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This backwards compatibility chain reminds me of the age old tale of how rockets are the width of two horses... (1) (1) http://astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
People actually still think this dumb joke is true?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a classic joke, but settling on a common gauge was really difficult, it was not just copying some old Roman standard. There were even riots when different railways started to standardize because common rail gauge meant you can move through the town without engaging with the local economy, see Erie gauge war. Russia still has a wider gauge than Europe and Australia has 3 different ones.
Thanks for the anecdote that was interesting. I think the Erie gauge war demonstrates that people feel entitled to any advantage of circumstances that they have profited from in the past as if such were their property even when the actual matter are issue is in fact others property.
This is done under the guise of preserving shareholder value.
This backwards compatibility chain reminds me of the age old tale of how rockets are the width of two horses... (1) (1) http://astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
The Romans did not use war chariots, since they are basically useless in combat. They only used chariots for sports in the hippodrome.
This is most likely due to those names not being allowed for files or folders in the Windows file system. MS Teams channels create a matching folder in SharePoint where file attachments are stored.
This is such a Microsoft thing to do. DOS compatibility will haunt us for the rest of this century at least.
Sometimes I wish we had fresh clean slate OS. Not the baggage of DOS or Unix... Something modern and sensible without insanity of either system.
I was about to say "Which is essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside. They should be embarrassed to say something like this in public. Like saying you can't have %s or $PS1. Why the hell not? What are you doing with this user-supplied input?" But maybe it's more about what everyone else might do with a channel name. Ie they might cut & paste it anywhere, and I guess windows users aren't expecte…
> essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside It's just a restriction imposed on SharePoint folder names bubbling up. Nothing fancy.
This is such a Microsoft thing to do. DOS compatibility will haunt us for the rest of this century at least.
Sometimes I wish we had fresh clean slate OS. Not the baggage of DOS or Unix... Something modern and sensible without insanity of either system.
It's impossible to make all the right decisions at the beginning any big project that never get changed.
I can't be the only one thinking that generally MS Team is offering probably worst experience in the messaging market.
Microsoft is going for the Guinness World Record for oldest tech debt. They are winning.