Re:Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
by scarface74 on Friday May 22, 2020 @10:18AM
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Are you not buying iPhones because Apple’s first music player had no wireless and less space than the Nomad?
(For the younger people https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...)
How much memory a device has now does not depend on company culture. How reliable we can expect a future feature to be, does.
I think you're making an active effort to misunderstand me.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
by scarface74 on Friday May 22, 2020 @10:50AM
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I’m saying it’s completely illogical to base technical decisions on information that is 10 years old when just like you can see the modern specs of the iPhone and compare to the first iPod, you can also see the modern specs of Mongo, read third party assessments, and even look at the source code to see if it meets your needs.
You have a view of software development so narrow minded to a point it's cartoonish.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use MongoDB?
by scarface74 on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:35AM
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You’re right. I’ve only been doing this professionally for 25 years and as a hobbyist for 10 years before that.
I’ve only developed software from everything from 8 bit computers with 128K of RAM, to DEC mainframes to Android tablets....
What do I know?
You seem to think this is about tech. It's not. It's about company culture, trust, and reputation.
Code can change reasonably fast, in some cases 10 years is enough to replace an entire codebase. But company culture has or can have an expected life time way longer than 10 years. In this case, my heuristic is justified.