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by scottlamb 1680 days ago
> I know we disagree, I know you're going to continue disagreeing, I know I don't want to have the conversation.

Please consider not chiming in on the next article like this then. I think your attitude of (paraphrasing) "no good programmer would have made the costly mistake you shared, and articles about it aren't worthwhile" is super harmful to our industry. It's the polar opposite of the blameless postmortem approach I'm fond of.
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Grimm1 1680 days ago
This one in particular is not worthwhile on the front page of HN, that's my take. They're most definitely useful for beginners, or maybe people just learning about databases.

I'm not going to not post simply because you find it disagreeable, there are plenty of people here who seem to agree with me.

Blameless post mortems are great, for your team. I am not his team mate, and I don't really feel a kinship with every developer under the sun. And for what it's worth I don't blame this developer for anything. If anything I lament the institutions that failed them on the way to this point in time. To me this is a symptom of systemic rot.

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deathhand 1679 days ago
Your submissions are nothing but "ask HN". Leech. To chide about "not knowing" but then yourself ask the community seems a bit hypocritical.
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Grimm1 1679 days ago
I asked before making a mistake, I also asked to do some light market validation. Try to keep the ad hominems down. If you can't make an argument against the point and have to attack me as a person, it's just validation. Most of my contributions here are in my upvoted comments like my op, which clearly a good amount of people share.

Generally speaking I don't want to submit most things, largely and because like this post I find most thoughts people have to be garbage, including my own, most things and people simply aren't interesting or useful.

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