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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:02:36 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 08/29/2014 10:04 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, schema migration is an ugly problem.
>
> It's not really any worse than any other sort of complex data
> structure change, is it? If your persistent data lived in a pickle
> file, it would likely be as bad or worse.
>
>> ... suckitude ...
>
> Nice word. Let's use it more so my polly app will see it as a common
> word and maybe offer it to me in a potential XKCD 936 password. :-)
>
> suckitude suckitude suckitude suckitude suckitude suckitude suckitude

Speaking of suckitude, we could classify technologies that way:

xml: major suckitude

rpc: no suckitude

python: negative suckitude

oh, and suckitude is neither cruft nor corpus !

Polly want a cracker?  ;)

--
~Ethan~