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  • P peterchen

    Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

    and his intrinsic reaction to it seems to be to metamorphose into a 16 year old girl

    What a stupid reaction. Real men metamorphose into a 19 year old boy having more money than they should.

    Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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    Christopher Duncan
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    I did that years ago. Hence the first Corvette. :)

    Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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      Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

      Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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      Shog9 0
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      Christopher Duncan wrote:

      Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

      Of course - there's also the 40-somethings typing random thoughts in the hope that it'll make them look cool to their 16-yr-old kids... :rolleyes:

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      • M megaadam

        I sort of suspected that. And then he refers to "a client asked me to". Unfortunately I think he is in the first stage: denial. Hang in there Chris. You gonna make it.

        ........................ Life is too shor

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        Anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance, social media. :)

        Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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          Christopher Duncan wrote:

          Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

          Of course - there's also the 40-somethings typing random thoughts in the hope that it'll make them look cool to their 16-yr-old kids... :rolleyes:

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          The quickest way to kill social media is for the grownups to show up. Quick! Somebody find me a grownup!

          Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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            Anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance, social media. :)

            Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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            megaadam
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            Right! 5 And please note: The Lounge is NOT a social medium!

            ........................ Life is too shor

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            • C Christopher Duncan

              Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

              radar detector dependent Corvette owner

              Have I told you about the new high tech missle launcher I've installed on the hood of the Vette? By the way, what were your GPS coordinates again?

              Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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              Nish Nishant
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              Christopher Duncan wrote:

              By the way, what were your GPS coordinates again?

              :-D

              Regards, Nish


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              • N Nish Nishant

                I've never fully figured it out but people use it to delay-chat with each other in public. It's as if everyone's phone's SMS inboxes were publicly exposed on the www.

                Regards, Nish


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                Christopher Duncan
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                The digital version of public sewers. The Romans would be so proud.

                Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                • C Christopher Duncan

                  Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

                  Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                  jond777
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                  Trending topics are least common denominator garbage. Twitter has plenty of value if you are smart enough to figure it out.

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                    Trending topics are least common denominator garbage. Twitter has plenty of value if you are smart enough to figure it out.

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                    jond777 wrote:

                    if you are smart enough to figure it out.

                    I think everyone would agree that this pretty much rules me out. :)

                    Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                      jond777 wrote:

                      if you are smart enough to figure it out.

                      I think everyone would agree that this pretty much rules me out. :)

                      Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                      jond777
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                      Heh heh. In that case, you can always substitute perseverance.

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                      • C Christopher Duncan

                        Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

                        Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                        I remember when MySpace came out. My daughter (was 14 or so then) came to me & said, "Dad, can I use the computer to 'check my MySpace'?". I remember saying, "You wanna check your whaaaa??" I have been in IT for 25 years. To this day I still don't understand these social networking sites. It seems that everything you post is visible by damn near everyone else, and it's all mindless nonsense. Now, everyone can see you make a fool of youself, instead of only a select few. Why would anyone wanna do this?

                        Everything makes sense in someone's mind

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                          Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

                          Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                          Duncan Edwards Jones
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                          Christopher Duncan wrote:

                          Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics

                          That's a bit like wandering into a newsagent and picking up magazines at random - really unlikely to hit your interests. better to put some keywords in and find some halfway decent people and follow them. However even that is not going to yield much success as a tweet is just too short to contain meaningful information so yes - pretty inane.

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                            I remember when MySpace came out. My daughter (was 14 or so then) came to me & said, "Dad, can I use the computer to 'check my MySpace'?". I remember saying, "You wanna check your whaaaa??" I have been in IT for 25 years. To this day I still don't understand these social networking sites. It seems that everything you post is visible by damn near everyone else, and it's all mindless nonsense. Now, everyone can see you make a fool of youself, instead of only a select few. Why would anyone wanna do this?

                            Everything makes sense in someone's mind

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                            Kevin Marois wrote:

                            It seems that everything you post is visible by damn near everyone else, and it's all mindless nonsense. Now, everyone can see you make a fool of youself, instead of only a select few. Why would anyone wanna do this?

                            Someone forgot what it is to be a teenager... That's like 50% of their life. mindless nonsense making you look like a fool.

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                            • C Christopher Duncan

                              Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                              radar detector dependent Corvette owner

                              Have I told you about the new high tech missle launcher I've installed on the hood of the Vette? By the way, what were your GPS coordinates again?

                              Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                              Single Step Debugger
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                              Just track him down on the Twitter!

                              The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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                              • C Christopher Duncan

                                Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

                                Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                                thrakazog
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                                I have no idea what's in there. But sadly I know that I'll soon have an account. I just got a new tv that has a bunch of internet features built in, twitter being one of them. Clearly I can't let those go unused....

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                                • C Christopher Duncan

                                  Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

                                  Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                                  Marc Clifton
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                                  Christopher Duncan wrote:

                                  Is there any actual value to Twitter

                                  There was this.[^] Marc

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                                    Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

                                    Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                                    Rajesh R Subramanian
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                                    I hate all of these social networking worthless rubbish. I think twitter gives the average idiots with IQ of may be 40 +/- 5, a chance to tell the world (tweet or twaat or wtfever) about every minutia of their extremely dull and lonely life. This gives them the feeling that they're "socially active", while actually they sit in the toilet for hours, tweeting about their stinky farts. Whether or not the world gives half a shit about their mindless tweets would be a completely different thing to think about. Yeah, there may be this 1% of "interesting" tweets, but I won't give a dead rat's ass to wade through the 99% drivel. I have enough things in my life to have myself engaged with, and I have "real" friends, so I couldn't give a damn about arsebook either.

                                    “Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

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                                      The digital version of public sewers. The Romans would be so proud.

                                      Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                                      Jim Crafton
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                                      Yeah, our modern innovation is to turn the flow of sewage around 180 degrees! Yay for Progress!

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                                        So they're 25 year old girls who are pretending to still be 16 That's not much better

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                                        Dan Neely
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                                        Worse. 25 year old boys pretending to be 16 year old girls. Apparently trolling chatrooms is getting old. :rolleyes:

                                        3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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                                          Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?

                                          Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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                                          Christopher Duncan wrote:

                                          Logged in to Twitter

                                          Lord must help you. I once and just one saw Twitter (the time I created my account over there). It is bullshit. I usually create logins with my fake id for the sites that I cannot trust. So I did the same with Twitter and thank God I did that.

                                          "No matter how many fish in the sea; it will be so empty without me." - From song "Without me" by Eminem

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