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  • mateG@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I was surprised by how many of these I already knew but also horrified at some of the things I have now read about

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          1 year ago

          As someone who professionally writes code that has to ingest mail carrier invoices/other CSVs, this is probably the worst I’ve seen, but some of the files I’ve dealt with were … let’s say comparably frustrating.

          Mostly it’s because mail carriers tend to write these files for humans/accountants to read and audit, so they’ll pull shit like putting in a whole differently-formatted chart above the actual CSV formatted table, or sending us password-protected, encrypted XSLX files that we need a human to decrypt using Excel before we can ingest it with our data tools.

          Leave it to Japan to take it to the extreme by making their software in a fully bespoke way.