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		theshrike79 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Slop is not necessarily the future Or not using the data model properly, zero foreign keys in databases, no triggers checking column contents etc. "We'll do it on the app level". sigh

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lmm 8 days ago [–]

No, that part is just smart. Databases have terrible support for nontrivial datastructures, doing everything at the app level is the only reasonable response.

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