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Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood is a longtime agnostic Windows ecosystem developer. He currently writes for his blog Coding Horror while building Stack Overflow, a community oriented question and answer website for software developers.

Coding Horror | 03 Feb 2012 02:18

Listen to Your Community, But Don't Let Them Tell You What to Do

Jeff Atwood writes "....You know how interviewers love asking about your greatest weakness, or the biggest mistake you've ever made? These questions may sound formulaic, maybe even borderline cliche, but be careful when you answer: they are more important than they seem...."
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Coding Horror | 01 Feb 2012 13:15

The One Button Mystique

Jeff Atwood writes "....I enjoy my iPhone, but I can't quite come to terms with one aspect of its design: Apple's insistence that there can be only ever be one, and only one, button on the front of the device. I also own a completely buttonless Kindle Fire, and..."
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Coding Horror | 18 Jan 2012 15:00

Defeating SOPA and PIPA Isn't Enough

Jeff Atwood writes "....SOPA and PIPA are two pieces of proposed legislation designed to "stop" Internet piracy… in the most hamfisted way imaginable. As Mitchell Baker explains: Assume there's a corner store in your neighborhood that rents movies. But the movie..."
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Coding Horror | 19 Dec 2011 03:31

Building Social Software for the Anti-Social

Jeff Atwood writes "....In November, I delivered the keynote presentation at Øredev 2011. It was the second and probably final presentation in the series I call Building Social Software for the Anti-Social. I've spent almost four years thinking about the Q&A..."
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Coding Horror | 13 Dec 2011 00:12

Gifts for Geeks, 2011 Edition

Jeff Atwood writes "....Between founding Stack Overflow (and later, running Stack Exchange) and having a child, I haven't had much time to blog about the holidays for a few years now. The last Gifts for Geeks I did was in 2008. Those recommendations are still as valid as..."
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Coding Horror | 07 Dec 2011 17:12

Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing (FXAA)

Jeff Atwood writes "....Anti-aliasing has an intimidating name, but what it does for our computer displays is rather fundamental. Think of it this way -- a line has infinite resolution, but our digital displays do not. So when we "snap" a line to the pixel grid on our..."
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Coding Horror | 07 Nov 2011 03:22

Bias Lighting

Jeff Atwood writes "....I've talked about computer workstation ergonomics before, but one topic I didn't address is lighting. We computer geeks like it dark. Really dark. Ideally, we'd be in a cave. A cave … with an internet connection. The one thing that we..."
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Coding Horror | 24 Oct 2011 04:23

On Parenthood

Jeff Atwood writes "....Our son was born March 12th, 2009. He's a little over two and a half years old. Now, I am the wussiest wuss to ever wuss up the joint, so take everything I'm about to say with a grain of salt – but choosing to become a parent is the hardest..."
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Coding Horror | 17 Oct 2011 17:04

Multiple Video Cards

Jeff Atwood writes "....Almost nobody should do what I am about to describe – that is, install and use more than one video card. Nobody really needs that much graphics performance. It's also technically complex and a little expensive. But sometimes you gotta say to..."
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Coding Horror | 15 Oct 2011 03:58

Serving at the Pleasure of the King

Jeff Atwood writes "....I enjoy my iPhone tremendously; I think it's the most important product Apple has ever created and one they were born to make. As a consumer who has waited far too long for the phone industry to get the swift kick in the ass it so richly deserved,..."
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Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) "I swear there is more drama on this tiny message board than any other place on the internet." about 6 hours ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @NickFitz it's just crazy because we are swimming in chicken now. What was the post-war "everyman's meat" in the 50s and 40s, then? about 10 hours ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) "..chicken, once internationally synonymous with luxury..." Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, man http://t.co/KSs6aUKY about 11 hours ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) "What we would gain from P = NP will make the whole Internet look like a footnote in history." http://t.co/P4OzTxWI about 13 hours ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) KISS: selling out as an art form http://t.co/dLOWSm6l about 13 hours ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) DVDs are the new MP3s http://t.co/ExeRDUGT about 17 hours ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @vesech old Stack Exchange 1.0 site, getting rare but there are a few about 19 hours ago from Twitter for iPhone

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @bozhobg well there is the scrolling part, which is kind of essential, and the button part of the scroll button, which isn't so much about 19 hours ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) thanks for all the kind wishes about @theladybabies, everyone is doing great, and after 5 weeks in hospital @betsyphd is eager to go home :) about 19 hours ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @JasonPunyon you will cry like a wuss. Everyone does. Even Chuck Norris. 1 day ago from Twitter for iPhone

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) I have to say @betsyphd did an amazing job. http://t.co/gFOuOcyl 1 day ago from Photos on iOS

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @bassistance yes thank God but now the numbers do not favor us :) 1 day ago from Twitter for iPhone

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) http://t.co/gmKW4zaN http://t.co/Js3euPbw 1 day ago from Twitter for iPhone

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) Welcome @theladybabies to the world just now 1 day ago from Twitter for iPhone

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @textfiles JEALOUS 1 day ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @mattcutts I am trying to do the math on this, and failing. Are these like 10 minute meetings? 1 day ago from web

Jeff Atwood (codinghorror) @eqhmcow you will get +100 rep on every site you create an account on, provided you have +200 at least one place on the network 1 day ago from web

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