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Word supported a mode, in order to speed up saving, changes were appended to the file in a diff-like format. How could you know you were reading the right conte
by pests 3y ago
Word supported a mode, in order to speed up saving, changes were appended to the file in a diff-like format. How could you know you were reading the right content if it could be overwritten later on?
- skissane 3y agoSometimes “reading the right content” isn’t that important - e.g. “what is this random doc document about?” “oh, it is a design doc for the XYZ subsystem”. Unless the changes completely rewrote the document into a completely different document, which I expect would be rare If I was going to use the document in anger, I would open it with something proper, of course
- vidarh 3y agoI once negotiated a higher offer for a job because the company sent out an offer letter they'd done this with, where the deleted details for another offer gave me info about another role that made me (correctly) guess there was room to ask for more.
- pests 3y agoReminds me of whatever image format or editor that handled cropping the same way. Data was still there, bounds just redefined. I remember a celebrity leaking some photos or similar back in the early 2000s or similar.