The “It” Crowd Doesn’t Like Me and I Finally Don’t Care • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by biscarch » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

gordaco wrote: post #108

biscarch wrote: post #89

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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.

More likely than you being out of touch is that you're in a different environment than I am. Personally I don't believe people have to pick sides. It's not a war, more options are a good thing for people who have to pick databases.

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

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Post by onlyup » Mon, Feb 18, 2013, 9:32 PM UTC

pyre wrote: post #97

onlyup wrote: post #96

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Thanks for the post. I was about to start a project with CouchDB but was unsure why I was going to use it. I know relational databases/SQL better so I think I will stick with that. Do you think there is benefit in using stuff like SQLAlchemy or should I write just SQL files/queries?

| Do you think there is benefit in using stuff like | SQLAlchemy or should I write just SQL files/queries? If you're just in it for the learning, then maybe drop SQLAlchemy to get your hands dirty and learn; otherwise just use SQLAlchemy. If you're getting into really complex queries and optimizations you're going to have to resort to SQL anyways, even with SQLAlchemy. An ORM just allows you to abstract away most of…

Thanks. I know SQL and use it in work. I am starting a personal project that I plan on taking a long time so I don't want to have to go back to the start to change stuff. For what it's worth I am using Python with Flask.

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

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Post by coliolio » Tue, Feb 19, 2013, 1:04 AM UTC

I really wish the author would even once mention _how_ she was warping herself/her company to impress the tech crowd. It's hard for me to understand what she's complaining about without a single example of the type of "how to be popular" advice that people were giving her that she found so poisonous...