this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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Software Gore

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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I never use tab delimiters but thinking about it, it is much less common to encounter a tab character in a CSV field than a comma...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tabs are also usually not allowed in many fields. The thing is, tab delimiters are fine, but the data sets often get stored without file extensions. Let me tell ya, I was the only person on staff to even know what a file extension was, let alone how to load it into software that can process tab delimiters!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ugh. Bless you