What a complete nonsensical comment. Is Facebook just a frontend on top of a user DB?
MySQL is a nicer alternative to managing really big CSV flat files on a filesystem.
Facebook is an RSS, address book, message share.
Etc.
>nothing is worth anything
Very zen, worth rethinking the value of this statement too.
Take away the shallow value judgements like 'just' and you better get to the real quality differences.
Take away the shallow value judgements like 'just' and you start conversations about the depth of a thing instead of emotional discussions defending your positions.
The entire slack userbase could vaporise within weeks if slack made a wrong move. Slack doesn't really bring anything special to the table.