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Perfect deployment of HL33tibCe7’s aphorism: > For every interesting HN post, there’s at least one smug commenter who thinks he knows better, but actually does
by HL33tibCe7 3y ago
Perfect deployment of HL33tibCe7’s aphorism:
> For every interesting HN post, there’s at least one smug commenter who thinks he knows better, but actually doesn’t
https://github.com/SixArm/usv/tree/main/doc/faq#why-use-control-picture-characters-rather-than-the-control-characters-themselves https://github.com/SixArm/usv/tree/main/doc/faq#why-use-cont...
- ok_dad 3y agoThe OP was probably assuming no human would want to actually read a CSV raw, and so was probably correct from their POV. Your POV is probably from someone who reads CSVs raw. You don't have to be so rude about it, you're being even more smug than the OP, probably.
- groby_b 3y agoOne of the two likely works with CSVs for a living, and it's definitely not the person suggesting "What if it just was hard to eyeball/edit". If you don't understand why something is the way it is, it might be better to start with a question than with a statement implying the tech misses existing tech. Chesterton's fence still applies, and ignoring it means you're outsourcing your work to others. RTFM is a perfectly valid answer at that point.
- ok_dad 3y agoI use CSVs for a living but I rarely read them manually. I’d rather have ASCII than Unicode in my CSVs. My point above, though, is that everyone has opinions and you don’t have to be a dickhead about “correcting” them.