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It's very frustrating that they gated this feature. It's probably going to be great for more focused targeting (they can see exactly who wants to add what keywords to their web page). but as the OP states, there is about 1/2 of the features in this new version AND you need to sign up for AdWords.

francescaon Cassandra vs MongoDB For Time Series Data

The global lock was removed in 2.2

https://blog.serverdensity.com/goodbye-global-lock-mongodb-2...

Now locking is on the database level.

francescaon Docker and StriderCD: Brilliant Continuous Integration In A Box

this is awesome. well done.

francescaon [dead]

Not just cartoons http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/14/130114fa_fact_...

francescaon Introducing the MongoDB Driver for Rust

Cool projet.

francescaon New MongoDB feature for efficiently paging geo queries

great post! I like the detailed description and sample app

francescaon Want to Spam Your LinkedIn Contacts and Be Humiliated? Try FounderDating

I've had similar issues. People in my group asked me to stop approving FounderDating posts because they felt it was spammy. Clearly something needs to change with their tone and overall marketing because it could be a great resource for some people with project ideas!

francescaon How to get Hilary Mason to build your recommender for free

awesome!

francescaon FinTech Hackathon 2013 and GlobalFX

Awesome! Even more awesome: ben built the entire GLobe from scratch!

francescaon Ask HN: Have you been in a company with transparent salaries? Good?

I really love this philosophy as well, but if this is in place, you need to be very clear as to why someone makes more money than another. There needs to be standards in place, time limitations etc. Transparency is great, but often times one person makes more money than another because of a combination of skill set, negotiating power, gender and relationship status, not to mention relationships with other people in the company and the word we hate (favoritism).

So while I am 100% on board with transparency, I also believe it can have a backlash. There's no way to predict it, but creating path for someone to increase their salary and letting it be known before they sign the contract is a good idea.

francescaon Build a Twilio Hard Phone with SIP from Twilio, Raspberry Pi, and Asterisk

awesome! I love seeing Twilio devs using "old" landline tech with the API. Way to go!

francescaon MongoDB 2.4 Released: Text Search, Security, Hash-based Sharding

this presentation offers a good overview pre 2.4, but will give you insights into how you can prepare for memory issues http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2012/capacity-pla...

francescaon Aaron Swartz: The Book That Changed My Life

Agreed. Ironic that Chomsky still teaches at MIT

francescaon Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy

Disney runs over 1400 instances according to this presentation: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2011/a-year-with-...

Also foursquare runs a very large MongoDB deployment. http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-foursquare-cloud-...

Craigslist: http://www.10gen.com/customers/craigslist

Shutterfly also has a very large deployment: http://www.10gen.com/customers/shutterfly

francescaon Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy

That page is updated regularly. You can also check out more in-depth case studies of MongoDB deployments here: http://www.10gen.com/customers

And there's s growing list of stories at 10gen.com/presentations

Some good ones to point out: Analytica: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2012/exploring-pu...

Apollo Group (The University of Phoenix) http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2012/how-we-evalu...

AOL : http://www.10gen.com/presentations/managing-large-scale-data...

Github: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongosv-2012/mongodb-anal...

Banjo: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/real-time-location-based-...

Telefonica: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-uk-2012/MongoDB-o...

MapMyFitness: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-seattle-2012-mong...

Sailthru: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-seattle-2012-sail...

Stripe: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/high-availability-mongodb...

eBay: http://www.10gen.com/presentations/mongodb-ebay

These are all large deployments. It's a mix of small startups, startups that grew up and large engineering companies (like eBay and Apollo group).

francescaon Gmail.com was down

Google is down again

francescaon Introducing MongoClient

good stuff

francescaon Using customer segmentation to improve conversion rates

Would be great to see a follow-post on how segmented marketing affects the diversity of entrance points to the funnel. For example, if you have more targeted marketing towards 3-4 different groups, you'll likely have fewer points of entry but more successful conversion rates.

francescaon Color Will Shut Down on December 31st

In 1.5 years, $41 M gone. This company was full of so much drama. It's a shame that really good investors had to deal with a lot of grime.

francescaon YC W13 Applicants

Probably a better strategy. If you take a look at Jessica Livingston's talk from Startup School (http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/) she notes that YC gets nervous about hardware--but nerds (like me) on Kickstarter love it. That's how the pebble watch came to grow successfully. Kickstarter is once of the few places you can find and fund really innovative hardware products. Best of luck

francescaon Hacker News: Unknown or Expired Link

emacs style editing in the text box

francescaon Spotify Closes $3 Billion Funding Round

this is a terrible headline. Their valuation is $3 billion, they didn't raise $3 Billion

francescaon CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

nginx didn't have english docs until 2 years after the project launched. Full story from Igor Here: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/151853

Also: Don't blame people for english lang proficiency.

francescaon CodernityDB — pure Python, NoSQL, fast database

This seems like a speedy solution for inserts but I'm curious about reads

"Indexes tries to reuse as much space as possible, because metadata size is fixed, during every write operation, if index finds metadata marked as removed or so, it reuses it - writes new data into that place."

I'm curious how this is implemented.

francescaon You Can Now Earn Real College Credit with Coursera

This is awesome! Glad to see they're paving the way! There's nothing like the face-to-face interaction of the university classroom, but for many the MOOC is a viable, and often preferred, alternative for education.

francescaon Places to Start Acquiring Users

"Meetup.com is one of those services that will do the job of driving traffic to your meetup if you create one." This is a great point, but I think it's also important to focus on creating successful meetups. This is a huge time commitment. Creating a consistent arena for your user base requires coordinating activities that they would love, and then reaping the benefits of customer loyalty. It's an excellent idea, but you need to devote a good deal of time to it (sometimes even a person).

francescaon Loosecubes is shutting down

Campbell is a rock star. Really disappointed they will be shutting down. Their product and culture were so uplifting! It's a great idea, but the market didn't pick up in the way they expected. I agree the market was a little ahead, but there were a few corners they could have cut. AirBNB did it well and it's possible they could have galvanized support for the co-working movement in the same way that AirBNB made it happen for travelers.

francescaon The BufferApp Welcome Email

Joel and his team are awesome. They make a great product and make great decisions when it comes to their customer support. They also do great emails for buffer updates

--------------------------------------- Hi,

I hope all is going well with you! I'm super excited to share the news about a big new Buffer feature. You'll now be able to track analytics in real time for each of your social media posts to know exactly how much impact they have had.

The following analytics are in your account now:

For your Tweets: number of clicks, retweets, mentions, favorites and reach. For your Facebook posts: number of clicks, likes, comments, shares and reach. For your LinkedIn posts: number of clicks, likes, comments and shares. Check out this blog post to get more juicy details about how the new Buffer analytics work.

It'd be awesome get any thoughts you have on the new real-time analytics feature or how you use Buffer in general. Just hit reply to let us know.

- Joel and the Buffer Team

P.S. The whole Buffer team (check out this picture of us! :)) is sitting here and we are waiting eagerly to hear about your thoughts and ideas. We'll be around to answer all your emails for the next few hours. Drop us a line!

---

My notes:

- from the team - they are sticking around after sending the email to answer requests - New feature description is short and sweet

francescaon The Best Time to Post on Hacker News

There's some truth there, but if you send an email to the East Coast US at 2am, there's going to be a small chance people will read it when they wake up (they'll already have tons of other stuff competing at the top). Same goes with Twitter. You can't tweet something for everyone to see at a time when your target audience is not watching twitter. You need to test for that.

Either way, the essence of your argument is correct. Useful content fares better that fluff.