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Re:FoundationDB's Lesson: A Fast Key-Value Store Is Not Enough on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:20PM (#9306991)
Perhaps because FoundationDB is ACID compliant?
Re:Learn Prolog Now on Sunday March 22, 2015 @12:41PM (#9247373)
How hasn't it gone too well? Many, many well known companies outside of the technology space including Fortune 100s and 500s as well as various government agencies are successfully leveraging semantic web technologies for knowledge management. There are many interesting public databases out there being widely used for research that leverage semantic technologies as well. JSON serializations of RDF exist too. See: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-json/index.h...

Public database examples: http://flybase.org/ , http://dbpedia.org/ , http://disease-ontology.org/

Re:Learn Prolog Now on Sunday March 22, 2015 @12:17PM (#9247266)
I could think of some interesting applications for graph analysis and the semantic web with Prolog. As an outsider looking in, Prolog as a programming language appears to have a lot more flexibility than a query language such as SPARQL or the various graph traversal libraries and APIs that are out there.
Re:Learn Prolog Now on Sunday March 22, 2015 @12:12PM (#9247246)
Are there any recommended implementations out there of using prolog with RDF? I feel like prolog could offer some interesting trade-offs for working with RDF over SPARQL and I'd be curious to give it a shot.
"While some computer experts still express doubts whether the North was actually behind the attack, American officials said it was similar to what was believed to be a North Korean cyberattack last year on South Korean banks and broadcasters. One key similarity was the fact that the hackers erased data from the computers, something many cyberthieves do not do."

I won't pretend to be an expert on information security but surely this isn't anywhere close to being unique enough to point blame at North Korea?

Re:FoundationDB and the New NoSQL on Saturday December 13, 2014 @11:40AM (#8745520)
MarkLogic is too: http://www.marklogic.com/
Re:Django 1.5.1 released on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:02AM (#5461077)
Do you happen to know of any issues beyond what I encountered setting it up? It seems to work perfectly at the moment but I'd consider switching to a different DB if continuing with MySQL is going to cause me headaches later on.
Re:Django 1.5.1 released on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:00AM (#5461064)
I was actually working on a Raspberry Pi (fantastic for having multiple SD cards configured to run different web frameworks) so PostgreSQL seemed like overkill. If I ever decided to put something I wrote into production I would definitely use PostgreSQL.
Re:Django 1.5.1 released on Thursday March 28, 2013 @10:57PM (#5459014)
I fired it up earlier today after not having tried Django for a while and was disappointed to see it's still pretty annoying to get MySQL working with Python 3 via Django. After installing a non-standard build of MySQL for Python ( https://github.com/davispuh/MySQL-for-Python-3 ) django/db/backends/mysql/base.py needs to be patched to be made compatible with Python 3 (only about three lines of code need to be changed). Unfortunately, no official documentation seems to exist on this and it took me about an hour of scanning various forums to figure it out. The Python 3 support appears to work flawlessly once you iron out the kinks and I'm looking forward to seeing Django continue to improve!
I wonder how well these cars handle heavy snowfall or ice on the roads. I know firsthand how driving becomes infinitely more complicated under these conditions and it would be major selling point for these cars if they could handle it smoothly.
Re:Prepaid Cellphones Are Cheaper. Why Aren't They Popular? on Sunday August 05, 2012 @08:48PM (#4343237)
Combined with Google Voice, I've been using a prepaid cell phone for a couple of years now. I only pay about $30 every three months and I've never once come close to hitting my prepaid limit.
Re:GitHub for Windows on Monday May 21, 2012 @02:19PM (#4004099)
I also have this problem. I let it commit and push the commit just to see what would happen and the commit seems to have deleted and then re-added my files. Even after cloning a repository it wants me to make a commit like this. Afterwards it seems to work as expected though.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2012) on Sunday April 01, 2012 @11:52AM (#3783971)
SEEKING WORK - Currently in Fredonia, NY but willing to relocate within US or work remotely.

Interested in possibility of a paid summer internship.

C, C++, Java, HTML5, Python, various instruction sets, Windows and Linux system administration, Android.

Website: http://robertszkutak.com

Contact: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2012) on Thursday March 01, 2012 @10:01AM (#3652305)
SEEKING WORK - remote or willing to relocate from Fredonia, NY

C++, Java, some Python, various instruction sets, HTML5, Javascript. Android. Two years of Windows and Linux system administration for a university. Willing to take an internship or a job.

Github: https://github.com/RobertSzkutak Website: http://robertszkutak.com E-mail: [email protected] (ask me for my resume)

Re:Bigger than Google+, MySpace isn’t dead yet on Thursday January 12, 2012 @01:44PM (#3457453)
I think its worth noting that many people (like myself) do a lot of things such as commenting on posts and checking notifications from within other Google services such as Gmail and Docs rather than directly on Google+.
Re:The OAuth chronicles: I am not stupid on Friday December 02, 2011 @11:54AM (#3304596)
This is all it took for me to implement Tumblr's API with OAUTH on Android 1.6 and up: https://github.com/RobertSzkutak/AndroidExamples/blob/master... . I've personally never had a problem working with OAUTH (1.0 or 2.0) on Android. Does iOS development really complicate writing clients for web services that much more?