Colin Barrett @cbarrett Twitter profile

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Colin Barrett

4 months

2024 will not be a good one. Everything will continue getting worse, not better. Sorry if this offends but it’s probably correct.

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2 years

@generalslug Zelda answered this

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@punished_cait Please, please just use an electric razor and then go in with the disposable. My god

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@superloafcat @bridgietherease We have to work on our brevity 😭

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Ancient programmer spell to determine if a file is included in the build or not

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@keffals @Cloudflare You seeing this?

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@pookleblinky He really does run things by pointing at line items in an Excel sheet and saying "Can we cut that?"

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@eatinginmycar “Don’t worry, it’s sativa”

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@eevee @CrystalForce_ @MaxKriegerVG “I expected something more personal or magic” bitch this is email not disneyland

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If we're being honest, I think "the Pussy Generation" sounds a lot cooler than "Millennials"

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This is not "superhuman code." This is completely average physicist code (dogshit, unmaintainable, deleted immediately)

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NASA says Category Theory is the “Mathematical Basis of Systems Engineering.”

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@antumbral @DustyKielbasa Imagine being gored to death by a panicked steer because someone brought it to Petco and it got spooked by an Iguana

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12 years

Guess God really does use Lisp. http://t.co/wYfcEIZU

I'm sorry to inform you that Earth is about to be been eaten by a fire demon.

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7 years

Remember when it was revealed David Cameron facefucked a dead pig and upper class British people insisted it was normal

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@Liv_Agar Referring to WvB as merely a “German” scientist is… I mean the guy made weapons for the Nazis

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@cowgirl_beebop “My conscience is overly sensitive” AND you’re Catholic? That’s so unusual...

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@LeftAtLondon And they're both doing Dreamworks Face. I hate this

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@generalslug Even if she puts out a video statement saying she’s not gay and never has been, they’ll still double down. It’s incredible

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@KhadiDon But it's OK for you to diagnose *everyone* with not autism? K

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@kath_krueger Please show him the original look of her newborn baby

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@willystaley @ambient_cowboy Having met and worked with a number of people just like this, I guarantee she makes her coworkers' lives miserable somehow

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5 years

The hardest problem in Computer Science is training yourself to not be frustrated but to think "a different error message this time, yippie!"

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@cd_hooks @PlankySmith Have they tried hiring a lobbyist?

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3 years

@doyalikebaileys @KyleTrainEmoji No the ideal page just says "Ronald Reagan assassination."

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4 years

@kittypurrzog No. Working class is anyone who does not own the means of production (instruments of production + raw materials) to create a product to sell for money, and must therefore sell the only product they have, their labor power. If you have to punch a clock you're working class

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8 years

Why do they call it K&R and not "The Old Man and the C"

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Wendy Carlos, in addition to popularizing synthesizers, composed the score for The Shining, Clockwork Orange, and Tron. One of my idols

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None of your deadmice or skrillexes would be a thing without the genius of a trans woman, never forget it

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@generalslug Imagine a movie trilogy where you find out about the previous 200 years of little bear society's politics. Excited yet?

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@mattkatz00 Why didn't you press the police a little on this, as it's laughably untrue on its face?

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@willmenaker @BrandyLJensen @kathbarbadoro @CarlBeijer

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RIP the best tweet of all time

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thank you to @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE and @ChapoFYM for raising awareness and getting him free 👏🏻

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Four British men freed after Afghanistan detention

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@willmenaker I'm different, I'm medium height but wish I was shorter so I would have to grind harder.

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@semtexfarmhand_ Looking into this

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@dionnewarwick I found the answer for you. It’s in this article

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@slumptmila @ejacqui I hear you, but I'll still be skipping the B&J

Ben & Jerry's freezes when it comes to Palestine

Ice cream brand has been vocal advocate for Black Lives Matter movement, but refuses to halt operations in illegal Israeli settlements

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3 years

When people say “you cannot vote in Socialism” they aren’t kidding

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how it started how it's going

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"Type inference is so last century. The right thing to do is to write the types down, and then get as much mechanical assistance generating the programs as possible." — @pigworker

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Make me CEO of Twitter and I promise I will direct engineers to add, as soon as is technically possible, the /me command from IRC to this website. We can save this place.

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@DROzone718 In no way is “has little leverage over them” true. One of the most untrue things I’ve heard

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6 years

@BV It's because rich assholes like your namesake are worth a billion zillion dollars.

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4 years

For too long, a certain group of Americans have survived on handouts. That changes now. We’re going to teach them, ambition, self-reliance, and hard work. That’s right, we’re going to teach landlords how to code.

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2 years

@ThreatNotation Did a symphony board member write this?

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8 years

If you pass `--exec "make test"` to `git rebase -i`, git will run your tests after each commit it generates 👍

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@Devon_OnEarth Americans will pick up the slack o7

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5 years

@samknight_one @RepStephenMeeks Save 50k (post tax) of your 70k (pre tax) salary and you'll be a millionaire in 20 years. What could be simpler

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@willmenaker “I hate you, but also, please notice me.” Classic, many such cases

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@ggreenwald @GrimKim @mylestanzer This is relevant because Kim Kelly is famous for being an MSNBC lib

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@jonathanchait @saletan Stuff it, wet boy. We haven't forgotten what you and Saletan said 20 years ago

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@DavidDeutschOxf @skdh “Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve” —JA Wheeler Anti-matter is just following the geodesic — the line along which it moves if undisturbed by other forces. (Right?)

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#HistoricalHottie of the day: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (turn-of-the-20th-century composer)

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@manderso7 @bitch_updates How noble

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3 years

How do graphics programmers trash talk? GetRect()

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Microsoft's thinking about buying Adobe. Two words: Microsoft Photoshop. Enjoy your nightmares.

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@BrandyLJensen "Aspiring YA author, Ravenclaw, founder of the Aspiring Writers United" 😬

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Greek and Roman statues were painted, not left as white marble. They were placed inside temples which, when filled with smoke and incense, must have made them look terrifyingly alive.

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I agree. In fact, organizing for trans rights *is* organizing for better working conditions

Luna Oi! 👁 UK/USA Expert/Human Rights Watcher 👁

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It is good that workers at Netflix are organizing actions for trans rights and it's good that workers at other companies are organizing actions for better work conditions. There is no reason to pit workers against each other by imagining fictitious conflict between them.

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Shut the fuck up about European trains already

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did this paper just tell me to fuck off?

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@edzitron how's it going all my xocialites out there in xyberspace

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@emrazz @davidsirota @mat_ushh @notsoundmind @OscarFactsOnly Come on yall. Wall Street's accounts may "pay" for the 401k but they didnt create that wealth -- they got it by stealing it from the workers who did

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@allahliker If I was in this situation, I would simply turn the tables and expose/frame the police as the real murder(s)

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@matthew_d_green @BCAppelbaum I agree, be nicer to Kenny G. The Kardashians and Kanye however...

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My job under socialism will be Babylon 5 re-education camp instructor for Deep Space 9 fans

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The year is 10,019. There are so many features in JavaScript that a mind-altering drug, produced on a single desert planet, is required to understand the full complexities of the Open Web

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@PatrickRuffini Damn I hate it when an Agent of the State shows up to my house

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@mdouseldorff @BernieSanders It took effect 8 days ago. Calm down.

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@poisonjr Whoever he was, he's living in 12023 while we're stuck here in 2023

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For your consideration: hire me. Ive worked on web browsers, the iPhone SDK, and global CDNs; I know what works to ship high-quality software that people enjoy using (and what doesnt.)

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@ggreenwald @GrimKim @mylestanzer Once again, does Kim Kelly seem to you like someone who has a lot of positive things to say about MSNBC? You’re fighting someone imaginary here

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@willmenaker You're having this person on the podcast right?

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@ggreenwald @GrimKim @mylestanzer Presumably because it was in the news recently? C’mon Glenn

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@eevee "accidentally" waste an incredible amount of money buying cloud computing resources

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@PrettyBadLefty Gotta love that copaganda

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@thoneycombs post-GamerGate socialist movement

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@robwhisman Did you know in lots of other countries judges cannot simply overturn laws? Makes you think

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Well that didn't take long @fatneckbeardguy

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@hello__caitlin I wish there was a way to set a google alert for her. I want to know what happens next

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@SNeurotypicals I would absolutely be a counsellor at Autistic Camp (takes place inside)

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Wot if... ur Gamer Chair... was a High Chair... for babys. Black Mirrour

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@ldrinkh20 This makes sense. I can imagine him adding "that I know of" in an interview and laughing

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I really appreciate Rich Homie Quan's approach to titling mixtapes http://t.co/i92wj11E9K

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But seriously, programming is amazing. I can't describe the rush of feelings being able to make a computer do anything but what I want it to

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@meowmeow88888 @antumbral @DustyKielbasa At least I died comfy

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Now would be a great time for Tumblr to bring back adult content

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@InnerPartisan @spookperson This is false. Please read my journal article "Otaku Culture in the 18th and 19th Century" Marx may have been the first gamer

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Wikipedia, quit it with the .ogg files. You are the guy who brought homemade anchovies to the party and wants everyone to try some.

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@BrandyLJensen Store brand frosted wheat cereal upsets my tummy

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@MohamedMOSalih Yes. Artists use them all the time.

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@Mediaite @ByYourLogic How did you do this Felix

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@SheriFalkWVTM13 @WVTM13 I think Alabama's state auditor should resign.

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@SAMOYEDCORE Watch out. This is step one. It ends with you becoming his human pet.

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@cushbomb So they’re saying there’s a new Cold War with China and now we’re talking about aliens again? Gee, what a coincidence

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@CBSThisMorning @marcorubio This segment is disgusting! Shame on you for this bloodthirsty warmongering!

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@Trillburne You would know, but I believe “it’s actually for your own good” was the style of apologia at the time.

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@BCAppelbaum Who were we supposed to have voted for who would have made things better?

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@ZeroSuitCamus It's sad that we couldn't call him "Pope Ratzinger" (because tradition) -- it sounds so metal

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The Car Talk brothers were both MIT graduates. Car Talk is literally a show about debugging. It ruled hard, especially their laughs.

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