Re: [sc-users] sctwitt

[Batuhan Bozkurt <batuhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 8, 2009, at 5:00 AM, Michael Cox wrote:

> I thought that might be the case. I'll have to start gutting my code.
> It is a great exercise being forced to choose between what to leave  
> in and what is disposable.
> I think those sort of artistic decisions are often lost on the  
> computer music composer whose options
> are limitless. It forces you to isolate the root of your expression  
> in the most succinct manner possible.

Yeah exactly. It's a well known but little practised fact. :)

> As for the missing characters in random tweets, I noticed that if  
> you copy and paste from the page
> onto an sc document, all the character's seem to be intact; no idea  
> how that would happen.

And yes, but I was talking about missing tweets, I mean the posts you  
make disappear completely as if you hadn't written them at all. Seems  
they've experienced some problems, and  are waiting for the database  
to catch up, so some stuff is a little off.

Best,
B.B.



> -mgc
>
> On Apr 7, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Batuhan Bozkurt wrote:
>
> > Yeah that would be better but it seems that the twitter search  
> > engine does not recognize curly brackets and dots in search  
> > queries, so searching for either of them returns random results  
> > with the word "play" in them. I haven't yet had the luxury of using  
> > #supercollider in my codes, all of them so far are barely 140  
> > characters. This concept is quite addictive, having seemingly  
> > stupid limitations makes you addictive and feel creative. :)
> >
> > Btw twitter is experiencing difficulties for quite a few days and  
> > tweets are disappearing at random. I've also been a victim of this,  
> > but they say they will re-appear back eventually. Missing some code  
> > already. Anyway...
> >
> > B.B.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 8, 2009, at 4:22 AM, Michael G. Cox wrote:
> >
> > > This is great.
> > > I just posted one on
> > > http://twitter.com/themonkeyfist
> > >
> > > one thought though:
> > > if this is going to be added to the main distro then
> > > how about searching for just 'play{' OR '}.play'
> > > instead of '#supercollider'. Them's an awful lot of characters
> > > that could be used for sctwitting. I'm pretty sure that there
> > > won't be too many non-sc posts containing 'play{' OR '}.play'
> > >
> > > -mgc
> > >
> > >
> > > twitterpated with #supercollider overload?
> > > jonesin' for a 140-char-max fix in your ear?
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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