newton

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Ditching the Semantic Web(inamidst.com)
26 points by newton 18y ago|12 comments
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by newton 18y ago
In my experience, there is not a real use case for RDF or the other Semantic Web standards. You always have to write domain specific code to actually drive an application with RDF - so why not ditch RDF and write a domain specific data stor
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Idea for killer mobile app?(battellemedia.com)
7 points by newton 18y ago|10 comments
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by newton 18y ago
If you like to be instructed by trippy 1970s cartoon characters, Prof. E. McSquared's Calculus Primer is good. http://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSquareds-Calculus-Primer-Interg...
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by newton 18y ago
Check out Mind Tools by Rudy Rucker. He is a math professor and novelist, and this book is a tour of advanced math concepts. Super fun and interesting. http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Tools-Levels-Mathematical-Reality...
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by newton 18y ago
They are not all flops. There are some MMO social environments that are huge, especially outside the US. Kids like it. Habbo.com for instance has many millions of users, mostly from Finland and the UK.
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Killing SMS(rdicker.com)
22 points by newton 18y ago|7 comments
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by newton 18y ago
It probably doesn't help that books on the subject have desperately unhip titles like "Enterprise Integration Patterns". The introduction to that book is actually a great essay on when and how to use asynchronous messaging, and it is online
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by newton 18y ago
Also check out this Erlang/OTP AMQP server: http://www.rabbitmq.com AMQP is very interesting. Check it out if you are building a distributed system or if you have a requirement for reliable asynchronous messaging. When I last looked into
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by newton 18y ago
Can I point out that this explanation did not identify a root cause? How was the corrupt message originally produced? If they know how it happened, it's not reflected in this article. The solution they describe addresses the detection of an
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by newton 18y ago
I think this was more a demonstration of mental illness than cowardice...
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by newton 18y ago
Stunt Programmer
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by newton 18y ago
See also http://www.blist.com , similar to dabbledb and pretty cool.
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TechShop lets you use their shop equipment to fabricate anything.(techshop.ws)
30 points by newton 18y ago|8 comments
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by newton 18y ago
fanboys, don't click it!
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by newton 18y ago
No one can stop us now, because we are all made of stars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdb4NyHdFfE
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by newton 20y ago
"Ajax, AdSense & Arrogance"... good one.