@grammarware

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• 9 Oct, 19:16 @Schwarzenegger: twitpic.com - This is how I start my day. ※ @

• 7 Oct, 2:00 @tvdstorm: Won the final #sle09 T-shirt lottery. Had to answer the following quiz-question: who invented the term "grammar engineering". #lol ※ @
  • 14 Oct, 14:13 @fbahr: @tvdstorm [Won the final #sle09 T-shirt lottery … quiz-question: Who invented the term "grammar engineering"?] #Answer? ※ @
    • 22 Oct, 21:19 @tvdstorm: @fbahr Winning #answer was @notquiteabba. But according to the man himself and @grammarware, natural language people used the term before. ※ @
      • 21:29 @fbahr: @tvdstorm That would have been my point … nevertheless, the 'winner' writes history ;-) ※ @

• 18 Sep, 14:23 @mathematicsprof: The basic idea of functional analysis is to think of functions as "points" and exploit one's geometric intuition. ※ @

• 14 Sep, 14:31 @dansdata: You know you're accustomed to e-books when you're reading a paper book, turn off the light, and are surprised when the words all disappear. ※ @

• 14 Aug, 16:36 @grammarware: I plan to go see this movie in the cinema (1st time in Germany) — kino-zeit.de #bookmark for Oct/Nov. ※ @
• 15:40 @grammarware: Every time I cut my hair, it seems somehow to double my charisma. *EVERY* person on the way back to the uni said hi to me, including bikers. ※ @
  • 15:47 @ashalynd: @grammarware they recognize a Russian in you ... ;-D ※ @
    • 15:50 @grammarware: @ashalynd they did not try to hit me, nobody even said something like “Hände hoch!” ;) Just genuine smiles and greetings, like you get in NL ※ @
      • 15:53 @ashalynd: @grammarware they wanted to anticipate _you_ saying "Hände hogh!" to _them_ ;-) ※ @
      • 15:54 @ashalynd: @grammarware I was looking like a fool when I came to Moscow after one year in NL. Forgot that you should not smile to strangers ;) ※ @
        • 16:07 @grammarware: @ashalynd same happens with me in Rostov. If you smile at someone and say hi, next thing you’re expected to do is ask for telephone number. ※ @
          • 16:09 @ashalynd: @grammarware or for a lighter :) ※ @
  • 16:53 @intel_chris: @grammarware so that makes you some kind of geek anti-Sampson? short-hair = charisma v. long-hair = strength ※ @

• 26 Jul, 16:46 @EmailCopywriter: Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. Robert H. Schuller #quote ※ @

• 3 Jul, 3:48 @testobsessed: Trying to test the depths of the code thru the UI is like peering through the shower head to examine pipes in the basement. ※ @

• 30 Jun, 12:21 @scarych: В XSLT нет битовых операций. Но их можно заменить алгебраическими. Например, для (A & B) аналогичным действием будет floor(A div B) mod 2 ※ @

• 21 Jun, 20:37 @codinghorror: disapproval frog finds you wholly unsatisfactory img7.imageshack.us ※ @

• 17 Jun, 17:38 @aezell: Simple tasks in python are awesome. Just ran a regex against every other line in a file and output the matches using 1 line of python. ※ @

• 16 Jun, 13:23 @grammarware: Legal mapping between Russian and German academic titles russianenic.ru #bookmark (thanks to @radkat) ※ @

• 14 Jun, 12:01 @mrijn: Switching from Perl to Haskell for throwaway scripts: fun! ※ @

• 10 Jun, 15:51 @avvin: -Сынок, ты уже взрослый, мы решили, что пришло время с тобой поговорить. -Ого!!! А я думал, вы немые. ※ @

• 5 Jun, 15:53 @blankslate: Now officially a *Vegan of the Fifth Order* - won't eat any fruit that has ever cast a shadow. Oh, and honey is "bee slavery". ※ @

• 4 Jun, 12:00 @artrudenko: познакомлюсь с приличной твиттерянкой для совместного фолловинга. ретвит не предлагать ※ @

• 3 Jun, 17:30 @unmarketing: It takes 1000 tweets to build a reputation on Twitter, and 1 to ruin it. Tweet with respect in mind ※ @

• 2 Jun, 20:26 @MarkusQ: Parenting. Programming. Pondering projects past, present, and potential. Also perhaps procrastinating, prognosticating, and pettifogging. ※ @

• 28 May, 0:04 @jzy: One man's signal is another man's noise. ※ @

• 26 May, 13:30 @anykeen: #twABC эпиграф словарю: ars longa tvita brevis ※ @

• 25 May, 15:39 @jtruij: Vanmorgen bleek dat NIEMAND van de studenten twittert. Is dit, net als information overload, een ouwemensenconcept? ※ @
• 8:08 @ashalynd: English is the only language I know in which the conclusion 'You are like me, thus I like you' sounds like part of a word play... ※ @

• 15 May, 21:45 @notquiteabba: I am happy that @grammarware set up #GTTSE. ※ @

• 14 May, 12:31 @mfeathers: You can't get any more blue-collar than C. The language slaps you around whenever you try to do something fancy. ※ @

• 13 May, 11:55 @awful_roger: Чего молчишь? Клавиатуру проглотил? ※ @

• 12 May, 16:09 @VeryShortStory: Mich looked through the the pictures in the camera hoping to find one he liked. Unfortunately, they were all of him. #vss ※ @
• 15:11 @Bulgarin: Ну где же этот двухтысячный фолловер ? Весь день из за него сегодня дома просидел :) ※ @

• 11 May, 19:50 @charlesyeo: Uni should stop giving hon. degree especially 'PHD'! It's 'Educational Robbery'. A dis-respect to those who slog hard for yrs to earn them! ※ @
  • 22:21 @grammarware: @charlesyeo is giving out hon.degrees really that common so that it becomes a problem? I thought it's just for truly exceptional cases. ※ @
    • 22:43 @charlesyeo: @grammarware Yes, It's very common nowadays. Especially to business people who just donate to get that degree.... ※ @
      • 23:07 @grammarware: @charlesyeo wow, I didn't know that. Then yes, I agree, it's definitely a problem: there should at least be a way to distinguish real & hon. ※ @
        • 23:28 @charlesyeo: @grammarware Why don't they just give a title such as 'A Valued Patron of The University' or short 'VPU' It needs branding but feasible. ※ @
          • 12 May, 0:55 @grammarware: @charlesyeo seems like a balanced solution, not compromising competence. Did you just come up with it or is there such a proposal anywhere? ※ @
            • 1:14 @charlesyeo: @grammarware Just a sudden thought. Btw your bio is impressive. People like you should deserve respect for hardwork put in the academia! ※ @
    • 22:44 @charlesyeo: @grammarware And how many add the 'Honorary' word behind? None! ※ @
• 19:49 @jzy: whenever i read an email that's more than a paragraph long, i have an urge to reply with "TLDR." #IblameTwitter ※ @

• 8 May, 11:06 @zef: I have a paper deadline this Sunday, so my boss @delftswtesting tells me not to tweet too much. Tweet tweet. #work ※ @

• 7 May, 3:10 @delitescere: Take your favorite programming language, remove the standard libraries and replace them with the DOM, you'd hate it too - Douglas Crockford ※ @
• 0:30 @haruki_zaemon: When I code alone I think too much about elegance; when I pair, elegance emerges naturally. ※ @

• 1 May, 12:35 @dizzy57: Регулярные выражения и строки как вектора и ковектора. Внешнее произведение должно быть забавным. ※ @
• 4:42 @codinghorror: "how to get other programmers to answer your blatant homework question" Pro-Tip(tm): use a female name when posting. ※ @

• 28 Apr, 5:22 @GeePawHill: damn. i'm so tired i could sleep a horse. ※ @

• 26 Apr, 11:48 @ashalynd: could there be a service, at some point in the future, to estimate the personal value of a new piece of info based on what you know already? ※ @
  • 11:51 @grammarware: @ashalynd there definitely should be! Se non è vero, è ben trovato. Data mining techniques are almost already powerful enough to do that,btw ※ @
    • 12:00 @ashalynd: @grammarware from the other side, even to extract 5% of new info, you'd still have 2 read all! -> some info might get filtered out too soon ※ @

• 23 Apr, 6:46 @GeePawHill: take my advice: i'm not using it. ※ @

• 17 Apr, 23:34 @ashalynd: adolescents, one more definition: those who already have a life of their own whereas their parents still don't :) ※ @

• 13 Apr, 16:22 @kellan: Once saw @WardCunningham explain that wikis work because they leverage the desire to correct and critique. Desire to create is fairly weak. ※ @
• 8:10 @ashalynd: some people are so transparent you don't notice them until you're in trouble and they offer help; like crystal only visible when raining ※ @

• 11 Apr, 23:44 @codinghorror: I swear there are 10 ways to write any given SQL query, but only 1 of them performs well. ※ @

• 7 Apr, 21:38 @joeschmitt: Finding your parents on Facebook is only slightly less fun than walking in on them. ※ @
• 20:50 @pauloborba: How to give a good research talk (research.microsoft.com); simply excellent, never tired of discussing this with my students... ※ @

• 27 Mar, 20:03 @liviu31: To say that as a programmer you should not care about the programming language is like saying you do not care how you girlfriend looks. ※ @

• 9 Mar, 16:08 @soulhuntre: Judging from the View, you're a Model.... I want to be your Controller :) #nerdpickuplines ※ @