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Re:Where Are All The RDF-based Semantic Web Apps?
on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @02:39PM (#320981)
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 store too? How does RDF contribute, if it neither automatically drives any part of your application, or facilitates linking or relating of mulltiple datasets?
This guy expresses the problem well: http://inamidst.com/whits/2008/ditching
Idea for killer mobile app?
Re:Ask HN: Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken hig...
on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @04:05PM (#299799)
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...
Re:Ask HN: Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken hig...
on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @04:02PM (#299794)
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...
Re:Lively, Google’s virtual world, has been a flop
on Friday August 22, 2008 @11:52AM (#283803)
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.
Killing SMS
Re:Ask YC: Why the excitement over XMPP on the backend?
on Thursday July 31, 2008 @03:17PM (#263340)
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 here: http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/Introduction.ht...
Re:Ask YC: Why the excitement over XMPP on the backend?
on Thursday July 31, 2008 @03:02PM (#263333)
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 it about a year ago, the implementations (all two of them that I found - apache qpid and rabbitmq) were still a little rough but it looks like a lot has happened.
It's wierd how few people in the web world are aware of asynchronous messaging.
Re:Why S3 went down
on Saturday July 26, 2008 @02:28PM (#257679)
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 and recovery from future mysterious occurrences rather than identifying, understanding and eliminating whatever bug or condition caused this one.
Re:Fugitive spam king found dead in apparent murder-suicide
on Friday July 25, 2008 @04:11PM (#257040)
I think this was more a demonstration of mental illness than cowardice...
Re:Ask YC: "Rock Star" Job Titles
on Thursday July 24, 2008 @06:13PM (#255924)
Stunt Programmer
Re:Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
on Saturday July 19, 2008 @07:36PM (#250980)
See also http://www.blist.com, similar to dabbledb and pretty cool.
TechShop lets you use their shop equipment to fabricate anything.
Re:Paul Graham - from social shyness to patronizing
on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @04:03PM (#247918)
fanboys, don't click it!
Re:Parts of earliest genetic material came from the stars
on Friday June 13, 2008 @03:13PM (#217064)
No one can stop us now, because we are all made of stars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdb4NyHdFfE
Re:Why Valley Vcs are Like the Mob
on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @04:20PM (#1591)
"Ajax, AdSense & Arrogance"... good one.