Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.
- Thomas Jefferson
https://pski.net/2011/11/01/parkshark/
ParkShark was a parking space sharing iOS app. The technology was sound but the market timing was a little early. We were even talking to some larger delivery companies about a business-side component. The product failed because the two founders, myself and a friend, are engineers through-and-through. We just didn't have the passion for the business side of things to really make it happen.
I was a master of Atari Video Olympics on the 2600 system. Time to come out of retirement?
I still program the 68K today in K&R C. I recently released a Dropbox client for Tandy XENIX.
TRS-XENIX was Tandy's implementation for their Model 16/6000 MC68000 based line of business machines. Here's a video of my working Tandy 6000 system.
The TRS-80 is still alive! Everyone come listen to our TRS-80 focused podcast TRS-80 Trash Talk
You're doing it right for your application! MySQL or PostgreSQL would most probably be slower and introduce a lot more overhead as they are client/server oriented systems. Don't listen to those armchair architects!
True from my experience as well. If you're going to invest in a Data Scientist, you want the cachet of having a Phd in that role.