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I only use Google Sheets

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Re: I only use Google Sheets

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Post by TrackerFF »

One thing I've learned: Never (ever) make yourself reliant/dependent on Google products. If you do get banned / locked out, it is the most AI-Kafkaesque process imaginable to regain access. And you could stay locked out for years.

I use Google sheets myself from time to time, but I regularly do backups of the sheets I'm working on, or anything important I have access to. I've been in the hole before, for reasons I still do not understand, and it was one of the most frustrating "customer support" processes I've ever experienced, and it took years.

Re: I only use Google Sheets

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Post by brap »

Absolutely agree with OP.

One thing I would add is, sometimes when you need some extra complexity that's too difficult to express or build in Google Sheets, one step above it is Google Colab (or any other Jupyter notebook).

Before building a full blown app, I always ask myself: 1. can this just be a spreadsheet? If not, 2. can this just be a Jupyter notebook?

And yes, the integration between Sheets and Colab is great.

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Post by mixcocam »

"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

- Donald Knuth

Start with a gsheet, when it breaks build something else.

Re: I only use Google Sheets

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Post by lomase »

brazukadev wrote: post #9
benterix wrote: post #6

2000's: I use Excel for everything 2010's: I use Google Sheets for everything 2020's: I use Etherpad[0] for everything [0] Or any other alternative for that matter

Real 2020's: I use TikTok/Instagram/YouTube for everything

I use LLMs for everything.

Re: I only use Google Sheets

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Post by PunchTornado »

TrackerFF wrote: post #22

One thing I've learned: Never ( ever ) make yourself reliant/dependent on Google products. If you do get banned / locked out, it is the most AI-Kafkaesque process imaginable to regain access. And you could stay locked out for years. I use Google sheets myself from time to time, but I regularly do backups of the sheets I'm working on, or anything important I have access to. I've been in the hole before, for reasons I…

try being banned by msft. I am still banned for 6 years without doing anything wrong. still lost access to all of my accounts.
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