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Figuring things out is great, it's how we all learn, and it's an essential skill. But if you lack curiosity and/or respect for the specifics of the technologie
by zzzeek 13y ago
Figuring things out is great, it's how we all learn, and it's an essential skill. But if you lack curiosity and/or respect for the specifics of the technologies you're deploying, the systems you build by intuition alone will ultimately fail.
- RogerL 13y agoYes, but I suspect his point was "I work with NoSQL, so testing me on my SQL knowledge isn't a very good proxy for my ability to tune a database". If he didn't know the details of MongoDB, and that was in the hot path (let's face it, for many situations it just doesn't matter), then that would be worrying.