http://www.cognition.ca/2008/05/twitter-auto-complete.html Balls-in-the-air Entrepreneurship and Juggling. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:36:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.cognition.ca/2008/05/twitter-auto-complete.html/comment-page-1#comment-178 sjane Mon, 12 May 2008 21:37:35 +0000 http://www.cognition.ca/?p=67#comment-178 I have a suggestion for all you hackers gathered in vic for the weekend. How about developing an 'auto-complete' for all the words you have twisted new meanings out of . . . words like 'handle', 'script', 'tinyhack', '#phptuesday' used to mean 'something one holds onto when encountering rough terrain', 'some lines on a page for a play or show', 'small ax' (?), and the word 'tuesday' spelled by someone without spellcheck. The 'app' could 'pop-up' when you scroll over a hackerword to give new or non-hackers a leg up on the lingo. Alas, there is no shelter from these infectious words, they are already spewing out on my keyboard onto your screen. :) I have a suggestion for all you hackers gathered in vic for the weekend. How about developing an ‘auto-complete’ for all the words you have twisted new meanings out of . . . words like ‘handle’, ‘script’, ‘tinyhack’, ‘#phptuesday’ used to mean ‘something one holds onto when encountering rough terrain’, ‘some lines on a page for a play or show’, ‘small ax’ (?), and the word ‘tuesday’ spelled by someone without spellcheck. The ‘app’ could ‘pop-up’ when you scroll over a hackerword to give new or non-hackers a leg up on the lingo. Alas, there is no shelter from these infectious words, they are already spewing out on my keyboard onto your screen.

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