When a No means Yes

Post by jeltz » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 8:57 AM UTC

gwagner85 wrote: post #39

josh2600 wrote: post #29

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SO I think we're almost having two separate arguments here. On the one hand we're talking about Mongo working out of the box and on the other we're talking about developer skill. I'll agree with you that an unskilled developer is going to have a bad time running any Database, but I take issue with the idea that defaults aren't important. The default settings are the defaults for a reason. Whether that reason is ease…

With the default settings in MySQL if you shut down an innodb database incorrectly you will loose data if not the entire table, should we vilify them for the same thing. I am not saying he is wrong, and i am not saying that mongo is wrong either. I feel, if you RTFM, that they are very very clear as to the state of things. They are not hiding anything and if anything they are providing and application state that is n…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 08, 2013, 1:16 PM UTC

groby_b wrote: post #20

brennenHN wrote: post #11

Headlines like this are the casual references that makes tech a boys club. You don't think you're doing any harm, but by distorting an important argument about rape, you're undermining the sentiment behind "No means no" even as you use it in a different context.

And of course the HN boys club doesn't see anything wrong with the headline. I expected nothing less :( Seriously, people: "No means yes" is a clear reference to "No means no". It's a really bad choice of headline, because it communicates "I don't care about issues that women are facing, if it gets me a catchy headline".