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Podcast: A chat with MongoDB’s CTO, Eliot Horowitz

Ben Popper on March 10, 2020

A small group of four people wrote the code the kicked off what is now a massive business. Hear the story from CTO Eliot Horowitz.

V2Blast

6:40 AM

!!/tea

SmokeDetector

@V2Blast brews a cup of jasmine tea for @V2Blast

rene

7:07 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog that causes a circular dupe list so the system won't allow me.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

7:24 AM

@rene It seems the former got closed as a duplicate of the latter at some point after I posted that message. At your discretion, can you please reopen the former link (the one with only one target), since it's a much older question and has an official response? This will allow it to be added.

rene

I don't have a FR gold hammer. Y'll need to serial upvote me ...

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou ^^

rene

8:27 AM

MSE is down ...

and it is back

I'm sorry, it won't happen again.

Journeyman Geek

8:50 AM

@rene people need to be nicer to it 🤣

rene

9:00 AM

point taken ;)

morning

\o

o/

9:33 AM

wooo

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

10:29 AM

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog hmm? You want me to serial upvote @rene?

@djsmiley2kTMW loo?

djsmiley2k TMW

hmmmm sure? :D

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

@djsmiley2kTMW nah, not relevant anymore. ;)

rene

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou only my answers on feature request questions ...

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

:P

!!/upvote --serial --rene

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou No such command 'upvote'.

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

10:44 AM

:(

rene

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou please see if you want to open this: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66119/… so we can edit the duplicate list of another question. That instruction is a bit more back in the transscript

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

@rene reopened. Not sure about other question, didn't dig in transcript yet.

rene

@SonictheAnonymousHedgehog now done /cc @ShadowWizardisEarForYou

Mast

11:11 AM

Should this be handled here or on Chess.meta?

Note the comments.

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

My opinion is in comments there already...

Mast

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou I know, is it attracting a good amount of close votes yet?

rene

@Mast I custom flagged it for a mod and asked to migrate.

well, look who went in head first ;)

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

@rene no, OP cross posted it from the site meta, as it turns out.

(so migrating is pointless)

rene

yeah

Not going to do that again

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

11:19 AM

@rene so you're not Spears

Mast

Removed by author. shrug

rene

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou Oops ...

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

:D

Saw a weird article about her son (teenager, I think, maybe even younger) posting on some social media that she's being held captive and he tries to help her. :/

Might be just a bored kid, no idea....

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

11:35 AM

Who reports manually MSE posts in non-MSE chat?

@SmokeDetector why

hmm? API?

kicking @Shree to get an answer ;)

Shree

11:56 AM

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou :P

rene

1:04 PM

@YaakovEllis I guess being given advice in a post notice that puts you at an information page instead of an immediate action would have made the asking experience for this user more enjoyable.

curious

3:32 PM

→ 37 messages moved to Chimney

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

4:35 PM

ugh... I put myself into trouble at work by replying to a customer too well. :(

Now they direct all customers to me.

djsmiley2k TMW

derp

never let work know you're good at your job

M.A.R.

5:13 PM

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou Just talk about one of the things you talk about in the Den

user674146

-1

Q: Can someone tell what are primitive translation vectors for BCC lattice?

I referred internet and two very renowned books ( Puri-Babbar and SO PILLAI ). COULDN'T find any primitive translation vector explanation for BCC or FCC. Eventually when I moved on to Reciprocal Lattices for BCC lattice. I saw a rhombohedron being used to explain the BCC translation vector. Thre...

user674146

This user has had some problem uploading image. Are others too having the same (I didn't had at least).

M.A.R.

@JohanLiebert Not here, and chat's often crappier than the main site

@JohanLiebert Image size is limited to 2 Mb

Or MB. Or mb, I have no idea.

user674146

OK, I think this is a problem from his side.

user674146

@JohanLiebert still can't upload. Guess you gotta have more than specific amount of points to upload. Rest is fine — user10339666 47 secs ago

M.A.R.

5:22 PM

New user restrictions; although I never fully understood how they work

user674146

Still shouldn't the notice say"blah...blah...you don't have enough rep...blah...blah...blah..." rather than saying "something went wrong"

M.A.R.

I never fully understood how they work, or how they break ;)

terdon

@M.A.R. That can't be right! Occitan has almost disappeared.

M.A.R.

@terdon No, it just turned into a . . . an odd color.

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

@djsmiley2kTMW too late

M.A.R.

5:32 PM

@ShadowWizardisEarForYou show off

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

@M.A.R. in front of the clients?

@M.A.R. shoe off 👟

M.A.R.

I dunno, do you sit side-by-side?

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

@M.A.R. no, mostly via support tickets.

M.A.R.

Uh, side to side? Besides each other? Yeah, probably this one

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

Much like SE

M.A.R.

5:33 PM

Can you sit on support tickets?

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

We even used Zendesk for a while but it didn't support Hebrew very well so ditched it.

M.A.R.

Go and ask on TWP

Shadow Wizard is Ear For You

@M.A.R. yes but not allowed to soil them, clients would get mad.

@M.A.R. brown?

Yaakov Ellis

6:51 PM

@rene see my comment reply there please

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

7:35 PM

@YaakovEllis Quick question before I make another post (if the answer to this question is "no", then my filing won't make sense): did the old question asking page feature a safeguard against accidental double posts? My computer has a strange glitch where sometimes when I click the mouse, the computer will register two clicks.

I've asked many questions from the same computer, and have never had a scenario where my question was double posted. Yet just after the new asking page was implemented, that happened for the first time.

If it did feature a safeguard against it, then a bug report that the new page lacks it would make sense. If it didn't, it won't.

Machavity

In that same vein, I just got a captcha in trying to answer on a site where I have well beyond Trusted User rep. Is that a one-off thing?

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Machavity Did you take a long time to write the answer?

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Q: Has the maximum time threshold for question CAPTCHAs been reintroduced recently?

I've noticed that when I take a long time to write up a question, and don't submit until the next day or later, I get prompted with a CAPTCHA. After some searching, I found that there used to be a 40-minute time limit for asking questions after which a CAPTCHA would appear, but apparently this w...

support captcha time-limit

Machavity

A bit. Maybe 15 mins.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

That's probably not the case, then.

Could be activity from the same network

Machavity

Hmm

Rob

7:41 PM

@JohanLiebert @M.A.R. Image Uploading needs 10 rep on some sites.

Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog

@Rob Not entirely true, unless something has just changed. Image uploading can be done by all users, but image embedding (i.e. use of the image markup) can only be done by users with 10 rep on those sites. Lower-rep users can still upload and link images, but can't embed them.

user400654

🚽

M.A.R.

8:46 PM

Man, Q-ban algorithm on meta.SE is sure lenient!

Kevin had a dozen highly downvoted posts and apparently wasn't still Q-banned

user400654

hmm... i only recall one

M.A.R.

Let that be a testimony to one other infamous troll friend of ours who wielded the "Q bans are oppression" argument

user400654

eh, nvm, all my downvoted posts were answers, must be another kevin

M.A.R.

@user400654 I count ten posts from his profile, one or two probably already deleted, that's a dozen, no less

Haha I will un-GDPR your identity

user400654

the one network i participate heavily on has my old username

M.A.R.

8:49 PM

Well, you'd have to try hard to beat this Kevin. Really hard

user400654

well, not my "old" username, the old one I only use for gaming now

M.A.R.

But the middle old username, like new if you're ancient, but right in the middle

user400654

it's odd. like, the main gaming username i use i started using in 08, i have no idea what i did before that

M.A.R.

Use randomized usernames?

user400654

i was in a UT99 clan for years, but can't recall what name i used there.

rene

9:19 PM

@YaakovEllis and it is done meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/394552/… ... thanks for checking, that is appreciated.

ymb1

10:16 PM

helllo! is there any way to search for questions tagged with one specific tag and no others?

i.e. single-tag (specified) questions

Rob

@ymb1 write [tag-goes-here] in the search bar using square brackets. If specific ones come up that you want to exclude put a negative before the tag, there's no simple way to ask for only one tagged questions.

ymb1

@Rob if I search for [x], it still shows questions tagged [x]+[y]+[z]

Rob

[x] -[y] -[z]

ymb1

@Rob issue is plenty of non-[x]s come up, but I suppose it's the only way

Rob

SEDE

Just a sec

ymb1

10:26 PM

found this data.stackexchange.com/aviation/query/463100/…

but doesn't work

just found it I mean

neither does this data.stackexchange.com/aviation/query/523654/…

tyt! :)

Rob

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Q: Search for singleton tags on questions

Is there any way to search for questions that have a specific tag and only that lonely tag? In other words, I'd like to be able to do something like the following to find questions that have a single tag and no other: [mytag] tagcount:1 This would be very useful for tag cleanup situations to ...

feature-request tags search

Back in 10m

ymb1

that one worked! many thanks

Rob

10:44 PM

✔️

ymb1

@Rob and its purpose fulfilled: aviation.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4049/14897 thanks again

rene

they all use this de-normalized tags column which is pretty horrible, excution plan wise. Use the proper tables to get that result: data.stackexchange.com/aviation/query/1209144?Tag=procedure

ymb1

I'll take your word for it (Y) :D

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