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I had similar experience at a Semantic Web startup. > I was young and realized only afterward... If I could give young me any single piece of advice, it'd be

I had similar experience at a Semantic Web startup. > I was young and realized only afterward... If I could give young me any single piece of advice, it'd be "OMG STFU. Just smile and cash the check."

jsight 6y ago
I'm curious how it relates to your startup. None of your data lived in a semantic db?
- specialist 6y ago
  You'd've thought so. Persisted to SQL-Server. Early 2000s, so totally impractical. The CTO cofounder was not impressed by the UI guy asking out loud what every one was thinking. The fancy pants UI I was tasked to create wasn't even backed by a query language or path expressions. So dumb. I stayed just long enough to find another gig. PS- I did storyboard and wireframed a novel UI which resolved the graph visualization "paradox" (aka "focus+context"). It'd be perfect for neo4j & Cypher. I always thought I'd eventually circle back, if only to see if the idea had legs. Oh well.