this comment section has gotta be in the absolute upper echelons of non-RTFA i have seen on HN in a long time. even for HN. i acknowledge my own bias, though: i

this comment section has gotta be in the absolute upper echelons of non-RTFA i have seen on HN in a long time. even for HN. i acknowledge my own bias, though: i’ve been an admirer of nathan marz’s work from afar for years now, and basically trust him implicitly. but… wow. what fraction of the comments even engage with the substance of the article in any way? it’s not like they didn’t put their money where their mouth(s) is/are: they feel strongly enough about the problem that they built an entire goddamn “dont call it a database” (and business) around it. i’ve always been pretty sympathetic to code-/application- driven indexing, storage, etc.— it just seems intuitively more correct to me, if done appropriately. the biggest “feature” of databases, afaict, is that most people dont trust themselves to do this appropriately xD. and they distrust themselves in this regard so thoroughly that they deny the mere possibility of it being useful. some weird form of learned helplessness. you can keep cramming all of your variously-shaped blocks into tuple-shaped holes if you want, but it seems awfully closed-minded to deny the possibility of a better model on principle. what principle? the lindy effect?