{"id":391,"date":"2003-11-11T22:27:13","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T01:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=391"},"modified":"2003-11-11T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2003-11-12T01:27:13","slug":"social-engineering-vs-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Social engineering vs. engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>C<\/span>lay Shirky&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirky.com\/writings\/semantic_syllogism.html\">essay on the Semantic Web<\/a> has drawn a <a href=\"http:\/\/mamamusings.net\/archives\/2003\/11\/10\/shirky_touches_off_a_storm_of_semantic_web_posts.php\">lot of criticism<\/a> from weblog luminaries. You know, the <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/blogparody.htm\">A-List type<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>More interesting are the matters that had to be solved somewhere else. Over at work, I finally found out how to deal with <em>business rules<\/em>, let alone, how to carefully categorize them and seperate them from the actual code. Back in the days, I did not have a clue. Additionally: When computers do the math, and someone ends up choosing the wrong type of <em>double<\/em> or <em>significant<\/em> variables, you find out fast which one should have not been used if <em>you<\/em> discover rounding problems at your end. I praise my masters (that is, my Chemistry teachers) for showing me the way of handling rounding: that is at the end when you have to present the actual numbers. Decimals. Math. We eat them for lunch. By the penny.\n<\/p>\n<p>And that very thing is far more interesting to discuss than the &#8216;Semantic Web&#8217; stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clay Shirky&#8217;s essay on the Semantic Web has drawn a lot of criticism from weblog luminaries. You know, the A-List type. More interesting are the matters that had to be solved somewhere else. Over at work, I finally found out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}