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cosmohh

147 karma · joined September 8, 2009

I'm a software developer and architect, located in Germany.
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cosmohh··on The HTML 5 DTD project
AFAIK the PSGML mode is also the favourite one to use for XML editing.
cosmohh··on Why is RDF so old, complicated, unpopular and still not discarded?
btw, that is also an issue which is addressed by the newly revived RDF working group - http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/index.php?title=RDF_Core_Work...
cosmohh··on Why is RDF so old, complicated, unpopular and still not discarded?
#2

there are also more and more RDF datasets (http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/) published, so at least some people seem to think it is a good format.

cosmohh··on Why is RDF so old, complicated, unpopular and still not discarded?
I've also experienced performance issues with RDF stores, but over the last few years, that has increased a lot and I think in another 1-2 years there will be a bunch of stores that are able to handle reasonable large numbers of triples with a good performance.

Aside from that I think, although RDF might not be the 'holy grail', it is in fact quite usable for a lot of problem domains and saying that it needs to be discarded is a bit harsh :)

cosmohh··on OSQA - Free, Open Source Question & Answers System
Besides the fact that it does look like stackexchange, you have to keep in mind that the criteria to start a new stackexchange are quite high in terms of users/questions/traffic. So OSQA can be a good alternative to keep stackexchanges (such as http://semanticoverflow.com which lacks enough users to be restarted as part of stackexchange.com) alive which where created at a time as they were still offering private/seperate installations, due to its import ability.
cosmohh··on In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars (2009)
Sure, compared to towns like Münster, Freiburg or Amsterdam, Munich could offer better bike support, but there are still lots of bike lanes and you are rarely forced to use car lanes, so I would still consider it quite bike friendly.
cosmohh··on Don Knuth : An earthshaking anouncement
the bell is awesome :)
cosmohh··on Dr Mark Gasson "infected" himself with a computer virus
Sure, the way he does it is sensationalist, but I still like his concept of infecting RFID system by just "carrying" around a malicious RFID tag.
cosmohh··on What happens after dark in Disney's theme park
reminds me of rollercoaster tycoon, where you also had to have a lot of guys kleening the park to keep customers happy :)
cosmohh··on Steampunk exhibition in Oxford (Youtube video)
see also the homepage: http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/steampunk/
cosmohh··on Learn You Some Erlang: Three new chapters available
there is a getting started tutorial here: http://erlang.org/download/getting_started-5.4.pdf
cosmohh··on WTF is a SuperColumn? An Intro to the Cassandra Data Model
looks pretty interesting. anyone already used it and maybe compared it with CouchDB, too ?
cosmohh··on Freerisk.org - Freeing financial data and modeling
i guess both, the lack of data and small bugs are due to the fact that it's a fairly young project. but i really like the ideas behind it, and when they get the API done, i'm curios what people will start to build on it.
cosmohh··on Freerisk.org - Freeing financial data and modeling
Querying "MSFT" works: http://freerisk.org/viewtables?ticker=MSFT
cosmohh··on Freerisk.org - Freeing financial data and modeling
for more information on the project, watch the talk from ETech -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmhAIPGjCps