Smart but junior programmer is assigned to fix some lower-level issues to give him some experience — because with more experience, he can do the harder stuff, says a pilot fish on the scene.

“While fixing one issue, he discovered one of several data files encoded in JSON,” fish says. “This file was large but actually consisted of a single line.”

And that makes it hard for the junior programmer to make sense of the file, which consists of a long series of attribute-value pairs like

“firstName”: “John”, “lastName”: “Smith”, “age”: 25,

instead of a much more conventional format of

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