Re:The Grug Brained Developer
by Arrath on Monday October 30, 2023 @08:26PM
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> It's weird how smart people are naturally attracted to complexity like moth to a flame.
Hah, I just experienced this when I asked my brother for a simple comparison of about 7 criteria in a 3 column table, to include in a report.
He gave me 12 criteria not entirely from the data source I was looking for, and a cost calculator to boot.
On the other hand, over the course of a few weekends he coded up a beautiful baroque bastard of an excel macro that saved us thousands of man-hours over 5 years.
Hah, I just experienced this when I asked my brother for a simple comparison of about 7 criteria in a 3 column table, to include in a report.
He gave me 12 criteria not entirely from the data source I was looking for, and a cost calculator to boot.
On the other hand, over the course of a few weekends he coded up a beautiful baroque bastard of an excel macro that saved us thousands of man-hours over 5 years.