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When Wikipedia simply says otherwise I wonder where you got the "for fun" reference from. I tend to almost blindly trust comments on HN but this one was quite o
by h1d 9y ago
When Wikipedia simply says otherwise I wonder where you got the "for fun" reference from.
I tend to almost blindly trust comments on HN but this one was quite off.
- lV2ZUWnJUAGc 9y agoYou baited me into making an account. See https://changelog.com/podcast/201#transcript-100 https://changelog.com/podcast/201#transcript-100 >I had couple months off and I thought, "Hey, I'm just gonna go and cobble together a really quick and simple database engine that just does a few very simple SQL commands, insert the lead, update and select." No joints, wasn't trying to be efficient... All I needed to do was pull stuff off of a disk in that memory. >And I put it out there and... I've been doing open source for years before this, putting things on my website, and people would find my thing -- or well, you know, I'd put things on my website and it'd get like five downloads per year, or something like that. I'd figured this would be just another one of those things, but for whatever reason it really resonated with people.