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THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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A LOVE LETTER TO THE CSV FORMAT

CSV is often criticized for the wrong reasons. It has many strengths - CSV is dead simple, open and free, text-based, streamable, can be appended to, and succinct. It is dynamically typed, letting developers parse values as they see fit. Reverse CSV is still valid CSV, which means the last rows of a CSV file can be read very efficiently and easily - just feed the bytes of the file in reverse order to a CSV parser. Excel hates CSV, which clearly means CSV must be doing something right.

HAS THE DECLINE OF KNOWLEDGE WORK BEGUN?

The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen 30% since bottoming out in September 2022. Hiring rates have slowed more for jobs that require a college degree than for other jobs. Some economists say that these trends may be short-term in nature and little cause for concern on their own, but there are other signs that the returns on a college degree may have shifted over a longer period - the gap in wages between those with college degrees and those without has flattened during the past 15 years, though it remains large. The flattening of the gap may reflect employers' reduced need for college graduates.

THE VIBE SHIFT AMONGST APPLE DEVELOPERS

Apple's AI product offerings are non-competitive. Software development is moving faster than ever before, and Apple looks like it is increasingly likely to miss out on a generation of developers conditioned on tools like Cursor, Replit, or v0. The company's AI tools remain notably absent. AI may change the equation enough for Apple to shift its stance, but that could take years. Apple could change all of this with web distribution, but that would be very risky for the company.

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