saigot, (edited ) When I was in high-school I made an inventory management/pos for my school’s merch shop in excel and vbs. It was the single worst thing I made and how I discovered what feature creep was. Got me a course credit though!
eran_morad, I am guilty of this. I have a set of fucking ghastly macros that do monthly number crunching for me. Currently moving it all into SQLite and R.
Flax_vert, Didn’t the UK’s covid track and trace system break because it was running on excel
Kecessa, (edited ) My job where we run a bunch of programs that are actually VB style interfaces with an excel backend loading data from a huge database… Opening the two that we need for everyday tasks uses 10gigs of ram…
schmorpel, Knitting pattern design
CodexArcanum, My dad asked if I could look at a spreadsheet he uses at work, maybe fix a couple of things that he has to manually adjust. This meme is frightfully accurate, the earliest parts of this thing are older than some of the junior devs on my team.
Samsy, I saw a presentation in excel once, I want sum it up here, but it was pointless.
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