Me: you should not open that log file in excel its almost 700mb
Client: its okay, my computer has 4gb ram
Me: *looking at clients computer crashing*
Client: the file is broken!
Me: no, you just need to use a more memory efficient tool, like R, SAS, python, C#, or like anything else!

@thmnmlst excel loads it all into memory eight times.

@thejohnhoffer any not-mad reason for that?

@nickdbush sorry- my comment was meant to be a joke. Sad it's believable with Microsoft office.

@thejohnhoffer I think it says a lot about Microsoft that someone would believe they'd do that. Or me.

"to make everything important you do faster, we've committed to putting the entire office straight to ram on load! And then, when you open a file, we load it twice into ram, in case you make an error, in which case, we diff the two files, rebuild the first one and replace the second by a second copy. Each time you press the backspace."