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The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Redoubtable wrote: post #94
ahoyhere wrote: post #92

Believe it or not, what follows is meant to be a SUPPORTIVE comment. > I wanted to be one of those founders, you know, the type that gets silly valuations and love from the name brand ventures firms, the type that gets written up by the tech press, the sort that powerful angels vouch for and send around glowing intros for as being “the next big thing,” and the sort that jets around to conferences. I truly hope you've…

Thanks for this! The fact that I got wrapped up in constructing the identity of a company (thank god not the actual product or how we related to our clients) to be appealing to someone that wasn't its core client was definitely my problem and not theirs! While I can't deny that I was responding to a certain kind of risk/reward perception that has a certain value it wasn't right for what we ultimately wanted to build…

Fiona Apple said it best :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSLwYrPbuts

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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cududa wrote: post #37
superflit wrote: post #31

Someone has PMS...

Was that you trying to make an ironically chauvinistic joke, or are you just a sexist ass?

Why it cannot be all options, the world is not a binary choice. It is not good or bad..black or white

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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kintamanimatt wrote: post #95
superflit wrote: post #31

Someone has PMS...

This is so thoroughly inappropriate. Sexism, like any form of prejudice, has no place in the tech world.

Agreed! If was a man I would said: 'Someone had a bad day' or 'Did not get enough sleep'. I agree that in one 'sexist' MINE I was referring about some biological (true or not) facts and other (man related) I was referencing to situational (sleep?day). And If I say to man: 'Hey someone has its level of testosterone TOO high' there is a great chance he will see that as compliment..

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Redoubtable wrote: post #48
cududa wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was that you trying to make an ironically chauvinistic joke, or are you just a sexist ass?

Heh well you know actually I do have PMS! I'm due to start maybe tomorrow or Tuesday. Wow and to think my epiphany was just hormones. Man those things are useful!

Nothing to be ashamed, everyone has bad days. But please DO NOT downplay hormones effect on behaviour. People with Thyroid or other hormones misbalance will disagree.

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Post by gordaco »

PommeDeTerre wrote: post #91
mrchess wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is MongoDB certainly declared "bad" now or something? I still thought Mongo is a viable option? Why would they give you crazy looks?

I think it's more just a matter of most people coming to the realization (after several years, for those who didn't realize it right away) that relational databases are what they want, and what they need. There are very, very few situations where NoSQL databases are truly of any use. For practically all other cases, any time or effort savings promised when using a NoSQL database don't materialize in reality. Take the…

Sorry if this comes out as a little irrelevant, but I'm so glad there is someone else out there who thinks like you. I' ve already given up on proselitizing about the advantages of good ol' relational databases at my office. We DO have a schema (which has been consistent from the start, i.e., we haven't used our database in a flexible way), even if it's not explicit, and enforcing it actively in our code is just going to result in more errors than letting any mature relational database do it. And, yes, we've had a few of those errors (of varying severity) that wouldn't have happened with a relational database.

Non-relational databases are good when the data is really mutable enough that each row may have fields of its own, or lack them. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't see it as that common, and it certainly isn't our case.

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Post by gordaco »

biscarch wrote: post #89
mrchess wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is MongoDB certainly declared "bad" now or something? I still thought Mongo is a viable option? Why would they give you crazy looks?

danielweber is probably right. It's fashionable to hate on MongoDB now. There have been many, many articles detailing people having issues with it. Anything from losing data due to not keeping the set in RAM to "unsafe" defaults. Typically the hate comes from people being unprepared and not researching their database options enough before making choices. IMO the fact that it's so easy to get up and running with Mongo…

That's news to me, I'm seeing exactly the opposite: NoSQL, and especially MongoDB, seems to be the rage in my environment. I'm not as up to date as the average inhabitant of Hacker News, so I guess I'm just out of touch.

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Post by SatvikBeri »

michaelochurch wrote: post #99
radio4fan wrote: post #5

What is this mysterious drivel? Who is brianvan5155 and why hasn't he made any comments? How has this made it to the front page? What can it all mean?

Life... dreams... hope... where do they come from? And where do they go? -- Kefka

The continuation of that quote makes this really morbid :).

Re: The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care

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Post by ahoyhere »

Redoubtable wrote: post #94
ahoyhere wrote: post #92

Believe it or not, what follows is meant to be a SUPPORTIVE comment. > I wanted to be one of those founders, you know, the type that gets silly valuations and love from the name brand ventures firms, the type that gets written up by the tech press, the sort that powerful angels vouch for and send around glowing intros for as being “the next big thing,” and the sort that jets around to conferences. I truly hope you've…

Thanks for this! The fact that I got wrapped up in constructing the identity of a company (thank god not the actual product or how we related to our clients) to be appealing to someone that wasn't its core client was definitely my problem and not theirs! While I can't deny that I was responding to a certain kind of risk/reward perception that has a certain value it wasn't right for what we ultimately wanted to build…

> Because forming a core identity and a core business is actually tremendously hard. Picking up one that is already socially validated seems easier.

Truth.

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