The short-form week of 16–22 Sep 2013
23 Sep 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.
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 10:25am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:40am
Tuesday at 04:04pm
OH "DocBook: it's not that bad." Why do I bother?—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:29pm
@ndw where exactly?—@libbymiller
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 05:41pm
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:10am
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 09:00am
@ndw Why does XProcExtensionFunctionDefinition use ThreadLocal? Generate leak in Tomcat.
Any way to find and kill 'em all, when appropriate?—@fgeorges
Wednesday at 09:23am
Android not allowing permissions to be requested when they're actually used really
burns. It also reduces real security.—@gcpascutto
Thursday at 10:19am
Thursday at 11:49am
Big thank you to @laurendw @johnchelson @ndw and @walmsleyph for organising and having me at the #xmlss13—@adamretter
Thursday at 12:35pm
Remembered how to tie a bowtie. Not without some effort.—@ndw
Thursday at 01:03pm
Sometimes I feel like the compiler ignores my comments :(—@jdan
Thursday at 04:44pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:47pm
And the village dies. Oh oh owoooo!—@ndw
Thursday at 06:19pm
Thursday at 06:41pm
Correction: The Baby Love Bar. The movie ends the same way.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 06:56pm
I'd make some grumpy remark about a bum knee interfering with my pole dancing, but
that'd .... nevermind. I'll shut up now.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Friday at 04:12am
Dear website, yes, I know I’m in the UK. I’m from the US anyway and I’d like to pay
in US$, please. No? No money for you. #facepalm—@ndw
@ndw I ran into this recently as well, and the £ price was same as $ number - 50% more
in UK. I remoted into a VM in US to run a browser.—@ronhitchens
@ndw Dear website, I'm in the UK, but I'd rather pay your US$ price rather than your inflated
£ price!!!—@petecordell
Friday at 05:33am
Friday at 09:28am
Friday at 11:00am
"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about
and those nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup—@ArtProgramming
Friday at 12:00pm
Saturday at 03:40am
1999: “You need Flash to view this website.”
2013: “You need Javascript to view this website.”
Different tech, same overly-twee designs.—@apag
Saturday at 09:13am
Bugs me: browser page loading and I start scrolling to the stuff I want to read &
suddenly thing leaps away! #pettingajumpycat—@xmlnovelist
Saturday at 09:44am
Oops. I let the license key on http://norman.walsh.name expire. Fixed now.—@ndw
Saturday at 09:49am
In other news, shifting with your left hand while driving on the left hand side of
the road isn’t as challenging as I imagined it might be.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 12:39pm
@laurendw How about an invite to that mobile portal thing then?—@adamretter
@adamretter @laurendw I’ve got a few if Lauren doesn’t have one, just shoot me your gmail address in email.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 04:42pm
Some days, I find the fact that some individuals are willing to be dishonest at immeasurable
cost to others utterly depressing.—@ndw
Saturday at 10:21pm
"Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried it. You can't get
away from yourself by moving from one place to another."—@parb
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 03:09am
Generally speaking, if the debugger never hits your breakpoint, it’s never running
that code. No matter how sure you are that it must be.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 04:09am
In Java, what’s the most efficient way to replace all control characters in a string
with corresponding \uXXXX escapes?—@ndw
@ndw Find a converter with callbacks for out of charset codepoints. Use target charset
of USASCII and do \u encoding for those. ICU?—@walterunderwood
@ndw probably write new String via StringBuilder, testing existing chars with Character.isISOControl(char)
or isISOControl(int) as you need.—@fostercharles
Sunday at 12:15pm
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:01pm
Be a person, not a brand #xoxofest—@MattBrookz
@MattBrookz @doctorow If your job description includes the word "brand," your (day) job contributes nothing
useful to society.—@thespork
Sunday at 02:49pm
@hsivonen I wonder if you’ve any plans to address http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=820—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Sunday at 02:52pm
Let’s see independent verification of CCC ID-touch-hack claim before we get too excited.
Really shouldn’t be that easy.—@timbray
Sunday at 03:54pm
At last, #XMLCalabash back to 100% test results. (One of the extension steps has been busted for a long
time—out of my control.)—@ndw
Sunday at 04:02pm
I am capable of self-interest, both enlightened and otherwise. Also capable of recognizing
when S-I is not in my best long term interest.—@ndw