[planetjones]

Bad article IMO and no idea how it's front page. Yes a database may rely on b trees under the hood, but thankfully someone else has implemented that complexity so my web developer can concentrate on higher level interactions with it.

His herpes analogy is ridiculous. And I've used brew since getting a Mac and no I'm not suffering now.

[Lendal]

Exactly, I would take this interview question to mean that this place is so cheap that they won't even invest in a proper database engine for the product to run on. You have to implement the database engine yourself. And that you probably won't get paid commensurately for it.

[awinter-py]

front page because the 'reversing binary trees considered harmful' article got a lot of attention last year