The short-form week of 24–30 Jun 2013

01 Jul 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 07:51pm

RT @chromatic_x: I try to suppress the urge to snicker every time I encounter the word "impactful". I fail.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 06:23am

"RDF/XML was the Semantic Web's 3 Mile Island incident" -- Manu Sporny http://t.co/MYt474FFz3 http://t.co/pDlg3F8cIe —@ahzf

And almost as old! “@ahzf: "RDF/XML was the Semantic Web's 3 Mile Island incident" -- Manu Sporny http://t.co/krxDSrtkF9 —@kendall

@kendall It was XML’s too.—@ndw

@ndw I assume you mean because of namespaces? (I dissent from all of this, actually. :>)—@kendall

@kendall Not namespaces per se, I’m an unrepentant fan, but the particular design that was imposed.—@ndw

@ndw Using URIs as id's for NSes?—@kendall

@kendall More the whole notion of scoping them to elements and randomly being able to reassign them. I’m on the fence about URIs for NSs.—@ndw

@ndw I'm just skeptical that any of this was that determinative.—@kendall

Tuesday at 10:19am

That's kind of a lie. I don't try very hard.—@ndw

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 10:49am

Had clever idea for convenience function. Went to implement. Discovered I’d already done it. #win or #fail?—@ndw

@ndw I have done this often. And recently.—@mdubinko

Tuesday at 03:54pm

Hello 100 °F. Welcome back.—@ndw

Tuesday at 05:16pm

You have no privacy... http://t.co/qTjI1h9H1H —@scottmcnealy

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:56pm

@ndw I didn't know I was taking advice from "Grandma Webarch" in my research. http://t.co/5CsRNs9qve —@alexmilowski

@alexmilowski He’s your thesis advisor, man.—@ndw

@ndw But I think he called you a grandma. :p—@alexmilowski

@alexmilowski Henry can call me anything he likes except late for dinner.—@ndw

Tuesday at 06:57pm

Novice programmers swear when they get stuck. Expert programmers swear every fucking second.—@HackerNewsOnion

Tuesday at 07:18pm

Roberts opinion forgot to mention which part of the Constitution the VRA violates? Easy—the white space!—@kendall

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:26pm

I'm related to many Texas women and proudly stand with them and all the rest. #standwithwendy —@kendall

@kendall I’m not related to any Texas women that I know of, but I proudly stand with them and all the rest because FFS. #standwithwendy —@ndw

In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:45pm

The only way to make abortion safe is to make it legal; the only way to make abortion rare is to make birth control free. Any questions?—@kendall

@kendall None at all.—@ndw

Tuesday at 11:12pm

What percentage of person-to-person communication would have to be encrypted to make capturing it all not cost effective? I have public key.—@ndw

Wednesday at 12:19am

In the Third World nation of Texas the ruling fundamentalists have called in police to disperse human rights demonstrators. #standwithwendy —@HaroldItz

Wednesday at 05:53am

How to stop piracy: 1 Create great stuff 2 Make it easy to buy 3 Same day worldwide release 4 Fair price 5 Works on any device—@KimDotcom

Wednesday at 06:38am

Wake up, remove wine/beer/whiskey glass from desk, replace with coffee cup.—@caseyjohnston

Wednesday at 11:20am

So weird how people can use Jesus for both sides of an argument. It's almost as if their religion is arbitrary and inconsistent. Huh.—@CcSteff

Wednesday at 02:51pm

Evil, bitter, loveless old white men in the Congress and the Supreme Court make a pretty effective bloc of pure wretchedness.—@kendall

Thursday at 07:03am

I tried to like ido. I really did. I don’t. #emacs —@ndw

In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:55pm

Real world achievement: soldering copper pipe.—@ndw

@ndw +1—@kendall

@ndw +2 XP—@alexmilowski

In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:37pm

I have a master. I have a branch. I’ve updated master. I want to pull the changes from branch into the working copy. Easy way? #git —@ndw

@ndw you could cherry pick each commit from master to branch, using a GUI tool (gitg in my case) #git #is #fun —@olea

@ndw Or, change to master, do "git rebase <branch>". Depending on which one you want.—@tabatkins

@ndw change to master. The git merge branchnametomerge—@kingargyle

@ndw I’d use `merge` or `rebase` depending on the use case...—@rdeltour

In a conversation that started on Friday at 06:10pm

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.—@neiltyson

@neiltyson @ndw never say i think or i feel or it-s my opinion while writing- we-re reading your writing and we know the point of view—@drabshadow

Friday at 07:46pm

People who paint sad clowns are creepy but THEY CAN PAINT so who the fuck are you tough guy—@josswhedon

Friday at 08:51pm

Every new JavaScript library should be required to answer the question, “How does this help me make apps with good URLs?”—@tomdale

Saturday at 07:50am

Uh, @__YouDontExist, @pllllayer, @BasedKevin666, @ndw_ could y’all observe that @ndw_ and @ndw aren’t the same and I’m not the ndw you want?—@ndw

Sunday at 06:21pm

RT @neiltyson: If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.—@ndw

Sunday at 09:42pm

RT @johnfreiler: T NOW! what do we want? MORE TIME-TRAVEL JOKES! when do we want them? RIGH—@ndw