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TheEconomist Toru Hashimoto, the 42-year-old mayor of the huge city of Osaka, does not sympathize with Japan's tattooed community econ.st/Jz2iN3 about 22 hours ago via SocialFlow Retweeted by benhumphreys and 122 others
That feeling when you refactor a tonne of code in one class, and everything else works fine. #encapsulation #oo-boner 12:15 AM May 26th via web
Photo: Tonight’s Cards Against Humanity was a rousing success! This is one of my favourites. tmblr.co/ZokBXyM6reh3 9:00 AM May 25th via Tumblr
Looks like Ruby is as fast as Python these days. Still, there's NLTK to consider. 3:06 AM May 25th via web
My god, they broke the #nltk homepage. It's unreadable. 2:49 AM May 25th via web
@drsyoo No like Eggs and setup.py and pip and rpms. And no method of automatically downloading and installing like RubyGems 2:40 AM May 25th via web in reply to drsyoo
@lethargy I think I tried to use pip before and it didn't seem to work with all modules, some were eggs or rpms or other stuff :S 1:53 AM May 25th via web in reply to lethargy
@ntrolls I want to love Civ but it's so slow :( And tactics seem to be non-existant. 1:32 AM May 25th via web in reply to ntrolls
Rewrite Perl code into Ruby or Python. Python faster, but package management and len() make me (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ 1:30 AM May 25th via web
@_aruuu_ Awesome :D 1:01 AM May 25th via web in reply to _aruuu_
@_aruuu_ you’re going to Europe? 9:29 PM May 24th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to _aruuu_
letoams very good read! #freebyron whoacanada.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/the… 5:44 PM May 24th via Echofon Retweeted by benhumphreys and 3 others
@ginnyman I'll do it. I believe in the laws of physics. 3:15 AM May 24th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to ginnyman
@puresock except nobody would die! Win-win! 3:14 AM May 24th via Tweetbot for iOS in reply to puresock
Couldn't you make a hit TV show in Korea by locking someone in a room with like 20 fans? It's be unmissable! 2:43 AM May 24th via Tweetbot for iOS
For balance, common misconceptions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c… 1:32 AM May 24th via web
@puresock @lethargy Yeah there Must be stuff like that in the west too. 1:31 AM May 24th via web in reply to puresock
Fan Death. It's still super-funny. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death 1:25 AM May 24th via web
petitegeek Naoki's first visit to Fushimi Inari shrine twitter.com/petitegeek/sta… 12:03 AM May 24th via Twitter for iPhone Retweeted by benhumphreys
@ginnyman Online protest == idiots on 2ch throwing hissy-fits 12:10 AM May 24th via web in reply to ginnyman

Name Ben Humphreys
Location Kyoto, Japan
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Bio Language, design, typography geek. Machine Translation PhD candidate at Kyoto University. 日本語: @benhumphreys_jp français: @benhumphreys_fr 한국어: @benhumphreys_kr