Work in progress: 181,232 of 181,233 sites checked so far, more every week · updated 2 Nov 2026Missing a blog? Tell us

Top all-time · #25194

M

Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya

Personal blog · dieswaytoofast.blogspot.com · on HN as dieswaytoofastprogrammingdata

Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya writes And you are here why?, a personal blog at dieswaytoofast.blogspot.com about programming and data. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

Visit the blog
3mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Random musings. That's it. Just "Random Musings"

The author on HN?

dieswaytoofast · 3 karma · member since 2012

Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya That Tall Bald Indian Guy... http://dieswaytoofast.blogspot.com

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

What Hacker News says?

  1. MongoDB really is the MySQL of the NoSQL movement ( http://dieswaytoofast.blogspot.com/2012/02/mongodb-mysql-of-... ), which really, really causes issues. AFAICT, the mind-set tends to be (1) Theres this new thing called NoSQL (2) MongoDB is the biggest NoSQL store out there, lets use it (3) Profit! Omitting a - critical - step, viz., "what are we trying to solve for here?". The result, of course, is either people g…

    Comment linking /2012/02/mongodb-mysql-of-nosql-movement.html

    on “Goodbye, MongoDB”
  2. Submitted Bugs are *not* the developer's fault as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Google Drive Does *Not* Own Your Data as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

Search all of HN for dieswaytoofast.blogspot.com