jamess

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by jamess 18y ago
Loadable modules are something of a grey area, but in general the consensus is that yes they are derived works of the loading program, and thus must will be covered by the GPL if the overall program is itself GPL'd. The standard disclaimer
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by jamess 18y ago
If you had a machine that could recognise addresses with reasonable accuracy and zero false positives, you wouldn't NEED microformats or the semantic web. That's the whole point, smart humans spending their time compensating for the stupidi
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by jamess 18y ago
Well, imagine you're right. What then? Once you have all the magical, microformatted metadata what is it exactly you do with it? The canonical semantic web idea is that you build ontologies and search them. Now you have a new problem. How d
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by jamess 18y ago
Only in the sense of "metadata you get for free." It's perfectly reasonable for, say, a CMS to semantically mark up when an article was posted. That's free. The server knows the date, so why not? It's not hurting anyone. Similarly, a camera
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by jamess 18y ago
I've said it before, I'll say it again. The semantic web is a pipedream. It's never, ever going to happen. The whole idiotic scheme hinges on the notion that people are going to spend a whole bunch of extra time adding intelligent metadata
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by jamess 18y ago
Well, the way to become experienced isn't by giving up at the first hurdle that's for sure. If you haven't tried to sell the product, then there's nothing anyone can do to pin a value to what you've created. What you're trying to do is very
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by jamess 18y ago
How much money are you making now? If the answer is nothing then you can pretty much forget about selling your business as a going concern, what you have is a pile of software not a business. Kiko is a special case, essentially what they di
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by jamess 18y ago
Here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/20/microsoft-signs-letter-...
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by jamess 18y ago
I tend to agree. It was worth having a go at buying the company, but now they've been rebuffed their next best option is simply to clone the interesting bits in house. It'll take them six months to produce a reasonable facsimile , but then
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by jamess 18y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking today. I've spent the last couple of weeks implementing TLS (This is the second time I've had to do this now, it's endless fun) and this time I'm sort of "cheating", because the platform I'm writing for a
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by jamess 18y ago
I'm weird, I have a tendency to sing along to the song I'm listening to while I'm working. It gets me through the non-thinking parts of my day. I listen to a lot of different types of music. In order of popularity, probably reggae, folk roc
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by jamess 18y ago
Well, not entirely a surprise. I wonder what miker will be doing now?