Re:SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases
by bogwog on Thursday February 16, 2023 @09:53AM
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> and it's always disheartening for people to claim that choosing not to focus on specific technologies makes you a worse human being.
Hey, I'm the guy who wrote that original response to you. I apologize if that's how you interpreted my comment, but that's not what I meant by it. I wasn't even trying to say that you're a bad engineer (and certainly not a bad human being), I just wanted to say that I disagree with the attitude of that comment. I'm sure if I said it to you in person, you would have picked up on the non-hostile intent and narrow scope of my criticism, but the internet tends to twist things in very negative ways.
Nobody can know everything, and not knowing something doesn't make someone a bad engineer. Software development in particular is more about learning than about knowing, which is why when I see someone saying that they don't need to learn something because <X>, it bothers me. In your comment, you said that you don't want to be a release engineer, but IMO that's a poor excuse since "release engineer" isn't even a role that exists at many places.
And for the record, I didn't even look at the project you linked to. So if you also thought I was criticizing it, then rest assured that I'm much too lazy for that. When I was still learning, online tutorials and resources like yours were extremely valuable to me, so I know how helpful they can be to people even if they're not "perfect" by some snobby asshole's definition...so keep at it!
Hey, I'm the guy who wrote that original response to you. I apologize if that's how you interpreted my comment, but that's not what I meant by it. I wasn't even trying to say that you're a bad engineer (and certainly not a bad human being), I just wanted to say that I disagree with the attitude of that comment. I'm sure if I said it to you in person, you would have picked up on the non-hostile intent and narrow scope of my criticism, but the internet tends to twist things in very negative ways.
Nobody can know everything, and not knowing something doesn't make someone a bad engineer. Software development in particular is more about learning than about knowing, which is why when I see someone saying that they don't need to learn something because <X>, it bothers me. In your comment, you said that you don't want to be a release engineer, but IMO that's a poor excuse since "release engineer" isn't even a role that exists at many places.
And for the record, I didn't even look at the project you linked to. So if you also thought I was criticizing it, then rest assured that I'm much too lazy for that. When I was still learning, online tutorials and resources like yours were extremely valuable to me, so I know how helpful they can be to people even if they're not "perfect" by some snobby asshole's definition...so keep at it!