Timothy Danford

@arthegall

Lazy programmer, skeptical ontologist, amateur biologist. Read a book about the printing press that changed my life, occasionally does stuff with genomes.

Cambridge, MA
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Joined May 2007
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  2. 2 hours ago

    Fully five chapters in to On the Steel Breeze, before I realize "Oh, 'Chibesa' is Memphis's last name."

  3. 3 hours ago

    A package manager which splits package names into tokens on '-' and '_', and requires that token-sets be unique across all packages

  5. 4 hours ago

    "which npm package should we use, 'promise-ajax' or 'ajax-promise'?" <shuts laptop, runs screaming out of office>

    1 retweet 3 likes
  6. 5 hours ago

    Gotta spend money to make money I mean buy a couch

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  7. 7 hours ago

    this, but for 99% of *all* startups

    "Slack raised a ton, & Amazon/Apple/Google have figured out the hard part (speech recognition). Let's get them to give us money."
  8. 10 hours ago

    Samuel Beckett on the Quantified Self.

    6:15 AM - 13 Apr 2016 · Details
    3 retweets 6 likes
  9. 11 hours ago

    There's something kind of adorable, about people writing long posts on Medium asking for new features ("better timeline!") in Twitter

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  10. Apr 12

    🤔🤔🤔

    TileDB and GenomicsDB Now Available in Open Source via -BigData
    1 retweet 1 like
  11. Apr 12

    If you find yourself asking a question, but saying "really this question is two questions," just ... go ahead and delete your account

  12. Apr 11

    jesus christ that's one hardcore email campaign

    3:47 PM - 11 Apr 2016 · Details
    2,126 retweets 2,744 likes
  13. Apr 11

    blessed are the curators but I guess "threading is hard," even storify doesn't get it right

    Attempted is operative word for WES/WGS storify, as is many-faceted, many-voiced & tangled with related threads
  15. Apr 11

    was going to point out that "I liked it better when it was 'The Rhetoric of Reaction'" but nope, he already got that

  16. Apr 11

    the sequel to City of Stairs is out! A year ago, I guess, but I didn't realize.

    Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, February 2016
  18. Apr 11

    The FactoryClass must take control of the means of compilation

    When asked to explain the class system in Java, give them a devastating Marxist critique
  19. Apr 11

    Theory: I think that a lot of people get the polarity of "via" wrong.

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  21. Apr 11

    Hey, do any of you need some birds to come chirp outside your window and wake your 3 yr old up at 5am?

    4 likes
  22. Apr 11

    oh no

    Farewell from David Mackay. So sad. His contributions to energy policy (amongst many things) leave lasting legacy
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