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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by curiousllama on Monday October 05, 2020 @09:41PM (#24694002)
If it fails, it’s often silent. If not silent, hidden. If not hidden, misleading, if not misleading, opaque. If not opaque, trivial.

Excel is a wonderfully powerful tool that’s very bad at handling errors clearly.

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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by lbruder on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @03:12AM (#24695389)
It's the PHP of business software. Powers half the market, but boy do mistakes cost you.
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