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Life hack: Put one shoe in the baby car seat on any hot day.

#AWS how the heck does cloud-init become uninstalled?

Drop everything and go get pirogis from the @FT_Belfeast food truck. They are at Franklin Square in DC. Authentic Russian (pan-slavic) food

META: all the jokes have been said. Now when you think of a joke, just search for it & retweet it.

Test Plan
Unittest what can be unittested
Integration test for what can be integration tested
Update resume for what must be manually tested

# bash script to get you through the summer
while [ ! -e snow ]; do sleep 1; done

Type of numbers:
Signed int
Unsigned int
Cryptographically signed int
limited edition int signed by Bjarne Stroustrup

If elected, I will merge the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Commonwealth of Virginia, because VA should refer to the same thing.

There are so many colors on the US heat map you'd need to be a mantis shrimp to read 'em

http://ln.is/www.youtube.com/nSfuy

A script to deal with disk errors in bash.
fsck; dsmn; shst; whs ms, whst ths fsck dsd s ds?

Did Packt books get cheaper again because of Brexit? Made my 401k go all wobbly, but hey, I'm paying $10 a book again.

They say it will be 37 tomorrow. Wear a sweater, hat and gloves.

Q: Do air conditioners put out RF that interferes with wi-fi?

Local filk music! https://x.com/philshapiro/status/756203046963675137

I once exited a PHP script,
Just so I could watch it die.

I once typed vi
Just so I could watch it :q!

META: Is there a way to map *someone else's* twitter followers? (may free services exist to may your own followers)

"Dad I don't understand this algebra. Do it for me!"
Unix Dad: "Mind your manners, that's not how we ask around here."
"algebra -h"

Hey all you crazy super commuters, would Baltimore & DC be the same job market for tech work?

Do Metro stops have short recognizable abbreviations like airports do? e.g. FGTN=>TKPK. API says no. https://developer.wmata.com/docs/services/5476364f031f590f38092507/operations/5476364f031f5909e4fe3311#Station

You can pretty much substitute @ExpertBeginner1 for StackOverflow while it is down.

Stackoverflow is down. Ask me everything.

Wanted Senior Developer, expected qualities:
* Grey hair
* Vagrant
* An expert in Depends(.exe)

Lovely adminstrator
Wunderful adminstrator
Lovely adminstrator
Wunderful adminstrator
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adminstrator
admi https://x.com/wjhuie/status/755424869609828354

META: reply jokes are the most sincere, because you know they're not getting much attention.

Bash code generator:
0 write a line of bash, execute to get error
1 Google result
2 Execute next command found in top search result
GOTO 1

"Alexa! Weather"
"Today in Takoma Park it will feel like a pizza oven. Tonight it will feel like an oven pre-heated for baking cookies."

Every server is sacred,
Every server is great,
If a server is wasted,
The sysadmin gets quite irate & then AWS bills you for it.

Why do some people hate pip and conda? (and prefer to install all packages globally?)

My venv don't want none unless you got anaconda hun.

PIP has infinite faith in the existence of every known compilation tool chain existing on your workstation. https://x.com/mistersql/status/753964521463709696/photo/1

"Verify your Standard Market Session order. Click once to avoid placing multiple orders." Triple clicked? You're bankrupt now. UX! UX! UX!

c++ excuse: It's compiling.
python excuse: It's downloading packages

Huh, a speed reading tool where you read 1 word at a time but in the same place on the screen http://ln.is/www.readsy.co/PkatD so your eye dsn't move

Nothing builds confidence like python setup.py install spewing errors for 10 minutes and then claiming it succeeded.

We did a root cause analysis of that bug report and here is a screen shot of the problem https://x.com/mistersql/status/753208139319607296/photo/1

You're going out to get a koffee? I think you mean a koffing.

OSX peeps, how do you keep the dock from disappearing?