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Chris Thomson

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uwaterloo CS student, javascript & ruby enthusiast, Quora addict.
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"Internet Explorer is a program that allows you to access the Internet. And vice versa." —Reddit commenter.
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." #quoteoftheday
Lots of people used their first name + last initial for Facebook. Sadly, I couldn't do that, because I don't want to be Christ on Facebook.
Facebook has a really clever IPv6 address: 2620:0:1c08:4000:face:b00c:: (notice "face" in it) #ipv6day
Neat @twitter for Mac feature: ⌘+F in any view will search the tweets in that current view, rather than doing a twitter-wide search!
If Twitter went down today, where would people learn about the Twitter AND Tumblr outages, since they're both each other's status sites?
I keep putting off reading "Getting Things Done" (by David Allen). If only there was a book for this type of stuff.
Twitter's created a list of world leaders that are on Twitter. Follow away: @verified/world-leaders (http://bit.ly/dh5C9t) #followwednesday
Someone should build an iPhone app called "are you a moron?" & charge $999.00 for it.

What's in it? Just one word: "YES!"
Another MagSafe caught fire? :/ http://bit.ly/firesafe Best response in that thread: "They need to change 'MagSafe' to 'Firewire.'"
Pet peeve: people who refer to Apple as "Mac."

"Oh, is that the phone that's made by Mac?"

(Has he been living under a rock?)
Maybe Obama really did lose his teleprompter. #presidentsspeech #whcd
I would laugh my ass off if instead of a iPhone, Verizon invited all of the Apple rumor sites to hear about new Android devices.
Cool Mac app of the week (preference pane, actually) — HyperDock: http://hyperdock.bahoom.de/
Facebook really does have some pretty ridiculous privacy defaults: http://bit.ly/aNRhRz
This is one of the few Apple dialog boxes where you cannot just read the buttons to understand it: http://t.co/lA33CyE
Now I know what it feels like to be a Microsoft fanboy on Twitter during an Apple keynote. #baseball
Apparently Mac OS X includes a web interface to manage printers! Neato. http://localhost:631/