Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech

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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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

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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.

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