The short-form week of 2–8 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015; last modified 01 Mar 2015
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 05:41am
Falsehoods programmers believe about time and time zones http://t.co/JtQd9JAaHW—@trieloff
Monday at 06:15pm
Another excellent essay by Frederik. Here's something I've always felt, and which
it seems many people just don't... http://t.co/nrbWaTg9pl—@geoffarnold
Monday at 06:26pm
Monday at 09:21pm
Tuesday at 02:26pm
A publication has asked me to write 100 words on "world cities". My response: http://t.co/Bu3rNTgBuv—@JeremyCliffe
Wednesday at 03:55pm
Scientists pledge to increase interference with Church http://t.co/izNnofZhC9 They weighed in on Mitochondrial donation. It's pay back time—@garwboy
Wednesday at 07:05pm
RT @webfoundation: Congrats @timberners_lee, awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana by President @IlvesToomashttp://t.co…—@ndw
Wednesday at 07:08pm
Wednesday at 07:27pm
Wednesday at 07:51pm
This is my new favorite thing to Airdrop to random strangers in public. http://t.co/cydRqDpBn1—@wizardofderp
Thursday at 01:32am
one very old woman, with immense telekinetic ability, kept awake 24/7 through drug
therapy, literally supports the global aviation industry—@botandy
Thursday at 10:40am
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 01:39pm
@OReillyMedia You know that disq.us link points at your local proxy or something, right? :-)—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 05:33pm
hey tweeps, would anyone have a keybase.io invite for me #prettyplease ? /cc @xquery @ndw @robinberjon—@rdeltour
Thursday at 08:00pm
"You don't pay engineers to write code, you pay them to understand subtleties and
edges of the problem. The code is incidental." - @dozba—@RichRogersHDS
Thursday at 11:27pm
Looking at photos from 100 years ago: they're all dead, captured perhaps once. A 100
years from now, I'll be the dead guy in photos of me.—@ndw
Thursday at 11:39pm
"The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats" -- Robert Graves—@ndw
Friday at 07:14am
Friday at 10:32am
Love this video of an astronaut showing how a docking procedure works and forgetting
about gravity https://t.co/nDDyd1qia5—@codepo8
Saturday at 02:35am
I think the only theory scarier than us being the only intelligent life in the universe
is that everyone else is being quiet for a reason.—@JoshHelfferich
Saturday at 03:01am
Chuck Norris can unit test entire applications with a single assert.—@chuck_facts
Saturday at 08:24am
Saturday at 04:29pm
RT @angealbertini: A quine relay in 100 languages: brainfuck, punched tapes, whitespace... + ascii
art https://t.co/67CDj18PO5 http://t.co/…—@ndw
Sunday at 01:49pm
@jirkakosek @xmlprague I don't always get things done before the deadline, but when I do, I choose registering
for XML Prague.—@ndw
Sunday at 01:49pm
RT @francosoup: One day we will look back with the deepest regret and shame, that we let something
as wonderful as the NHS come to its demi…—@ndw
Sunday at 07:00pm
Philip K Dick's "Ubik" (1969) manages to explain in half a page why the Internet of
Things will suck under capitalism http://t.co/PPnGEH5AzX—@iansteadman