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Excel is simultaneously flexible enough to solve a wide array of problems and structured enough to enable larger tasks like slicing and filtering data. This ar
by sheetjs 9y ago
Excel is simultaneously flexible enough to solve a wide array of problems and structured enough to enable larger tasks like slicing and filtering data. This article is trying to push for cloud-based silos that solve specific problems, but most of them fall apart in "real-world" scenarios because they aren't flexible enough to support the ad-hoc workflows people have developed over years.
- otakucode 9y agoThe dystopia that I fear is an endless gauntlet of powerless employees droning 'the computer doesn't have a field for that' or 'the computer won't let me do that'. We already seem perilously close to this, putting the consistency of systems ostensibly built to serve the needs of society over and above the needs of society.