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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
CSV is so deceptively simple that people don't care understanding it. I wasted countless hours working around services providing non-escaped data that off the shelf parsers could not parse.
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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I thought Nvidia is selling shovels
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·2 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Fully agree, and my first association was the "Men Will Do Everything But Go to Therapy" meme.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
My former employer was a lot more YOLO than that. When I joined (in the mid 2000s) there was no https on the website, passwords stored in plain text, no backup strategy, etc. But they printed money with their system.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think there was no realtime CC processing back then. In my last job I found artefacts like fax forms where they would write down collected credit card data (from online subscriptions) to be sent to their processor. To have at least _some_ safety they would just check [1] if the CC number is sound.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
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·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I think the European equivalent is politicians "landing" a consulting job at Gazprom.
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·6 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Apple has a history of doing everything in their own way if feasible. Not sure if one should extrapolate from them to the entire market.