Meme transcription:

Panel 1: Bilbo Baggins ponders, “After all… why should I care about the difference between int and String?

Panel 2: Bilbo Baggins is revealed to be an API developer. He continues, “JSON is always String, anyways…”

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    6 days ago

    Well, we don’t, but every electonic tables software out in the wild on the other hand…

    /j

    Yes, I know that you can force it to become text by prepending ' to the phone, choose an appropriate format for the cells, etc, etc

    The point is that this often requires meddling after the phone gets displayed as something like 3e10