The short-form week of 30 Sep–6 Oct 2013
07 Oct 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 06:54am
Monday at 09:06am
In a conversation that started on Monday at 04:01pm
yay @UCBerkeley! here's your doomsday calculator in XPath/XQuery: xs:date("2018-10-01")-xs:date(current-dateTime())
https://twitter.com/dret/status/384785017429172224/photo/1—@dret
@ndw i think it's his fifth date... i'd like to wish him more luck this time, but then
again it's the end of the world, so maybe not?—@dret
@ndw @dret on average, how many years pass between one end of the world and the next?—@jonathan_robie
Tuesday at 02:03am
Warm welcome to our speakers of XML Amsterdam 2013: @ndw @stevenpemberton @evlist @jpcs @mstuehrenberg @marcdegraauw @xokomola #xmlamsterdam—@XMLAmsterdam
Tuesday at 06:21am
97% of NASA is shut down. I think it would sum up humanity nicely if our first response
to alien contact was an out-of-office reply.—@mrdaveturner
Wednesday at 01:18pm
Can I burn down your house?
No
Just the 2nd floor?
No
Garage?
No
Let's talk about what I can burn down.
No
YOU AREN'T COMPROMISING!—@JuddLegum
Wednesday at 03:33pm
TripAdvisor app wants permissions to create and edit accounts and set passwords on
my device? Uhm. “No.”—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 03:37pm
It’s all event driven, docs just flow throw the pipeline graph! But you can still
order them all, right? Uh. Let me get back to you on that.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:18am
♔
KEEP
CALM
and
DONT
SHUTDOWN—@darrenmoffat
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 10:54am
Last night, felt sad about all the collateral damage caused by the shutdown, then
realized that damage is exactly what their handlers want.—@ndw
Thursday at 10:58am
Remember when y'all laughed at "ungovernable" California? Then we voted the GOP into
super-minority status, and it got better. #JustSaying—@humanadverb
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 12:54pm
Intrigued by the concept of law makers who would rather destroy America than have
tax dollars used to give poor people health care—@Carnage4Life
@Carnage4Life Intrigued doesn’t seem to begin to cover it.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:21pm
BTW "Refactoring Wisdom" would be a great novel title.—@mdubinko
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:34pm
Let me correct myself: ...in 1999, astronomers are using #XML to exchange information openly on the Web.—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski Silly boy, you know there’s no XML no the web.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:40pm
IMO, nothing about @united's new seat design is "innovative" or "flyer friendly." Too bad. A missed opportunity
for UA to lead. #paxex—@hharteveldt
@Kellblog @hharteveldt Generally speaking, legroom and comfort would be flyer friendly. Not, alas, profit
friendly.—@ndw
Thursday at 02:10pm
The shooting was at Constitution and 2nd, you say? Did I hear that right.—@kendall
Thursday at 05:45pm
Friday at 07:07am
Opening by @ndw "15 years of XML", closing by @stevenpemberton "XML is everywhere". http://xmlamsterdam.com/2013/program #xmlamsterdam—@XMLAmsterdam
Friday at 08:27am
@ndw I will now taunt you with this: https://t.co/zPIhiMvXiC—@alexmilowski
Friday at 08:40am
Estimate of MongoDB's value vary, one replica say $700m, one replica say $1.2 billion,
one replica say 1.5 billion.—@BigDataBorat
In a conversation that started on Friday at 09:48am
Damn it, Google, neither the Maps nor Wallet apps have any %#@$#! need to read my
contacts. It’s a #@#!ing map, not a social experience.—@ndw
@ndw Looks like it is the default for all apps now. Why can't we select what rights we
want to grant? See @timbray's https://t.co/js51bBJR1g—@fgeorges
@fgeorges I read that. I still want the ability to selectively say “no”. So I decline to share
contacts and the app gets an empty list.—@ndw
@ndw @fgeorges or the app equivalent of a 403 and it has to deal with it. but definitely +1 (err)—@mdransfield
@mdransfield @ndw Yes. Even if the app then says: "I won't work, as I don't gain anything". But at
least it is clearer.—@fgeorges
@ndw re maps, on occasion I have found it nice for maps to know where a friend lives so
I donit have to look it up—@DALDEI
Friday at 11:50am
RT @gclaramunt: If you define it carefully, adding insult to injury should give a type error.—@CompSciFact
In a conversation that started on Saturday at 10:27am
Saturday at 02:25pm
It seems clear that living, breathing members of my species will die because a bunch
of fucktards orchestrated a government shutdown.—@ndw
Saturday at 02:26pm
It seems equally clear that no retribution, divine or otherwise, will rain down on
their heads because of it. That is achingly sad.—@ndw
Saturday at 02:39pm
What he said: https://t.co/pf7jKnIx1w /cc hum, probably @denyreligion but I couldn’t swear to it.—@ndw
Sunday at 07:12am
XML Stars, the journal is out! http://paper.li/dominixml/1329135087 ▸ Top stories today via @ndw—@dominixml
Sunday at 10:52pm
Wondering why conservatives complain about the cost of Obamacare, but not the cost
of corn syrup subsidies http://www.businessinsider.com/billions-in-tax-dollars-subsidize-the-junk-food-industry-2012-7—@timoreilly