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emeril
3y ago
I've been the excel/vba resource at various consulting firms for 20+ years... I strongly recommend you enlist some people like me to kick the tires on your product before a more wide roll-out among other things, I'd make an e
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emeril
3y ago
I can't copy and paste formulas to more than one cell at a time? if I highlight a range of cells to copy something to, only the last cell will be populated?
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emeril
3y ago
omg dude - shouldn't these users be querying a database in some capacity where this data resides in the first place? perhaps via some more "accountant friendly" app than SQL? That said, I suppose that's partly the goal o
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emeril
3y ago
I live in excel in a multibillion dollar company as the "excel" guru... though my company doesn't really have big data generally speaking I would love a performant desktop excel replacement - I miss using excel 2003 - it has
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emeril
3y ago
gotta love the streisand effect!
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emeril
3y ago
I remember Josies... nice place back then Definitely odd that a person with a severe sesame allergy didn't know about tahini - she can't even eat hummus That said, I suppose decades back such foods were less mainstream and/or
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emeril
3y ago
omg so true re: terrible behavior of senior people (though thankfully not universal) I suspect people view these senior leaders are irreplaceably important and tolerate all sorts of terrible/pathological behaviors from them...
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emeril
3y ago
I use teams all the time but only use the mobile app for audio since that's less crap than the desktop electron/etc. based apps I recommend everyone to just the mobile app for audio since most people can't manage to get pc&#x
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emeril
3y ago
this 100% - you technically can't even ask someone how they are doing on an interview as that's not job related I could definitely see arguments for asking these sorts of questions in how they could be job related but not worth th
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emeril
3y ago
yeah, I'm an accountant (not an MBA) and we get a bad rap for this corp accountants don't care about cutting costs, we just care about making sure things are presented/tracked in accordance with gaap we may help identify/
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emeril
3y ago
someone has to pay for our big rewards program!!! :) often as high as 2-2.5%
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emeril
3y ago
I'm on Verizon FIOS - they rolled out IPv6 a couple years back and it was so poorly rolled out and communicated (i.e., lots of things/services were complete broken) that I fully disabled IPv6 on my router and don't intend to
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emeril
3y ago
great analogy
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emeril
3y ago
the svg on the side of their page is kind of hilarious though I've used this program too in the past to seamlessly convert html to text to easily import into a database...
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emeril
3y ago
yeah, I'm a finance guy, I never tell anyone where I'm going for a while out an abundance of caution though I'm no where near important enough for anyone to care lol only once did I wait out a formal non-compete for a few mon
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emeril
3y ago
yeah, even target.com won't publish any 1 star reviews of their products - I bought a play kitchen years ago that was pretty terrible but sure enough they would never publish the review
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emeril
3y ago
it sounds genuine to me - perhaps it's worth it for him to be a whistleblower?
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emeril
3y ago
I was under the impression they USED to do this and only have oddly minimal QA anymore on updates i.e., I make a point to never run windows updates, they've only caused more harm than good post Win7
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emeril
3y ago
that old ipad probably has been updated to an iOS that really isn't designed for it or, if it hasn't, you're trying to view websites with heavy javascript which requires too much memory/cpu to view effectively
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emeril
3y ago
most people aren't sophisticated enough to identify those issues practically speaking sadly e.g., I'm one of the only people on my team at work whose computer just works consistently since I understand these things and sidestep we
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emeril
3y ago
not all meds are the same for everyone - maybe try an maoi like emsam - helped me a bunch with that feeling to varying degrees, jobs are what you make of it rather than what it makes of you
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emeril
3y ago
LOL
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emeril
3y ago
at this point, I'd prefer to be on an older boeing than a newer one...:(
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emeril
3y ago
well, so long as a student's name isn't "Robert'); drop table students;"...
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emeril
3y ago
these are a big deal in Japan - I found out about it through work and now I have my kids use them for homework instead of pencils or typical crappy american style erasable pens but of course it confuses the teachers at the school and they i
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emeril
3y ago
I'm not really a dev so I've made an art of going through all the minutiae of changing the terrible default GUI back to windows xp or so which makes it a decent consistent experience (mostly open shell + 7+ Taskbar Tweaker + manua
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emeril
3y ago
it isn't downtime he's as concerned about as it's about speed he could build in behavior to retry/wait for several seconds before erroring out but his selling point is speed seemingly (with little risk of sale negatives&
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emeril
3y ago
carplay just seems like crap on all cars I've used (including the new subaru I own) I don't even try it anymore and just bring a vanilla charger and pipe audio to the car via bluetooth (which generally works without issue on every
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emeril
3y ago
maybe your carplay experience is better than mine? all the big touch screens don't really support multitouch and the volume of navigation versus music is different/deafening/unconfigurable and the waze carplay app is garbage
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emeril
3y ago
yes 100% sarcasm
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