News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs. Parent comment

Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by nickbauman on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @08:33PM (#15762134)
| I am saying that we should be curious at why they are doing it this way.

If you hand a caveman a machine gun, he will club you to death with it. IOW, the casual ability for domain experts to screw up a spreadsheet is enough of a reason to decide that excel is a terrible solution to this problem.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs by dalbasal on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:07AM (#15763869)
I would make a different caveman analogy. Hand a caveman a gun. He probably won't be a better rifleman than you (or someone). Really bad form and technique. But, he'll probably be a way better hunter than you, shoddy rifle technique or not.

Caveman were better than you at a lot of things. They knew how to find squirrels

[ Parent | on HN ]