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Have you ever been a power user of Microsoft Excel? And then tried to replicate that functionality in Google Sheets? Or is your aversion mostly to the M- word?
by kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
Have you ever been a power user of Microsoft Excel? And then tried to replicate that functionality in Google Sheets?
Or is your aversion mostly to the M- word?
I find it funny that when it comes to vi vs emacs (or any such similarly geek-approved thing), fans of each will jump up in arms about the precise reason their platform is better, but the same kind of people would not want to take hundreds of thousands of business professionals at their word about why they like using a particular piece of software.
- michaelmrose 9y agoProbably because the geeks can consider the virtues of making a spreadsheet vs an application while the office workers are incapable of understanding more than half the equation. Also office workers can't always be trusted to even plug things in let alone properly assess what an optimal solution looks like.
- vilmosi 9y agoGeeks aren't as smart as they think they are. Particularly when it comes to business requirements. I'm guilty of that as much as anyone.
- noobhacker 9y agoI come from a data analysis background, and I'm thinking about R / Python as the alternative to Excel, not Google Sheets. People used to use Excel to run regression, visualize data, etc. which I consider inferior to R / Python. I can't speak about other uses of Excel, e.g. financial modeling, insurance.