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overcast | 2 years ago

Step 1: Download Geolocation Database

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Aachen|2 years ago

Scroll down, the article is confusingly below that

nonethewiser|2 years ago

Step 1: Download Geolocation Data

Unless you think CSV is a database?

debesyla|2 years ago

Maybe a dumb question (I have no knowledge), but why wouldn't we think of .CSV files as databases? It can have columns and rows filled with information and isn't that what makes a thing a database?

nobleach|2 years ago

Are we really going to do the mincing of words here? Did you need the word "dump" or "export" before you understood? Although I wasn't wild about the original poster's "step 1" terseness, it's silly to think a normal person wouldn't be able to parse the sentence well enough to understand "download the database contents - perhaps stored in CSV format".

tmpX7dMeXU|2 years ago

If in your mind database implies a type of technology and not something conceptual, you’re really just outing yourself as someone that needs someone between you and the boardroom. Certainly not something to show off on Hacker News.