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"All enterprise software competes with Excel. All productivity software competes with emailing things to yourself." https://twitter.com/pavelasamsonov/status/1

by bitlax 7y ago

"All enterprise software competes with Excel. All productivity software competes with emailing things to yourself." https://twitter.com/pavelasamsonov/status/1106534188159778817?lang=en https://twitter.com/pavelasamsonov/status/110653418815977881...

scarejunba 7y ago
All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper?
- toomuchtodo 7y ago
  Or a notebook.
- duxup 7y ago
  The old clocking in system with a card and stamp from the clock we're efficient and everyone understood how it worked.
  - dragonwriter 7y ago
    That's minimal time tracking, not scheduling. It's the difference between retrospective and prospective.
    - duxup 7y ago
      Good point.
    - hef19898 7y ago
      Kanban systems with real physical cards work pretty well. And you they are way more resilient than digital stuff.
- reaperducer 7y ago
  All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper? According to the Wall Street Journal, yes. The Trendy New Way to Organize Your Schedule: A Paper Planner https://apple.news/AMN1W-MtTRCecQ-qIeFUQSQ https://apple.news/AMN1W-MtTRCecQ-qIeFUQSQ
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  Scheduling is a subset of productivity, and, IME, not an exception to the rule about productivity software and Excel.
- smsm42 7y ago
  And a corkboard, yes. Or maybe a big wall calendar.
NicoJuicy 7y ago
Thah, I dogfeed http://handlr.sapico.me http://handlr.sapico.me for not emailing it to myselve. It seems to work :p
- Terretta 7y ago
  Note, sapico.me (without www) is a bare Windows Server welcome page. Could redirect it to www so Google search bot isn’t confused about what’s at sapico.me. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/711755-need-to-redirect-http-domain-com-to-http-www-domain-com https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/711755-need-to-redire...
  - NicoJuicy 7y ago
    Well, my start page isn't even mobile friendly. I don't actually bring in clients though the web page, don't need it actually. It's just there, a refactored version ( yekyll) is already in the works
bigiain 7y ago
R and Python will not replace Excel until they "correctly" transform gene names into dates or floating point numbers... https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/excel-is-autocorrecting-scientific-research-thats-not-cool.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-expe... How can we have reproducibility in scientific research if we don't all make the same errors?
- asdff 7y ago
  Don't blame excel for people being ignorant on number formatting. It's front and center in the ribbon menu.

by bitlax 7y ago

scarejunba 7y ago

All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper?

toomuchtodo 7y ago
Or a notebook.
duxup 7y ago
The old clocking in system with a card and stamp from the clock we're efficient and everyone understood how it worked.
- dragonwriter 7y ago
  That's minimal time tracking, not scheduling. It's the difference between retrospective and prospective.
  - duxup 7y ago
    Good point.
  - hef19898 7y ago
    Kanban systems with real physical cards work pretty well. And you they are way more resilient than digital stuff.
reaperducer 7y ago
All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper? According to the Wall Street Journal, yes. The Trendy New Way to Organize Your Schedule: A Paper Planner https://apple.news/AMN1W-MtTRCecQ-qIeFUQSQ https://apple.news/AMN1W-MtTRCecQ-qIeFUQSQ
dragonwriter 7y ago
Scheduling is a subset of productivity, and, IME, not an exception to the rule about productivity software and Excel.
smsm42 7y ago
And a corkboard, yes. Or maybe a big wall calendar.

NicoJuicy 7y ago

Thah, I dogfeed http://handlr.sapico.me http://handlr.sapico.me for not emailing it to myselve. It seems to work :p

Terretta 7y ago
Note, sapico.me (without www) is a bare Windows Server welcome page. Could redirect it to www so Google search bot isn’t confused about what’s at sapico.me. https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/711755-need-to-redirect-http-domain-com-to-http-www-domain-com https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/711755-need-to-redire...
- NicoJuicy 7y ago
  Well, my start page isn't even mobile friendly. I don't actually bring in clients though the web page, don't need it actually. It's just there, a refactored version ( yekyll) is already in the works

bigiain 7y ago

R and Python will not replace Excel until they "correctly" transform gene names into dates or floating point numbers... https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-experiments/excel-is-autocorrecting-scientific-research-thats-not-cool.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-expe... How can we have reproducibility in scientific research if we don't all make the same errors?

asdff 7y ago
Don't blame excel for people being ignorant on number formatting. It's front and center in the ribbon menu.