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| bio | website | hs-ulm.de/ig |
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| location | Ulm, Germany | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
| seen | May 6 at 11:13 | |
| stats | profile views | 15 |
I'm a professor for medicine at the University of Applied Sciences in Ulm, teaching in the study course "Health Information Management". I'm a physician by training (specialized in microbiology, therefore well-acquainted with bugs and viruses of all kinds) who also likes to program. I started programming way back in my teens on the Atari 800XL and later on the Amiga 2000 (mostly in C), then stopped for a while after switching to PC/Windows, primarily because my studies didn't leave enough time.
I discovered Python a few years ago and was hooked immediately. Suddenly programming was fun again. Most of the stuff I've been writing has to do with data crunching, XML processing and so on. I picked up a little knowledge on regular expressions along the way, and that is the area I'm most active in here on StackOverflow.
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Feb 28 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jan 16 |
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“To shoot out of cannon into sparrows” It's the exact same idiom in German, too: "Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen schießen." |
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Nov 8 |
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What's wrong with “I'll open you the door”? Is it actually idiomatic to say "call the buzzer"? Wouldn't you rather "sound the buzzer" or something like that? |
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Oct 11 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Oct 11 |
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What is the opposite of “skyrocket”? I've loved this word ever since the immortal lines "Now witness their attempts to fly from tree to tree. Notice they do not so much fly as plummet." (Monty Python, Flying Sheep) |
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Sep 11 |
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What's the idiom for getting lost in a (malfunctioning) bureaucracy? @ChrisCudmore: No, it's derived from Latin fetidus ("stinking"). See also f(o)etor as in foetor ex ore ("bad breath"). |
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May 5 |
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The property of something to return to its original state when not being acted upon It's equilibrium, though. |
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Dec 13 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Dec 13 |
answered | How can I express “sacrificing ease for quality” in a common expression? |
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Dec 12 |
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How can I express “sacrificing ease for quality” in a common expression? If you need to explain yourself to management, you might want to use the term "technical debt" because that makes them think of money... |
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Sep 5 |
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What does “Stick it up one’s jumper” mean? Why is it funny? Not to forget John Lennon's "I am the walrus"... |
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Aug 4 |
accepted | The boy who lived… come to die? (Harry Potter) |
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Aug 3 |
awarded | Editor |
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Aug 3 |
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The boy who lived… come to die? (Harry Potter) My feelings exactly! Thanks! |
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Aug 3 |
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The boy who lived… come to die? (Harry Potter) added 66 characters in body |
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Aug 3 |
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The boy who lived… come to die? (Harry Potter) OK, this is very interesting for me. So come here couldn't be understood as a past participle at all? Like for example in "a boy [who has] gone forever"? I would have expected an exclamation point, not a period, to understand this as an imperative form. I'm aware that usage of a past participle like that would be uncommon except for poetic language - which is exactly what Voldemort was using in this dramatic scene. That's probably why I interpreted it this way... |
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Aug 3 |
asked | The boy who lived… come to die? (Harry Potter) |
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Jul 10 |
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Why do signs read “wet floor”, not “slippery floor”? @deceze: Many professional cleaning products (especially surface disinfectants) need a soak-in phase. They need to stay in contact with the surface for a period of time - about as long as it takes for the fluid to evaporate, so if you dry them off, they don't work correctly. |
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Jun 28 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jun 28 |
accepted | “Directly” in the meaning of “As soon as” |
