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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by alexbanks on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @12:15PM (#22947160)
And with CSS, basically all you do is tell the browser how things look.
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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by paulryanrogers on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @01:42PM (#22948147)
Conceptually yes. The devil is in the details: tables, flexbox, grid, div-soup, inconsistent naming, etc.
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Re:Things I wished more developers knew about databases by alexbanks on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:48PM (#22961174)
Sure. Conceptually is fine. But I'm pointing out how ridiculous it is to water down CSS/SQL to "Basically just _____". Nothing is hard by that logic.
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