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” open source EPrints software provides a web-based Institutional Repository and has a large and growing install base around the world. 215 known archives are running EPrints worldwide. Total records in known archives: 207740 EPrints is developed at the
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Suffers from not-invented-here syndrome
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“the programmer faces a dilemma: quickly implement a solution in a high level language and suffer extended run time or grub around in C or Fortran for weeks but achieve good performance. This is a perfect application area for a DSL to neatly solve this di
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“I love jazz, but I haven’t cared for the jazz singing of Nora Jones, even if she was born in the same Canadian provice as me. Now comes a different project for her, one where she ventures into blues and R&B and hiphop and EuroPop — and I love it!
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“From China comes this bike that can transform itself into a suitcase. There was some doubt whether this bike would actually be produced, but now we’ve heard that it’s in production (see photos below) and will be available sometime later this year. A prot
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swhpl I’ve recorded a series of interview on topics related to the book with various luminaries. The podcasts are co-sponsored by the Harvard Berkman Center and Wired. The first one is now up. I talk with Cory Doctorow about why explicit metadata goes w
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“Radio Open Source has posted the mp3 of yesterday’s show about everything being miscellaneous, with me, Karen Schneider, and Tim Spalding. Chris being Chris, he drives it more towards than the broad and philosophical than, well, anyone else on radio. And
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“Bernie Margolis was … talking about how people think the Web is going to put libraries out of business. He says that the more hits on the BPL website, the more visitors come to the library. The more people learn about the library, the more they come in
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“made the point (relevant in context) that traditional direct mail marketers are thrilled to get a 3% return rate. “I don’t know of any other case where a failure rate of 97% is considered a success.”
From the front of the room Dan Bricklin responded i
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“The server-based version uses Python to accomplish the same effects. With Silverlight it should now be possible to move that Python version back to the client, where it would probably run faster than the JavaScript version. But what I’m really interest
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[…] take this a step further, recall my earlier observations about Greasemonkey and Silverlight. A lot of the time, when we use the web, we’re effectively performing joins among data […]
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