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by ntoll 12y ago
Reminds me of Fluidinfo... (general purpose tagging of everything by everyone with an API and built in query language.)
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by ntoll 12y ago
In a similar vein, Fry-IT ( http://www.fry-it.com/ ) are a small web-development company based in London that organise themselves around the outlook of "industrial democracy" ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by ntoll 12y ago
FYI Damien George (creator of MicroPython) will be giving a couple of talks at next month's PyconUK ( http://pyconuk.org/ ) about said project. If there's enough interest, there may even be a more practical hands on
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by ntoll 12y ago
For those of you wanting to escape the tech/entrepreneurship echo chamber, why not check out the BBC's "In Our Time". Consistently high quality, diverse discussion about all sorts of subjects. http://www.bbc.c
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by ntoll 12y ago
Way to go OddBloke :-)
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by ntoll 12y ago
Also, use the print function rather than keyword to make this all shiny Python3 :-)
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by ntoll 12y ago
You forgot the "wrong sort of snow" reason.
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by ntoll 12y ago
They just made it. :-) The campaign is still open for a few more minutes.
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OpenWorm: so close with only an hour until the deadline
41 points by ntoll 12y ago|5 comments
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by ntoll 13y ago
"My God! What has sound got to do with music!" ~ Charles E.Ives ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ives ) (and I'm inclined to agree)
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by ntoll 13y ago
Blimey... at £104.95 I think I'll grab it from the library. ;-)
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by ntoll 13y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. It's in my to-read list ~ along with far too many other books ;-)
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by ntoll 13y ago
I'm currently reading "Ant Encounters - Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior" by Deborah M.Gordon. It covers a lot of related material and is a very engaging read.
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by ntoll 13y ago
Correct - as the article demonstrated, we achieved rather buggy results in the short time we had available to us. We're continuing to work on the project and have plans to get the piece performed for LeedsDataMill by a real brass band.
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Oompah.py – Big Brass meets Big Data(leedsdatamill.org)
28 points by ntoll 13y ago|5 comments
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by ntoll 13y ago
Thanks!
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by ntoll 13y ago
Buy it and you'll find out... ;-) I wrote this high-level piece of fluff as a taster for the Guardian's developer blog: http://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2013/sep/17/d... &quo
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by ntoll 13y ago
Can't get enough of deferreds and promises? Want lots more examples of interesting, cunning and mind bending ways to use promises and deferreds? As luck would have it, this: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/06369200
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by ntoll 13y ago
Regarding Clojure: If the drogulus comes to anything then I'm building a working reference specification. I chose to write it in Python and comment ubiquitously to make sure the code is easy to re-implement in other languages or on oth
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by ntoll 13y ago
Thanks, all feedback most welcome.
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by ntoll 13y ago
Yes, the crypto identity aspect goes some way to address Sybil like problems. Regarding anonymity: you're only as anonymous as your association with your public key[s]. Given that items (k/v pairs) stored in the DHT are self-conta
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by ntoll 13y ago
I did seriously look at Clojure but it doesn't quite fit my requirements. Also, I didn't say the drogulus was an academic experiment... that makes it sound far too impressive. ;-)
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by ntoll 13y ago
Hey, I get user unknown from cs.gsu.edu.
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by ntoll 13y ago
Hi, I'm the originator of the drogulus. First things first: it's an unfinished work in progress and an experiment on which I've been hacking during my 40 minute train journey in to work. So, yes, "something something -
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by ntoll 14y ago
I wrote about this, from a UK based perspective, 18 months ago: http://ntoll.org/article/teach-our-kids-to-code-or-not
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by ntoll 14y ago
Your loss. :-/ A lot of what Peter says makes great sense and resonates with me.
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by ntoll 15y ago
Nice one jtauber... :-)
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by ntoll 15y ago
As if by chance Chris appears on Hacker News. I ordered some tea from him a few weeks ago and will definitely order again. Yes, I know Chris, but no, I wasn't asked to post this - it's great to see a buddy doing a great job.
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by ntoll 16y ago
Heh... :-)
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by ntoll 16y ago
It's meant to be the latter (centralized) but there is nothing to stop you from using it in your own projects. :-)

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