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by gasping 11y ago
Glad to hear it. I wish you all the best.
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by gasping 11y ago
> The 4 months of “hell” were really not that bad looking back at it now. All of this taught me a great lesson in humility and resourcefulness. It also taught me to be kind and loving to your fellow man all the while making sure to “pay
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by gasping 11y ago
This app just facilitates short-sighted abuse of commercial infrastructure while opening clients up to a massive security vulnerability. Doesn't surprise me one bit that this comes from China. They have a culture of extreme self-intere
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by gasping 11y ago
While I haven't used Angular, I have watched a live demonstration of it and was not impressed. Yes it's very boilerplate heavy and reminds me of some of the clunkier Java frameworks. I'll keep my suggestion short and simple.
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by gasping 11y ago
Bold, and beautiful!! Quick everyone, scrap all your existing frameworks and jump on the flavor of the week! Seriously though, I think it's borderline negligent to contribute any kind of hype to new javascript frameworks considering th
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by gasping 11y ago
Irrelevant analogy. The financial cost of choosing C# over VB is zero.
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by gasping 11y ago
So what happened with io.js in the end? I can't keep up with the self-destruction of the industry, which should I be using, io.js or node?
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by gasping 11y ago
MongoWeakReference
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by gasping 11y ago
Front-end development considered harmful. Every moron wants to defecate out the next best frontend framework it's a joke at this point. Front end developers have made a mockery of the industry.
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by gasping 11y ago
I don't think you understand how badly 10gen overmarketed Mongo as something that it isn't. I personally believe the people at 10gen deserve legal repercussions (I expect we'll see this in the coming years), even incarcerati
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by gasping 12y ago
> …we eliminate so-called “structured programming” constructs like “for” and “if”. Only function calls, variables, and constants are allowed. The result is that we end up with something that looks a lot more like assembly code; but inst
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by gasping 12y ago
Lenovo going down the drain. All they had to do was continue the Thinkpad legacy left by IBM. It's honestly breathtaking how badly they've fucked up. After the touch-based function keys, ruining the trackpoint buttons and now this
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by gasping 12y ago
This bears no resemblance to react whatsoever. By taking out the render, getInitialState, componentWillMount and other lifecycle methods Riot.js completely misses the ideology behind react and becomes just another templating library. Waste
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by gasping 12y ago
Yes there is. It becomes harder to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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by gasping 12y ago
This was really good but there were a few levels that left a bit to be desired. Some of them were basically "find a way to mash this code into these functions without exceeding the instruction cap" while others encouraged quite el
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by gasping 12y ago
> incl. an acid db. Why would you want to use a database for this problem? The input data would take time to load into an ACID db and we're only interested in a single ternary value within that data. The output data is just a few l
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by gasping 12y ago
Are you saying you're using a single MongoDB collection as a dumping ground for all your entities? I hope you're not building a real product that someone has to maintain.
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by gasping 12y ago
What? When would it ever be OK to lose parts of an invoice. Mongo apologists baffle me sometimes. To anyone considering MongoDB, don't be fooled, you probably want to stick with an RDBMS.
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by gasping 12y ago
MongoDB will always be a relevant example of false advertising and over-marketing (to the point of 10gen probably opening themselves to litigation) and how we all need to stop drinking the kool-aid. There is LITERALLY no reason to use Mongo
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by gasping 12y ago
They'll probably spend it on marketing MongoDB as a replacement to relational databases. Brainwashing isn't cheap.
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by gasping 12y ago
PostgreSQL wants to be web scale but it will never touch MongoDB scale. MongoDB is true web scale with full cloud compatibility and horizontal scaling like how clouds spread out in the real world. MongoDB mimics physics because physics is g
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by gasping 12y ago
> Yet almost everything is built with a tool that's merely good enough for the task. Which usually makes it one of the right tools. I agree with you there so long as you understand which tools are good for which tasks. > we'
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by gasping 12y ago
They aren't use cases. They are company names. Which parts of their product runs on Node.js? And have you spoken to their developers about their projects? Just because a big company deployed something doesn't make it viable.
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by gasping 12y ago
Yes, usually by their manager. Things like Node.js get over-marketed to the public, managers are fooled into thinking it's a valid solution to their problem, then they force developers to use it against their will. node-cgi increases t
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by gasping 12y ago
I agree that Node.js is pretty good for thin REST APIs, it's one of the few scenarios that Node.js actually works quite well. It's the other 99% of use cases that I take issue with.
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by gasping 12y ago
You're quite right. Node.js is more like a trap for inexperienced developers who probably won't even understand why Node.js is an awful tool when used to solve the wrong problem because they have no real experience (I believe Node
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by gasping 12y ago
I don't think so. I'm all for lowering barriers to entry but there is a point where it becomes harmful to the ecosystem and to the developers themselves. Software development is, in my opinion, an engineering discipline, and so it
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by gasping 12y ago
This is why Node.js is receiving an enormous backlash from the programming community. People keep peddling it as a solution to all problems when in reality it has very limited utility in all but a few use cases. Pushing this thing over old
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by gasping 12y ago
I've seen that video and cried bitter tears. I just don't know who's at the wheel web development right now. With all the garbage being pedaled out over the past few years, especially Javascript stuff and reinvention-of-the-w
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Ask HN: Why use MongoDB over a denormalized structure in a relational DB?
2 points by gasping 12y ago|3 comments

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