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SQLite: the secret behind Apple's success? (humor)
- pstuart 3y agoWorthless clickbait. SQLite is beloved here (for good reason) but this adds nothing to our understanding and utilization of it. The gold standard for correlation confusion: https://pastafarians.org.au/pastafarianism/pirates-and-global-warming/ https://pastafarians.org.au/pastafarianism/pirates-and-globa...
- mpereira 3y agoSorry. It's just a joke. I saw the original in Dr. Richard Hipp's "SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network" and thought it was pretty funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jib2AmRb_rk I added a "(humor)" tag at the end.
- AriedK 3y agoMore: https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
- epolanski 3y agoI love how they needed to edit the title and add (humor) to prevent more netizens to take it seriously.
- ozarker 3y agoMy wife left me the day sqlite came out
- clows 3y ago> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
- bastardoperator 3y agoNow do Android...
- mattl 3y agoI don't think Apple's success has anything to do with Android (humor)
- k2enemy 3y agoYes, I know this is humor (and as an sqlite fan, I got a good chuckle). Other have pointed out the spurious correlation issue, but there's also the difficulty of viewing growth data on a linear scale. Switching to a logarithmic scale makes 2004 a less obvious inflection point between no growth and rapid growth.
- KerrAvon 3y agoWhat's interesting is that this actually represents the point in time where the NeXT people in charge started to realize that they didn't know everything and stopped resenting the idea that some of the classic Mac ideas were actually valuable to developers. Prior to 10.3, there was no really adequate built-in replacement for some use cases of the classic Mac OS Resource Manager. You either compiled sqlite into your Mac app or used some often inferior solution. Sometimes plists were better! Sometimes really not, even with all of the limits of the classic Resource Manager.
- mpereira 3y agoSounds like you're talking from first hand experience!