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Comment Re:Perhaps not everybody, but many more (Score 2) 387

Which government is this? I work in government. A federal government agency. In a G7 country. I had to, on my own time, use a python script, zsh and sed to split and turn several > 150mb ASCII text files (yes you read that right) into a series of CSV files so that the information could be meaningfully used in MS Office, the only software we're allowed to use for anything. I brought my own laptop to work and finished that job in less than half an hour. Our local IT department wanted a budgetary commitment of $15,000 and 3 months to do the same thing. It may just be our agency but government IT seems to be staffed with washouts and supervised by people with absolutely no technical ability. They can keep our infrastructure duct-taped together but that's it.

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