aloneinkyoto

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   by aloneinkyoto 16y ago

   Ease of use is subjective. I dont think writing a mapreduce job needs to be more complex than writing an equivalent SQL query. What really matters is elegance, flexibility and power. My personal experince is that the MongoDB model seems to
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   by aloneinkyoto 16y ago

   Both of those queries are very easy to perform in MongoDB. For examples of how to easily model and query trees (CONNECT BY PRIOR in SQL) see: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Trees+in+MongoDB SUM(CASE IF col IN ('a','b','c') THEN 1 ELS
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   by aloneinkyoto 16y ago

   Great observations and advice! I guess as you say, one of the conclusions we have drawn so far is that the music industry is hard. There is simply not a lot of money there, and most of it is focused on a few big players like iTunes. Nonethe
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   Ask HN: After 6 months, did we succeed or fail?

   4 points by aloneinkyoto 16y ago|3 comments
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   by aloneinkyoto 16y ago

   The whole codec discussion instigated by the Mozilla Foundation is so mind-numbingly odd that it makes me cringe. I fully understand the arguments that creating a completely free and open source web browser is an important and non-negotiabl