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Don't I know it. I've saved people many hours of copy/pasting and manual indexing in several different Excel spreadsheets by having them export to CSVs, runnin
by amalcon 18y ago
Don't I know it. I've saved people many hours of copy/pasting and manual indexing in several different Excel spreadsheets by having them export to CSVs, running them through a quick Perl script, and having them import again.
To a non-programmer, a computer is a tool for processing data. To a programmer, a computer is a tool for making tools. Most skilled programmers don't even realize how often they make tools for seemingly minor tasks. These tools are what we have to trade.
- btwelch 18y agoAgreed. Your major competitive advantage as a programmer is probably the ability to build tools. If the problem calls for a particularly complex algorithm, or begins taking up too much time, that's when I make the tool as simple as possible and then leverage Mechanical Turk to get past the sticky bits.