pq0ak2nnd

Or when the CEO (petite woman) and co-founder (old man) go to VC meetings and everyone thinks the the co-founder is in charge and the CEO is his secretary. Shit like this is rampant.

Long membrane communication.

I wish this article had actual substance and not just a listicle of off-the-cuff one-liners.

Me, and people like me who bring flamebait to HN and risk turning it into /.,reddit or worse, 4ch. Sometimes I just forget and get all troll-y and flame-y, and I hate that shit.

You busted me: I guess that's my age showing because I didn't know Excel -had- a new data model.

What's it called and how is it different than sheets, and when was it introduced? I was using Excel2013 up until I left the project in 2014.

Oof.

I have said these EXACT words, my good friend!

Short answer:

- Corporate inertia + familiarity + fear

Very long answer (rant warning):

- The XLS was used by multiple teams, from multiple sites, from multiple projects. It drove project-level decision making at the VP level. The person who wrote it was a genius, but there was no documentation or commenting, and over the decade after he left, it bloated Akira-style: many grubby hands had perverted it beyond its original use.

[Imagine if someone had written the most beautiful C++ & Boost (or C & GLib) numerical methods code, and then some boner noob came along and inserted their own bubblesort because they didn't understand Boost ... yeah, that kind of perversion.]

But because it was so important, and fed so many OTHER spreadsheets, it remains like a brain tumor pressing up against a spot so vital it could not be removed. I did a partial conversion to JavaScript and a MongoDB, but that was roundly shat upon because the main users weren't programmers and refused.

This is how very large companies work. (Most of the time.)

Dammit, I did it again. Sorry, thanks for calling me out. That's actually why i -like- HN, so few flamewars.

Truer words have never been spoken.

FTFY:

"Excel THINKS IT CAN DEAL with many gigs of data thanks to PowerPivot and the addition of an in-memory database."

It's so cute when I hit ctrl-downarrow on a blank sheet and Excel sends me to row 1,048,576. Wishful thinking because if I ever filled 1M cells with functions, well... lololololol... time to use JMP...

In my 25+ years of using Excel, here's what makes a pro:

1. Someone who knows how to use two dimensional TABLE()s and vector functions. 2. Someone who can implement an imperative convergence (such as Newton/Raphson or non-plug-in goal seek) 3. Someone who can audit their dependencies and not shit out dozens of unused vars 4. Someone who knows the limit is 10 sheets and 20MB. :)

Visual Basic and shortcuts do not a pro make. VB makes Excel =less= usable, IMHO because now there is an extra dimension to debugging that requires understand each Macro and what it touches: it breaks the entire philosophy of show formulas + auditing.

Yes, this sounds like /r/iamverysmart and /r/gatekeeping, but I'll own that.

Summer 1981, 11 years old, learning logo on a ][. It sure beat the hell out of trying to draw a straight line in HIRES mode in assembly: goddamn skipping every six horizontal lines made no sense to my pre-teen brain that couldn't grok modulus.

Nice strawman argument, but you undermined your own argument:

Electron apps are not generic browsers that run random content from the web: they are fully debug-able projects, and the developers have full control over what is deployed.

You know, like ANY compiled project that is shipped as an .exe/.dmg.

Nice try though.

You are correct: I didn't specify what I was hiring for. I didn't have a need for plug-and-chug hackers to knock out one-off fixes, i had a need for talented programmers to groom into software and system architects that would maintain complex systems for many years. First I went for the Farady over Maxwell approach the first 5 years i hired and that was a 50% fail. The next round of going for degrees + hacking worked much better after 3 years. Granted, hackers might be different today than they were in the mid-90's early 2000's

true. it's like interior decorator vs. interior designer

if you're just going to move couches around and put down throw pillows, who cares about a solid foundation of design fundamentals and architectural psychology.