I have a living pokedex in Y (718 in PC, one of each). I thought I knew my pokemon. This one is called Avalugg, not Crebase. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/1puw4bgdtw3hyye/Screenshot%202014-05-01%2018.14.46.png" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/s/1puw4bgdtw3hyye/Screenshot%202014-...</a><p>Using the americanized Japanese names is not right. Either use the native Japanese names in the correct alphabet, or use the English translated names.
"Tokutek claim to improve MongoDB performance 20x. Unclear if this also mean lose 20x as many documents." ... ahaha .<p>Can anyone elaborate why he said so?
The first one, "Crebase", turned out to be a Pokemon, but that's its Japanese name (クレベース); it's Avalugg in English, which sounds a lot less like actual technologies like Couchbase or Graphbase.
Similarly, "Startup or Pokemon?":<p><a href="http://evilbrainjono.net/pages/startup-or-pokemon.py" rel="nofollow">http://evilbrainjono.net/pages/startup-or-pokemon.py</a><p>Which appears to have been submitted thrice in the past: <a href="http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/startup%20or%20pokemon" rel="nofollow">http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/forever/prefix/0/startup%20or...</a>
I was kind of hoping to see Flareon[1,2] included, even if it is not #bigdata per se.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.solarflare.com/Flareon-Server-Adapters" rel="nofollow">http://www.solarflare.com/Flareon-Server-Adapters</a><p>[2] <a href="http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon" rel="nofollow">http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Flareon</a>
"Hadoop is distributed system for counting words"??? Really?<p>Yeah, indeed it's funny (because I know about Hadoop), but for someone that's learning with this, it could be taken as a serious statement.