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A comment on Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates (2020). Parent comment

Re:Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreadi... by cjsawyer on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:23PM (#30991028)
Then your competitor accepts messy data and you go out of business.
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Re:Human genes renamed to stop Microsoft Excel from misreadi... by adhesive_wombat on Monday April 11, 2022 @12:44PM (#30991378)
Then file a bunch of bugs on their product relating to messy data in various pathological states and tie up their engineering for months. Game on!
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