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Re: Am I Saving Money - Or Just Wasting My Time?

Seth Ladd — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:08:08 -0000

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.

Re: The path from specificity to usefulness

Seth Ladd — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:37:44 -0000

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.

Re: Indexes, Hashes & Compression

Seth Ladd — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:02:51 -0000

I've had good experience storing my data in columns. If I sort the data in each column, I'll get very good compression.

Re: Acts as Conference 2009 Attendee Feedback

Seth Ladd — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:37:04 -0000

Thanks very much for sharing these results! What did you use for the survey, the results like great.

Re: Acts as Conference 2009 Attendee Feedback

Seth Ladd — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:53:56 -0000

Awesome, thanks!

Re: Don’t Mess With the Team

Seth Ladd — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:46:44 -0000

Robert, I wonder if you could elaborate on *who* might come up to you with the "can you add this? it's pretty quick." I think who (what role) is requesting that change is important. What if the Product Owner is asking for the "pretty quick" change? Does that change anything?

Re: Managers Manage, Leaders Learn to Let Go

Seth Ladd — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:14:48 -0000

Nice distinction, I'd love to hear more from your perspective on this topic.

Re: Managers Cave, Leaders Negotiate

Seth Ladd — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:27:38 -0000

Thanks Robert. I love these posts. I'd really like to hear a dissenting opinion on this, because I think it's excellent discussion material. Keep up the good work.