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Sym3trion Where's the best place to post your resume?

Yeah, but the problem is how to get it in front of people.

Uh oh. Cue flame war.

Sym3trion Ten things I didn’t know about MongoDB

Another gotcha we found is that you can't do any type of real-time aggregation in a production environment.

There is a group() function, and there is Map Reduce, but since they both run via the JavaScript engine and the nature of JavaScript is single-threaded that means that you can never execute more than one of the aggregation queries at a time. So if an aggregation query is taking a long time to run, all other queries will block and potentially timeout.

Supposedly we'll have better options in 2.0.

Sym3trion Why and How You Should Write REST-Centric Applications

Authentication and need for at least a pseudo "session state" always seems like the trickiest part of building a 100% RESTful app. Anyone have details/examples on ways to address these?

Sym3trion Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator

Would like to optionally not show stories I have already read.

Sym3trion Show HN: I made a better interface for Google Tasks and I can't go back

To any other potential task hackers, currently there is no API, but google announced they are building one soon.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-tasks-for-google-t...

Sym3trion Facebook unpopular in Japan

> It depends. Your categorization is too coarse.

Yes it is course b/c that is not my area of expertise. Feel free to inject any information here.

> I didn't know these 'facts'. Can you give me the details? Just out of curiosity, how did you know Shift-JIS is popular than UTF-8?

Well I don't have any hard statistics to back up my statements. They are all simply personal observations.

However in Japan "moji-bake" (character encoding error) is an everyday phrase. Shift-JIS is mostly to blame. I think that's enough to show that it's still widely used.

Sym3trion Facebook unpopular in Japan

Facebook is actually starting to get popular in Japan, but it will have a slow start just like everything else has had recently.

For some reason Japan still has this image of being a technologically advanced nation. I guess regarding hardware and infrastructure they are still advanced, but when it comes to the web and software they are waaaaay behind. Both in what they build, and in what they use.

The iPhone didn't really take off until a full year after it went on sale here (2 years after the US), android phones are just now starting to be sold, Twitter blew up recently but that wasn't until it was already a household name in the rest of the world. Nearly all mobile websites here are written in a carrier proprietary subset of WAP/HTML. Most non-mobile sites are entirely flash. The most popular search engine is still Yahoo. Shift-JIS encoding is more widely used than the world standard UTF-8. The list goes on and on.

I've been living in Japan for 4 years so I can speak from first hand experience. Before I came here I had the same image of Japan, but after being here for a while I can tell you that your image of Japan is not how it really is.

The Nintendo and Walkman era has ended. I wish people outside of Japan would finally realize this and stop acting surprised when Japan doesn't seem to be following the latest tech trend.