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Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by eropple on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:56PM (#27925775)
It's only "stupid" if one suffers from a catastrophic lack of empathy for people who are not programmers and for the incentives to which they are exposed--which do not include using a software developer's preferred tools, nor do they include the carving out of time with which to learn them.

I would hope that we would be generally wiser than that here.

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Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets by codesnik on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @01:19PM (#27986334)
Like being a "programmer" is some genetic trait or something, or like using excel in any more or less productive manner doesn't require carving out hell a lot of time, it's just that time is taken from user's lives in small pieces, and doing PROGRAMMING seems like taking a university course.

I actually have a lot of empathy for people who forced to deal with all those problems, otherwise I just wouldn't care.

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