Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement(avc.com)

29 pointsby theforay17 anni fa14 comments

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Hacker News and the NoSQL Movement

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/07/hacker-news-and-the-nosql-movement.html

14 comments

adambyrtek17 anni fa

Not really interesting to people who already read Hacker News :)

theforay17 anni fa

:) agreed but just figured people who like to see it all the same

uptown17 anni fa

So this is basically a story about how much traffic your site gets from HN, and a plug for the DB company you have a vested interest in promoting?

fredwilson17 anni fa

not exactly. its a post about HN and why people should read it and participate in it. i barely mentioned our portfolio company.

mattculbreth17 anni fa

Ironically makes me less interested in learning about this company. Kinda like my desire to ever try FogBogz evaporated after noticing Spolsky's essay pattern of "<% interesting title %>some content about FogBogz<% closing paragraph%>"

Semiapies17 anni fa

I don't know that it's worth linking here, but unlike some of the other folks here, I don't see the horrible sin in pointing out Hacker News to people.

How many of us got here by waking up from a dead sleep, finding our fingers mysteriously typing "news.ycombinator.com", and then going, "Huh, this is pretty cool."? (Presumably following this with, "Help! My fingers are typing strange URLs by themselves!")

philfreo17 anni fa

apparently Hacker News is a blog aggregator...

Raphael17 anni fa

Please join me in flagging any submissions with "Hacker News" in the title.

pg17 anni fa

Please don't. That is exactly the kind of thing this site was created to escape.

jrockway17 anni fa

I think rather than blogging about something intelligent, I am just going to start saying how much I love $social_news_site_du_jour. Then I can get mega karma and mega ad views, and win the internets.

pg17 anni fa

His post was more interesting than this comment.

jrockway17 anni fa

It is similarly uninteresting that you like an article that praises your work more than a snide comment about such articles.

robryan17 anni fa

This is probably one of the more relevant posts of it's kind though.

jrockway17 anni fa

Perhaps, but I am just pointing out a wider trend. It seems like every time I accidentally visit Reddit the top article is about how great Reddit is. It is somewhat sad to see it here, but hey, we are all people, and we all want to support our tribe. ("USA! USA! USA!")