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Re:What makes a great developer? A story of an extraordinary... by alexandercrohde on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:05AM (#18552563)
Some 10x engineers just say "No" to product owners. If you let a product owner to convince you that you need an .xls export rather than .csv for internal use (this is a real-life example!) you may add a week+ of work/maintenance versus the time it takes me to explain "no."
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Re:What makes a great developer? A story of an extraordinary... by zimpenfish on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:18PM (#18554691)
> an .xls export rather than .csv for internal use

Presumably this was a trivial data dump and not something like a report that could have benefited from, e.g., embedded formulas, multiple sheets, etc.? (I've produced exports with the latter and the enhancements were greatly appreciated over the plain old CSV export.)

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