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marekr

Re:Ask HN: Leaving School Without a Degree? on Thursday July 30, 2015 @05:24AM (#9973890)

You should consider and try to quantify risk: - how much cost is to take classes you consider irrelevant (is it that much?) - the uncertainty whether you are right that those classes are in fact irrelevant - the probability of encountering situations in your future life in which you'd benefit from having a degree

Re:Ask HN: Language compiled to Excel spreadsheets? on Friday July 24, 2015 @07:13AM (#9941156)

Would it be beneficial if your dad was able to achieve the same on his own by using the language?

Ask HN: Language compiled to Excel spreadsheets?

Posted by marekr on Friday July 24, 2015 @06:44AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi!Yesterday there was a thread about biggest problems with Excel. I’d like to ask you for an opinion on an idea - source code for Excel. The goal is to give people who create models and tools in Excel the advantages of having a source code to what they are building and maintaining. It is challenging and time-consuming to build spreadsheets that are really solid, minimize the chance of errors,...

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Re:Ask HN: What is a good system for program specs? on Thursday July 23, 2015 @11:25AM (#9936310)

Just by reading your list of requirements.. Google Docs?

Re:Ask HN: What are the biggest problems with spreadsheets? on Thursday July 23, 2015 @10:23AM (#9935876)

Do you mean transition from specific spreadsheets you would already have for that task? Or in a wider sense, e.g. as a company - gradually transition from using spreadsheets to using applications for some of the tasks?