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Anyone interested in interruption free messaging should check out WiredIn: https://wiredinapp.com

It's an existing product, so you can try it yourself. The biggest difference is that the interruptions are happening at the same time for the whole team, therefore increasing the total quiet-time of the company.

Also, open-sourced code base of Canv.as: https://github.com/canvasnetworks/canvas

Source: https://twitter.com/moot/status/664131183890989056

Do you think tools like this will make people star/favorite more or less stuff over time ?

Answering anonymously is a big feature, I'm still considering what's the appropriate size of the company for such an option. For example, Secret.app only allows you to see your friends secrets if you have 5 friends signed up...

Also yes, there's much to do with the data, we'll see what we can do there once people are actually using it!

thanks again for the feedback

Great suggestion, I will surely add a timeout after 48 hours! Note that you can still see the answers live on the dashboard even if half the people filled the form.

Looks nice so far, worked with IMAP for a while, not fun... So is it on top of IMAP or ... ?

Especially if you're young, there isn't much to lose. The world is indeed way bigger than one can imagine. I'd love to see a book listing testimonies of people in their who did some unusual life/career move, with the outcome. I suspect most of it will be overwhelmingly positive.

haha, thank you :) Strange indeed...

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7090514

Because I believe the knowledge graph of Freebase is way heavier than what's needed, and unless you know exactly the type of what you're looking for, it would make a software like Akiva way more complicated to build, imho. (or I missed something)

I'm not sure what's the licensing of what's in Freebase but I'll look into it, thanks!

Everything you said is very much correct. On the "AI" title, I know there is a long debate about what constitutes an AI and what doesn't, and I'm sure you're also aware of it, so I won't go there :)

There is no data in TheBigDB yet indeed, I've just (re)launched it as I'm releasing Akiva: you can take them as both proof-of-concept of each other, if that makes sense.

Obviously, the dataset in TheBigDB will grow with time, and the skills of Akiva will also.

Thanks for your questions :)

I do! I'm not sure how to do it "the right way" for now, but if I release some mobile or desktop app based on it, I'll make sure to work on that, thanks for the question!

Survey submitted here, although I mostly use a vanilla remote git repo to manage my projects.

Sidenote: They updated their WP plugin today as well http://wordpress.org/plugins/subtome/

Sounds vaguely similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

Also, I may be wrong, but it looks like you haven't read about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

Perfect answer.

I can be wrong, but being in a state of marriage with Y is a fact. And since the DB handle time periods, with my way you can actually search who X is married to with one request, without checking if he divorced, if Y is dead, disappeared, or else.

You're right, nothing is enforced, if people choose a different way to present the data, it's totally fine.

Yes, whatever I do is making me "walking down the path to structured data, and toward the very complexity you're arguing against", that's why it is done in a way where those principles are still preserved.

I don't want to talk too much about a structure that I haven't released yet, but let me assure you there's a way that doesn't end up where Freebase is. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.</seinfeld>)

No problem, I'm not afraid of criticism and insults, there is always some kind of information in them :)

You're right, it would be a plus for people who quickly want to test the API.

In the meantime, you can just look through http://browser.thebigdb.com what the DB contains, or just "gem install thebigdb" and start copy/paste the code examples to see how the API really behaves.

Thanks for your suggestion!

First of all, I'm glad to be talking to a Freebase engineer :)

Second: It is not intended to be a Freebase killer, but it is certainly better for me and what I needed it for: building denisthebot.com - which can answer questions about a whole lot of subjects while being completely agnostic about what "categories" these subjects fit in.

Third: Since we all know no-one is going to change anyone's mind here, I won't discuss the merits of a DB structured the way I built it. But calling it a toy is quite flattering, I know some very powerful stuff that were called "toy" for some time :) Also, it would be a very easy toy to use, which will suit a lot of people, according to the emails I received.

Also, you're right: "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater".

What you're talking about is the larger problem of "context". Thankfully, I already wrote the code and the documentation to attach statements to contexts, solving this problem in an elegant way. I haven't released it yet to keep the core of the service simple, and to help people understand what it does first.

It will be released when it will be the right time for it. Thanks for your comment!

Sorry!

Woops, good catch! Fixed. And thank you!

Yes, while you can see what's in the DB here: http://browser.thebigdb.com, you can't see what's recent. I'll do something about that.

While it is not the case right now, being heavily invested into open-source myself, it is very possible that it ends up under CC-BY at some point.

It's all about conventions, redundancy and votes. When you know what you're looking for, and you got a community agreeing on such conventions, you know you'll get what you're actually looking for. That's pretty much it.

And yes, it is different, "better" depends on what you're trying to do with it :)