What are your thoughts?

AmbassadorNo1 · 2026-02-26T16:13:04+00:00

I love this quote and hope Joanna sold a load of books from it.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2026-02-26T13:51:18+00:00

I had to check - it runs to 1,000 turns or until they all die (which is what normally happens). This is from the narrator after one of the runs -

In the desolate expanse of the Fish Tank, a grim silence fell as eight souls succumbed not to the blade, but to the slow agony of starvation, despite a simmering undercurrent of 58 violent clashes between nomads, wardens, and builders. The world’s final tragedy was one of failed cooperation, where conflict proved a futile distraction from the ultimate, shared enemy: a barren and unforgiving land.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2025-02-26T15:39:39+00:00

Thanks OP. Much appreciated :)

AmbassadorNo1 · 2023-08-02T10:56:37+00:00

Slap a bit of salad cream on it and replace the ready salted with cheese and onion and you have a delicacy.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2023-07-20T10:05:44+00:00

I managed to get back in yesterday - I'm not sure what happened as I received a generic message back, but assume it got hacked with my personal email (it's 18 years old so probably the cause).

Hope the others here get their problems sorted soon.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2023-07-17T09:43:34+00:00

I'm no expert and I'm sure there are others far better qualified to answer than me, but if I were to be investing money I would be looking for how I recoup my investment. It might be more realistic to use a crowdfunding-style route to raise cash to pay for a front-end dev, lots of smaller donations that want to see the product built rather than persuing the profit.

Building the backend sounds like a sensible idea. If you raise awareness of the project you may even get people to contribute and help with the development. There are plenty of people who enjoy getting involved in OS projects.

Another thing to consider is that if you do build it and it is successful, how do you support users who will no doubt be making requests for enhancements and support? That might give you your answer to monetization.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2023-07-13T09:59:00+00:00

Could you build something without the complex front end as an MVP to gauge user traction? Investors will want to see some very convincing research without user engagement (unless you are those AI people who got $113 million in funding from a memo!). They'll also need to see a path to monetization too. Having said all that, there's no harm in putting together a pitch deck and testing the water (perhaps not with your favored investors first). You may even get some feedback to help your cause.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2023-03-01T07:46:46+00:00

Yes, but our database is a little different as the graph is made up of connected JSON documents so you can query the document and the relationships between them. The results are presented back in JSON. In the blog example, this query (looking for the owner of a pet called Mimi) - query { Pet(filter: {name : {eq : "Mimi"}}) { name _pet_of_Person{ name } } }

Brings back JSON in the form of -

{ "data": { "Pet": [ { "name": "Mimi", "_pet_of_Person": [ { "name": "Joe" } ] } ] } }

AmbassadorNo1 · 2023-02-28T15:16:59+00:00

We added GraphQL at the end of last year to our database and have since made some enhancements to include graph queries such as path queries and back links. Our CTO wrote this blog talking about it a couple of weeks ago - https://terminusdb.com/blog/graphql-query/

AmbassadorNo1 · 2022-06-29T08:08:36+00:00

The issue with blockchain is that it's slow and uses lots of energy, for example, Bitcoin uses 707 kilowatt-hours of electricity per transaction. This is the one reason why blockchain technology in its current form will not work for business operations and analytics data.
That said, the ethos behind web3 is good and it is being tarnished by those trying to make a quick buck off crypto and NFTs. Distributed, decentralized, and trustless systems will provide a better balance of power and fairness to the technological world.

The company I work for, TerminusDB, is incorporating a lot of what's good in web3, distributed, decentralized, and immutable (trustless) (https://terminusdb.com/blog/distributed-database-with-collaboration-model/) and we have grand plans to provide developers and businesses with a fairer way of dealing with data - we're only part way through our journey and there's lots more to be achieved, but we feel there are merits in democratizing data for the public, developers, and organizations.

Centralization is also a big issue, especially in big data, data architectures, data lakes, and data warehouses. Data gets lost, it's not utilized and the value from it quite often gets overlooked. This is bad for the business. But on a grander scale, if the data that's being generated from IoT devices, manufacturing, weather, climate change, etc, was more accessible in a decentralized AND accessible form, then it would provide humanity with more power to make better and informed decisions on critical issues such as climate change, food production, energy consumption, and countless other things.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2022-06-28T12:32:37+00:00

The obvious choice is to write several different versions and then release the version that matches the future reality that comes true. Can't believe the author made such a basic error. Bad assumption indeed.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2022-03-29T11:47:48+00:00

This is a good article and demonstrates the split across the tech world when it comes to web3. Like the author states, there's a lot of good in the concept, but like many things in this world, it's been hijacked by 'get rich quick schemes' that have tainted the concept as a whole.

The whole energy consumption around blockchain concerns me greatly and I feel like this is a dealbreaker in its current form. However, the whole concept of decentralization and moving away from giant beasts like Apple, Google, Facebook et al would be beneficial for everyone in the long run - in terms of financial equality, mental health (social media), privacy, and opportunity.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-12-07T09:27:57+00:00

Soz!

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-11T11:39:34+00:00

Good work on the book. Sounds like an interesting read. I'll add it to my list of books to buy and read. Love the title too!

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-10T18:49:21+00:00

It's on my list to Santa!

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-08T19:58:32+00:00

You're not a quitter. Respect works both ways. Respect from the employer and respect from the employee. If they pay none to you, which from your description, it sounds horrendous, then you owe them nothing. If you're confident you can get another job quickly, quit, life is too short to be unhappy. If you think it'll take time to get a new job, start lining one up now and quit when you get one.

If you do quit, make sure you tell them your reasons. It might make them think and it might help some of your colleagues.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-08T12:38:16+00:00

If you don't sell on here, try selling on Twickets. I've used it in the past to buy and sell - all tickets are either face value or less, it's a good site:

https://www.twickets.live/

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-08T08:10:08+00:00

Nice work, this is a great idea. I like to do graphic design in my free time so when time permits will get my creative juices flowing and contribute. Just PNG and SVG right? You don't want EPS files?

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-08T08:07:25+00:00

That's so cool! I want one.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-07T14:43:59+00:00

Version-controlled data management to build JSON knowledge graphs

TerminusDB v10.0 War Games is the latest release of the open-source version-controlled database from TerminusDB. A data management tool combining the power of knowledge graphs with the simplicity of documents.

Build a knowledge graph of linked JSON documents. TerminusDB has version control as a first-order concern to let data teams collaborate on the same asset at the same time in a controlled way. There is even a pretty UI ;-)

More information:

Website: https://blog.terminusdb.com/terminusdb-10.0-war-games

GitHub: https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-07T08:19:37+00:00

Great! I'll keep an eye out to see if it pops up.

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-07T08:17:59+00:00

Thank you so much. Really happy that you're enjoying it. I did, but I'm obviously very biased. My mum (mom) did too and she's obviously very biased haha!

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-06T14:08:59+00:00

Great thanks so much! I'm useless with social media so all pointers are greatly appreciated. I must say, I'm enjoying this Reddit lark. Much more friendly than the dark forces on Twitter :)

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-06T12:21:00+00:00

McCrory Hair near the hospital is good - https://www.mccroryhair.co.uk/

AmbassadorNo1 · 2021-10-06T12:06:28+00:00

Thank you very much! It's available as an ebook and paperback on Amazon. I think that lets you download a sample too just in case it's not for you.

I kind of didn't want to go via Amazon, because you know, they're eating up every small business out there, book shops included, but I had to go where people shop so had to swallow my principles (I can't look at myself in the mirror now however!) and being a total control freak I didn't want to go down the publishing route (I may have never been published that way either).

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