Re:The Tyranny of Spreadsheets
by anonymouse008 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:24PM
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> I used to work at in construction as an estimator and we used spreadsheets. No backups, no version control, a single value change took 10s of minutes to propagate through the many sheets in the file. We fixed errors when we saw them, but I always felt it was an exercise in pointlessness.
These were not small companies either, ~$800M in yearly revenue for one, and ~$150M for the other.
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Jesus... want to start a competitor to these guys!? Email me