Yeah, go back and actually look at those comments RE: Larry Ellison. Everyone is pissed that he wasn't acting professionally; it's all about decorum and how Ellison is a jerk that nerds wouldn't want to work for, due to appearances. Zero interest in whether what was posted on Oracle.com was correct.
The focus on optics and "niceness" here is really unfortunate. Because, the thing about when somebody says something that's not nice, that you wouldn't repeat to your grandmother, maybe even contains words like "fuck", is that it could still be true. And it should be treated that way.
Other times you've got shrieking babies, large groups of school children on a field trip, people having inane conversations (loudly, to be heard over the background noise)... basically all the noise you could potentially find in a train car and more. Then there's the security announcements, unavoidable ads for products and the in-flight TV service... plenty of potential for distraction.
On a long flight, especially in the morning, it can be quite nice. But you also may be stuck next to the loudest baby you've ever heard, so loud that you cannot reasonably concentrate, for hours at a stretch.
People like this think they are so clairvoyant, able to discern from a great distance Apple's contempt for customers and everyone else who isn't them. Please.
If this person was upset he couldn't get an Apple-ish computer on the cheap anymore, that's understandable. But to paint that decision as borne out of contempt is just terrible. It's a resolute unwillingness to see where Apple may be coming from, ever.
(And of course, to close the loop of self-fulfilling logic, for me to say such a thing makes me a fanboy. Do you see?)
This is the mode of analysis for many people when discussing Apple: assume that they do everything they do because they hate you, because obviously those people in Cuptertino are just complete assholes. Oh, and by the way, they happen to kick ass at everything they do. Damn them for that.
Headline problem: Deployed on 32 bit server so was limited to 2GB database. Writes were being silently discarded.
Mistake: Deployed to 32 bit servers without knowledge of the limit. Did not use safe writes and didn’t check for errors after writes.
Sorry, I just do not see eye-to-eye with anyone who thinks this problem was the mistake of the user. This attitude, though detestable, is prevalent in our industry, and it's wrong.
The database was silently throwing away writes. I don't know what else to say.
I mean, I'm sure that MongoDB is really great for some people, and that it's doing a really awesome job storing their data. That is, until one day their writes start silently failing, because they neglected to check a priori every instance in which Mongo would silently fail. Which would make it their fault, naturally. I'd rather not find myself in that situation, but different strokes I guess.
Intellectual honesty time: Show me one person who said such a thing. Every blogger who's supposedly "in the tank" for Apple that I've seen mention this has said nothing of the sort. It's an obvious rip-off, more obvious even than the recent rip-offs of Apple products that have been the subject of so much discussion. That was all about calling a spade a spade, not about defending Apple from its competitors. And this is definitely a spade, anyone with functioning eyeballs can agree. Which is why nobody has had the gall to trot out the horseshit you're implying.
Good point, everyone who has problems with Android must be an Apple """"fanboy"""". Even those who run Android-themed websites and have complaints -- they're covert Apple agents. We're through the looking glass here, people.
Apple can't win with pundits like this one. While the display was 3.5" the iPhone was supposedly lagging Android devices, and now that it's 4", it's a train wreck and they're just copy-catting Android OEMs. Jeez.
First of all, switching jobs involves some uncertainty. No matter how well you think you've checked out the new place, even if it seems great, you just don't know it like you know your current situation. (There are some times where the move is clearly better, but this isn't one of them.)
Therefore, in order to leave a job you enjoy, there must be a benefit to the new job substantial enough to offset that uncertainty. A 10% bump doesn't sound too substantial to me personally, but perhaps the distance from home would be for this person. But whatever it is, there needs to be something that makes you say "I'm OK with taking the risk of giving up a known good situation in exchange for this."
Make sure you are not considering the move out of a simple need to make a change or shake things up. That is a mistake.
I think if you go around calling people "fags", you probably shouldn't expect a positive result nor much sympathy. She's an asshole for that, but the rest of the blame goes to 4chan obviously.