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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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You also definitely shouldn't be using String non-monotonic UUIDs for primary keys in a database, like, literally ever, but what the fuck do I know, I just do databases for a living, I'm not the all-knowing GPT code wizard.
UUIDs make great primary keys in some applications. If you generated 100 trillion UUID4s, there’s about a 1 in a billion chance of finding a duplicate. Thats usually good enough for my databases.
The issue here was that they used a single UUID instead of generating a new one for each record.
they also stored this thing as a fucking string. looking up strings is costly.
naw bro we've got indexes bro it'll be fine bro
can't wait for the Clever Idea to offload costly string indices to an external source composed of redis box and some shitfuck app doing tf-idf after a Extensive Research into how to make string lookups be faster
This sounds like a case of premature optimization to me. We have plenty of databases using strings as Ids and they're all more than fast enough for any of our purposes. And that's with considerable volume going through.
I've never seen bad performance from string ids be an issue.
so we're calling "not doing pointless unnecessary work" premature optimization now? cool cool
Making me learn how to do things the right way is premature optimization
ok shut up now
"what are you talking about? a hammer removes bolts just fine. i personally don't have an issue with the tiny bit of extra elbow grease to wedge the claw around the bolt-head and twist; if anything, it's saving me effort from having to use a wrench."
I really should reread that sometime
Also some Mickens
You haven't seen shit then, simple as that.
why is it always programming dot dev?