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they say good technology makes "easy things easy, and hard things possible". A lot of those java built-in libraries personally, I think they make easy things easy. Will it Just Wor…

"just" is doing a lot of work in this construction. Regardless what a person's constellation of privileges is, it always takes an incredible amount of grinding and that's pretty da…

love graph or hate it, you can't really be a well-rounded dev without some knowledge of how graphs work. Forget even databases, it's one of the basic data structures all the way ba…

> “Easier” is completely subjective, no way you can demonstrate that. I agree it's subjective. While there's no exact measurement for this sort of thing, the proxy measure people u…

> How do you see property graphs as distinct from RDF? This is the full answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30167732/2920686

> Can you name a property graph use case that cannot be solved with RDFS and SPARQL? No - that's not the point. Of course you can do it with RDFS + SPARQL. For that matter you coul…

Linked Data tends to live in a semantic web world that has a lot of open world assumptions. While there are a few systems like this out there, there aren't many. More practically f…

> Still a more grounded GQL will allow Neo4j competitors to gain on them. Can you expand on this? What do you mean?

SPARQL is purpose built for the RDF world where you're mixing and matching a zillion different vocabularies, all of which have to be painstakingly declared and name spaced every ti…

Why would you want to imprint this stuff into your long term memory? Google is an extra brain with effectively infinite free space, why would I want to use mine?

Hi! I'm the original author of this post. Happy to field any questions if there are any.

This answer is not correct. MITRE is not a staffing agency, but a special purpose entity called a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). The other answer in this…

> What's stopping you from having one table that contains A and what A points to? So you only have 2 tables? So you can do that. Suppose you denormalize the graph into a single tab…

If you want to self-host Neo4j in cloud environments, that's doable today in a variety of different ways: https://neo4j.com/developer/guide-cloud-deployment/ As others pointed out …

Many of us who have worked in the graph database space have been tempted to use the graph abstractions on top of a relational database. It's a reasonable first step. Tables are nod…

$100M is likely a placeholder amount. They're filing to go public and can adjust that figure later, it's not that strange to do so. I don't think $100M means much there, and relati…

Can you expand on major points of how this will make the content different, (for example, Wikipedia is curated and non-notable people pages get thrown out, so if you're reading all…

Wanna thread other known attempts at this? Maybe someone will jump in with extra detail about how these approaches are different, or what extra value we'd expect. - OpenCyc http://…

That anchor effect of being slow is what I meant by "installment payments". Financially, if you have enough debt you can make $300k a year and still live in a crappy apartment, bec…

No, I wouldn't put it that way. It's not a problem to be embraced, it's just another variable to manage. Just as there is the trilemma of "better, faster, cheaper: pick 2" there ar…

I've been the CTO at two tech startups. Here's how I think about it. "Debt" is a good metaphor because by accumulating it, you get advantages right now in speed and ability to focu…

Why so much faith in non profits? If they have some specia sauce I’m not sure what it is. They still require the prisoners in order to exist and grow. And economically there’s this…

Some differences from my perspective: - SOA/ESB in the 2000s was driven more by business, less by available tech. As an example of what I mean here, SOA folks would usually talk ab…