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Nathan Hurst
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Nathan Hurst's personal blog at blog.nahurst.com covers programming and career. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Nathan Hurst's blog for a taxonomy of NoSQL systems and a visual guide to NoSQL systems, used as a reference when comparing NoSQL databases.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on Software, Technology, and Startups
Most-linked posts?
- Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-03-14
- Black Hat Recruiter Tactics2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-04-04
- How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-19
- Find a place to hack using NYC architecture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-15
What Hacker News says?
His taxonomy agrees nicely with the visual survey at http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems (submitted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190772 )
Comment linking /visual-guide-to-nosql-systems
on “Toward a NoSQL taxonomy”Submitted Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday as a story · 435 points
HN discussionI recently wrote up a bunch of black hat recruiter tactics that I've either experienced personally or have heard about from companies and job seekers. It's crazy how far some recruiters will go. http://blog.nahurst.com/black-hat-recruiter-tactics
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on “The Importance of Researching your Job Recruiter”Submitted Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems as a story · 150 points
HN discussionProbably the first thing to understand about nosql is that there is no standard, there are multiple paradigms to chose from. Broad differences in storage models: * Column Oriented Storage (e.g. HBase) * Document Store (e.g. CouchDB, MongoDB) * Key-Value (e.g. BerkeleyDB, TokyoCabinet, REDIS) * Graph DB (Neo4J) Furthermore each will have their own consistency, replication & availability models, as well as read/write…
Comment linking /visual-guide-to-nosql-systems
on “Ask HN: Resources for getting started with NoSQL / Big Data”Submitted Visualizing Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know as a story · 41 points
HN discussionI used MongoDB to handle analytics for our system and it's been OK. We had some problems with memory leaks & other issues with Mongo but as new versions are released, these problems are fixed. As for the question "Why MongoDB?" it depends on what you want MongoDB to do. Each of the NoSQL solutions have their pros and cons and you'll be best doing some investigation into what best suits your purposes. For example, Co…
Comment linking /visual-guide-to-nosql-systems
on “MongoDB comparison and Experience”Submitted Why Networking Sucks for Introverts (and one way I'm trying to fix it for us) as a story · 38 points
HN discussionFrom Nathan Hurst's Blog: http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems
Comment linking /visual-guide-to-nosql-systems
on “Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems”Submitted Code, Picasso, and Simplicity as a story · 37 points
HN discussionSubmitted Black Hat Recruiter Tactics as a story · 34 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developers, you are the last line of defense as a story · 32 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get as a story · 29 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time to reset some passwords as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Value Your Startup Using Comparables as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Black Hat Recruiter Tactics as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thread Synchronization Issues & Romance as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual Guide to NoSQL as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ctrl-R Searches History and Other Historical Tricks as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Easy local repository browsing for Git or Mercurial as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Find a place to hack using NYC architecture as a story · 4 points
HN discussion- nj · 2012-09-17
Submitted Black Hat Recruiter Tactics as a story · 3 points
HN discussion Submitted How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understand the differences between iOS and Android as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visual Tech Job Board Comparison as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Find a place to hack using NYC architecture as a story · 1 points
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