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I'm trying to understand why anyone would use MongoDB. MongoDB sells itself as being faster than the competition by virtue of the denormalized data structures it encourages (no joins!). Does an RDBMS not also provide…

Looking at the current state of Javascript toolchains (RequireJS, browserify, Gulp, Grunt, and all the millions of plugins that come with these tools) I feel like there has been a toolchain explosion that's getting out…

Is it just me or are Javascript frameworks among the most horrendous libraries in software development right now? I've tried several Javascript MVC frameworks and the glue libraries that come with them (Angular,…