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Step 1: Download Geolocation Database

• nonethewiser 3y ago
  Step 1: Download Geolocation Data Unless you think CSV is a database?
  • debesyla 3y ago
    Maybe a dumb question (I have no knowledge), but why wouldn't we think of .CSV files as databases? It can have columns and rows filled with information and isn't that what makes a thing a database?
    • nobleach 3y ago
      Best I can guess here, the reply is considering relational databases as "real databases" and flat files.... not real.
  • nobleach 3y ago
    Are we really going to do the mincing of words here? Did you need the word "dump" or "export" before you understood? Although I wasn't wild about the original poster's "step 1" terseness, it's silly to think a normal person wouldn't be able to parse the sentence well enough to understand "download the database contents - perhaps stored in CSV format".
  • tmpX7dMeXU 3y ago
    If in your mind database implies a type of technology and not something conceptual, you’re really just outing yourself as someone that needs someone between you and the boardroom. Certainly not something to show off on Hacker News.
• Aachen 3y ago
  Scroll down, the article is confusingly below that