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You aren't part of the Excel gang so you don't get it. There is a level of Excel user that is in fact a special type of human. Quant traders and accountants for
by BadHumans 3y ago
You aren't part of the Excel gang so you don't get it. There is a level of Excel user that is in fact a special type of human. Quant traders and accountants for example. They are very hot key dependent and the speed at which they do things in Excel is superhuman and would make you rethink SQL queries. You try to take their Excel from them and there would nothing less than a revolt.
- jaxson999 3y agoI love excel but this is some seriously delusional stuff. Tech culture is the absolute worst. Everyone wants to pretend they are splitting the atom even when they are just using excel.
- BadHumans 3y agoYou aren't at the level where you can split an atom in Excel yet? Pfft, you'll get there one day. Keep at it.
- CryptoBanker 3y agoAs someone who was in finance before moving to tech, there are still many days I believe Excel is the best IDE I've ever used
- agumonkey 3y agoOG reactive functional programming some say leads too easily to spaghetti columns but still
- Shorn 3y agoI am a programmer - I'm not in the Excel gang. But the way you casually dropped the term "spaghetti columns" literally sent a shiver up my spine.
- dav43 3y agoLikewise, I spend years in it for a day job and I never used a mouse.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoObligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1667/ https://xkcd.com/1667/
- niceice 3y agoExcel gang https://youtu.be/BNG_c9Ofd6c?&t=722 https://youtu.be/BNG_c9Ofd6c?&t=722
- dimask 3y agoYeah I have heard the legends and even met one person once. I do not think that one needs to be in the excel gang, though, to be disturbed by such interference patterns while looking at a spreadsheet in VisionPro.