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RethinkDB Postmortem
That is not Unix. Unix is small, composable, correct and 80% of what you need (you write the rest). It doesn't mean 20% of quality was sacrificed.
pvg
on Jan 18, 2017
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The original "worse is better" example is precisely about Unix making a trade-off in which it gives up on "correctness"
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