rock vs scissors fight friend: no what channel was it on me: [turns to camera] paper view

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    Jun 29

    Dear Internet. I have made you a gift. Please turn volume up.

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  14. Jun 29

    I've used AWS, it's surely got a lot of warts, Azure can't be that bad... right? <after 5 minutes of >

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    29 Oct 2014

    I think it's high time we had a serious Twitter discussion about race, sex, abortion, and gun rights... (1/50)

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    Jun 29

    We answer the question you’ve been dying to know: HOW DOES “LA CROIX” GETS ITS FLAVOR????

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  17. Jun 29

    did.. did this Gary Larson strip actually.. come true? (Twitch, etc videogame streamers making a good living at *literally* playing videogames?)

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  18. Jun 29

    Being "smart" isn't a reliable path to success. But you know what is? Becoming borderline obsessive about one thing and spending a ridiculous amount of time learning about and practicing that thing, such that you get super good at it.

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  19. Jun 29

    Robot Odyssey story time. I indeed played a pirated version of this when I was a kid. I got to a point where I realized it was gonna be like.. a looooot of work to visually wire up ever more complex robots. So I bailed, and today I use a JS framework like everyone else. <FIN>

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    Jun 29

    You don’t need a title to speak. But if you do have one, use it. Find your voice, and raise it. Stake your authority, and state it. Don’t recoil. Don’t back down.

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    Jun 29

    Most boring memes of 2018: 12. You 11. can't 10. rank 9. them 8. because 7. they 6. are 5. all 4. repetitive 3. by 2. nature 1. This one

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