mmmmmrob Finally found a few minutes to blog about pairwise comparisons of large datasets using map/reduce: dynamicorange.com/2012/12/31/pai… #bigdata
Chuck Norris no espera a los Reyes Magos. Los Reyes lo esperan a el.
#ChuckNorris #ChuckNorrisFacts
danbri .@tomayac @RubenVerborgh did you see stratified js? eg. onilabs.com/blog/megazine has examples of error handling
.@RubenVerborgh on asynchronous errors & handling strategies in #JavaScript: ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2012/12/3… Welcome to callback hell ;-)
Vjeux New blog article: Displaying justified text with a better line-breaking algorithm is really hard in CSS blog.vjeux.com/2012/css/css-d…
RubenVerborgh @Vjeux I’m a fan of the line-breaking algorithm too:bramstein.com/projects/types… I hope some day browsers will do this instead of per-line composing
#xkcd: Communion xkcd.com/1152/ #christianity #church #catholicism
A very honest & transparent explanation for the #GitHub downtime last Saturday bit.ly/YPNO6f
wsrest2013 #wsrest2013 proposal (with co-chairs @pautasso @ruyalarcon @dret) accepted by #www2013. start thinking about submissions & attending! #REST
The @FreeMetadata team have released a named-entity extraction extension for #OpenRefine (fka. #GoogleRefine): freeyourmetadata.org/named-entity-e… #NLProc
@llimllib Yeah, fair enough… Yet I like the API for its data richness. I agree that finding how to make work what you want can be tough.
@llimllib Regarding the documentation, have you found this huge .txt document? bit.ly/VRKbWV
@llimllib Being ironic? Or having specific complaints? Documentation? Or its request format? I love the API for its richness of data.
A public hat tip to #TomsPhD thesis reviewer @RubenVerborgh: your comments are a pleasure to wade through. The occasional joke included :-)
@dret Wow, that’s a nice one, too :-)
.@vasujain Found the reason? > The answer is ’34’ < ‘5’ in lexicographic order. It’s basically #RTFM :-) Get bitten once. Never forget.
[5,34,1].sort() won’t return [1,5,34]. Why? #JavaScript pub quiz😃 Needless to say, got bitten by this #Heisenbug where it worked sometimes…
Our position paper submitted to #SEXI2013 (Workshop on Search & Exploration of X-Rated Information at #WSDM2013) got accepted B-)
@bsletten Thanks, Brian! Had a great day :-)
@tcurdt Wow, thanks! It totally worked :-)
YahooResearch A good article that mentions our research in Twitter Credibility, check out the article! slate.me/W7ugto
#YouTube API v3.0 drops XML over JSON & introduces ambiguity-free #Freebase powered topic search: bit.ly/12l4vpY @fbase
.@tagesschau Clips of grieving parents after #CTshooting in bit.ly/U6MnNU were inadequate & not up to your journalism standards :-(
A good #Android #UI paradigm carried over to #iOS: plus.google.com/u/0/1037338747… (#Google #Chrome for #iPhone and #iPad)
@mahemoff I bought #TotalFinder just for CMD+X. It has tabs too. Regularly updated, absolutely worth your £. Not affiliated, just convinced.
aaranged Google’s Data Highlighter: What If It Conflicts With HTML Markup? - bit.ly/TdmJVd @rustybrick w/ @JohnMu citation
kerfors Great piece by @aaranged on Google #DataHighlighter: Markup-Free Structured Data for Google seoskeptic.com/google-data-hi…
Slides from my talk at @HSFulda #HSFulda docs.google.com/presentation/d… SemWebVid tomayac.com/semwebvid/#id=… Underlying publications scholar.google.com/citations?user…
nicolastorzec Wikimedia releases an alpha version of its new WYSIWYG editor on #Wikipedia EN, so editors can provide feedback blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/12/try…
Wow’ed by the new #iOS #GoogleMaps experience: goo.gl/1xdrx #StreetView in compass mode, public transit layer, logged-in experience…
#GoogleMaps for iPhone. Voice navigation, local search, #StreetView, transit & more: goo.gl/1xdrx (via @googlemaps)
RT @Jenz514: #Google Debuts #DataHighlighter: An Easy Way Into Structured Data bit.ly/VCAQlw > W/o #RDFa / #Microdata / #Microformats
@mhausenblas Done. Good luck :-)
TwitterEng Blobstore: Twitter’s in-house photo storage system dlvr.it/2cwGG9
@dalmaer Even greater: compare the sequence w/ @marissamayer’s post: iOS, Android, Windows 8, Web. Interesting :-) bit.ly/UxE0G7
mahemoff wired.com/wiredenterpris… How a bug on Google’s servers caused yesterday’s Chrome crash by @bobmcmillan (with a quote from me)
theSeanCook Love the mobile version of 2012.twitter.com #onlyontwitter
@dalmaer Bonus points for the platform order in the post: Web, Windows 8, iOS, Android :-)
Thinking of a new search algorithm named Murphy Search®™: check the last element first, then resolve to Binary Search or Sequential Search…
mikewest Hooray! Facebook is using Content Security Policy! :) … Oh noes! Facebook extensions are breaking! :( -bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…ZQ
@nicolastorzec Don’t see it on mobile yet. They direct me to the .de site from .com. Bonus points for the ads, tho: buy Brad Pitt at AMZN!
@sympapadopoulos Will be a public dataset. It’s not for a paper, but for my #PhD thesis… ETA: Q1’2013. Watch this hashtag#TomsPhDhD :-)
RT @danbri: Intrigued by the #RDFa mentioned in blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/07/inv… Any link to @wikidata? // Reg. visual #MediaWiki editor.
dalmaer “Today’s my last day at Google. In January I start a new job at Dropbox” — @gvanrossum tech.dropbox.com/2012/12/welcom… #luckydropbox
.@sympapadopoulos “Share preliminary results [of near-duplicate img clustering algo w/ #VictoriasSecretFashionShow]?” twitpic.com/bjv3qr
One of the unpleasant duties of #TomsPhD is to work on a dataset of #VictoriasSecretFashionShow pics… Ou#SEXI201313 submission is unrelated!
#Cloaking for short-lived social network snippets. Black hat #SEO gone social… Please don’t do thisbit.ly/TKivU0Zz (vi@aarangeded)
@aaranged Cloaking. They won’t get away w/ it for a long time, albeit the attack vector “short-lived social network snippet” is interesting.
ldodds s/./->/g; #refucktoring
timbray We’ve had an internal app store for years, glad they managed to productize it. Super useful: goo.gl/c2XaE
nicolastorzec Google #KnowledgeGraph now covers 570M entities, 18B facts and relationships, and 3 times more queries… insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/get-sm…
ericaxel Google #KnowledgeGraph Picks Up A Few New Languages, And Shows Some Medical Smarts bit.ly/11z6hU9
RT @algermissen: Put purity first to learn. Often pragmatism becomes a void concept then. // Regarding #REST purity vs. pragmatism. +1.
@stilkov @bitworking Well, dying in the sense of blog posts written ;-) bit.ly/TzIcpZ
@stilkov @bitworking Hasn’t this battle been fought before? Is it still worth dying for? #REST purity vs. pragmatism?
Achievement unlocked. Submitted to the #SEXI2013 workshop: sexi2013.org Meme: bit.ly/VsMzJ0 w/ @RubenVerborgh @sethvanhooland
The history of the #Facebook Like button: b.qr.ae/TE8FTF (hat tip to @RubenVerborgh for making me investigate this)