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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Excel?! Have to respectfully disagree on that one.

[–] SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] towerful@programming.dev 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Excel is great.
It does so much that people make it do what it shouldn't, and never think to explore technologies beyond it... Like a proper fucking database.
Then you get garbage business systems based on fragile excel sheets with bonkers macros and weird ETL pipelines to sync things.
And never try to deal with dates and timezones.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago

Reminds me of my last job where I had to build a ridiculously complex excel spreadsheet that I copied a bunch of reports into to do scheduling because someone decided I didn't need access to the actual data...

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