Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

March 2012

@jindrichmynarz @fantasticlife @danbri We do this, e.g., for “define:” queries: http://t.co/u47hA5r0

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Our demo paper on the project (screencast of the GUI: youtu.be/-chzjEDcMXU) got accepted at . Exciting!

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RT @jayrobinson: Quick note on why you should always tick the “progressive” box when exporting JPEGs: http://t.co/KduUQ2c7

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@kwelle Thanks! Enjoy the rest of ! Also thanks for live-tweeting (tried to keep up w/ the pace).

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RT @WSREST2012: moved from 4/16 to 4/17 to avoid conflict w/ > Thanks to everyone involved to make it happen!

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@kwelle Do you have a link to his paper? Thanks!

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@Buddenbohm Wenn du das mit Online morgen nochmal erzählst, dann bitte mit, ähm, Diktiergerät & Minikassette. Ein iPhone tut’s zur Not auch.

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@vasujain Alright. Let me know if you want to see anything clarified. Cheers!

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@vasujain Ah, I see. Video records no, sorry, but a paper bit.ly/GOQlSL. Maybe this is useful to some extent, too!?

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@vasujain *Confused* What PowerPoint do you mean?

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RT @JeniT: Trying to drum up support for an #httpRange14 change proposal http://t.co/uPy6L0jW #lod // Read. Signed. RT’ed. +1

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3,294,248,652 triples isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? Moar, moar, moar! ;-) bit.ly/GRoNuT

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Source Maps are a great way to uncompress compressed #JavaScript files for debugging purposes: http://t.co/Cs9A9yll. Also: )]}

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RT @hfmuehleisen: Web Data Commons launches, data from 4.5 billion URLs! http://t.co/au6VFJYY #RDFa #microdata // +1 & congratulations all!

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RT @rtroncy: Love seing @RubenVerborgh and @tomayac fixing the web, one problem at a time, via Chrome extensions! Big Fan! #xkcd #latex

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~RT @RubenVerborgh: Think that @SpringerLink makes it [fscking] complicated to export citations? Fixed that: bit.ly/GMPOON > +1K

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RT @cramforce: @tomayac REST is just XML with curly braces, no? :)

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RT @technoweenie: Quit mentioning REST, & nerds won’t jump on your ass about it. âž¡ That’s what we REST nerds have been preaching 4ever

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@prototypo Why /believe/ if we can /know/ ;-) If it’s public information, @danbri is our man with the plan…

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@danbri @prototypo “[…] when there’re consuming implementations we’re happy with […]” - Could you clarify? Implementations of what? Thanks!

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Thanks to the foo of my partner in crime @RubenVerborgh, we’re now all set for the camera-ready submission of our dev papers

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RT @prototypo: Why does the site still fail to mention positively after search engines agreed to support it? // CC: @danbri

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So trueâ€bit.ly/GBgJP46O. True inspiration comes from the headhD

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If you work on natural language stuff in / , be sure to check out this project: bit.ly/GBfGid

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At risk of making a fool of myself: JSON.stringify(json, undefined, 2) does native pretty-print. Only learnt that today.

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Tweets vs. Likes: What gets shared on Twitter vs. Facebook — @edchedch’s great(!) blog: http://t.co/YFuNLVER // CC: @RubenVerborgh @rtroncy

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@gkob Mit etwas Glück bekommst du immerhin direkt im Apple Store bei einem “Genius” ein faires Angebot für ein neues Gerät.

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@gkob Kannste vergessen: Gewährleistung ist das nicht, sonst hätte dein Power-Button v. Anfang an nicht funktionieren müssen. Nachweislich.

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@gkob Jepp, und daran scheiterte bei mir der Versuch, meinen Home-Button reparieren zu lassen. Viel Glück trotzdem.

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@gkob Gewährleistung != Garantie. Gewährleistung: _Du_ musst nachweisen, dass der Fehler schon seit _Beginn_ bestand (NP-hart).

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@antoniogarrote Accepted & rightly so! Your engine & store w/ suport rocks! Congrats & see you at !

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Both proposals for developers track accepted: 1) 37 Chrome extension 2) camera shot detection for video.

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Algorithms for #thumbnail extraction discussed by a @zemanta blog post (via Google cache): http://t.co/xEp9kOui (via @joedevon)

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s/keyboard/leopard from 1031: bit.ly/ypbQRn. You get that free w/ bit.ly/xkcd37. Now grab mouse & leopard!

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@sallamar They are, but too many profane, however, necessary things break when they are disabled :-( Whitelisting burden vs. laziness.

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Impressive screencast by @kojomisch made for the project showcasing collaborative search, aka. : youtu.be/TyBj7b0kymU

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I’m not a newsletter person, but I read weekly w/ great joy, especially in busy weeks their summary is +1: javascriptweekly.com

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@pablomendes This is great news! Congratulations to the team! Let me know how I can help.

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RT @fbase: Want to spend the summer adding Freebase data to Spotlight? Get ready for Summer of Code 2012 goo.gl/OSrKo

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@rtroncy @RubenVerborgh @pchampin The HEROES are the orgs of #WWW2012, #LDOW2012, #WSREST2012. THX! I’m the bugger who messes the schedule.

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@grindcrank Leute wie ich, die das noch auf eiriger Platte vom Flohmarkt haben. Wir sollten uns mal im echten Leben treffen & Musik hören :D

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@milstan @fabien_gandon Who doesn’t? It’s also known as the ReTweetVanitySuffixâ„¢.

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@grindcrank Die Quintessenz deines Tweets ist ja, ob das eine Anspielung auf die Ärzte war:bit.ly/AwN2Wl0

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It’s Developers track & Demos & Poster track review day. Mixed feelings. Good thing: my reviews agree w/ others’ reviews.

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@jerem Welcome, and congratulations to your new endeavor!

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@nicolastorzec @juansequada @pmika Mostly my reaction as well. It’s one important step, but there’re more steps ahead in my humble opinion.

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RT @dvdeurse: URIs 1.0 published as a Proposed Recommendation. Yay! bit.ly/AprCuM // Yay indeed :-D

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I’ve pinged @fabien_gandon & @pchampin asking if & at could be scheduled on different days. (RT)

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Wow. Stumbled upon a directory: bit.ly/zozTrV. I’ve covered WADL in my Master’s thesis: bit.ly/z3cu6d

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~RT @souders: Comprehensible article from @slicknet advocating “use strict;”. Sad that we shouldn’t use it globally. http://t.co/llpwVodk

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This patent might be, erm, interesting for #MediaFragments: http://t.co/7tvJYCy6 // CC: @rtroncy (via @llimllib > @progrium)

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performance myths: bit.ly/x5kCJy. - Crowdsourcing performance tests! (via @mathias > @elsigh)

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RT @cramforce: For ~5 seconds I was gonna bitch that the website looks like a 90s Flash thing, but this is awesome: bit.ly/wko48f

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RT @dret: Good to see that Google is pushing standards-based interlinking of Web resources http://t.co/iqinZE1l […] // +1

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Recommended reading (a classic): N-Gram-Based Text Categorization, by Cavnar, Cavnar, and Trenkle: bit.ly/xJ7FEI

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@dret Agreed. Did you know this page (need to be logged in): google.com/reviews/t?hl=en ? It’s the page that the Chrome extension uses. Shared :-)

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mikekelly85 Posterous has been acquired by Twitter blog.posterous.com/big-news

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@dret Just trying to fix your issue and be helpful. As a cheer-up: http://t.co/ogwCTbAw ;-)

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@dret Yes, makes sense. As of v2.1, you can export your blocklist, tho. You can also view-source the extension like so: bit.ly/yN1zgB

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.@dret Personal Blocklist Chrome extension to the rescue. Blocks domains from Google results: bit.ly/A8BcCS

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The dataset by folks from TU Eindhoven w/ tweets classified in 6 langs bit.ly/xiv0bp is broken for de-DE: umlauts & ‘ß’ gone. Others?

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Coded a language identifier in using a Naive Bayes classifier. Need training data in form of classified tweets. Anyone?

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RT @rtroncy: Wow! RT @wattenberg: New! See the spread of any URL (not just a post) on Google+ ripples. For example http://t.co/tGGXc3Hj

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@mamund Great! @RubenVerborgh & me have a paper that will most probably raise some eyebrows & provoke discussionhe #REST community ;-)

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mattcutts I want to point something out to someone, but it’s probably better to sit on my hands. Makes it hard to type. Using nose.

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@mamund Are you referring to ? Will you be around? If so, looking forward to hopefully finally meeting you in person at .

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@aivlis_s @mhausenblas @RubenVerborgh Yay! Congratulations as well! Looking forward to seeing all of you at &a2012!

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The paper by @RubenVerborgh & me got accepted2012. 4(!) helpful & constructively criticizing reviews. #WWW2012

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RT @edjafarov: remote-impress: remote Impress.js preso controller. Use a phone to switch slides: http://t.co/oYyDJpln // via @RubenVerborgh

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RT @RubenVerborgh: Congrats to @github for handling the exploit well. They just emailed to confirm my SSH keys. // Was about to say the same

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adds scene preview to videos: bit.ly/wiSQ5Q. We’ve shown a similar feature at : bit.ly/AshpWz.

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reviews done DOT Tumblr DOT com.

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If you’ve ever been bitten by (or any other <form> on the Web) forgetting your data, to the rescue: bit.ly/zOYI6b

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’s Swipe between pages gesture &ahair’s ignorance of any & all form caching (2012!) have just ruineLDOW2012 review work.

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A differentiation of the methods , , & a translation to T-SQL (that I ignored)@mamundmubit.ly/zdaEYtdW6n

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@jasonoke A pleasure to serve the like-minded ;-) Pedantically yours, Tom

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Just as &apera have adedia suppo@kojomischisch & me have implemente#bit.ly/wQRypgIWkH0Zyj

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RT @pualth: bit.ly/ADzJIO This extension corrects Twitter to ‘Whom to follow’. Yes please. // You’re welcome ;-)

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RT @alexmilowski: Chrome extension implementing an #rdfa API client is still a work in progress, but it now has pretty graphs! https://

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