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Comment by Cloven | Hacker News Reader

"Yesterday I tweeted three simple rules to learning NoSQL. Today I'd like to expand on that. The rules are:

    1: Use Mon" CTRL-W

I originally skipped the article, and thought you were kidding... Alas...

What path would you suggest people take in learning something that challenges decades of best practices?

1st, be damned sure that decades old best practices actually aren't the best tool for your current application, developer hype be damned.

Hard to know whether they aren't the best tool for the job without at least familiarizing yourself with some alternatives.