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Learning from the Web

Mon Nov 7 14:17:00 2005

I've heard Adam Bosworth talk about the lessons we should have learned from the web about semi structured data, but it didn't really hit home for me until I read his arguments in this article in Queue. I read it in hardcopy 6 weeks ago or so and it's finally online so I can link to it. He lists five "unintuitive" lessons: Simple, relaxed, sloppily extensible text formats and protocols often work better than complex and efficient binary ones. It is worth making things simple enough that one can harness Moore's law in parallel. This means that a system
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