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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 …

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...

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-T…

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 fro…

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 …

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…

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 artic…

I think this was more a demonstration of mental illness than cowardice...

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See also http://www.blist.com , similar to dabbledb and pretty cool.

fanboys, don't click it!

No one can stop us now, because we are all made of stars. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdb4NyHdFfE

"Ajax, AdSense & Arrogance"... good one.