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Valeri Karpov

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Valeri Karpov writes The Code Barbarian, a personal blog at thecodebarbarian.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.

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2013–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2013

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Why HN links it

Linked posts are about aggregating NBA data with PostgreSQL versus MongoDB. The one comment asks whether MongoDB's aggregation, where the processing order must be specified, is backward compared with a relational query plan.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. So if I understand this correctly, the original article [1] shows that the mongodb queries being used rely on doing projections and selections on the data, then they apply aggregations. However, unlike a relational engine which uses a query plan, you need to actually tell the aggregation engine in which order to process the data. Doesn't this seem a little... backward? If the dataset is complex enough, the two thing…

    Comment linking /2014/02/14/crunching-30-years-of-nba-data-with-mongodb-aggregation/

    on “Aggregating NBA data, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB”
  2. Submitted The 80/20 Guide to Writing AngularJS Directives as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Mistakes You’re Probably Making with MongooseJS, and How to Fix Them as a story · 1 points

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