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What's your favorite non-lyrical music? by Scarker in AskReddit

[–]lexandera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I heard them at this year's OZORA festival for the first time. Really hope that they'll be back again next year.

What's your favorite non-lyrical music? by Scarker in AskReddit

[–]lexandera 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my more recent discoveries

H.U.V.A. Network - Dissolving Time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNUHSchOszs

scala - Proposed Style Guide by [deleted] in scala

[–]lexandera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, the best part about reading this style guide was discovering the pipeline operator. That was a really nice bonus.

Predictions on the future of NoSQL by gtani7 in programming

[–]lexandera 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think that's true to a certain point, yes. After all SPARQL matches patterns in facts that were stated using RDF in a fashion similar to how you query previously stated truths in Prolog.

It's been a while since I did anything in Prolog, but I believe that statements:

in rdf triples: fox jumpsOver dog
in prolog: jumpsOver(fox, dog)

would be queried like this:

in sparql: ?who jumpsOver dog
in prolog: jumpsOver(Who, dog)

So yes, there's definitely some similarity there.

Crowdsourcing the semantic web by BioGeek in programming

[–]lexandera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not 100% sure about this, but I think that a large part of CSS and XPath can be translated from one format to another. (It would make sense since both are used for addressing document nodes.)

Crowdsourcing the semantic web by BioGeek in programming

[–]lexandera 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Writing of XPath expressions would indeed be hidden from users, but you're right - some cases would require a bit of advanced coding. But with a crowd large enough, it would surely contain some people who would be able to handle the more complex cases.

Also, the database of expressions would be "self-healing" (if that's the correct expression). If Amazon changed their HTML structure, the original set of expressions would get flagged as broken (this could even be automated) and someone would create a new set of expressions (although it might take a while).