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David Heinemeier Hansson: The greater the versatility, the higher the abstraction, the less useful for the specifics.

I’m old enough to remember when relational databases were controversial.  Some of the arguments brought forward at those times are very reminiscent of the ones being made today.  Meanwhile David’s The sprint of ideas before release are making me drool, particularly as I had an opportunity to discuss a few of them with David at ETech last week.