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Re:Why UML “Really” Died by specialist on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:13PM (#26958742)
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."

Re:Why UML “Really” Died by jsight on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:15PM (#26960177)
I'm curious how it relates to your startup. None of your data lived in a semantic db?
Re:Why UML “Really” Died by specialist on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:41PM (#26961221)
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.