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		beckingz on Oct 28, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit json is a good file format, but the way that fitbit exports the data is strangely partitioned by file and object depth. Machine readable certainly, but most machines will need a lot of guidance to turn it into a useful dataset.

Avamander on Oct 28, 2019 [–]

Yeah and you could make an XML or a TOML that requires just as much guidance for computers to parse. That was my point.

ldrndll on Oct 29, 2019 | [–]

I assume their point was that it is both hostile and incidentally uses JSON, not that its hostility results from using JSON.

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