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Re:RethinkDB Postmortem by jacobush on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @07:45AM (#13425931)
Also it was fast on crappy hardware and easy to compile and setup. 80%. Better is worse. Unix.
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Re:RethinkDB Postmortem by jpgvm on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @07:59AM (#13425986)
That is not Unix. Unix is small, composable, correct and 80% of what you need (you write the rest). It doesn't mean 20% of quality was sacrificed.
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Re:RethinkDB Postmortem by pvg on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:25AM (#13426128)
The original "worse is better" example is precisely about Unix making a trade-off in which it gives up on "correctness"
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