Comment on: Why you should never, ever, ever use MongoDB

Good lord folks, have you even tried it? There are stellar use cases for MongoDB, and if you'd read the first page of docs you'd avoid damn near all of the complaints about it. This whole thread stinks of Ludditism. Yes, relational data is better stored in a relational database, but that's pretty much where the argument ends. Gnarly JSON-shaped data eats join optimizers for breakfast; Mongo excels there. Different jobs, different tools.

1 25 Jul 2015 06:18 u/flopper in v/programming
Comment on: Where do you go for programming news?

Hacker News is good. I also like Lobsters (https://lobste.rs/) and the github trending page.

6 02 Jul 2015 17:41 u/flopper in v/programming
Comment on: Where can I find a programming friend?

You can often find "users groups" and other meetups for various programming languages, OSes, and technologies. Meetup.com is a decent place to start. Or trying searching for "programming meetup <city>" and similar. If you want, tell us what languages you like and where you are... maybe someone here can point you in the right direction.

4 21 Jun 2015 18:55 u/flopper in v/programming
Comment on: Does anyone still use Struts and Javabeans?

What's so important about JavaBeans? I find them awfully crufty and boilerplate-y.

0 21 Jun 2015 06:48 u/flopper in v/programming