{"id":28,"date":"2017-10-15T20:55:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2017-10-15T20:55:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T04:55:45","slug":"a-list-of-thoughts-and-feelings-that-cannot-be-expressed-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/15\/a-list-of-thoughts-and-feelings-that-cannot-be-expressed-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"A List of Thoughts and Feelings that Cannot Be Expressed on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are the limits of expressing thoughts in Twitter?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a powerful but inefficient (when run) thought that can be expressed on Twitter, a quick sort in Erlang in 126 characters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #000; color: #fff;\">\n<pre>\r\nqsort([]) -> [];\r\nqsort([Pivot|T]) ->\r\n   qsort([X || X <- T, X < Pivot])\r\n   ++ [Pivot] ++\r\n   qsort([X || X <- T, X >= Pivot]).\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Also strcmp implemented in C can be tweeted:<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #000; color: #fff;\">\n<pre>\r\nint bstrcmp(char *s1,char *s2) { while(*s1 == *s2++) {if(*s1++ == 0){return 0;} } \r\nreturn (*(unsigned char *)s1 - *(unsigned char*)--s2);}\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>A lot of Perl one-liners can fit into a tweet &#8211; powerful and useful ones.<\/p>\n<p>You can also propose the concept of a hash tag in a tweet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/25419820@N00\/1236321800\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1410\/1236321800_a275c8e8c2.jpg\" alt=\"hashtag proposal\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, there are many thoughts that seem to be difficult to fit into a tweet:<\/p>\n<p>The Pythagorean Theorem and one of its many proofs<br \/>\nAnselm&#8217;s Ontological Proof for God&#8217;s Existence<br \/>\nMerge Sort in Ruby<br \/>\nMerge Sort in PHP<br \/>\nWhy you should or shouldn&#8217;t outsource<br \/>\nWhat qualities make a great tech hire<br \/>\nThe logical fallacy in another person&#8217;s tweet<br \/>\nHow to subtly tell someone something in an indirect way with the only others knowing being those in the know<\/p>\n<p>Twitter encourages the laconic expression of thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the limits of expressing thoughts in Twitter? Here&#8217;s a powerful but inefficient (when run) thought that can be expressed on Twitter, a quick sort in Erlang in 126 characters. qsort([]) -> []; qsort([Pivot|T]) -> qsort([X || X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}