If you don't make it a big deal, it's just going normalize executives having more and more public affairs in direct violation of their own company's rules. It's not a corporate culture I'm interested in further proliferating.

Any serious competitor would have already invested the trivial amount of money required to gain full access to AWS to probe and test all their services.

The few times I asked questions I'd get people telling me I should be doing something else, then I'd have to explain why I was doing it this weird way that necessitated me asking this question in the first place and they'd never respond or bother to answer the original question. It was like people only wanted to tell you were you wrong instead of trying to help.

MongoDB's biggest weakness was its default settings, which made it insecure and very vulnerable to data consistency failures. An absolute nightmare for PR. It's not perfect, but it's comparable to other NoSQL databases now.

Their biggest weakness was that their marketing promised way, way more than they could deliver.

Aphyr's original examination [0] took them to task so much so that I always think of it as the start of the "end", at least of the "web scale" obsession.

[0] https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb

It's a catch-22 because juniors need AI to be competitive, but you need to do the grunt work yourself for a few years before you really build the skills necessary to advance. I can't imagine learning how to do math by simply reading a solution book.

I don't like the UX but the extra controls on ebook rendering was worth the pain for me, since almost all of my time is just reading the ebook anyways.

It doesn't. You already have a rat infestation issue. This doesn't cause it or further it. You think that little handful of kibble compares to the free calories available in an entire dumpster full of chicago deep dish pizza scrap that sits out in the open air day in day out?

My assumption is that it exacerbates it, by keeping the primary predator of rats well fed. Are you saying that cats have no impact on rat populations?

I know that one. It’s the good ol’ tolerance formula:

Tolerance(A) = { 100% if A ≠ B; 0% if A → B }

Sprinkle on anything to suit your taste.

This does seem like an unfortunate truth of life, I always want to loan friends money, but can't afford to if they keep not paying me back :/

I also want to put a bird feeder outside a window we have, but I know that'll mean bird poop on a walkway that other people use

Same with some technology, I want to use X because it seems better but I know that'll mean it won't get the same support as Y so we have to use Y

Regressions is a meaningless metric to me. Every app has bugs, and most are either rarely encountered or aren't breaking the app. All I care about is interruption of service.

Thankfully as of now it appears they're very explicit about what content they share that is sponsored. They might be worried about the legislative backlash if they don't.