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by bsb 14y ago
There are also now GORM plugins for all the nosql solutions - lots of people use it with Mongo, redis, etc. Also you can switch to JPA and use any JPA provider
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by bsb 14y ago
I prefer Gradle for all polyglot programming, and their recent release upped the Scala support in it
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by bsb 14y ago
There's also the dbpedia interfaces, including SPARQL access. NLP meet SemWeb, SemWeb meet NLP or have you met already?
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by bsb 14y ago
Looks like they took a page from the Groovy language
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by bsb 15y ago
Having worked at Bell Labs, I gotta say the culture of innovation was paramount best described by this statement of an old supervisor: "You should do what you feel is the right thing, it's my job to align that to the needs of the business."
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by bsb 15y ago
A public library as a nice place to get a meeting space, ie for a startup, is a great thing. This post highlights to me the need to expand/improve libraries as both physical and digital resources
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by bsb 15y ago
HATEOAS yes, "Hypermedia API" no -- reducing the distributed state engine of HATEOAS at the same level of RPC-style APIs doesn't adequately convey the purpose of HATEOAS
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by bsb 15y ago
I never heard of "Hypermedia API" either - sounds like some REST people are lazy, don't leverage things like content negotiation, URI de-referencing, etc and wind up with an HTTP-RPCish monster with a REST name tag on it.
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by bsb 15y ago
new entry into the market, Stardog from Clark and Parsia, extremely fast and embeddable / scalable RDF database with OWL reasoning built in (they created the Pellet OWL reasoner) I agree - 2011 going into 2012 is the rise of the semantic we
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by bsb 15y ago
already on the beta list ;)
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by bsb 15y ago
There's also Stardog (stardog.com), from the makers of the Pellet OWL reasoner, which just entered this space. AllegoGraph is pretty cool, one of the best examples of commercial LISP success, and they have a pretty rich ecosystem around Al
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by bsb 15y ago
Polyglot should not be confused with generalists. There are many generalist programmers who drift through their careers, never becoming an expert in a field so they're easily swapped in and out, easily outsourced, and easily forgotten. So
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by bsb 15y ago
I'm sure that's where it's headed. You can already build a private IaaS cloud with VMWare's ESX product line, and since their acquisition of SpringSource, who built CloudFoundry, more and more PaaS style capabilities have been produced. I
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by bsb 15y ago
I know several people, as well as myself, who are head-hunted reguarily on linked in, and have seen multiple job offers come across this table. All in all, it's not bad. But more importantly, if you've been a part of a big company and wor