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Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by waboremo »

mLuby wrote: post #58
waboremo wrote: post #56

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Designers alone can't push through a change for the sake of change as their work relies entirely on user research. Even if they do have the research needed to prove a change is required, they also have to get developers on board. So I don't know where this conspiracy theory comes from, but it's entirely unfounded unless you're talking about a designer like Jony Ive with the power to go through multiple obstacles with…

> as their work relies entirely on user research Definitely not the case everywhere.

It's the case everywhere. A designer (in the context of software/hardware) does not work without user research, that is core to their work. Any position that does not require user research in design is titled differently these days.

Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by Conscat »

TrueSlacker0 wrote: post #126
toddmatthews wrote: post #75

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I’m a business owner and use Quickbooks online and a couple years ago they just flat out changed how they calculated taxes. When I reported the bug they just kept repeating how I could completely change my process to make it work, like they had released some new feature. But they really just broke shit, and refused to ever acknowledge it. There’s no way I was the only person reporting this. They obviously don’t care

Was this in reference to payroll tax, cause I also got screwed on that from them. I paid for payroll but they didn't file any papers. They paid everything but never ever filed a 940 or 941. By the time government speed came around and the IRS notified me I was delinquent for 2 years. I ended paying 2-3k in fees, dropped there payroll that day. But sadly still suffer through their accounting.

Is that something they can be sued over?

Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by SoftTalker »

jimnotgym wrote: post #86
SoftTalker wrote: post #41

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I'm older. I still haven't gotten over the "ribbon" interface. It drove me to LibreOffice despite all its faults.

Are you a professional accountant? EDIT: rather than downvoting, maybe you could engage? Following the thread back the question was about accountants using Excel and then someone weighed in that they use Libre/open office. I have never seen an accountant use libre office for accounts work, hence my question. Are you an accountant who moved from Excel because of whatever, or was your comment irrelevant?

I'm not, and I'm sure if I had to use Excel every day I would adapt. But both Windows and Office reached their peak at around 2003 and it's been downhill ever since. I quite liked Windows 2000 Pro as a desktop.

Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by boppo1 »

no_wizard wrote: post #100
axiomdata316 wrote: post #5

I'm a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and have been one for over 20 years and the last few years has convinced me that Intuit is determined to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by: 1) Forcing all their customers to migrate to the online version of their program. Many of the clients I've spoken to were happy with and preferred the Desktop version. The Desktop version is faster and can do more than the online version. 2)…

One thing they are going to start pushing via their online platform is likely things line AR and payments via Melio (their a big investor in the company) and likely push out other vendors in that space as a result. My grapevine understanding is this is less possible with the desktop version because you’d need everyone to upgrade. That’s what I think this is all about

AR? Augmented Reality? Wtf is Intuit gonna do with that?

Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by Biganon »

boppo1 wrote: post #154
no_wizard wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing they are going to start pushing via their online platform is likely things line AR and payments via Melio (their a big investor in the company) and likely push out other vendors in that space as a result. My grapevine understanding is this is less possible with the desktop version because you’d need everyone to upgrade. That’s what I think this is all about

AR? Augmented Reality? Wtf is Intuit gonna do with that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounts_receivable

Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by TomDavey »

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #135
sopooneo wrote: post #112

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I've found that once a behavior is released in the wild, even a bug, people will build it into their workflows and rely on its presence. Frustrating but unavoidable.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

That XKCD is hilarious! I've never seen it before:

  My control key is hard to reach, so I hold spacebar instead, 
  and I configured Emacs to interpret a rapid temperature rise 
  as "Control."
Good ol' "M-x spacebar-thermometer-mode".

Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by AuthorizedCust »

axiomdata316 wrote: post #5

I'm a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and have been one for over 20 years and the last few years has convinced me that Intuit is determined to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by: 1) Forcing all their customers to migrate to the online version of their program. Many of the clients I've spoken to were happy with and preferred the Desktop version. The Desktop version is faster and can do more than the online version. 2)…

> Even the same client that has multiple businesses and has to use multiple subscriptions could have a different look. I don't know what drives this at Intuit but it's confusing for me and I'm supposed to be the expert.

I guess that, behind the scenes, Quickbooks might run each client on its own code base or some limited multi-tenancy on a shared code base. So if your clients span those code bases, they could easily be on different versions. And the heuristics for when a code base is upgraded may depend on factors that you can’t see.

This is just a hypothetical, but that’s where my money is.

Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by csomar »

ThinkBeat wrote: post #116

My aunt was an accountant (rip). She had one of those "not calculators" with a built-in printer. Not sure what they are properly called. Her "not calculator" was old, stained with cigarette smoke and coffee and she did not wish for a new one. I got paid a bit a few times to clean it up inside and out. The thing was a tank. (If it still exists, it should still work with a bit of care and attention.) She used some form…

Counter-intuitively, making terminal software is harder because you have to think hard about the UX. You have to design how the accountant (or the user) is going to use, you have to make shortcuts, you have to think about the progression, etc... This is not the case for what's happening on GUI-land where the "designers" just randomly put texts, buttons, buttons that look like text, input boxes, tables, etc... It's all there just click a few buttons to get there.

Re: The end of the accounting search

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Post by nine_k »

jmainguy wrote: post #80
the_only_law wrote: post #62

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From quickbooks to TurboTax, Intuit software has been some of the most god awful both to use and to develop against in my experience.

Argocd is pretty nice

ArgoCD is pretty nice when you use the CLI tools. Try opening the web interface when your k8s setup has, say, 300 nodes, even on a MBP with M2 and 32 GB.
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