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Nailed it

• Spivak 7y ago
  Is MySQL just a frontend on a filesystem?
  • colechristensen 7y ago
    Remove 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 ago
      Airplanes are just hollowed out birds, and so on.
    • paxys 7y ago
      Sure but if you keep following that analogy then nothing is worth anything
      • colechristensen 7y ago
        I 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.