Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

October 2011

RT @foolip: It’s the end of <time> Panic! // LOL. I guess w/ humor is the best way to take it. #HTML5

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CodeWisdom “The object-oriented version of spaghetti code is, of course, ‘lasagna code’. Too many layers.” - Roberto Waltman.

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Credit card junk mail as opportunity for dialogue w/ banks: http://t.co/ouotlldw #OWS #OccupyWallSt (via @OccupyWallSt > @hvdsomp > @gklyne)

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patio11 It has been months but I finally wrote a new blog post. This one is career advice for young engineers. bit.ly/vixeAI

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I was enthusiastic about @Spotify Premium, but the max 3 devices offline playlist limit is too low: http://t.co/tCCixUKY #FirstWorldProblems

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Things people should do more: put their phones in Airplane Mode: http://t.co/VB65oCSp

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@kansandhaus Photo, or it didn’t happen!

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Woah, blast from ze past. Just ran WSDL2Java. Of course it failed b/o Axis2, Document/literal & overall bull$hit. http://t.co/We1HXIGZ #SOAP

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Now following @vpresutti b/o her thought-thru Twitter convo w/ @mfhepp (can’t link to it). Thanks @rtroncy for CC:ing her in. #FF #ISWC2011

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@bengee LOL! Loving the subtlety of your remark :-) Lifetime well spent.

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@tcurdt Known issue. Read about it. Can’t find the link now, though.

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~RT @gatemezing: #Confomaton wins Best Concept award at #ISWC2011 #Eurecom // #UPC :-) Houda Khrouf, @giusepperizzo, @rtroncy

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RT @rtroncy: ALL #iswc2011 tweets represented in #RDF with #sioc in our endpoint, e.g. http://t.co/EUqnU7Df … Thanks to Confomaton

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Over-lunch service description discussion at . Topics: LOS, LIDS, RESTdesc, MSM+. Issues: media types, resource deletion.

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In the #ISWC2011 Social Web track. Interesting works e.g. from @fabianabel & @mattroweshow. Papers: http://t.co/WrTx88Zm

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peterhaglich link for AIDA tool is mpi-inf.mpg.de/yago-naga/aida/

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RT @rtroncy: Gerhard Weikum: named entity detection, co-reference resolution and disambiguation … this is #NERD http://t.co/h0w0ZjLi

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Gerhard Weikum points out the importance of Named Entity Disambiguation tools during his keynote: bit.ly/rPCJKJ.

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Correct link for the last tweet: Gerhard Weikum bit.ly/vvC83t Stupid bit.ly! The closing ‘)’ is not part of the URI.

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Gerhard Weikum (bit.ly/t0eCwp points out a few elephants in his keynote, e.g., quality over quantity. Sobering.

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Bad shot of . From left: Hendler, Hepp (w/ ballistic vest), Welty, Herman, Horrocks, Hausenblas. twitpic.com/763s17

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All #ISWC2011 #DeathMatch panel participants’ statements & #GooglePlus handlers summarized in @csarven Google+ post: http://t.co/AsxFTAEX

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Sorry. Correct URL for the last tweet: http://t.co/AsxFTAEX

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@anjeve @rtroncy Let’s go {Bizer,Studer,Stab} spotting :-)

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Saw Rudi Studer, Chris Bizer, and Steffen Stab leave the room after 30min in the . A sign?

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FrankVanHarmele Yahoo going public at on their “Web Of Objects”, a “single shared KB” with RDF datamodel and OWL2 ontology bit.ly/rzJVyk

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Very relevant work for #LinkedData practitioners on Labels in the Web of Data by B. Ell, @vrandezo, @esimperl http://t.co/VMEMliUJ #ISWC2011

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lysander07 7 finalists of the Semantic Web Challenge, submissions and online access bit.ly/zevxN

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Best thing at poster session: hotel staff served drinks to presenters, too. Appreciated. Oh, vote for DC5! twitpic.com/75m1dd

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@julian_urbano +1. happening at #ISWC2011 all the time, too.

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Seeing my poster on TwitPic sucks: twitpic.com/75m1dd. See? Better come to the live session & vote for poster DC5.

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@gklyne @mnot Confused by the same thing. Object keys as link relations makes it hard to differentiate between link relations & payload.

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RT @rtroncy @agoraproject: Recap of the #DeRiVE2011 workshop now avail. http://t.co/33OwMu8p #ISWC2011 // Merci for the mention in the post!

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@tommyh @laroyo @rtroncy #ISWC2011 WiFi works 100% for me, ironically enough I get dropped off the Telekom paid WiFi in my room all the time

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@tcurdt Ouch. I got a confirmation. Bummer :-( Was hoping to see you there…

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In the In-Use track at , learning about type coercion in IBM’s . Never boring topic EDM (Entity Disambiguation & Matching).

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RT @mnot: on the blog: Web API Versioning Smackdown bit.ly/tNTbz1 // +1. Sent you a follow-up question in bit.ly/tAoUz2

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@mnot Nice post! WRT link rels, where do they get defined in your example? In the custom media type? Do you know ? CC: @RubenVerborgh

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@cygri Someone should do it; tho I can’t commit to anything law-related. The excuse “I’m a dev, not a lawyer” wouldn’t work anymore then ;-)

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@cygri Nice take. Sometimes not even the publisher is the copyright holder… Examining this license issue’d be a nice topic for a law PhD.

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@hfmuehleisen This is the @hfmuehleisen & @kathrinrin #ISWC2011 Remembrance Tweetâ„¢. You guys are missing. CC: @RubenVerborgh

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RT @rtroncy: Don’t forget to vote for the #ldth2011 contest http://t.co/xiLrZV3p! #Confomaton is misspelled, it’s 3rd choice #ISWC2011 // +1

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“You’re 2 standard deviations off of what users think, cause ya know what a standard deviation is” A BernWC2011 Doctoral Consortium

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@terraces @fabien_gandon Merci for additional pointers. Will check :-)

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@RubenVerborgh Bedankt :-) That’s probably the best compliment a presenter can get. 5min _is_ short, though ;-)

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@falahmari Yepp. It’s open to anyone. I’m done, but other are presenting their work till 4pm I think.

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About to present at the Doctoral Consortium at #ISWC2011. If you’re at the conf, stop by at 2pm (now). Slides: http://t.co/VwtO6jz2 #TomsPhD

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All the slides of the #DeRiVE2011 workshop are online and linked from http://t.co/foQksscb #ISWC2011 #EventMedia (via @rtroncy)

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In the Ontology Matching workshop at . Current session on link discovery’s interesting even for non-domain experts like me.

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RT @pbryan: New JSON Patch http://t.co/u6m1A81B and JSON Pointer http://t.co/qEUpEuyv Internet-Drafts are up. // +1

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Keep dropping your badge? Now there I fixed it. Need: water bottle label. This one for @BarryNorton lockerz.com/s/149615700

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Slides from my talk Crowdsourcing Event Detection in YouTube Videos at #DeRiVE2011 at #ISWC2011 are available here: http://t.co/4wDiq279

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Grateful for train WiFi. Not that I was prepping my slides on board, behold. It’s just, erm, convenient for last min. rehearsal.

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@RubenVerborgh Noticed this, too :-( Unhappy schedule. I’ll be your proxy, no worries ;-)

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RT @andraz: Language detection w/ Google’s Compact Language Detector http://t.co/cXvgcCuh […] // Via #Emscripten to #JavaScript. Anyone?

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RT @RubenVerborgh: Moved from #NWeSP2011, Salamanca to #ISWC2011, Bonn. Reuniting tomorrow with @tomayac for #DeRiVE2011. Exciting!

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@Gkellogg Indeed. When the upcoming week is over, I’ll be back from & get re-involvedonLD work. JSON Pointers: perfect fit.

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Pointer IETF Inet Draft by @kriszyp. {“such”:{“an”:[“obvious”,”idea”]}} => http;//ex.org#/such/an/0 => “obvious”. bit.ly/ov2Lcc

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@frederic_godin Yepp. That’s possible, sorry. I keep rebooting it about twice a day, but the no.de free hosting has only 128MB RAM. Too few.

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.@bsletten @dvdeurse Slides? Ask @RubenVerborgh. Paper? http://t.co/WTL0t2ae (all credits to Ruben). Long applause. Good Q&A. #NWeSP2011

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, an rule-based Web service description method, presented by @RubenVerborgh. yfrog.com/mftvxij

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Short new blog post on #NWeSP2011, the city of #Salmanca, the Universitas Studii Salamantini font, and bull blood: http://t.co/FuLIb9Ee

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RT @kasei: The only thing that could make this httpRange-14 craziness worse is if it was being cross-posted to the semantic-web list…

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.@kevinmarks @bradneuberg LOL, good reply, @kevinmarks! Made my day! ~RT: People who thought is verbous also liked .

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Slides for my #NWeSP2011 paper Adding Meaning to Facebook Microposts via a Mash-up API & Tracking its Data #Provenance http://t.co/HiPQz2UD

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RT @dontcallmedom: HTTP 511 Network Authentication Required — @mnot proposing the end of hotel wifi messing up your browser sessions htt …

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After 4 days off a short stop at UPC.edu for a chat w/ my advisor. Next: Salamanca for .

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cramforce Google Maps on WebGL maps.google.com/gl

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Blog post on video captioning via track element showcasing &aTTLM side by siow.ly/6VZMjEyXa (@silviapfeifferffer)

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vambenepe I just watched “Kramer vs. Kramer”. The version on Netflix has a new ending, where the protagonists decide not to split up after all.

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@hfmuehleisen Update on the “port Siri to iPhone 4” efforts: http://t.co/U70vutgA. Not that you cared, but still…

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RT @echofon: Echofon 5 is now available on the app store! cot.ag/pnX18S // Great release! Thanks. <3 desktop sync. Winner feature!

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@billroberts @moustaki Fascinating when it works, funny when it doesn’t: bit.ly/oCkqUI

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RT @russenreaktor: OMG ;) Realtime search an #hashtag support on #googleplus ;) http://t.co/XpuAfNkm // +1 for the OMG part :-) Yay!

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RT @dart_lang: New article: A fresh look at the DOM API for Dart. What if we had a time machine? http://t.co/CkgoPW2B

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RT @mahemoff: Nice how Twitter posts URL extraction tests for t.co is.gd/plRk6o // +1. Nice indeed.

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@kidehen @jrweave Quote from http://t.co/fCxUmeMe: “I have been told that […] continued support depends on the degree of use by developers.”

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@moustaki Might arrive w/ minimal delay. Still hoping to make it on time, though. Leaving for Gatwick now, easyJet FTW!

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@mstrohm @PFCdgayo See my poster paper on Twitter trends from a tweet consumer’s point of view bit.ly/qrcZeP

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RT @jrweave: More about #Facebook #LinkedData: http://t.co/fCxUmeMe #RDF // +1. Use, or it might get killed (experimental #Turtle support).

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somebitsLinks Googlebot POST: They’re trying to increase the depth of the web they crawl? dlvr.it/qJXgJ

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andraz Mythical Man-month and Google Wave bit.ly/kVNLJn

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Heading to the BBC’s London office for the 2nd (my 1st) face-to-face meeting of the Working Group. Let’s see how that goesâ€wg

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@olyerickson Not saying it’s a good reason… Just a fact. To “protect” privately financed producers. We’ve private & public TV, news, radio…

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@olyerickson In Germany there’s a law that publicly financed Web content must be de-published after 1 year: Rundfunkänderungsstaatsvertrag

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@kangax Once fixed a crappy router’s hardwired JavaScript “login” that way. Sad, but true.

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@olyerickson You can try Google Docs import hassle free. Better to educate people not to send such files in the first place, though, ACK.

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@rtroncy @arnaudbrousseau Seen before, but thanks for the pointer.

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Web Sequence Diagrams: websequencediagrams.com. on a napkin :-) (via @algermissen)

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vambenepe If Batman was an IT admin, he’d hire a fat sidekick. With round Robin he could easily scale his applications.

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#Dart - A Language for Structured Web Programming: http://t.co/OD2HxpWn (via @dart_lang)

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RT @runasand: The CCC has reverse engineered and analyzed a “lawful interception” malware program used by German police forces: http://t

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RT @cramforce: “At Google, not only do we re-invent the wheel, but we vulcanize our own rubber.” http://t.co/kadMNVKP

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Geeking out at my 3D glasses from #JSConfEU. Endless fun: http://t.co/M62Vewcs. Thanks, @michalbe. It’s the small things…

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@pablomendes Great. I’ll go back to stable then. Subscribed to the mailing list. Cheers, Tom

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@pablomendes Ooops, meant to direct this tweet http://t.co/Cnn45HMO to you…

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Do you recommend to stay on the dev branch, or to migrate back to stable? Congrats to the successful launch of v0.5 .

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manusporny It’s official - rNews 1.0, the news markup standard for RDFa, was just ratified by @IPTC - great work, people!

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@tcurdt 32GB. Once we can jailbreak it, we’ll need more memory ;-) Let alone the higher photo resolution. I take lots of photos.

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@tcurdt Then +1 for “yeah, it sucks”. There’re some annoyances like this. All in all the advantages (+ ext. tools) outweigh them, though.

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@tcurdt Go to Settings > Keyboard > Tab: Keyboard Shortcuts > Full Keyboard Access: […] > Radio: All controlsSX

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RT @w3c #SteveJobs and the Actually Usable Computer” by @TimBerners_Lee http://t.co/UnfOZ1vi (via @moustaki)

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Can (not could) please every & all conference organizers r@cramforceorce’s piece on how they nbit.ly/p5yJ3OOFkX

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@tinyCarl Meins ist von der iPhone Tech Talk World Tour 2009…

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There’s always hope that if U sit & watch 4 long enough, the beachball will vanish & the thing it interruptedâxkcd.com/961/.co/nwQ7zfUL

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Presented mostly @arnaudbrousseau’s work at the 8tCH plenary meeting in Rome. Was very well received. Grazietwitpic.com/6vyhbfBO

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Steve Job’s biography is the top-selling book on Amazon. It’ll appear on November 21, 2011. http://t.co/9B4ZCEHs #SteveJobs #ThankYouSteve

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Man. Fuck cancer. - Seriously. on cancer: xkcd.com/931/ (via @sixtus42 > @map)

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“Sometimes life’s gonna hit you in the face with a brick. Don’t lose faith!” — bit.ly/mPCsXR 7:52

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Wearing my “I came, I saw, I coded. ” t-shirt for work today. If you watch one video today, watch this onebit.ly/mPCsXRWB

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RT @iphone_dev: We’ve lost a tremendous visionary today. RIP Steve Jobs apple.com/stevejobs // :-(

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@tobeytailor Fuck yeah! My kids love them, too! 3D FTW!

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@Paul_Kinlan Let’s aim for that, then. It’s very valuable to have yents history wherever you log on to. Do you agree?

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@Paul_Kinlan Can it be a native part of your synced Chrome settings?

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@Paul_Kinlan Does this raise a privacy issue? Should track your (or global) most frequently chosen services? Maybe just locally?

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@Paul_Kinlan Order services by popularity and just add search w/ autocomplete might work?!

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@agebhard A software unlock is a nice (very unlikely) side-effect of jailbreaking. It’s an exclusive-ish phone, so carrier-exclusiveness…

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@agebhard I’m only referring to jailbreaking in the sense of installing non-Apple software, not referring to unlocking. I’m OK w/ SIM-lock.

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“Beschneiden” is German for genital cutting. Now look at the display from the #iPhone4S on the very right: http://t.co/0d3ZXNzX #L10N #Fail

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I, for one, am fully sold on the , iff, (double-‘f’), it’s jailbreakable. Just legalize the back#Apple, will ya?

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Playing w/ the #GooglePlus API, & it’s great! Such a detailed response format: http://t.co/ZTQvkEIA. Saves you many follow-up HTTP reqs. +1!

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Finally: #GooglePlus search API released: http://t.co/LTYgZe7o. Hacking already…

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JavaScript - the official logo (WTFPL license): http://t.co/yHFI8PPn by @voodootikigod. http://t.co/VKAGdbfa (3D 8bit version, via @hblanck)

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@michalbe Yeah, you’re right. The deep link has reached its time to live. Here’s (your) original picture: http://t.co/kYH1v6YX #JSConfEU

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3D anaglyph from #JSConfEU, courtesy of @michalbe (fuck yeah!): http://t.co/1ADLo12r

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Irish coder @jwhelton teaches kids tech for free. auctions off @BrendanEich’s shirt for 1.5K€ to support their effort. Proud!

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The creator of CSS nyan cat bit.ly/qTKPRb runs his presentation in 3D. The whole room wears 3D glasses.

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jsmad, presented by @nddrylliog at , is a pure library for decoding MP3 files in the browser: http://jsmad.org/

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Great tricks to be learnt from the @140bytes initiative: tweet-sized scripts. Read their GitHub wiki! Via @jedschmidt

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RT @mattpodwysocki: Keeping track of slides and links from @jsconfeu in a Gist. Great material here: http://t.co/rhF6c9AG #jsconf #jsconfeu

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folks, pitch your plans to take over ze world at an Ignite Talk at the Google Developer Day in Berlin: goo.gl/hHvmg

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The last thing @hfmuehleisen did after the #JSConfEU party: text me ze WiFi pw so that I could use it first thing when I wake up. Thx! #Geek

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@hfmuehleisen Come over now! Dinner is being served!

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allows for the compilation of C/C++ code to : bit.ly/q8NMk0. Speed is impressive.

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@rtroncy No, haven’t heard of it. Seems similar to jszip: http://t.co/IhS6Qgiw

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folks, check out (webintents.org): Apps request actions in form of verbs, which have defined .

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@bobdc Screen sucks. You need a stylus or fingernails. Slow CPU, OS will prob. never be officially updated (but possible). Besides that: OK.

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jsPDF is the vice-versa library to PDF.js (as seen on ) to generate w/ pure : bit.ly/oxNAjs

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parser implemented in pure : bit.ly/ooWXag. Talk on details & speed tweaksnfEU. Will comeefox!

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@maximetiran +1! Not sure what could be done about it :-(

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Great over-lunch conversation on w/ @jankleinert &a@Paul_KinlannlannfEU. Make sure to attend the talk at 2:30PM!

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Zeon.js by @kuvos is a tool that does type inference for . Inc. realtime profiling. zeonjs.com qfox on GitHub

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@rtroncy +1. Their approach is a little weird at best :-) Maybe we can draft an email to them together.

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@antoniogarrote Do you come to in Berlin this weekend? If you’re into stuff at Forward, chances are you’ll come?!

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Heading to Berlin for a weekend full of foo: jsconf.eu/2011/. Super excited to learn from world-class coders. .

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@julian_urbano @PFCdgayo The most important hint is the “tell a story” hint. Embed your message in a story your audience can identify with.

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