What's with that garbage at the bottom right? I'm trying to read your article. Why would I want to talk to you before reading your article? Made me stop reading.
The world needs a better spreadsheet
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Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#42Not really. Most spreadsheets(~88%) have errors.
"Sorry, Your Spreadsheet Has Errors (Almost 90% Do)"
https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2014/09/how-to-reduce-spread...
The 2008 source article is
"What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors"
Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#43Eons ago, I worked for Lotus Software (way before they belonged to IBM) on an exiting new product - their flagship Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet product, in those days the preeminent spreadsheet offering in the world, ported to the IBM mainframe. I travelled around Europe as we sold this to large corporations who wanted the power of the spreadsheet, but multipled by a gazillion times and made multi-user. Almost every custo…
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Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#44Not really. Most spreadsheets(~88%) have errors. "Sorry, Your Spreadsheet Has Errors (Almost 90% Do)" https://www.salesforce.com/blog/2014/09/how-to-reduce-spread... The 2008 source article is "What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors" http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/Mypapers/whatknow.htm
If you read the blog, you'd see that the system he's suggesting is somewhat more robust than a spreadsheet. His example at the end is the Google Forms builder, which at least does a modicum of input validation, unlike your typical direct-entry spreadsheet.
And the point is not to completely dismiss the idea with a glib soundbite like that, but to actually take seriously building tools like spreadsheets that allow non-technical users to build data-driven systems.
Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#45I swear to god, anytime anything pops up on a website when I click on it, it seriously pisses me off. A fucking chatbox? I already hate your company. A fucking chatbox from the author of a blog? I hate you and everything you stand for. You are what's wrong with the internet. You should know better, and you do. But you do this anyway. Just stop.
I stopped reading when the chatbox obscured the screen also. I'm confused on what the author is trying to achieve.
Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#46I swear to god, anytime anything pops up on a website when I click on it, it seriously pisses me off. A fucking chatbox? I already hate your company. A fucking chatbox from the author of a blog? I hate you and everything you stand for. You are what's wrong with the internet. You should know better, and you do. But you do this anyway. Just stop.
OP. Yea, that was interesting on my end using chat. I probably would hate that on your end as much you did. I did have some pretty fun conversations though. I removed it, because that got exhausting.
Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#47I swear to god, anytime anything pops up on a website when I click on it, it seriously pisses me off. A fucking chatbox? I already hate your company. A fucking chatbox from the author of a blog? I hate you and everything you stand for. You are what's wrong with the internet. You should know better, and you do. But you do this anyway. Just stop.
OP. Yea, that was interesting on my end using chat. I probably would hate that on your end as much you did. I did have some pretty fun conversations though. I removed it, because that got exhausting.
I, for one, really liked it. And thanks for the chat, Matt!
Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think of spreadsheets as like q-tips. Apparently the one thing that the manufacturers of q-tips tell you not to do is to stick them in your orifices. Yet the number one actual use of q-tips is people cleaning gunk from their ears. People build the most insane, unmaintainable, insecure messes using spreadsheets - because they can.
And you can FAST. What else is there for quick and dirty stuff????
Emacs
Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#49how do people get a "hey HN" welcome line up on their site so quickly? This was posted here less than 2 hours ago. Do people really monitor incoming referrals hourly?
Re: The world needs a better spreadsheet
#50how do people get a "hey HN" welcome line up on their site so quickly? This was posted here less than 2 hours ago. Do people really monitor incoming referrals hourly?
It was posted by the creator, that makes it quite easy ;)