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Re:Lone Yelp review dogs business owner on Sunday September 04, 2011 @12:45PM (#2959718)
How can a computer evaluate the 'realness' of a review? The idea of Yelp, crowdsourced business reviews, is great, but do we really prefer trusting super active web content contributors, seeking cyberspace attention, over experts (eg Zagats)?
Re:MongoDB 2.0.0-rc0 Released on Thursday August 25, 2011 @09:02PM (#2926984)
New command for collection-level compaction, Better concurrency, Index Enhancements, Authentication with sharded clusters, Replica set priorities (set preference for which server should be primary), Data-center awareness, Polygon searches, ..a few other things...it's all in the release notes.
Re:MongoDB 1.8 (stable) released on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @05:54PM (#2334133)
If you are in the NYC area, you should check out the MongoDB track at PgEast next week to find out ;) https://www.postgresqlconference.org/
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