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> Seems to be a bit useless without it. ...In the same way a dictionary is useless if you want a novel.
by _jal 6y ago
> Seems to be a bit useless without it.
...In the same way a dictionary is useless if you want a novel.
- fermienrico 6y agoNo, dictionary adds value for most users, billions of people. When you come across a word you don't know the meaning of, you can look it up. Cookbook metadata DB provides value to a vanishingly small % of the people - primarily academic researchers. I am not saying that this whole enterprise is useless, I am saying that your analogy doesn't hold up.