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I wonder if I’ll ever find another type of software that makes me as happy as spreadsheets, whatever implementation really, Excel, Google sheets, …. Perhaps not the Apple one actually.
Nothing beats Lotus123 :)
better in most ways than modern excel
modern excel is pretty terrible compared with excel after 2003
Do they publish the questions/data anywhere? Would love to have an informal competition among similarly minded friends. Of course, I would try to do it in Pandas and get crushed.
I just heard of this Excel competition, but Modeloff world championship has been going for somewhat longer. It tests Excel skills plus financial modeling skills. They have all the old questions available for study: https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/financial-mo...
i.e., I actually went through some historical modeloff questions years ago and could get them relatively easily but spending the same effort training but at my job/career is a way to make more money, on an expected value basis, than competing in any excel competition...
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No, Eve Online was one of the sponsors. Surprisingly pro level gamers use spreadsheets more than one would expect from „gaming”. Final round was really about calculating stuff based on game economy. Challenge was created by top game guy. Which in some ways was surprising for finance guys.
Ahh, that's pretty cool - thanks for that info! I played Eve for a good while (more than a decade) and the complexities was one of the appealing aspects, but unfortunately at one point the time between my sessions increased more and more, and I fell behind the learning and time curve, and dropped out.
https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/information-is-power-exc...
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Must not have worked with any Minnesotans then!
Heh, as a Minnesotan I was confused by the original comment until now. I didn’t realize that was a regional thing.
> He says he is “not bad” at maths – by which he means he came top in the state of New South Wales in his year 12 maths exams As an Australian that has worked with American companies for a while, this is a behaviour I’ve had to overcome. If you tell an Australian you’re “not bad” at something then they’ll take that to mean that you’re actually quite good, whereas many Americans will understand it to mean that you’re…
Does it always mean that in Australia, or does it depend on how you say it? I think both usages are actually pretty common in the US, but you tell the difference based on the inflection. If you emphasize "too" and go down in pitch on "bad" then it means you're actually not that good at something, if you emphasize "bad" and go up in pitch then it means you're actually good at it. We also have alternative constructions…
In general, I find Americans and Australians deemphasize positive things at about the same rate and in the same circumstances, though the exact phrasing used can differ (although "not too bad" is a case where the phrase is shared in both dialects).
However, Australians are more likely to also deemphasize negative things (e.g., "This weather is average" to mean it's bad) whereas Americans are more likely to use sarcasm for negative things (e.g., "This weather is great" to mean it's bad).
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I'm sure you're aware, but thought I'd drop this for our American friends. Australia and New Zealand (where I'm from) share Tall poppy syndrome[1] and going by that Wikipedia page, there are various over countries that have a similar concept. Being overly self-congratulatory comes across as this sort of grotesque and unattractive quality. It is even true in the corporate environments I've worked at where you would no…
As an American who's spent two years in Sydney and having met VC types here, it's like they toe the line of not wanting to boast but really speak down on a lot of people. There's some sort of hidden aristocracy here, and you can feel like they think they're way better than you. You get some of that in the US too but there are also way more down-to-earth people there who actually want to help, and advice is actually h…
Melbourne, on the other hand, is seen as Australia's Portland.
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This was my experience as a dual citizen. Sydneysiders are sometimes wannabe Londoners with an odd superiority complex and frequent use of passive aggression.
Having returned from London an hour ago, I think Londoners are mostly decent and friendly people.
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Ahh, that's pretty cool - thanks for that info! I played Eve for a good while (more than a decade) and the complexities was one of the appealing aspects, but unfortunately at one point the time between my sessions increased more and more, and I fell behind the learning and time curve, and dropped out.
They also created a 1st party Excel add-in, announced at last year’s Fanfest! https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/information-is-power-exc...