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I'm with you! But what does a hot new startup do when a rich old legacy corp sends them a data dump that isn't a custom sqlite database? Slowly but surely, the startup begrudgingly uses csv "just this once" until they grow into the legacy corp that sends out files in csv because "we've done it this way forever."

And the cycle continues.



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