balpha

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bio	website	balpha.de
	location	Berlin, Germany
	age	32
visits	member for	2 years
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My name is Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe. I am Stack Overflow Valued Associate #00007, which is just a confusing way of saying that I work as a developer for Stack Exchange.

I am @balpha on Twitter. My blog's "about" page explains the origin of my user name.

I am the creator of Unicornify, the service that gives you these lovable creatures:

I also created Lyfe, a small library adding yield-based generators to JavaScript, and Not a Real Question, a little game that's played with data from various Stack Exchange sites.

I sometimes have a strange sense of humor, but I also like to explain things I fix, break, care about, or come up with.

	311 reputation	bio	website	balpha.de	visits	member for	2 years
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Jan 28	revised	*Two quotes (without quotation marks) in one* sentence, introduced by two colons?** force re-render to fix markdown bug
Sep 21	awarded	Custodian
May 24	awarded	Yearling
Apr 13	comment	When do we omit the trailing “-e” in 1st person singular? somewhat related: german.stackexchange.com/questions/3106/…
Apr 13	comment	“Du hast da noch ein Bier zu stehen” - richtig oder falsch? "Man kann zwar auch in Berlin gepflegt einen sitzen haben, aber man hat niemanden zu sitzen, und man hat auch niemanden zu liegen. Folglich muss kein Mann befürchten, jemals von seiner Frau die folgenden Worte zu hören: "Schatz, du kannst da jetzt nicht rein, ich hab da noch den Klempner zu liegen." -- Zwiebelfisch :)
Mar 11	comment	Continuing situations in German "Liebst du mich noch immer?" Why would that not work at all? Sounds perfectly correct to me, even if it sounds a bit more like written than like spoken language.
Aug 31	comment	What is a suboptimal question? 8th place for Word of the year 2005 :)
Jul 8	awarded	Synonymizer
Jun 17	comment	Welche dieser Wörter/Aussprüche sind tabu? "jedem das Seine"? War mir neu, dass das eine Nazi-Konnotation hat (und ich benutze es durchaus)
Jun 8	comment	Wie bezeichnet man Konstrukte wie “Wir sind Papst”? Bild dir deine Sprache
Jun 5	comment	What does “Schi-Scha-Schubidupp” mean? youtube.com/watch?v=hSwJ2rjUSdc (for people who think @splattne is just expressing a lack of amorous feelings for Keyboardsurfer)
May 31	comment	Was ist das Partizip Perfekt eines englischen Lehnwortes wie “booten”? @deceze: Du meinst doch wohl hoffentlich "downgeloaded", oder? ;p
May 27	awarded	Commentator
May 27	comment	Gibt es im Deutschen viele Wörter, die durch Transposition eines einzigen Buchstabens eine neue Bedeutung bekommen? Sorry, aber das ist eindeutig außerhalb des "You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face." aus den faq.
May 27	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on “Für was” vs. “wofür” – gibt es Unterschiede und Regeln?
May 27	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on word-choice tag wiki
May 27	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on single-word-request tag wiki
May 27	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on punctuation tag wiki excerpt
May 27	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on nouns tag wiki
May 27	reviewed	Reject suggested edit on meaning tag wiki excerpt