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Re:Do you even need a database? by whalesalad on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @12:06PM (#47781093)
Reminds me of the infamous Robert Virding quote:

“Virding's First Rule of Programming: Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.”

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Re:Do you even need a database? by mrec on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @01:23PM (#47782218)
In case you weren't aware, that in itself is riffing on Greenspun's tenth rule:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

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