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Re:The Untold Story of SQLite by krakov on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:30PM (#27723696)
> You couldn’t just Google how to build a database

> Fortunately, I didn’t know any experts and so I did it anyway

He obviously lives by a certain ethos of self-reliance so not sure he would have talked to experts if could.

But makes me wonder: given it so easy now to find the experts compared to 2000, to google what they think - it is easier to get discouraged?

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Re:The Untold Story of SQLite by johannes1234321 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:36PM (#27723738)
The question is: If he had asked experts early on, would he have ended up less self reliant? And would we have gotten an SQLite as good as it is now or would he have been told "oh that's too complex" and be discouraged by experts? :)
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