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> Databases shouldn't be exciting. They should just work. A complicated thing which just works is exciting.
by msla 6y ago
> Databases shouldn't be exciting. They should just work.
A complicated thing which just works is exciting.
- bigbubba 6y agoOne man's exciting is another's snorefest. A lot of people would probably laugh at the suggestion that anything involving computers could be exciting.
- systemvoltage 6y agoIt is unproductive to talk about subjective opinions of excitement. The GP was referring to "Databases shouldn't be exciting" - not in the traditional sense of the word, but a metaphor that hinges on "excitement" being new features, frivolous decorations, unnecessary tangents, losing vision of what a database should do, frantic patching and heated bikeshedding discussions. It wasn't meant as "Ooooo I am excited about a database".
- bigbubba 6y agoI think you're restating my point.