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Bad article IMO and no idea how it's front page. Yes a database may rely on b trees under the hood, but thankfully someone else has implemented that complexity
by planetjones 10y ago
Bad article IMO and no idea how it's front page. Yes a database may rely on b trees under the hood, but thankfully someone else has implemented that complexity so my web developer can concentrate on higher level interactions with it.
His herpes analogy is ridiculous. And I've used brew since getting a Mac and no I'm not suffering now.
- awinter-py 10y agofront page because the 'reversing binary trees considered harmful' article got a lot of attention last year
- Lendal 10y agoExactly, I would take this interview question to mean that this place is so cheap that they won't even invest in a proper database engine for the product to run on. You have to implement the database engine yourself. And that you probably won't get paid commensurately for it.