Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

February 2014

@RubenVerborgh I guess you’re officially Dr. Ruben Verborgh now! Congratulations :-D Now back to business ;-) http://t.co/beXOSRNcPR by Sam.

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RT @ladamic: Can cascades be predicted? Upcoming WWW paper with @jcccf, @diojenez, @jure, and Jon Kleinberg: https://t.co/zo9yAlcb1f

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TomDeNies @RubenVerborgh defending his PhD at the aula in Ghent. The crown on 3,5 years of research! Congrats! pic.twitter.com/UWBxGgQtOU

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@void_0 Great! While my MacBook Pro had forgotten my screen setup immediately after the update, it worked fine ever since, incl. reboots.

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RT @RubenVerborgh: My PhD “Serendipitous Web Applications through Semantic Hypermedia” is now available online! http://t.co/Mfgfkni5GL

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~RT @RubenVerborgh: Glad that I crossed paths w/ @tomayac & @sethvanhooland […] http://t.co/Y96ygSO3hz Couldn’t agree more, friends+research

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Started incorporating @JSHint commit hooks into my Git workflow, following a best practice of @RubenVerborgh https://t.co/5msSobirwS #JSHint

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Addendum to my prev. tweet http://t.co/3pxoyqzRNf: 2/28—PhD defense day!—also happens to be @RubenVerborgh’s birthday! Gelukkige verjaardag!

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Today’s the day of @RubenVerborgh’s #PhD defense! Wishing you all the best, cand. Ph.D. Verborgh! https://t.co/s0bwLIXWdh (req. FB login)

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@HeidiTworek Hi Heidi, happened to catch your tweet… Apparently things’re going well for you in Harvard http://t.co/18r04T7t5X Congrats! Tom

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@void_0 Same here. Thought someone had messed with my marked screen cables, but it’s indeed a bug in 10.9.2.

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Today’s #xkcd is truly genius: http://t.co/V2AEXwRmta Make sure to bookmark this URL, it always points to the correctly rotated version.

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RT @Newsweek: Half of all edits to Wikipedia are made by bots — and that’s a good thing http://t.co/LVXdqVeJO9 http://t.co/DTeColuKTK

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seen via obviously dominates Twitter w/ 10.9.2 & 7.0.6 finally released. twitpic.com/dwnj91

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RT @brucel: “Nothing terrifies me more than an app … in desperate pursuit of revenue w. full access to everything on my phone” http://t.co/…

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The ! program makes interesting datasets for non-commercial use available: webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/index.php

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RT @somebitsLinks: Apple’s SSL bug: Simple typo; bad thing is no code review nor testing caught it dlvr.it/505tpd // if (cond) {…}

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My wife has launched her own @Dawanda_de shop http://t.co/yH1V1uj8G2. Also check out her blog http://t.co/GA5iXSha6y. http://t.co/yKnIwj9M7N

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‘use strict’;—Improve #JavaScript by enforcing strict rules. One of the better articles on the subject: http://t.co/Zclw1zBidY

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RT @WikiLiveMon: #BreakingNews Candidate: http://t.co/vHQW5x2lPX [Edits: 13, Editors: 8, Langs: 5, Stories: https://t.co/sTDPdOiKuw, https:…

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The bot @mediagalleries is back—it posts media galleries auto-generated fo@WikiLiveMonows candidates. It was down due to a bug…

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Hijacked plane #ET702 story. Twitter custom timeline via @chabotc https://t.co/FCukAPbViP. Media gallery via #TomsPhD http://t.co/iZONygDW2o

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RT @RubenVerborgh: In #Java, you don’t just do.
You always try, then catch—knowing you’ll never catch anything.

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#LDOW2014—Get Accepted or Die Tryin’… Weaving the Web(VTT) of Data // CC: @hfmuehleisen, @RubenVerborgh, @pchampin, @benoit_encelle, @yprie

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RT @hfmuehleisen: Breaking news picture galleries based on #Wikipedia edits as @twitter feed: @mediagalleries by @tomayac! #FF

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From commoncrawl.org/our-work/ of @CommonCrawl: “We strive to be transparent in all of our operations.”—Any info on the crawl strategy? Vague…

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@rtroncy @silviapfeiffer Not a single one… We’re working on a paper at the moment.

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@silviapfeiffer .srt: 390; & dynamic stuff that may be (/includes/assets/vtt/?f=/2013/CLIP_JBU_LR/) or not (/videos/1095/captions).

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Of the 1,456 <track> (http://t.co/N5J1dMzpL1), distrib. of src attrib: matches /.(web)?vtt$/i: 66, other: 1390. @silviapfeiffer #WebVTT

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Of the 1,456 <track> (http://t.co/N5J1dMzpL1), distrib. of kind: captions: 915, subtitles: 525, chapters: 2, (rest invalid). @silviapfeiffer

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Stats from @hfmuehleisen’s & my recent @CommonCrawl analysis on the Winter 2013 dataset: <video>: 2,963,766; out of which w/ <track>: 1,456.

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techreview The Shadowy World Of Wikipedia’s Editing Bots techre.vu/1gyCwJ7

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RT @GeppettoAvatars: Wikidata’s editing bots are now not just editing but also authoring. http://t.co/HMEW2Qv7q0 Watch it happening here: h…

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Bugs that bite—#MacOSX Finder lets you create file names with a ‘/’ http://t.co/9khharw82f. Still banging my head… #BasedOnATrueStory !#UNIX

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An interesting photo gallery layout algorithm used over at @YahooTech described in detail here: http://t.co/QDHdgtIpU7 (CC: @Vjeux)

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#JavaScript #RegExp support is incredibly bad: a character’s more than a-zA-Z in the age of #Unicode. https://t.co/uvXLVfGBmz to the rescue.

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WxAnalyst Wikipedia Live Monitor going too fast for me to keep up; it’s as if there’s some major sporting event happening or something.

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@seenco Merci! Just realized that maybe the app isn’t UTF8-enabled?! Tried ¡Ð¾Ñ‡Ð¸2014, but http://t.co/EjI9x3aRLZ searches for #2014 instead.

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RT @mstrohm: Social Curation in Pinterest: Specialization, Homophily, and Gender: http://t.co/WkPvoRFv8U

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RT @TwitterData: ¡Ð¾Ñ‡Ð¸2014: Оцените самые популярные олимпийские фотографии в Твиттере
http://t.co/aJ7NjVMTfi http://t.co/uwuEI19r1V

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Watching the #Sochi #Olympics on a (still) private @WikiLiveMon build, like, literally :-) https://t.co/cFo49qlzoO http://t.co/9HQQKBWPca

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RT @sw12: Search 400+ Chrome developer videos — now with clickable, human-readable transcripts: http://t.co/wgNV3vr6qu

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@StuartJRitchie @JohnRentoul Already exists: bit.ly/xkcd37, then add a rule to replace “Which books have you read” :-) De rien.

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RT @JohnRentoul: Joy. My “Whom to follow” Chrome extension works on the new Twitter design https://t.co/KTNoZ9Nxgh Thx @tomayac http://t.co…

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changing their logo apparently is social media news-worthy :-) (via ) twitpic.com/dupo43

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@mstrohm @ph_singer Great paper (RT’ed y’day already)! For arXiv, you should add the DOI (PDF in email “IW3C2 Copyright Release Form […]”).

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cramforce Not so subtle Google Doodle google.com

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sklaporte @ReaderMeter Introducing the Wikimedia Data Grants Program: Congratulations, you are accepted, here you go: dumps.wikimedia.org

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@rtroncy Right in the link—“GitHub warns you when you push a file larger than 50MB. We’ll reject pushes containing files larger than 100MB.”

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#Git tip: had committed a file too large for @GitHub some local commits ago. Mess :-( BFG Repo-Cleaner to the rescue https://t.co/7Eaxmhe5gX

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RT @ph_singer: Preprint of our #www2014 #websci #reddit paper about Reddit’s evolution (out- vs. self-reference) is online: http://t.co/dC…

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@seenco Use the pushState API https://t.co/zLon1iPKIt to switch between All/Photos/Tweets on Seen pages. Let me link to each section. Merci!

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@seenco Small typo on api.seen.co “When relevant and treDNing topics are detected”

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RT @wsREST: We’ve just sent out notification for #wsREST2014 http://t.co/eSukoXhLAy Congrats, looking forward to seeing you all! @WWW2014_K…

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wsREST We’re collecting last reviews & hope to be sending out notifications on Feb. 5. Thanks to all reviewers for their detailed reviews!

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RT @abursuc: Insider advice for getting a job at Google for PhD students http://t.co/K76Hr1QLiD

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@LeonDerczynski Thx. Tweets work fine for months now, only permanent archiving in a Google Group didn’t find the placet of G’s abuse filter…

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Amazing to what extent is dominated by 2nd-screens, here depicted by for “Auf ewig Dein”. @Tatort twitpic.com/duf8zk

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My Track poster “Bots vs. Wikipedians, Anons vs. Logged-Ins” pre-published on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/1402.0412 @WikiResearch

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somebitsLinks Yahoo building search?: Rumors of early projects dlvr.it/4qhYwF

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@hfmuehleisen 113386938. Online :-)

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@tkurz Thanks for your #MediaFragments URI parser! Great :-) Tiny remark: s/regional/spatial/i because http://t.co/2KzIXj5kBU @rtroncy

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