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I had one job which could at best be described as 'Excel VBA DevOps' it was in a bank. Someone had cost the company millions when yahoo finance changed the end
by buzzkillington 7y ago
I had one job which could at best be described as 'Excel VBA DevOps' it was in a bank. Someone had cost the company millions when yahoo finance changed the end point for currency conversion and no one noticed it was using stale data for a few months.
- WalterBright 7y agoI have to rewrite my accounting code every year to deal with Paypal CSV files because they change the way they work. A constant nuisance.
- pintxo 7y agoI‘d argue using yahoo finance in the first place as data source is the issue here.
- buzzkillington 7y agoExcel is the issue because it hid that dependency in the right most column (ABB) on the 4th sheet of the excel file.
- bencollier49 7y agoExcel didn't do that, the person who wrote the spreadsheet did that!
- kimjongtrill 7y agothis is staggeringly hilarious. wow.