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by mtkd 5341 days ago
Looking at HN today - it's full of hate and negativity.

Kudos to the developers that rise above this, often working for nothing, to build the awesome tools that future generations will use to build awesome apps.

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it's full of hate and negativity

You can't spell NoSQL without the word no.

This is why I try never to use the word NoSQL. It's a flamebait word, deliberately engineered to add heat rather than light. There's no such thing as "a NoSQL database"; there are only databases. Even the relational databases that parse SQL have significant differences, and the databases that don't speak SQL are all over the map.

> and the databases that don't speak SQL are all over the map

And have been since the punchcard days. For many people, it's hard to imagine there have been databases of all types, feature sets and performance characteristics before the dawn of SQL.

You can't spell NoSQL without the word no.

Nor can you spell it without the word os. But I don't think we're talking about a mouth or other external opening.

A lot of people now read "NoSQL" as "Not Only SQL", which seems more positive than negative.

Maybe I've just been living under a rock, but that's the first time I've ever seen "Not Only SQL".

I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

Not Only SQL has been around for at least two years: http://twitter.com/#!/simonw/status/5339626595

I'm not sure who came up with it or when.

That's creative; if I ever find myself backed into a corner and forced to pronounce NoSQL out loud I will borrow that reading.
In the enterprise community, they call it Data Warehouse or Analytics solution. Which probably work out for the better.
But also kudos for developers who are honest and are calling out a broken design for what it is, without worrying too much about being called a 'hater'.
And your vacuous optimism is any better?
HN critics best be intepreted for what they truly are. Not critics, but truly caring about software. In doing so, weak elements are pointed out. Not to make any coder look bad, but to improve it.
Yep. This is the most like reddit it's been yet.