Except that it was hidden deeply in the documentation. It's like making a car that has the gas and brake pedals switched, and then blaming accidents on people not reading section 5 of the owner's manual.
I'm hardly an inexperienced programmer. I've used Cassandra, SimpleDB, Voldemort, etc. I wrote part of the Inktomi Search Engine in the 90s, and plenty of (what today would be called) NoSQL stores over the years.
A default that's so counterintuitive for a database should be featured prominently with a huge neon sign. It wasn't in the Ruby tutorial, or in any of the many documents I read. It's buried deep in the Mongo website, and the first Google match about the 32-bit limitation is a blog post from 2009.
I'm hardly an inexperienced programmer. I've used Cassandra, SimpleDB, Voldemort, etc. I wrote part of the Inktomi Search Engine in the 90s, and plenty of (what today would be called) NoSQL stores over the years.
A default that's so counterintuitive for a database should be featured prominently with a huge neon sign. It wasn't in the Ruby tutorial, or in any of the many documents I read. It's buried deep in the Mongo website, and the first Google match about the 32-bit limitation is a blog post from 2009.