jjonte

This looks awesome. Interestingly, I started writing something similar to this myself not too long ago. I was using DynamoDB as the backer though.

I think some more aggregate functions would be useful:

- Count (not listed on the Functions page, but used in the query examples?) - Sum - Standard Deviation - First - Last

A Bumptop-like interface would be pretty sweet on a tablet device running Chrome. This probably more a talent acquisition than a technology one - Bumptops's engineers have spent a lot of time thinking about UI metaphors and testing theories around them.

I can't really tell if the author is joking (it reads a little sarcastically), but assuming he's not, the counter argument is really easy. While you're spending days writing mallocs and copying function pointers in C, your competitor is using one of these "lazy programmers" languages and implementing features in hours. Features that are going to take you days to write. Once scale is needed, your competitor just goes out and spends $700 on a cheap server and matches your performance. Ultimately it comes down to time vs. money. It sounds like the author still thinks all computers cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Semantic Web blossoms beyond the need to infer meaning from bodies of text. If the information on the web becomes more structured, structured beyond the need for Google.

If web pages and web services were to all completely expose their information as RDF and embed rich metadata inside bodies of text the need for Google's fancy AI and Entity extraction would be none.

Google's bread and butter is advertising. That advertising is driven from their search domination - their ability to extract meaning from web pages and match that meaning up to searched terms. Semantic web completely commoditizes that function - if you can crawl, you can search.

Interesting, that kind of "smelled" like the right answer.

So, help me out here - "You're using a language where you can put the data in an appropriate structure used by high-order code." I don't understand that statement? I don't know what "the data" or "high-order code" is?