idbentley's comments

Just an appreciation post, not a question. I have reached out to graphviz as my tool of choice for diagramming for my entire career. Sometimes years go by without me using it, but I always end of finding a place to use it.

Recently I started teaching Software Development, and once again reached for graphviz for a huge variety of classroom uses.

Thanks!

Thanks!

I don't see any information about the source code... No mention of Open source on the website.

I've worked with developers who use this pattern frequently for code execution.

try{ .. business logic .. } catch (NullPointerException e) { .. else .. }

Rather than a null guard. That's what occurred to me.

Makes me think about the stratification issues I have on my phone these days - some conversations in What'sApp, Telegram, Signal, Riot.im not to mention text messages, email etc.

Becomes exhausting.

I live in Brooklyn.

In lower Manhattan they might be unnoticed, but that is not New York. Queens, is not Manhattan. You're talking about a major gentrification event. Can't handle is bad wording, but it would seriously exacerbate the wealth distribution problem here, which is already the worst in the country.

I just don't understand why this conversation seems to be dominated by financial discussion. The main problem that many NYs had with the Amazon deal was dilution of our culture. Dumping 25,000 high earning employees into a complex and vibrant city is following San Francisco into folly.

They probably oversell the economic benefit, and it's pretty foul the way a corporation can push around politicians. But the bottom line is, these jobs wouldn't go to existing New Yorkers in large part, and that makes the economic benefit to New Yorkers thing difficult to reason about.

Support at this scale is a hard game. I know some of the guys who work over there, and they make a valiant effort.

Training is exceptionally hard. Databases are hard to manage, and it takes years to learn to diagnose their function on unknown hardware / software.

This all being said, "no provided cloudformation, AMIs etc." is no bueno - not a good experience for the user.

If you haven't used Mongo with WiredTiger, you really haven't used it at it's best.

I really don't get this as an indictment of MongoDB, or their OpsManager product really.

They used the version of OpsManager that doesn't manage the deployment - is specifically not a deployment manager. Mongo does offer a managed version of this software, which the author mentions - with a justification for why they couldn't use that offering. However, I think this was the main mistake that The Guardian made. As the author notes: "Database management is important and hard – and we’d rather not be doing it ourselves." They underestimated the complexity of managing database infrastructure. If they had been attempting to set up and manage a large scale redundant PostgreSQL system, they would have spent an enormous engineering effort to do so as well. Using a fully managed solution - like PostgreSQL on RDS from the beginning would have saved them time. Comparing such a fully managed solution to an unmanaged one is an inappropriate comparison.

Full disclosure - I used to work at MongoDB. I have my biases and feelings w.r.t the product & company. In this case I felt that this article didn't actually represent the problem or it's source very accurately.

YouTube works fine in Firefox. I use it all the time. It works well in mobile firefox as well.

TLDR: all standard applications for working with files are unaware of resource forks. This is confusing, and hurts new computer users. #consideredharmful

Find a better job.

There are plenty of places people do this already. For example, this is common behaviour in Manhattan.

It's analogies all the way down.

This is the answer I was looking for. Funny, I've been a long time linux user, and never knew about these internal names.

It does seem like a slight against our Ubuntu, Debain, Mac OS, Windows et al. comrades.

Without any context, "Hurr, durr, I'm a sheep" seems rude to users and administrators of every OS distribution. With this context, it seems like maybe not a very funny addition to a long running joke.

I don't understand the joke in calling it that.

It just seems petty.

Is there something I'm missing?

I have trouble believeing that you can back any of this up. It seems extremely unlikely to me that the number of people who want to "prove that women can run companies" outnumbers the number who want to prove that women can't.

Anyone who has any background in the subject knows of the many women who do successfully run companies - they know that there is no need to prove anything of this sort.

I believe that the Servo project (https://github.com/servo/servo) is attempting to address exactly this.

This article annoyingly misses to mention THE reason to use Firefox over Chrome. Supporting Mozilla.