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		GHFigs on April 13, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things You Don’t Know About User IDs That Will Des... Sometimes you have to get things done now and have to come back to understanding the problem in depth later. This is a great way to create whole new problems.

jrockway on April 13, 2009 [–]

Do you know every implementation detail of the database management system you use?

The fact that proprietary databases exist means that you can use libraries without understanding all the code in them.

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