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moox··on US govt caught using pirated software for military, settles for $50mn
This is great. It will definitely make it a lot harder for them to defend copyright issues in court.
moox··on Auto-complete on HealthCare.gov
Probably caused by someone that was trying to find an SQL injection. It's not really that big of a deal, it's a pretty big edge case to filter out non-relevant searches.
moox··on Ask HN: Where can I find a software job that helps society?
Although this makes practical sense, maybe OP is more motivated to work for companies that make society better versus large corporations that pay a lot.
moox··on Ask HN: Would you start a startup if the upside was limited?
To me a startup isn't about the money, but introducing my idea to the world. The idea of satisfying a need is enough.

That being said, the money is still a great incentive since you're taking a huge financial and personal risk, but you can still live pretty damn well with $500k/year.

moox··on Show HN: Rate My App - The Best Way for Developers to Stay in Shape
I would say both. Browsers are a mix of a client facing UI and business logic.
moox··on Paul Phillips explains why he lost faith in Scala and left Typesafe [Slides]
I browsed some of his commits and there's a lot of aesthetics and refactoring. Without him the scala project might quickly become hard to maintain.
moox··on Ask HN: What Coursera/Udacity/edX classes are you taking?
I'm taking Coursera's Introduction to Functional Programming with Scala and Machine Learning classes and Udacity's Intro to Parallel Programming class. All out of interest.

I really recommend Machine Learning, this is my second time taking it (taking as a refresh). It really gives a good introduction on how to predict or classify data.

If you want something more practical, Introduction to Functional Programming with Scala is really informative, teaches you Scala and gives you another perspective on how to make functions and classes. It's definitely a great course for recursion lovers.

moox··on MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation
He could also be using it the wrong way. Although MongoDB has faults, most of them are well known and developers are warned. MongoDB is far from being perfect, but the most common reason people hate on MongoDB is because they did things the wrong way or for the wrong reasons.
moox··on MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation
Your folks were wrong. They lock on the collection and only on some types of queries.
moox··on MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation
If you're having issues with scaling and performance, you're most likely using MongoDB the wrong way or for the wrong reasons.