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  • I have been able to outsource low level parsing to third party libraries

    Hahaha!!!

    Today I watched a Java server crash because a library decided it needed more than 3GB of heap space to read a 10MB file. That was after manually removed background colors from around 100,000 cells, which apparently caused the parser to create even more objects in its internal representation of the sheet.


















  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyztoProgrammer Humor@programming.devThe irony
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    1 month ago

    multiple people edited my question to change the grammar and take out the thanks and smiley at the end

    Well, the Welcome Tour tells you that SO is about “just questions and answers”. This facilitates finding a question that’s written as concise as possible, checking its answer, and leaving. SO is deliberately not like a forum.

    SE seems too heavily focusing on helping a “generic public” rather than the actual people asking the questions.

    This is just another consequence of not being a forum. Of course SO wants questions to be helpful to as many people as possible. I don’t see how that is a bad thing.

    If you want a laxer approach to handling quality, consider if you’ve ever found useful information on yahoo answers.