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Yeah, that's the flip side of a simple tool that makes it easy to solve problems. It's not clear when "simple" stops working or how to recover from it. On the o
by nindalf 4y ago
Yeah, that's the flip side of a simple tool that makes it easy to solve problems. It's not clear when "simple" stops working or how to recover from it. On the other hand, the bespoke software approach can have bugs too.
- mejutoco 4y agoI agree bespoke software could have bugs, of course, but this bug seems unique to excel. I would say excel is a tool that makes it easy to solve _easy_ problems. I do not think Excel is simple. IMO it is less intimidating to users because it is graphical and does not look like programming. > It's not clear when "simple" stops working or how to recover from it. Excel row limit could clearly fail in a non-silent way, and it would be a better tool. They chose "simplicity" by ignoring errors.
- Kye 4y agoThere are a lot of times where a low-level understanding of Computer Stuff lets me easily get problems in simple stuff. Like if I see a year that's 1969 or a number that's in the negatives and around 4 million, I know some kind of overflow happened and can work from there to diagnose the problem. I don't know the right balance, though. I know all this stuff because you just had to if you wanted to do anything with a computer beyond simple office tasks. Even advanced stuff has nice interfaces these days. My new laptop with a dGPU comes with software that has an overclock toggle and some guidance on how to get the most out of it, warnings, etc. That's a long way from editing files to make HIMEM.SYS work so Wing Commander would run.