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from the semi-religious-wars dept.
Nerval's Lobster writes For the past ten years, developers and tech pros have made a game of comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL, with the latter seen by many as technically superior. Those who support PostgreSQL argue that its standards support and ACID compliance outweighs MySQL's speed. But MySQL remains popular thanks to its inclusion in every Linux Web hosting package, meaning that a mind-boggling number of Web developers have used it. In a new article, developer David Bolton compares MySQL/MariaDB 5.7.6 (released March 9, 2015) with PostgreSQL 9.4.1 and thinks the latter remains superior on several fronts, including subqueries, JSON support, and better licensing and data integrity: "I think MySQL has done a great job of improving itself to keep relevant, but I have to confess to favoring PostgreSQL."
And SimCity came with a big development team that could work to patch any issues they had after launch. I didn't see anyone jumping through hoops to give them a pass for shipping an incomplete game.
Why would you do an AMA on slashdot? Unless you have a strong opinion on bitcoin or want to talk about something controversial Linus said 8 years ago, this doesn't seem like the place to hold things kind of thing.
If you think your career is finished at 30 you either don't have the technical savvy to succeed or need to get a little self confidence
I'm a 29 year old non-OS programmer who is learning Linux device drivers. My boss didn't ask me to learn it -- I told him I had to in order to continue doing my job. Get some textbooks, create a test/development environment you can use where you won't break anything, and go buckwild.