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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by bitlax on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:06PM (#20169837)
"All enterprise software competes with Excel. All productivity software competes with emailing things to yourself."

https://twitter.com/pavelasamsonov/status/110653418815977881...

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by bigiain on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:45PM (#20171436)
R and Python will not replace Excel until they "correctly" transform gene names into dates or floating point numbers...

https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-expe...

How can we have reproducibility in scientific research if we don't all make the same errors?

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by asdff on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:37PM (#20177938)
Don't blame excel for people being ignorant on number formatting. It's front and center in the ribbon menu.
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by scarejunba on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:56PM (#20170197)
All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper?
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by reaperducer on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:05PM (#20170636)
All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper?

According to the Wall Street Journal, yes.

The Trendy New Way to Organize Your Schedule: A Paper Planner https://apple.news/AMN1W-MtTRCecQ-qIeFUQSQ

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by smsm42 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @03:40AM (#20172563)
And a corkboard, yes. Or maybe a big wall calendar.
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by duxup on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:25PM (#20170380)
The old clocking in system with a card and stamp from the clock we're efficient and everyone understood how it worked.
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:29PM (#20170780)
That's minimal time tracking, not scheduling. It's the difference between retrospective and prospective.
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by hef19898 on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:30AM (#20174098)
Kanban systems with real physical cards work pretty well. And you they are way more resilient than digital stuff.
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by duxup on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:50PM (#20170896)
Good point.
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @08:24PM (#20170747)
Scheduling is a subset of productivity, and, IME, not an exception to the rule about productivity software and Excel.
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @07:15PM (#20170332)
Or a notebook.
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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by NicoJuicy on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:21PM (#20171328)
Thah, I dogfeed http://handlr.sapico.me for not emailing it to myselve.

It seems to work :p

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by Terretta on Thursday June 13, 2019 @05:52AM (#20173141)
Note, sapico.me (without www) is a bare Windows Server welcome page. Could redirect it to www so Google search bot isn’t confused about what’s at sapico.me.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/711755-need-to-redire...

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Re:The New York Times course to teach its reporters data ski... by NicoJuicy on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:29AM (#20180767)
Well, my start page isn't even mobile friendly. I don't actually bring in clients though the web page, don't need it actually.

It's just there, a refactored version ( yekyll) is already in the works

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