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Lmao. RIF chads keep winning. Reddit devs probably can't figure out how the API works because they've been too busy implementing more snoos or some dumb shit.
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If it's true that everything in reddit is in a relational database with only two tables because it was programmed by malevolent tards, maybe there's only one person who ever knew how this shit worked and they don't work there anymore.
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If the tables were
users
andobjects
with the latter being a UNIXy "everything is a file" style deal. I guess it sounds like a nightmare, but I would be kind of interested in what an intelligent person, who was familiar with more standard RDB paradigms, would do with it.Jump in the discussion.
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Pretty sure my dad would just immediately shoot everyone in the back of the head.
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As long as you approached it with the right attitude I think it could be kind of fun for a month or two.
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Breaking the rules is never fun. Father would beat when I broke Codd's rules.
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Codd even presciently anticipated this _precise_ use case. Since I can only assume all RDBs religiously adhere to these guidelines, there's no reason to think that there would even be any performance/usage downsides. That's it. I've sold myself. This is the future. Get on board or get left behind.
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@Aevann underscores _render_ right in preview but not in the final markup. This is an _exceedingly_ serious issue that demands immediate mitigation.
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just use astericks
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:You best believe that codd anticipated this use case, ya hear? And all dem RDBs best be adhering to dem guidelines, or dey gonna be left behind fo sure. Ya feel me?
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i think diemorz was a major contributor to the codebase but he made his own reddit alt
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It's one of those things that's completely opaque from the outside so
Employees on that one site seem to say they don't know what is going on
Reddit employees tell us they prioritize other features instead of making anything work, especially old.reddit
From the last guy's around still with a pulse's testimony they tend to burn through money and employees like kindling and they're somehow down as often as kiwi farms despite having a budget
Specific problems are really anyone's guess, but it's really obvious that problems are there.
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