The short-form week of 18–24 Mar 2013
25 Mar 2013
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
Monday at 01:25pm
Safari 6.0.3 fixes include “improves scrolling on http://t.co/iRMJaBCEDO””. WTF?—@ndw
Monday at 04:00pm
RT @timoreilly: Copyright increasingly being used to make sure we don't own anything http://t.co/W2JlgXe889 We Should Be Allowed to Unlo ...—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 06:47pm
“There’s always another bug.”—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:39am
The 1.0.9 release is also, theoretically, available through Maven.—@xmlcalabash
Tuesday at 10:40am
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:32pm
If you’re going to gather data counting registered users, you should also gather the
count of users who got to the legal page and bailed.—@pgor
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 03:47pm
Experimental Martini: mist glass with noilly prat, add large double deep-frozen stoli,
strip peel, burn a coffee bean & extinguish in vodka.—@AlecMuffett
@AlecMuffett Was going to make snarky comment about vodka "martinis" but you recovered with Noilly
Prat and interesting secondary flavors.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 04:40pm
Why would anyone pay for #MongoDB Enterprise when #MongoDB will lose your data for free? http://t.co/3qVKXjATUi—@jclip
Tuesday at 07:48pm
Tuesday at 07:50pm
RT @KentBeck: start presentations on the second slide: http://t.co/RppOEI1qmH. engaging a technical audience by leading with a dilemma.—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:54pm
Tuesday at 11:56pm
RT @timoreilly: "Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than
the cost of throwing it away." - George ...—@ndw
Tuesday at 11:59pm
Wednesday at 07:12am
Wednesday at 12:20pm
Reason and critical thinking are not always the strongest in religious extremists.
#atheismhttp://t.co/XMJiPcl8Nx—@denyreligion
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 04:03pm
Simple function in f.sh. Source f.sh (in bash). Subsequent perl script calls system()
=> sh: line 1: ‘f-test’: not a valid identifier ???—@ndw
@ndw sh is Bash in POSIX mode. Dashes are not allowed in function names. See http://t.co/PnHUAB3EBM—@nsushkin
Wednesday at 04:20pm
Here is an idea. Maybe we can skip the piss-up after conferences and organise dinners
without loud music and with space to chat instead.—@codepo8
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 06:55pm
I have two external monitors again. Praise cheeses. (Yes, @codinghorror, I know you have eleventeen, STFU.)—@ndw
@ndw well, actually, eleventeen is not a number.—@codinghorror
@codinghorror You say that like it’s relevant to my comment :-)—@ndw
@codinghorror Well played, sir.—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:32pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 07:36pm
Voyager 1 has left the heliosphere. How awesome is that? Could we stop funding killing
people and fund exploration for a while? Please?—@ndw
@ndw yet Voyager 1 was launched by a nation with the most powerful military world history
has seen.—@acrookedsmile
Thursday at 03:51pm
Thursday at 05:14pm
Planck results reaffirm standard model. Particle physicists weep. Still no new physics.
http://t.co/xv6aDVWZbw—@iand
Saturday at 01:47pm
...that it is okay to want to make lots of plans, but it is also okay to make lots
of room for that which planning can never produce. @NDW—@AlbertBaumann