TerminusDB is Git for Data
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@LukeEF
From 8/26/2019, 10:22:37 AM till now, @LukeEF has achieved 774 Karma Points with the contribution count of 228.
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This has to be imagined in the context of a post-SQL future. Unless of course you are a 'SQL is the end of history' person!
so the only way to not have your code as a learning source for co-pilot is to move all the code off GitHub? And even in that case your past/existing code would be source material?
Ask HN: What OSS licence can stop GitHub Co-pilot? Do I have to go proprietary?
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'The open-source developer tools market is one of the worst markets one could possibly end up in... the answer is basic microeconomics. Developers love building developer tools, often for free. So while there is massive demand, the supply vastly outstrips it. This drives the number of alternatives up, and the prices down to zero.'[1]
5 years later and this still feels correct. From one OSS Dev Tool founder to another - more power & good luck!
[1] https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.htm...
I bounce from default engine to engine (most recently startpage as a 'better' google) but so far always find myself back with google search. Last time I went elsewhere, I recorded the occasions when I appended the URL bar search with @google. Quick info on a business (address, telephone # etc.) and maps dominated. I haven't used another engine that can deliver similar. I also realized how much time I spend looking at maps and street viewer...
The knowledge graph and maps are a massive search moat.
Building a distributed database for knowledge graphs
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The Mule Release: TerminusDB 10.1
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JSON as RDF
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it still has locks thou - unless you use the less powerful online version. Would be better imho to have a lock free desktop version of Excel that operates like an IDE where you merge changes and resolve conflicts at the point of merge.
There is a diff and patch API described here - the underlying database (TerminusDB) also has the concept of merging records, which could fit to your use case: https://terminusdb.com/docs/index/json-diff-and-patch
Open source critical asset management system to help with climate resilience
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A distributed database with a collaboration model
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Founder of excel collaboration and versioning startup [1] here so I am a believer.
There are only about 30 million programmers. There are over 1 billion Excel users. Excel is Turing complete. Excel is by far the most used programming language on the planet. It is easily 20 times more popular than the next contender.
The value of Excel is that it is presenting the data, with a set of formulae that let you keep derived data up-to-date. This inferred data provides sums and computations, sometimes simple, but sometimes exquisitely complex. And through this whole range of complexity, with a billion users, virtually nobody treats Excel seriously like a programming language.
We have a programming language which is essentially acting as a declarative database, and yet we don't do unit tests, we don't keep track of changes, we collaborate with Excel by sending it to our colleagues in the mail and god-forbid we should doing any serious linting of what is in the thing.
Anyone who has used Excel in anger realizes why it is so brilliant. Show me another declarative constraint based, data driven inference language that I can teach to my grandmother.
The problem isn't Excel. The problem is that we are treating Excel like its a word processor, and not what it is: a programming language.
Spreadsheets Are Hot–and Cranking Out Complex Code
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TerminusDB Apology: We are not Web3
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Calling for people to be fired because they wrote a blog post with ideas you don't like is monstrous. Whatever other 'criticisms' you might have, that is beyond the pale and shouldn't be acceptable commentary on this platform.
I think so!
It isn't really saying anything - just trying to give a look at an ongoing internal dialogue about web3, which i suspect is pretty widespread. Devs often don't like permissionless blockchain and crypto, but do like decentralization and moving away from giant beasts like Apple, Google, Facebook. The Socratic method of back and forth points can help to stimulate critical thinking. Thou maybe that has failed in this case!
Are we wrong about Web3?
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