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The Snee Group
Personal blog · snee.com/bobdc.blogprogrammingdata
The Snee Group is a personal blog at snee.com about programming and data. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bob DuCharme's snee.com writing on RDF, SPARQL and the semantic web, plus a free book on exotic operating systems and mainframes such as z/OS.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
This book might be of use: http://www.snee.com/bob/opsys/fullbook.pdf
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on “What have we lost? – Demo of exotic OSes (2021) [video]”Submitted Semantic web semantics vs. vector embedding machine learning semantics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFWIW, this book ("Fake Your Way Through Minis and Mainframes" by Bob DuCharme) provides a good short user-level introduction to z/OS (and VM, and VMS, and...): http://www.snee.com/bob/opsys/fullbook.pdf
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on “Hello World on z/OS”Submitted Semantic Web Journal article on DBpedia as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGood point. Funny you mention that article: I remember encountering both that article and another one that provides some counterpoints! [1] Also, both those articles are a bit old: RDF* ([2],[3]) is a new extension for RDF that makes it easier to accomplish the same kind of things you can do with property graphs. RDF4j has support for RDF* in the roadmap! [4]. To me, the fact that RDF is 1) a simpler and more genera…
Comment linking /bobdc.blog/2018/04/reification-is-a-red-herring.html
on “Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database written in C++”Submitted Fake Your Way Through Minis and Mainframes (The Operating Systems Handbook) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhy query open extraction data when there are billions of triples available via the semantic web? Movie queries: http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2008/11/sparql-at-the-movies.... Geographical queries: http://geosparql.appspot.com/ Misc queries: http://sparql.me/queries.php
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on “Over 500,000,000 assertions extracted from 100 million Web pages”Submitted Trying out Blazegraph as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot true. See "reification is a red herring" [1]. Also, there's now a more natural way to add properties to relationships if really needed, it is call RDF* [2], and it is already implemented of a lot of triplestores, including RDF4J, Jena, StarDog and more. 1: http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2018/04/reification-is-a-red-... 2: https://blog.liu.se/olafhartig/2019/01/10/position-statement...
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on “Developing for the Semantic Web”Submitted Reuse is Good, especially when you reuse my work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMy dad asked what to get our 13 year old as a birthday present. So I asked him, and he said Jon Duckett’s JavaScript and JQuery book - which he realises is a bit dated by now (2014), but he wanted it anyway (in part because he already has the other two books in the series), so that’s what he’s got. And sometimes a “dated” book is still valuable. One night recently I was having trouble getting him to go to sleep beca…
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on “Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore”There is so much useful and well-organized information in RDF format out there that is completely being unused. Check out: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Datasets - this includes almost the entire Wikipedia in a nice, organized way. Using Sparql/Snorql ( http://dbpedia.org/snorql/ ) you can actually find everything that Bart Simpson wrote on the chalkboard during the opening sequence in season 12: http://www.snee.com/bobdc…
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on “Heart: a planet-scale RDF data store”Depends what you want, but to access the data in info boxes look into http://dbpedia.org and sparql. For a quick intro into that see Bob DuCharme's post http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog/2008/10/learning-more-about-s...
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