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Sounds similar to Joe Armstrong's ideas[0]. Very interesting.

[0]: https://joearms.github.io/2015/03/12/The_web_of_names.html


Interesting ideas, but when it gets into utopian promises about being able to find all versions of a file ever on the web, it reminds me of the talk around RDF[1] and FOAF[2] in the late 90s/early 00s. Not to mention pre-Web hypertext theory, PGP, and any number of other things. All these things can be very useful patterns in tightly restricted, highly curated environments with specific use cases (whether or not they are part of the larger web). But they aren't panaceas and they don't address the underlying sources of the problems they are trying to work around, namely that all this unorganized junk on the web they aim to take control of is created by people and companies who are one or more of: lazy, sloppy, confused, conflicted, error-prone, avaricious, malicious, obnoxious, cruel, naive, desperate, or ignorant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)


What problem is this solving?

One of the magical things about the web is that you have the freedom to distribute information as you wish, and DNS namespace scopes everything.


I discovered his Strange Loop talk a few months ago. Funny guy! (He is one of the creators of Erlang.)

The part where he talks about "the entropy reverser" is ~32 minutes in [1], related to the article linked by parent.

[1] "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong (September, 2014) https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4?t=32m5s


Yup, in fact I met him recently at a conference, looked great.


It's quite possible that he meant that he believes he has a time management problem, but finds it irrelevant and endearing due to his greatness.


Agreed. I love that this came from noticing a "gap" and coming up with something to fill the hole. I wish I thought like this more often!


"Find a gap and fill it, I always say! My great-grand-uncle is the one who came up with disposible ketchup packets. Me, I found a data structure with O(sqrt) search time. Sure it doesn't have all the doohickeys of a Red-Black Tree, it's not as quick on the insert as a radix - but at the end of the day it gets the job done. And to some people, that's all that matters..."


I've had the complete opposite experience with Titanium, to the point where it was completely unusable.


I found some things about it to be frustrating and buggy, but it was still less work than writing two different apps. My code was about 90% shared between devices.


Swift's concurrency story is pretty much handled by GCD. IMO a fantastic set of APIs that make it pretty easy to deal with worker threads and queueing tasks and such.


The interesting part about Swift being open sourced for linux is what API's will come with it. I would not be surprised if GCD doesn't come along.


libdispatch is Apache licensed.


Ahh nice - I didn't know that. It'll still be interesting to see what happens to the rest of the libraries and API's that are common place in Swift development


Does anyone know of any good resources or papers related to bacteriocins as antibacterials? How much work has been done on developing something clinically relevant?


Yup. I'm in Iceland and every microsoft service is unreachable, except my regional version of microsoft.com


Um, I can send both video and photos through MMS all through the same messages app as SMS. I don't think there is an inability at all.


TSMC ships huge volumes, and that is indeed where apples manufacturing is rumored to be going. IIRC they recently signed a huge deal with them too. In this business though a mature process like samsungs 28nm High-K metal gate is quite valuable over a newer one like TSMC's 22nm.


Keep in mind that the ARM processor space operates on razor thin margins, and Apple's iPhone business does not. Also it has been rumored for a long time that apple is moving most of its chip fab business to TSMC, but I suspect their waiting for the next process node before making the jump. A company that values reliability like apple prefers a mature process.


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