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MongoDB is In-Q-Tel backed - so by that sensationalized metric - anyone who runs a MEAN stack is thus "CIA Backed" as well. Hilarious to see the kneejerky lack
by binarytransform 10y ago
MongoDB is In-Q-Tel backed - so by that sensationalized metric - anyone who runs a MEAN stack is thus "CIA Backed" as well. Hilarious to see the kneejerky lack of intellectual rigor around HN these days.
- bogomipz 10y agoAlmost as hilarious as your strawman argument. Palantir was started with the explicit mission of aiding the surveillance-industrial complex. Mongo Inc was started with explicit mission of selling cloud databases(PaaS) to the general public. Source: http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strategy/ http://fortune.com/2014/09/04/peter-thiels-contrarian-strate... “Basically,” Thiel explains, “I thought that some of the approaches that PayPal had used to fight fraud”—which at one point posed an existential threat to PayPal—“could be extended into other contexts, like fighting terrorism.” For contrast: Mongo Inc's Eliot Horowitz: https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/mongodb-co-creator-explains-why-nosql-came-to-be-and-why-open-source-mastery-is-an-elusive-goal-3a138480b9cd#.wksy3ond5 https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/mongodb-co-creator-explains-why...
- binarytransform 10y agoWhat argument? You mean *[argument rest of internet always makes re: Palantir]?
- FLUX-YOU 10y agoGuess we found out why MongoDB had insecure defaults tinfoil hat