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		_uvvk on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The XY Problem (2014) > "I'm not interested in Go, I'm interested in the power of future computers!" Reminded me of this story. I told a co-worker, while we worked on our DB: `- I wish we had the money to run Oracle. - Are you crazy? Postgres is awesome and perfect for us! - I know. I'm not saying "I wish we were running Oracle". I just wanted to have the money to do that. :)`

salgernon on June 1, 2019 [–]

“If we had some ham we could have ham and eggs if we had some eggs.”

aib on June 2, 2019 | [–]

That sounds like currying.

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