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> First time I've ever heard of webAI - I wonder how they got themselves that mention? I wondered the same. Went into Crunchbase and found out Crunchbase are now fully paywalled (!…

There are now many solutions, and full-blown startups, under the "swarm", "agent orchestration" and other similar keywords, for spinning agents in the cloud. I'm not sure if that's…

Here's my personal version of the story: With SQL DBs (Oracle, SQLServer and MySQL): 1. SQL database migrations where killing us. Going back and forward in a dev environment was im…

Here's my advice regarding conferences and events in general, out of experience running a enterprise software startup with a decent marketing budget: - Most of large conferences an…

Everytime I hear arguments for going back to relational databases, I remember all the scalability problems I lived through for 15 years in relational hell before switching to Mongo…

To me the relationship between NYT and FB (or any other content creator and FB) is not very different from that of freelancer content writers and content companies like Demand Medi…

My sister worked closely with many of the parties involved in the "Marco Civil", Brazil's brilliant Internet Bill of Rights. Two years later, I feel much of her work was in vain. N…

I thought A380 and 787 had equivalent cabin pressure of 6000 ft with similar humidity features. That said, I unfortunately did not notice any reduction in tiredness or jet lag in e…

These are the 3 questions I ask my team on non-deterministic errors: - Can you reproduce it? (locally) - No? Then can they reproduce it? (remotely) - No? Then can you follow the fl…

Do you know why they are acquihiring you? Bootstrapped or not, VC funded or not, profitable or not, a company's value is given by its potential. This potential will be measured (wi…

External dependencies increase failure points, no argue there. It depends on your line of business, but if you compare the benefits of making user signup faster, lowering acquisiti…

I wonder if Spain will claim ownership of the ship or its contents like they (rightfully) did with the treasures of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes . http://www.businessweek.com/art…

I think the article raises some legit questions on how nearly $50B of tax money is being managed, not by the government, but by the criteria of private donors. The author also impl…

Our enterprise on-premise software package runs on Mongo, before it used to run on relational dbmses. Here's why we changed: - flexible document schema reduces migration complexity…

Not sure, but I had a similar bug once due to a trim() combined with an out-of-order string length check. But that would imply that Xbox Live does not allow passwords with spaces o…

No. I think cleaning up, manually or automatically, after objects go out of scope is not the same as garbage collecting. "Garbage" here implies objects that linger beyond their usa…

Previous versions of my startup's enterprise product used to be based on relational DBs (mostly Oracle, MySQL also). This year we switched to Mongo and dropped RDBMS support. RDBMS…