Excel
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- A Software Strategy … Sufficiently advanced Excel spreadsheets are custom software that are a competitive advantage). You don’t have to use custom, in-house software forever. There probably will be a …
- Low-Hanging Fruit, Information Processing, and People Problems … Ten people dying because of a preventable Excel error, or an Excel accident that was preventable because it had happened before, is Too Terrible. Anyway, I digress. The …
- A Re-introduction; Streaking Still Considered Harmful; Pulling the Cord and Then What?; Tiny Bits … 1.4 Tiny Bits That Caught My Attention In “Blame Excel for Things” news is Williams Racing, which ran a 20,000 item sort-of-ERP system (really …
- Unreliable Narrators; Palate Cleansers … If you view this Microsoft Support article about the ROMAN function in Excel (which, uh, converts Arabic numerals to Roman numerals as text) then I think you’ll …
- Good Enough … that's attached to an email and is then re-entered in an Excel spreadsheet saved in an arbitrary location on Sharepoint" to "writing a tortuous Jira ticket …
- Concept Art … work has always expanded to fill time "Excel" and spreadsheets have democratized programming, so many more people can do it now than your dedicated IT team, to everyone …
- Cheap, portable, shareable video has consequences but maybe not what you think … This is, in my mind, in the same space as your office worker who accidentally becomes a critical piece of infrastructure because of an Excel spreadsheet they made …
- We can hallucinate it for your wholescale … how many Colab notebooks are being used in production it is also very Excel-like in how code executes in cells It's also not very Visual Basic …
- PARC THOR LASER AKL-IX AOaS CFPB … still something about spamming operations like society is some sort of spreadsheet and you're just grabbing the bottom-right handle in Excel and applying the same formula …
- Independent Verification and Validation … what is there for the Manager Experience that's not "more PowerPoint and Excel from more sources"? I get that this is a hard problem because every metric …
- Okay, just hear me out … Miro and Excel. Bear with me, I might even draw some pictures. Okay, so: I like spreadsheets. They're fantastic. I also love drawing. If you are like …
- Three and a Half Short Pieces … More Excel After I wrote about Excel, Twitter User Donkey Patrol (really, it could be worse" pointed out: Why is editing grids of data in a manual but …
- This is an Excel system, I know this … 1.0 Some things that caught my attention 1.1 This is an Excel system [1] , I know this (I am, like, 90% certain I've used this …
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18 … Apart from Excel probably being one of the most-used programming IDEs in the world and an example of how people can just understand something like MapReduce [1 …
- Cats; Writing on the Internet; the Moon; OpenDoc and Componentized Software … This is of course excellent timing because tomorrow I'm going to have my second Pfizer shot and my immune system has spent the last year not doing …
- No, But Really, Where Do You Start? … download for free as a PDF, or you can pay for as an Excel file, which is just another example of how broken everything is. So as an …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … Team Tito’s values are Integrity, Excellence and Delight. Apart from their broad definitions, integrity for us is minimising the potential for harm caused by what we build …
- Blockchain buzz buzz buzz … knowing words like COUNTIF which as everyone knows a proper word from Microsoft Excel. But more seriously (ha) The NYT should do something like this: Form a product …
- Why Not Put An RFID On Everything, and Griefing … I mentioned Therac-25 as one of the seminal cases of Software Killing People, but I realized that the paper finding that an Excel error “ led to an …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … You also get all the Visual Basic style applications and Excel spreadsheets, or Google Forms lashed into Docs that are the desperate makings of employees and staff just …
- Flint and Kindling … you’re doing the same equivalent as writing a thousand-row Excel specification, attempting to de-risk and game-out what would be involved in a “successful” conversation …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … programming metaphor that hundreds of millions of people are familiar with (i.e. Excel) with what gatekeepers would call real programming , i.e. javascript. This strikes me as …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … Hiro is all in with his Oculus or Vive or whatever, and can’t even open an Excel spreadsheet without goggling in to an immersive 3D environment. AND …
- No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … All software is a trash fire Via Daniel Bilar, this thread on how “ 20% of genomics papers ” have been affected by Excel converting gene names like SEPT2 to …
- The extra bit … Bare Bones Software is shipping a regex pattern explorer into this version of BBEdit and I am reminded that Microsoft’s Excel (and other spreadsheets, I guess) are …
- Judge social networks not by their DAUs but by the content of their CEO’s character … It is a 33 page PDF (which feels like a shame, because it’s obviously an Excel spreadsheet, and later on I find the link to the actual …
- The Generative Surplus … it's OK to use Excel because Excel isn't stereotypically 'creative', it's just mindless calculation but holy shit we've seen very creative spreadsheets in our …
- Not That Way; Against Empathy; Just Don't … the spacebar a bunch of times, of mis-named files, of mistakes in Excel spreadsheets. [1] HIPAA - HHS.gov [2] Baby Pictures at the Doctor's? Cute, Sure …
- Board-Level Algorithms; You Speak GIF, Right?; Intent; Odds … out Microsoft have incorporated a Deep Learning Wizard into the next version of Excel and all of your modeling spreadsheets are out of date. Absent substantive information from …
- Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip … Realise that this is generalisation, of course, but manly productive things are done with computers - like business business business numbers, sorry, I mean Word Excel PowerPoint - and Microsoft …
- The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts … here's how you use Microsoft Excel, or Word. And that was where the shift was, I think. When Lottie Dexter talks on her Newsnight interview[4] about …