I was reading through some forum posts and having a really hard time understanding a bit of technical criticism. I thought to myself, 95% of this is going over my head, but I feel like I’m learning something reading this and I’m hoping to get to understanding."
I kept reading down the posts, spending 20 minutes in this long thread of replies. I see people talking about theoretical challenges I’ve never come across, but hey, I build what I build and these guys are pros.
But then something happened, and I realized I had wasted my time. The main person offering criticism said, in slightly different words, “PostgreSQL has been a huge problem and that’s why I’m building my own database.”
I now know I don’t have to take this person very seriously.