petersr

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[–] petersr 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Let me tell you something. I cannot tell you what company, but I have been tasked with putting Excel files in git "because they are just zip archives with xml" and it is just a disaster. Everytime you save the document it will save certain parts of the xml code in arbitrary ways (like each image is in a list and the order of that list is random everytime), some metadata is re-written everytime like time of last modified and finally all the xml files are one single line. The git diffs are complete useless and noisy and just looking at the Excel file will cause git to consider it updated. So sure, you can use git to snapshot you Office documents... But just don't.

[–] petersr 14 points 8 months ago (15 children)

Sounds like you should find a new product to use.

[–] petersr 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Hard to argue with that logic 😂

[–] petersr 19 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I am Danish and I have never seen this...

[–] petersr 3 points 9 months ago

And someone's broken heart!

[–] petersr 22 points 9 months ago

Can we at least see it?

[–] petersr 2 points 9 months ago

And how long you watched

[–] petersr 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And would you call SSH a library?

[–] petersr 14 points 10 months ago

Look. Doing A-E is going to be expensive enough for the young fella. I don't think he can also afford gunshot wound treatment.

[–] petersr 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I will also go with 2013.

[–] petersr 26 points 10 months ago

To be fair, this is a classical strategi in startups called "wizard of Oz prototyping" - it is used to test if there is a market for something before the tech is ready. But the tech is supposed to be created soon after and actually work...

[–] petersr 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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