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With 2010 having finally flown the nest of time after spending far too long living off its parents, I once again wanted to record my favourite tweets of the year just passed. Here are the winners in reverse chronological order:
@al3x A phone to save us from our phones, what with their "useful features" and "compelling apps". Windows Phone 7: You'll Rarely Want To Use It™. 10 Nov 2010
@topfunky Used iPhone "Shake to Undo" today. Current score: Intentional: 1 Unintentional: 758 8 Nov 2010
@topley Ruby's a bit mad really, isn't it? It's like the Alfa Romeo of programming (which is a good thing). 5 Nov 2010
@chadfowler Working on a Struts app is a great reminder of the gift that Rails was to Web developers across the world. Thanks @dhh! #positivember 3 Nov 2010
@leahculver There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. (via @ericflo) 7 Oct 2010
@topley Objects may override the “toSting” method to return a pompous representation of themselves. 16 Aug 2010
@topley Just as all programs eventually evolve to include email capabilities, all web apps eventually evolve to include a job board it seems. 3 Aug 2010
@wycats protip: want to know what is requiring a particular file in Ruby -- puts caller on top :) 14 Jun 2010
@pjb3 %w[♠ ♣ ♥ ♦].map{|s| Array(2..10) + %w[J Q K A].map{|v| "%2s%s" % [v, s] }}.flatten 11 Jun 2010
@chadfowler Class.new{def method_missing(*) end}.new.instance_eval { this tweet is a valid ruby program} # => nil 29 Apr 2010
@topley Interesting quote from the Nokogiri README: “XML is like violence—if it doesn't solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.” 7 Apr 2010
@topley Not starting a war, but if you want to be a great programmer and you only do Windows it's like visiting the Louvre and only seeing the shop. 30 Mar 2010
@dhh @gilesgoatboy I AM JEALOUS! Terribly so, in fact. As I said, I wish I could pull that off with a straight face. Rails 3: It Does HTML! 27 Jan 2010
@dhh SJ: "What this device does is extraordinary. You can browse the web with it." No fucking way? You can BROWSE THE WEB?!?! Shiiiiiit. 27 Jan 2010
@topley @Lord_Sugar proves that you don't need to know the difference between “your” and “you're” to amass an £800m fortune! #iwastedyearsinschool 9 Sep 2010
@topley I'm tempted to create an account on the Cooking Stack Exchange and ask an Aga Cooker Hidden Features question, just to match the other sites 26 Aug 2010
@jonmulholland Cameron has spoken to a black man, a woman and a drug user. Minority bingo! #LeadersDebate 15 Apr 2010
@MarcAlderman Drinking Game... pick a leader and take a drink when Clegg says "Fair", cameron says "Change", and Brown does the mouth thing #LeadersDebate 15 Apr 2010
@serafinowicz Samuel Pepys: "I avoided the Great Fire of London like the plague." 8 Apr 2010
@serafinowicz Finally got round to reading the Stephen Hawking book. It's about time. 26 Mar 2010
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