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Double chocolate brownies. Hands down, my favorite. Not good for the diet, but good for the soul. Anyhow, what dessert is on your menu for the day?
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Home made ring-shaped cake, lemon and kardamom flavored.
THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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As I am currently limiting my caloric intake, my desert this evening will be a glass of ice water. 
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A cup of good tea 
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Bacon strips.
I'm trying to gain some weight. So far, only the cat has grown fatter.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Carrot cake. I do know if it should be considered dessert as I consider it a vegetable.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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PJ Arends wrote: I consider it a vegetable
As do I. Similarly, apricot preserves is fruit, and chocolate, a nut. It's not all that hard to consume healthy foods; it just depends on one's point of view.
Will Rogers never met me.
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A local Mexican joint: superb.
Full rack of ribs in a Habanero bbq sauce and, yes, there are some after effects but it was well worth it.
The best part is I couldn't finish it so have a half a rack for this evening. 
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mark merrens wrote: Full rack of ribs in a Habanero bbq sauce
Sorry if I'm drooling all over the keyboard...yummmmmm!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
Not my circus not my monkey's!
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mark merrens wrote: Full rack of ribs in a Habanero bbq sauce
Is that a free plugin for Adobe Photoshop ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Quote: there are some after effects
That's what puts me off - along with being charged a ridiculous price for something that is mostly bones covered in a sauce that is mostly sugar - and then suffering the aforementioned "After effects"!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Don't get the habanero sauce!!! Try something a little less, er, hot and you should be ok. I love the hot stuff - it doesn't always reciprocate!
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The food's OK, but the eating tools are tucked away in places you'll never find them, and the help is useless.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"8200 becquerel per kilo of the radioactive substance Caesium-137 was measured in reindeer"[^]
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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Yeah, that is very scary news. Of course, humans are eating these grazing animals.
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"- Rick, in case a positroni...eeer something hits the detector, should m_nPositron be incremented by two or one ?"
"-Mmmhh, I think they said two. Or was that that the tolerance for m_iOrbitalRange? Not sure anymore. Make it two and flag it tbd, we'll fix it later in the code review".
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I think they just found Data's brain. 
Marc
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I've been looking at graph database technology and was wondering if anyone here had any concrete experience with Neo4j[^].
A specific question that I have is that it seems that graph databases (though maybe it's specific to Neo4j) are "fact" oriented -- in other words, nodes are typically concrete facts.
What I'm looking for is a graph database that supports abstract concepts, and this manifests as a node with no properties, only connections. Why do I want this? Because I am looking at how to persist the structure (semantics) of the data as well the data itself. As far as I can tell, there is no such thing as a "semantic database" - basically, a merging of a relational database, semantics, and graphs.
Thanks in advance!
Marc
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Would a standard Document DB e.g. Mongo not fit the bill? ie. each document is the node and contained within would be an array of connections.
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DaveAuld wrote: Would a standard Document DB e.g. Mongo not fit the bill?
I've pretty much dismissed NoSQL DB's because documents are not relational. Yes, you can put "reference id's" into them, but this requires that the client resolve the reference, which results in additional round trips to the server. What I want to do is query the semantic structure at any level (including the abstract levels) and have it return the properties of the entire structure. Additionally, I'd like to be able to create queries that represent a join -- two or more structures that share common sub-structures. Again, this would require lots of round trips in a NoSQL DB, whereas I'd much rather like the query to be resolved by the DB itself.
I have a working prototype of what I want implemented on top of a SQL database, generating the joins through schema inspection, but it seems like this is what a graph database should be able to do more elegantly (it would still require generating the query of course), so I'm concerned about not just re-inventing the wheel, but that there are better and more optimized solutions out there already that I could use.
Regardless, whichever way the wind blows, this is the next article I'm working on. 
Marc
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What kind of graph, and what kind of queries? Why are semantics involved in this? You made it sound complicated, except
Marc Clifton wrote: this manifests as a node with no properties, only connections
Ok that sounds pretty bare-bones, my favourite kind of graph, no-nonsense, just the graph.
Here's a completely off-the-charts nuts idea (or at least that's what people keep telling me about this) - roll your own.
There's no learning curve, there's no "fighting with stupid configs", no mismatch between what you want and what it does, it supports all the features you want because you put them in there. Win all around. Should also be interesting to read about, or maybe even re-use.
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harold aptroot wrote: roll your own.
I'm essentially doing that right now, on top of a relational database. However, if I can discern a real benefit (or issue) with a graph database, that would be good to know. It seems possible to do with Neo4j, I just need to take a couple hours and play with it.
harold aptroot wrote: There's no learning curve, there's no "fighting with stupid configs", no mismatch between what you want and what it does, it supports all the features you want because you put them in there. Win all around. Should also be interesting to read about, or maybe even re-use.
The funny thing is, what I'm doing could be done with a traditional RDBMS as long as it has good FK constraints built into the schema. And while there is no learning curve with "roll your own", there can be one heck of a development/testing curve!
Marc
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