stefanobaghino

To answer the other part of your question, DAML stands for Digital Asset Modeling Language. No relationship with ML (apart from its influence in functional programming, of course).

Yup!

I'd like to point out that REST is not something built on top of the Web, it's actually the architectural style on which the Web is based (even though this style has been defined years after the Web was invented). You can have a resource model for your domain and build your own custom RESTful protocol on top of raw TCP/UDP and pick a binary encoding for data transfer.

Brilliant idea, this can easily expose metrics in interesting ways to a whole lot of people who happen to know SQL better than the /proc filesystem.

This post holds that coding and managing a company are different jobs and that you can't do both at the same time. I don't find this any kind of shocking.

The article forgot to mention that in the Star Trek timeline things didn't go so smoothly: a third World War eventually occurred and only the invention of warp drive and the first contact with the Vulcans turned things around. But I think the point is another: for as much as I love Star Trek and advocate a smooth transition to a post-scarcity economy, I don't think Roddenberry and the writers that succeeded him are experts in currency, economics or even in the techologies that made that fictionary society a perfect post-scarcity economy. There are, however, some interesting thoughts that could serve as a basis for a more deep look into the post-scarcity economics. Organizations such as the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement tend to advocate it under the "resource-based economy" name and I find their views interesting, relatively to this topic.