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Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by cosmodisk on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:47AM (#22431195)
Not sure why you got downvoted so much, however I agree with the notion that entire Gsuite is a toy for kids to play. Try doing something similar and immediately start looking around thinking: where's my Excel?
Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by tluyben2 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:33AM (#22431423)
Depends on what you are doing right? Most people use spreadsheets for lists and simple sum() type of things; sheets works fine for that and is convenient. Same for the other gsuite stuff.

Those sweeping statements never work; hordes of young people or ‘new computer users’ (people in poorer countries who can now afford tablets and low end laptops etc) never touched MS Office and won’t be thinking ‘where is my Excel?’ only for that reason and just complete their work in sheets.

These are often people doing production work and not kids who are playing.

Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by C1sc0cat on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:47AM (#22432458)
Depends I have seen young supposedly "digital natives" use lesser tools like the google tools and create a complete Charlie Foxtrots

Normally they have zero idea about professional project work the concept of a version controlled document is something they have never heard off

And we are talking Major Brands and Major agencies here

Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by adgasf on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:20AM (#22432597)
Google Docs solves the 95% case of version-control simply by bringing everyone to the head of master at all times.
Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by lrem on Thursday February 27, 2020 @03:30PM (#22437448)
And further 3% by having a linear revision history. With some luck it will even render diffs correctly.

Disclaimer: I work at Google and hate docs. But acknowledge the thing works ok for its intended user.

Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by DailyHN on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:02AM (#22432529)
Does excel version control come anywhere near sheets history feature?
Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by C1sc0cat on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:09AM (#22432554)
The entire concept of version control is something that whooshes by them 50,00ft

I was talking about having documents in source control vitally important when you may have ,multiple teams in several countries

Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by DailyHN on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:24AM (#22432617)
> Google Docs solves the 95% case of version-control simply by bringing everyone to the head of master at all times.
Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by Gowan29 on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:09AM (#22432298)
Agreed. As a longterm users of both Excel and Google sheets, for simple tasks G-sheets is enough (and probably better for sharing). But any complex modelling should be done in Excel - it has far superior performance, short-cut keys, and analytical options. Being able to see the calculations easily for non-technical people is also a big advantage over other analytical products like Jupyter notebooks (e.g. Python / r) or SAS. Of course for really big data / stats modelling you need to use SAS/notebooks/stata (not a fan of the last one). Horses for Courses.
Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by Certhas on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:49AM (#22432223)
Collaborative editing of large, complex documents involving dozens of domain experts.

The collaborative features of GSuite are best in industry, some other features are so - so. I know what expert Excel users can do with it, and it's truly impressive in its domain. But if I need to do that type of stuff I reach for Python typically.

Re:Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech by raxxorrax on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:19AM (#22432327)
No serious engineer I ever met used Google docs for extended calculations. Although there are curious difference in software use depending on your location.