Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era

Re:Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era by r00fus on Monday March 19, 2012 @08:09PM (#3727082)

I know your use cases may ignore it, but Excel, from what I've seen is unmatched. There are things you can do in it that are either difficult to do in other spreadsheet apps or require a database.

It's limitations are outweighed by how fast you can do cut and dice data, including pivot tables (ie, basic OLAP). Google Docs is still too limited (ie, try filtering and sorting on multiple columns).

If you know of a way I can do this in a desktop or web-app for the entry price of Excel (free would be nice, but I don't mind paying), I'd be happy to know.

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Re:Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era by sskates on Monday March 19, 2012 @08:34PM (#3727164)

You're missing the point. You are on Hacker News, you will probably care about such things. My mom doesn't care if you can't filter and sort on multiple columns. She cares if the thing is easy to use and portable, which the iPad wins hands down over a PC.

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Re:Coding Horror - Welcome to the Post PC Era by jiggy2011 on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @02:12AM (#3728052)

There are a lot of users between "your mom" and HN readers, many of them probably use things like pivot tables.

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