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What a complete nonsensical comment. Is Facebook just a frontend on top of a user DB?
by jensvdh 7y ago
What a complete nonsensical comment. Is Facebook just a frontend on top of a user DB?
- tantalor 7y agoNailed it
- Spivak 7y agoIs MySQL just a frontend on a filesystem?
- colechristensen 7y agoRemove the pejorative 'just' and the answer is an obvious uncontroversial yes. MySQL is a nicer alternative to managing really big CSV flat files on a filesystem. Facebook is an RSS, address book, message share. Etc.
- sgustard 7y agoAirplanes are just hollowed out birds, and so on.
- paxys 7y agoSure but if you keep following that analogy then nothing is worth anything
- colechristensen 7y agoI mean remove the value judgement. >nothing is worth anything Very zen, worth rethinking the value of this statement too. Take away the shallow value judgements like 'just' and you better get to the real quality differences. Take away the shallow value judgements like 'just' and you start conversations about the depth of a thing instead of emotional discussions defending your positions.
- tty2300 7y agoAnyone could build Facebook, the value is the existing userbase. I would think that slack would be one of the easiest tools to replace because its only used within organisations so you can get everyone to switch at once. The entire slack userbase could vaporise within weeks if slack made a wrong move. Slack doesn't really bring anything special to the table.