christophe971

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Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of Sonar(medium.com)
65 points by christophe971 13y ago|5 comments
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Places(medium.com)
2 points by christophe971 13y ago|0 comments
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by christophe971 13y ago
Sounds vaguely similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time Also, I may be wrong, but it looks like you haven't read about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time
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Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M(techcrunch.com)
305 points by christophe971 13y ago|196 comments
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by christophe971 13y ago
Perfect answer.
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On Citizenship in open-source software development(medium.com)
205 points by christophe971 13y ago|81 comments
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by christophe971 14y ago
I can be wrong, but being in a state of marriage with Y is a fact. And since the DB handle time periods, with my way you can actually search who X is married to with one request, without checking if he divorced, if Y is dead, disappeared, o
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by christophe971 14y ago
You're right, nothing is enforced, if people choose a different way to present the data, it's totally fine.
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by christophe971 14y ago
Yes, whatever I do is making me "walking down the path to structured data, and toward the very complexity you're arguing against", that's why it is done in a way where those principles are still preserved. I don't want to talk too much abou
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by christophe971 14y ago
No problem, I'm not afraid of criticism and insults, there is always some kind of information in them :)
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by christophe971 14y ago
You're right, it would be a plus for people who quickly want to test the API. In the meantime, you can just look through http://browser.thebigdb.com what the DB contains, or just "gem install thebigdb" and start copy/paste the code exampl
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by christophe971 14y ago
First of all, I'm glad to be talking to a Freebase engineer :) Second: It is not intended to be a Freebase killer, but it is certainly better for me and what I needed it for: building denisthebot.com - which can answer questions about a who
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by christophe971 14y ago
What you're talking about is the larger problem of "context". Thankfully, I already wrote the code and the documentation to attach statements to contexts, solving this problem in an elegant way. I haven't released it yet to keep the core of
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by christophe971 14y ago
Sorry!
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by christophe971 14y ago
Woops, good catch! Fixed. And thank you!
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by christophe971 14y ago
Yes, while you can see what's in the DB here: http://browser.thebigdb.com , you can't see what's recent. I'll do something about that.
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by christophe971 14y ago
While it is not the case right now, being heavily invested into open-source myself, it is very possible that it ends up under CC-BY at some point.
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by christophe971 14y ago
It's all about conventions, redundancy and votes. When you know what you're looking for, and you got a community agreeing on such conventions, you know you'll get what you're actually looking for. That's pretty much it. And yes, it is diffe
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by christophe971 14y ago
Never talked to them, but I did address the differences between TheBigDB and Freebase here: http://thebigdb.com/faq
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by christophe971 14y ago
I'm seriously considering it actually, but not 100% sure at the moment... :) And yes, it would be awesome for fandom, but the whole point of the service is to be able to have all kinds of data in it, so... :)
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by christophe971 14y ago
Not really. I addressed this in the FAQ: http://thebigdb.com/faq
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by christophe971 14y ago
In the absolute sense, you're right they don't; but in the practical sense they do, especially open time-dependent statements. The easiest example is this: We're in 2010. X has been married to Y since 2009; In the DB it would be represented
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by christophe971 14y ago
Yes, simplification + open API is at the heart of the project. The first one because it makes people actually want to use the service, the second one because it helps having up to date data about all sort of things.
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by christophe971 14y ago
Absolutely, thanks for your question!
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by christophe971 14y ago
Actually yes, but in a different way, I was thinking of accelerating the power of sudden downvotes, but nothing is set in stone yet. So yes it will happen, how exactly is yet to be decided. Thanks for your question!
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by christophe971 14y ago
That's exactly right! There are a lot of data on the web, almost none of it is structured in a way that lets other easily access and edit it. For example, as you can see on http://denisthebot.com , having that kind of API makes it trivial
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Show HN: DenisTheBot - A new kind of NLP question-answering chat bot(denisthebot.com)
4 points by christophe971 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: TheBigDB - A simpler open database of facts(thebigdb.com)
133 points by christophe971 14y ago|76 comments
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Vooza(vooza.com)
11 points by christophe971 14y ago|2 comments
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by christophe971 15y ago
From the sample of people I follow, it really looks like the engagement is down from the early days: fewer posts, fewer comments and worst, fewer new accounts created. I'm fully aware it is a completely non-scientific "study", but you would

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