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> What do I need to learn/do to excel? You need to turn off tool tips immediately. It makes you look like a newbie. You should setup a hot key to open excel a
by sfj 6y ago
> What do I need to learn/do to excel?
You need to turn off tool tips immediately. It makes you look like a newbie.
You should setup a hot key to open excel at any time. This allows you a "panic button" to hit whenever you are playing games or planning vacations and hear someone about to enter your cubicle.
- mariocesar 6y agoAwesome XD
- hutzlibu 6y agoA "lead architect" whose default is excel? Very convincing. (edit: but I do get the joke now..)
- pas 6y agoA lot more convincing than Visio or MS Project or some UML.
- hutzlibu 6y agoYeah, a lead software-architect who uses UML, ridiculous! Much better is a excel table .. where all of the used technologies are listed? Seriously, why and for what would a software architect needs excel for his main work?
- pas 6y agoMaybe for hand-tuning a deep neural network to detect sarcasm.
- hutzlibu 6y agoSo you were not, at least partly, serious?
- pas 6y agoI think the best answer around here is a careful explanation that can be summed up as "it depends". It depends on what is expected of that role at any given organization. And whatever the answer to that, the likelihood that the role highly depends on efficient communication, mediation between parties (multi-stakeholder approach and so on), the best tool is probably Thunderbird, or Office, or whatever floats one's boat. Of course, at some point said Architect usually have to manage technological aspects, decisions, problems, projects - and for that the best tool is again "it depends", just like in any engineering endeavor. And yes, it might include a few sleepless nights doing low-level R&D, looking over code, fiddling with components, getting to the bottom of bugs, coming up with workarounds, strategy, proposals - or evaluating them, soliciting feedback, reviewing it et cetera. And so, it depends, I might have been. (But seriously, I usually found, that those high level tech decision makers/influencers who are not communicating enough, who are not organizing information enough, but are too lost in some specialized tool, to be completely useless. I use Google Docs and Spreadsheets to track things, because it can be easily and kind of "safely" shared with the required folks. Whereas every other tool is too slow. JIRA? Oh, that only works on the internal network, better wait months for VPN access. Oh here's a .xlsx attached to an email, fuck the actual devs that don't live on Office, and so on. And on top of all that an "architect" is - at least in my experience - is a thankless job. Not high-profile enough to actually have authority to effect change, but usually sufficiently high on the ladder to get flak for any and all problems. Finally, in large orgs it's not rare that the Architect role is the last line that has at least some connection to the actual tech/development, and up from there it's all about costs, headcount, opex/capex, schedules, compliance, governance, PR, and internal/external politics/sales/optics. And this makes it neigh impossible to execute well.)
- senectus1 6y agoDraw.io?
- gonzo41 6y agoPowerPoint baby!
- stjo 6y agoLook into VBA too. Might be useful if you get in software one day
- skocznymroczny 6y agoMany games do the opposite and have a "Excel screen" mode for that.
- commandlinefan 6y ago"Hey, Bob, it's great to see that you're keeping busy, but why are you still running Excel '95?"
- blaser-waffle 6y agoThe Ribbon sucks, I ain't payin for Office365, and when it comes to doing basic adding, subtraction, and division in a table, I don't need high end software. Plus it integrates really well with the Unreal Engine...
- venatiodecorus 6y agoreally? i've never heard of a single game with something like this. do you have any examples? or am i just missing a joke here haha??
- karatestomp 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
- skocznymroczny 6y agowell, web version of Tinder has it. That counts as a game too?
- LanceH 6y agoJust play Eve Online and you'll be in Excel anyway.
- 72deluxe 6y agoLet's hope Elite Dangerous introduces a complicated menu system for their carrier system to compete! Oh wait