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8 months ago

in Am I Saving Money - Or Just Wasting My Time? on SidSavara.com
For books, I use the library. You can even reserve books via their website, and they mail you when it's ready to pick up! You can tell them where to ship the book (to the library closest to your home OR work) and you can drop it off at any time.

Buying books is for suckers.
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Sid Savara I'm surprised that a best-selling published author would leave such comments
on my blog ;)

You're right though. I try really hard not to buy books unless it's one I'll
really reference often (like say, Spring MVC and Web Flow...) but I am
pretty impatient when it comes to new nonfiction bestsellers.

Funny coincidence, Amazon just shipped my new Seth Godin book (Tribes) that
I had preorded I think in the summer. Excited about receiving it, it will
probably derail my current book I'm reading (Steve Pavlina's - review
copy!).

I bet it's shorter and concise, just like their blogs.

1 year ago

in Indexes, Hashes & Compression on Phil Dawes' Stuff
I've had good experience storing my data in columns. If I sort the data in each column, I'll get very good compression.

2 years ago

in The path from specificity to usefulness on Phil Dawes' Stuff
The thing that is tricky about all of this, is that a URI sure enough identifies a singular resource. However, that Resource can belong to an infinite amount of classes. That is, the Resource can mean many different things to many different people. This is both a strength and a weakness, and leads to much trickiness when implementing RDF.

The more vague a Resource is defined, the more useful it is, because people don't get caught up in over thinking, "Do I match the intended meanings?"

So, if RDF is to work, implementers have to allow for mechanisms to help humans deal with the many interpretations of the Resources those URIs identify.
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