[urthor]

Isn't the entire field of software just people patting themselves on the back for some extremely basic relational algebra?

I don't know what I should be proud of when I learn something new, it all seems extremely basic compared as soon as I learn it.

[mint2]

I wouldn’t say that anymore than I’d say soccer World Cup is a bunch of people worshipped for jogging around passing a ball around.

It’s pretty easy to simplify things down until they sound unimpressive.

[hansvm]

It's kind of like math; all math concepts are impossible until you figure out why they're actually easy.