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snailinaturtleneck.com
Personal blog · snailinaturtleneck.com/blog · on HN as kristinaprogrammingdata
snailinaturtleneck.com is a personal blog at snailinaturtleneck.com about programming and data. Since 2010, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “How not to get a job with a startup”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on MongoDB benchmarks and database claims. One commenter notes the author is a developer of the MongoDB PHP driver.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How not to get a job with a startup3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-10-20
- On MongoDB: If it quacks like an RDBMS...2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-08-20
- MongoDB: 8m ops/s on 25 servers (320k per server)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-11
What Hacker News says?
But it does 8,000,000 operations per second! http://www.snailinaturtleneck.com/blog/2010/05/05/with-a-nam... (Sorry, possibly excessive snark. That said, I think that blog post is a good example of one of this pastebin author's points: at least historically, benchmark numbers have been a big focus for Mongo developers.)
Comment linking /blog/2010/05/05/with-a-name-like-mongo-it-has-to-be-good/
on “Don't use MongoDB”Submitted Lorenz University: I can has degree? as a story · 61 points
HN discussionI've tried to post this as a comment on the blog, but it's not showing up (moderated?): ----------- Full disclosure: I work for 10gen. You strategically posted this when my air conditioning was broken, so here are a few thoughts before I go find somewhere cooler. Since CouchDB is "not a competitor" to MongoDB, it's nice of you to put all this time into a public service. > MongoDB, <b>by default</b>, doesn’t actually…
Comment linking /blog/2009/06/29/couchdb-vs-mongodb-benchmark/
on “MongoDB Performance & Durability”Submitted MongoDB: 8m ops/s on 25 servers (320k per server) as a story · 53 points
HN discussionMy apologies if I wasn't clear enough. The comment (which is what I linked directly to) came from the writer of the actual blog, who is one of the main developers for the Mongo DB PHP driver. http://www.snailinaturtleneck.com/blog/about/ So I would take it with far more than a pinch of salt.
Comment linking /blog/about/
on “If it quacks like a RDBMS…”Submitted How not to get a job with a startup as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted If it quacks like a RDBMS… as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Chess with the MongoDB Pipeline as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Quick Intro to mongosniff as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How not to get a job with a startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How not to get a job with a startup as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with Virtual Memory as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On MongoDB: If it quacks like an RDBMS... as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Choose your own adventure: MongoDB crash recovery edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted If it quacks like a RDBMS… as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with MMS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting Up Your Interview Toolbox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I became a programmer as a story · 1 points
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