Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

August 2013

#VLDB2013 paper on Google’s #F1 database that powers #AdWords: http://t.co/YheWT0b7jL. Daily bread of my role “Customer Solutions Engineer”.

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kdnuggets New Book: Twitter Data Analytics, guide to data collection, management, and analysis - download free pre-print bit.ly/1co5c5Z

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RT @RubenVerborgh: In two weeks, a brand new version of #OpenRefine will be released, together with our Using OpenRefine book: http://t.co/…

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@bkeegan I had the same feeling when I read the paper… Also, the name is unlucky.

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@Flickr Things people do w/ the , visualized by . twitpic.com/day4jh

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@cocoanutapps Thanks for making this a free upgrade :-) Really appreciate it. Great work everybody!

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@AmrapaliZ Hehe, that’s why my work email is tomac@google . com :-)

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Impressive ranked social media coverage from the past 7 days of the (via ) twitpic.com/daqwn3

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RT @cramforce: Google Hangouts will move to WebRTC (and support HD) http://t.co/QQNRbDn5yr

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by @MrRio allows you to create files on the client via : github.com/MrRio/jsPDF (MIT license)

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#AdBlock want to use crowdfunded money to buy ads for AdBlock. We have to go deeper. https://t.co/yUqMKAp9k5

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krinndnz It’s pretty sweet that you can watch the global knowledgebase assimilating something in real time: wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com

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#Tweetledee, a PHP lib by @csimpkins, revives your as of #Twitter API v1.1 broken #RSS search feeds & more https://t.co/kykIoZ63bQ

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#Google are looking for participants in remote & on-site #usability studies from around the world: https://t.co/zQAtdj2ulG #GOOG

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Great TL;DR summary by @bobdc of recent #DBpedia overview paper on its past, present, & future (hi @Wikidata): http://t.co/NI5HQqGAoq

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Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon instance) back after planned power shutdown on Sat. wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com indep’ly avail. on @heroku

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Another scheduled downtime of Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon) this w/e due to a power shutdown in the office. wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com

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Ugly code that does what it should: auto-balance (twitpic.com/d9wep2) unbalanced (twitpic.com/d9weij) media galleries for .

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igrigorik curious about how WebP image compression works under the hood? Technical deep-dive to explain the magic: bit.ly/1535mAo.

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@spbail Looks like you’re like-minded to appreciate Whom to follow for Twitter https://t.co/bf7M2XWHXd and #xkcd 37 https://t.co/9MsVQkczf1

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Wentworth Miller #gay http://t.co/Xla9dvYZRc [Edits 5, Editors 4, Langs 4, Stories https://t.co/OuVZCU5Fz3] #LGBT rights! via @WikiLiveMon

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manusporny Yeah, baby! JSON-LD 1.0 approved by RDF WG for implementation phase (CR): ow.ly/o8qkE

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aaranged The Day the Knowledge Graph Exploded (+50.4%) - bit.ly/12p6YRa @dr_pete

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.@Oatmeal on how & why to use whom in a sentence http://t.co/3dNjcSQ6H5 // For #Twitter, use https://t.co/eWpHeTevQg #Grammar (ty @stilkov)

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#Mailvelope: #PGP encrypted Web mail w/ #GMail support: https://t.co/VtEy64Lduq. Caveats: external editor, no search, hassle. (via @tcurdt)

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RT @nicolastorzec: Data Revision Control: adapting GIT to simple CSV data. http://t.co/pBjdAxFsag

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Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon) back after planned downtime. This concerns the tweeting/emailing instance, not wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com

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@bsletten @stilkov @manusporny @danbri You mean in the browser or for downloaded HTML docs? For both cases, CSS selectors mostly work OK.

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@bsletten @juansequeda My iPhone 4S front costed me 80€ when I broke it once, the cheapest price was 70€, but the shop seemed too shabby.

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@stilkov @manusporny @danbri Well, you have the right person in the “@-mentions” list of this tweet ;-)

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@stilkov @manusporny @danbri Syntax examples are one thing, people relying on search engines processing all syntaxes another. Sans GOOG hat.

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@stilkov @mfhepp @raymcdermott Saying this as a neutral fact, not judging either tech. Read @danbri’s comment on https://t.co/G0Dfmwf6dI.

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@stilkov @mfhepp @raymcdermott Careful, the API can be declared dead, per se has a huge ( -driven) deployment base.

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RT @Brown_Moses: Here’s my popular post on verifying videos, with a video from Egypt used as an example http://t.co/b9IpXfV7st

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RT @TwitterEng: An inside (and detailed) look at re-architecting Twitter. Plus, a new Tweets-per-second peak: 143,199 Tweets. https://t.co/…

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@RubenVerborgh @MMLab_UGent @iMinds @ugent Congratulations! You guys form a great . Honored to work w/ you! Bedankt.

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@distobj Same here. Bummer the extension is a bit slow, so you still see results pop up before they are gone for goodâ€ls

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Good G+ post by @aaranged raising important questions reg. #Microdata, #RDFa, & search engine support https://t.co/G0Dfmwf6dI (correct URL)

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Scheduled downtime: Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon) will most probably be down during the weekend due to a network reconfiguration.

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Following @rtroncy’s example, I’ll end paper #reviews w/ “If you wish to contact me after reading the review, I’m $name ($email, $twitter).”

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@hfmuehleisen Shortcut for fullscreen feels weird to a mouse kid like me. I want the little green button to be my fullscreen affordance :-)

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@hfmuehleisen Combine this w/ #RightZoom (http://t.co/MMZl9rlsqL) for immediate satisfaction. Thank me later.

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Constructive criticism of @Yahoo’s new #Android weather app that ignores Android #UI patterns: http://t.co/FpA8fV73si (via @ade_oshineye)

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manusporny The downward spiral of Microdata (people abandoning ship): ow.ly/nXtqO

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“Learning the meaning behind words” #NLP #NLProc http://t.co/Cl8HmFlUoM

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somebitsLinks Reporting Snowden: Detailed profile of Laura Poitras, one of the reporters Snowden contacted dlvr.it/3nxv38

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@rtroncy Can you put the boilerplate text somewhere public, so that others can copy & paste it, add their name, and start a revolution?

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@cygri @RubenVerborgh Check this code for the non-Flash way to do it, courtesy of @Trello: http://t.co/c7enZGIaxk

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RT @RubenVerborgh: Kudos to @rtroncy for putting his name under a review so we can contact him for details. I think non-anonymity gives hig…

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@alexmilowski “[…] full headless browser” when all I need is a canvas ;-) But as I wrote earlier, it would’ve been my last resort.

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@alexmilowski Had thought of PhantomJS as last resort, but overhead would be huge. Meanwhile got node-canvas to work: http://t.co/WH1Thmp5ys

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@Paul_Kinlan request.get({url:url,encoding:null},function(err,res,body){img.src=new Buffer(body,’binary’);}); The “encoding:null” fixed it.

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@Paul_Kinlan Strange. Will try to build a minimally non-working example tomorrow. Thanks for your reply.

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@Paul_Kinlan Indeed: https://t.co/Xg1SFohKxc. Hitting weird issues w/ Cairo: out of memory (PNGs), stream issue (JPGs). Encountered that?

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Failing to move canvas stuff from client to server. Anybody got node-canvas’s drawImage() function to work on 10.5.8?

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Background on #WebKit removing the #Microdata #JavaScript APIs https://t.co/Sncs7UwHRe “Failed to gather support from authors & engine devs”

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RT @sil: Responding to @timbray’s https://t.co/VaaBdbnCk5 because it’s about fear of Google and Facebook, not of random apps: http://t.co/8…

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Wow, @YahooNews is now following @WikiLiveMon: https://t.co/RSigMC6frv. Improvements for #Wikipedia Live Monitor are in the pipeline…

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RT @mahemoff: Make any Android device a ChromeCast receiver. I really hope this isn’t pulled from Play store https://t.co/aeMlqFNtvy

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Overview slides on #Wikidata w/ nice illustrations on #HowTo deal w/ contradicting (#RDF) facts by @BrightByte: http://t.co/ypcWYHYNwW [PDF]

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Best practices for publishing large #RDF dumps by S. Hellmann (#DBpedia); motivated by unofficial #Wikidata dump: http://t.co/QLFaaXlj2t

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~RT @ebidel: HTML Imports (<link rel=”import”>) flag landed in Canary 30. Early days w/ bugs. pic.twitter.com/Lpsz5A6NTZ // +1 CC: @stilkov

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“This could be just the beginning.”—Uniting what belongs togetheror @WikiLiveMonestwitpic.com/d7cv3vALht

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Added xywh.js (spatial) & mediafragments.js (temporal) #MediaFragments URI #polyfill (-s) to @Modernizr #HTML5 Wiki: https://t.co/udj9X3kWDp

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@cramforce HTML 4.01 Tables are the new CSS. Extra points for using the valign attribute.

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~RT @WikiResearch: WikiPulse—A News-Portal Based on Wikipediarxiv.org/abs/1308.1166j6 //Seems to predatia Live Monito@WikiLiveMonon

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somebitsLinks Mozilla Persona supports Gmail: Use Persona to log in with your Google credentials dlvr.it/3mnxpP

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A journey into the : bit.ly/148aLyL by @dr_pete. Great compilation. (via @aaranged)

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Impressions from , , & (via ). Apparently Hong Kong’s fascinating for attendants. twitpic.com/d749e7

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@MrGreenH Hi there. Just merged & extended your xywh.js pull request. Thanks, mate! Enjoy your internship at @mahayaco. Cheers! CC: @rtroncy

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Just merged a pull request by “mrgreenh” (a @EURECOM student of @rtroncy) that adds scaled image support to xywh.js: https://t.co/4hpSQihNPZ

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@amit_twit Hi Amit. I can recommend http://t.co/Hao8SMphLt. It’s a rock-solid, decent-looking thesis template. #PhD #TomsPhD #LaTeX

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aaranged Action added to .org (.org gets its verb) - bit.ly/1bcsDyB

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~RT @vrandezo: Posted a […] potentially big idea: a multilingual #Wikipedia http://t.co/OC9LL1Z0p5 // Sounds interesting, albeit NP hard…

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tip ahead: inhibit page breaks in the middle of references w/ : tex.stackexchange.com/a/43275 ( CC: @RubenVerborgh)

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#Wikipedia edit history visualized as “history flows”: http://t.co/htsSZp8txd. 2004 CHI paper by @medialab & @IBMResearch (via @nat__gross)

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~RT @fuzheado: @ReaderMeter gives shootout to @WikiLiveMon as community tool created out of scholarly research.

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Listen to #Wikipedia by @mhashemi & S. LaPorte: http://t.co/k0fi7u3XGb Audible Wikipedia editing activity. Blog post: http://t.co/AtPVfKr3Xg

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