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TheNeverOmniscientNarrator
The Never Omniscient Narrator
A printed photograph of Douglas Engelbart sitting on one of his custom NLS terminals a little bit sad. On top of it there is a text written by a typewriter by me: 'Hero? Victim? Prophet? I don't know. I just know I don't want to end up like him.'

Falling Hero Engelbart

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Reverse CSV is still valid CSV

This one is not often realized by everyone but a reversed (byte by byte) CSV file, is still valid CSV. This is only made possible because of the genius idea to escape quotes by doubling them, which means escaping is a palindrom. It would not work if CSV used a backslash-based escaping scheme, as is most common when representing string literals.

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