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you can download it from fitbit, though the daily activity is structured in a hostile json format.

• diggan 7y ago
  > hostile json format This is new. Is "hostile" referring to a data format that has been created to be as un-portable as possible? Feels like a more accurate description would be to just saw "poorly designed format" as you cannot know their intent (unless they published their intent of course)
  • setr 7y ago
    You can derive/assume intent; it'd be pointless to only claim intent when specifically stated (you can't always assume stated intent isn't actual intent either...).
  • beckingz 7y ago
    Either their storage systems and file formatting philosophy are too sophisticated for me to understand or they're intentionally delivered in a way that requires moderately advanced data processing skills to use.
  • Avamander 7y ago
    Nothing to do with json, if someone wants then data can be always represented in hard to understand formats.
    • beckingz 7y ago
      json is a good file format, but the way that fitbit exports the data is strangely partitioned by file and object depth. Machine readable certainly, but most machines will need a lot of guidance to turn it into a useful dataset.
      • Avamander 7y ago
        Yeah and you could make an XML or a TOML that requires just as much guidance for computers to parse. That was my point.
        • ldrndll 7y ago
          I assume their point was that it is both hostile and incidentally uses JSON, not that its hostility results from using JSON.
    • megaremote 7y ago
      No one is attacking json here.