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by nemild 9y ago
httpie: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie (http client) jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ (lightweight JSON client)
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Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge(nytimes.com)
157 points by nemild 9y ago|152 comments
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by nemild 9y ago
I was in the startup world in the early 2010s, and saw MongoDB used in a number of startups (over ~5 years). These companies included everything from very early stage Y Combinator backed startups to one of the most famous unicorns (tech iss
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by nemild 9y ago
It ended at two, but these were later follow-ups that seemed inspired by the early experience. The first one below especially felt like a coda to the first two: http://mcfunley.com/why-mongodb-never-worked-out-at-etsy http
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by nemild 9y ago
Both the stickers and three-part series were conscious choices. Etsy did a three-part series on the benefits of MongoDB in the early 2010s. MongoDB was also well known for its stickers, and their marketing team wrote online about how these
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by nemild 9y ago
It took a little while (say 1.5ish year from when they realized it was causing issues). According to MongoDB's CTO, this was because they couldn't quickly move their early users from the behavior they were used to.
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by nemild 9y ago
The other question is how many upvotes are "sponsored" upvotes.
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by nemild 9y ago
Thanks so much, fixed!
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by nemild 9y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Most thoughtful engineers I've met are believers in right tool for the job and thinking in tradeoffs, not good and bad - and so I'm a big fan about digging into MongoDB's value and understanding you
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by nemild 9y ago
My own research doesn't back up that this "unsafe write" was done by 10gen for benchmarking reasons, but rather due to an early expected use case (from a footnote in part 1 of my series): Waiting for writes was off by default
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by nemild 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. It'd be really helpful for others to understand the use cases that made MongoDB a good choice for you in 2010. Part of what I've felt is missing in the debate is where early MongoDB versions were a good choice,
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by nemild 9y ago
Survival? A planned IPO?
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by nemild 9y ago
(Author here) You can read parts 1 and 2 of the three part series: - Part 1, Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB: https://www.nemil.com/mongo/1.html - Part 2, Startup Engineers and Our Mistakes with MongoDB: https
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by nemild 9y ago
(Author here) As part of this three part series, MongoDB’s CTO, Eliot Horowitz, was gracious enough to spend two hours chatting with me. In our discussion, we touched on 10gen’s early marketing strategy, which I've combined with notes
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The Marketing Behind MongoDB(nemil.com)
322 points by nemild 9y ago|221 comments
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This thinking is a common mistake I see from teams that think only about tech. User acquisition is critical in the success of marketplaces. Usability is often ignored too. Even today, if you create an eBay (granted, a much stickier marketpl
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by nemild 9y ago
Am I right in thinking that all forms of meat contain heme iron? And in what dosage is this "disastrous" to the body?
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by nemild 9y ago
If you're interested in this topic, I did lots of data analysis to show the nature of the skew in death coverage vs actual deaths in the New York Times: https://www.nemil.com/s/part2-terrorism.html https:/&#
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by nemild 9y ago
I'm pretty disappointed by this title. I know that it might be said in fun - and is an easy way to get clicks, but it feeds into the narrative of new, shiny tech. As the article points out at the end, there are very real engineering tr
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by nemild 9y ago
I had a similar reaction.
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by nemild 9y ago
(I’m the author of this series) Eliot Horowitz (HN: @ehwizard), MongoDB’s current and founding CTO, reached out after my last post - and spent two hours providing feedback last week in Palo Alto. It was an expansive discussion, and Eliot wa
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Startup Engineers and Our Mistakes with MongoDB(nemil.com)
94 points by nemild 9y ago|114 comments
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by nemild 9y ago
I can relate. I wrote an essay on this a while back: https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html Excerpt: Pity the modern web or mobile app developer on Hacker News. As a full stack startup developer in 2012, you we
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by nemild 9y ago
I wrote this series over several months and am happy to answer questions. Part 2 will dive into the benefits of Mongo along with the mistakes that some teams made with Mongo. Part 3 will dig into Mongo's marketing strategy and how it i
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by nemild 9y ago
For anyone needing context, last year I wrote a Learn X in Y about Solidity: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/solidity/ Please note that it is fairly old at this point (contributors welcome) - so this is just to
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by nemild 9y ago
Instagram was financially a steal for FB, in retrospect. And no, you can't just say "they paid this much for download, that is dumb". There is a lot of nuance, for example: - Does the company need it to survive or succeed? -
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by nemild 9y ago
I like your proposed title, "Another 'Don't Cargo Cult' article" on its own seems dismissive, when the content seems quite useful for many engineers (the acronym need more work, though).
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And you can make good money while coding and working with technology. You don't have to be a C level executive or work primarily on the business side.
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If so, I would focus on entrepreneurship. You don't need an MBA - and it may even be counterproductive for the earliest stages of entrepreneurship (coming from someone who has both an eng degree and MBA). Still, hard to say 100% withou
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by nemild 9y ago
Nadia Egbal (github) has a great list of financial strategies for open source: https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand

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