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I suspect path dependence (and price for quantrix) more than anything is what keeps Excel in charge. I mean even beyond just switching costs: Excel is for inst
by Avshalom 9y ago
I suspect path dependence (and price for quantrix) more than anything is what keeps Excel in charge.
I mean even beyond just switching costs: Excel is for instance the only format for getting data from http://www.earthchem.org/petdb/ http://www.earthchem.org/petdb/ or, to keep harping on geologists, people that keep implementing models in excel: which you then have to use because nobody trusts code you wrote yourself.
and it only gets worse with time.
- greedo 9y agoYet ironically, Excel introduces errors. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-papers-contains-errors-thanks-microsoft-excel http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-pap...
- Avshalom 9y agoI don't know if it's ironic in any useful sense, so much as fucking depressing. though yes a calculator that refuses to let you enter numbers correctly is some 'Time Enough at Last' levels of irony.
- mirimir 9y agoIt's not specific to Excel. Calc does it too. Turning off all that auto-correct bullshit is one of the first things that I do with a new install.