moxious

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by moxious 2y ago
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 Work™ Out Of The Box™? Hey we're engineers righ
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by moxious 3y ago
"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 damn cool / laudable / praisewor
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Grafana 10: Panels, Grafana as code updates and correlations(grafana.com)
4 points by moxious 3y ago|0 comments
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Neo4j Extends Series F, Adds Patrick Pichette from Google and Twitter to Board(neo4j.com)
5 points by moxious 5y ago|0 comments
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by moxious 5y ago
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 back from the beginnings of computer science and ma
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by moxious 7y ago
> “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 usually use is adoption; and if you look into f
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by moxious 7y ago
> How do you see property graphs as distinct from RDF? This is the full answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30167732/2920686
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by moxious 7y ago
> 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 could do it with redis. Fully beside the point. What&#
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by moxious 7y ago
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 focused systems collapse this worldview down into a mu
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by moxious 7y ago
> Still a more grounded GQL will allow Neo4j competitors to gain on them. Can you expand on this? What do you mean?
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by moxious 7y ago
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 time. For most of us working not on the "semantic we
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by moxious 7y ago
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?
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by moxious 7y ago
Hi! I'm the original author of this post. Happy to field any questions if there are any.
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by moxious 7y ago
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 thread is better -- a key thing MITRE gets pushback from
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by moxious 8y ago
> 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 table. Either your denormalizing, and to connect A to
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by moxious 8y ago
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 in other threads, this can b
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by moxious 8y ago
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 nodes, join tables are relationships and so forth. It&#x
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by moxious 8y ago
$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 relative to their overall valuation if $100M is a
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by moxious 8y ago
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 of the web, presumably you'd know about non-notab
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by moxious 8y ago
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://www.cyc.com/opencyc/ - DBPedia
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by moxious 8y ago
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, because all of your income (in this weird metaphor,
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by moxious 8y ago
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 are others as well. Speed and tech
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by moxious 8y ago
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 focus on other things, in exchange for havi
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by moxious 9y ago
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 old joke...they’re not for profit, but they’re not for los
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by moxious 9y ago
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 about decomposing business process. E.g. Amazon sells s
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by moxious 9y ago
I see what you mean. And yet strangely, the need for that "Friendship" node can also be seen as a strength. How else would you assert metadata about that thing otherwise? If A and B share an event via a friendship, you can keep
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by moxious 9y ago
While this is technically true, in the SQL world this requires wizard level skills that most SQL developers do not possess, and when you arrive at this spot, you end up with a query that performs really, really badly. Look, between the data
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by moxious 9y ago
Graph databases are built a lot of different ways; for example Neo4j's architecture is very, very different than something like an RDF triple store, or datastax on top of cassandra. [Neo4j internals can be seen here]( https:/&#x2F
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by moxious 9y ago
The media has reported on some fairly outrageous cultural excesses. Question -- did you experience these when Kalanick was there? Since Dara showed up, anything specific you can say about what was done and whether it "feels different
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by moxious 9y ago
Conferences also exist to concentrate people so that vendors can market and sell. I don't think that will go out of style. Add person to person networking, people's desire to get a break from work...

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