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yakshaving_jgt on Oct 6, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any ot...

> but I had to stop somewhere

Why? You seem unsatisfied with any of the previous layers of abstraction, so where does it end? When can I truly call myself a user of a database?

ukj on Oct 6, 2019 [–]

When you don't have to fix it when it stops servicing requests, or worry about scaling workloads.

When you treat it as a black-to-grey box, not a grey-to-white box.

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