What’s so exciting about Postgres?

Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by edoceo on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:19PM (#24947412)

Hello fellow "merely competent" engineer. I recommend we both remove "merely" from our title. Inexperience grows from the bottom, I've gotten "better" by simply being too stubborn to get worse. Keep up the mediocre work!

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Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by donw on Friday October 30, 2020 @07:15PM (#24947752)

> Inexperience grows from the bottom, I've gotten "better" by simply being too stubborn to get worse.

That is quite possibly one of the best quotes I have heard on how to approach discipline in engineering.

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Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by systemvoltage on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:35PM (#24948948)

I don't understand, can you please explain?

> Inexperience grows from the bottom

In what way?

> I've gotten "better" by simply being too stubborn to get worse

How does one get better by wanting to get worse?

This makes no sense to me.

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Re:What’s so exciting about Postgres? by btschaegg on Saturday October 31, 2020 @03:18AM (#24949667)

I read it as "refusing to get worse". Which implies that your environmnent is getting worse, making you better by comparison.

I'm not sure I agree, but I can understand the sentiment.

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