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>started working as a data scientist in 2019

>Just Use Postgres, You Nerd. You Dweeb.

I'm really sick and tired of kids coming in and shitting on what we had to do to search a tb worth of data in 2009 (or 2004).

A computer in 2019 (or 2024) has enough power to run postgress queries to extract statistics from columns.

Yeah, great.

Now try running that stack on an iphone 7 and report your results back. We didn't create all that complexity for shits and giggles, we did it because it was at the edge of what was possible and the companies that got it right made billions.



> try running that stack on an iphone 7

Why?


Because that's the average machine we had to use back then.


I one of us misinterpreted this part. Isn't the author echoing other people's sentiments here?




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