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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by codeulike on Monday October 05, 2020 @05:00PM (#24691994)
Good points

Partly I think the Excel bit is news because Excel (and mistakes made with Excel) is easily relatable to people. But bugs always come up and most other bugs are just as stupid. If it had been an off-by-one loop error in some C code somewhere it would be just as dumb but you'd get none of the facepalm memes all over Twitter.

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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by bobbylarrybobby on Monday October 05, 2020 @09:11PM (#24693847)
Off by one errors are all alike; every excel error is an error in its own way.
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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by codeulike on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @03:26AM (#24695450)
Not when it mixes up US and UK date formats when you import a CSV.

Not when it turns phone numbers into integers and strips off the leading zero.

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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @03:57AM (#24695593)
This is the root of the problem isn't it? The wrong tool for the job.
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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by jjgreen on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @06:02AM (#24696206)
Tolstoy keeps on giving ...
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