What's annoying me today

tricky
2 years ago
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    trickylens
    Board
    a year ago

    No.

    Nope.

    Affirmative.

    People are used to using spreadsheets. Spreadsheets work. If you always use a spreadsheet, you will only know how to do things with spreadsheets.

    If I want to quickly analyse a set of data, I'm going to use a spreadsheet. If I need to collect and manage large sets of data collaboratively, and periodically analyse elements of it I'm going to use a database (maybe using a spreadsheet an analysis tool). Spreadsheets can do all of this, so it's easier to use one (and only one personal skill set), but with large sets of data, that needs sharing and versioning, you will run into problems with spreadsheets (even if it's only the logistics of managing independent edits of 'current' versions).

    If you want to see what modern database tools, designed to replace the use of spreadsheets (where they are sub-optimal), you can do worse than look at grist, and specifically grist-electron as a stand alone application.

    Nottingham_Floristpanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    I've got to the age of 55 not knowing how to create a spreadsheet and I'm not going to start now.

    Ingopanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    Good game, the DMC's I Have Never.

    I've got to the age of 41 having never drunk a coffee and I'm not going to start now.

    noodlehelp_outline
    Squad
    a year ago

    I do a lot of stuff that would once have been spreadsheet based in PowerBI, building/tapping into SQL databases and the like. It’s great and lets me do stuff that is orders of magnitude more powerful than excel alone. All well and good.. except that nobody else in my team can understand how they work , and if I leave they my employer will struggle to find someone else who can maintain these things (not because I am special, but because proficiency with other tools, even relatively popular MS ones, is still quite rare in my profession).

    The fact that everyone knows how to use excel is why excel is often the right tool, even if it’s not the best one for the job. In most business settings better solutions require bringing in the IT pros to build out something.. but that tends to deliver robustness at the expense of creativity and flexibility. And those people are a limited resource.

    trickylens
    Board
    a year ago

    Try. Grist.

    Ingopanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    Nicky?

    Nottingham_Floristpanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    Paul Grist is a terrific cartoonist. Look at this interplay of black and white.

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    PNG, 258.0 KB, uploaded by Nottingham_Florist a year ago.

    JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    Problem is most people still struggle to find the on button for their laptop.
    Unleashing grist on them will be a problem.

    And I know Tricky will be all over this, but most big corporations won't allow people to touch something like that.

    I find IT departments similar to train operators, everything would work fine if it wasn't for those bloody users (passengers).

    Psychobelpanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    Its much less complex than its made out, as you probably know.

    Jeff_Albertsonhelp_outline
    Squad
    a year ago

    Latest edition of Mic-d Up (behind the big/controversial VAR decisions with big Howard Webb) out yesterday, covering Md22-26 (includes Forest's games on Jan 30 v Arse, Feb 4 v Bornmuff, Feb 10 v Newcastle, Feb 17 v West Ham).
    We didn't feature.

    (In fact, not a single game/decision involving Forest has featured on any of the shows so far this season, which, given some of the decisions against us, is a fcukin joke).

    Deanpanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    Too many difficult questions to answer if they did our games I suspect

    JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    Don't think I've seen it but presumably they only look at decisions that they got right, or at least can argue why they think they were right?

    Which if that's the case says it all about our two pen decisions.

    trickylens
    Board
    a year ago

    "Available in two sizes, our 3D Acrylic blocks are a truly unique way to show your support at home or in the office. Each Crystal is supplied in a high-quality satin lined presentation box."

    The constant stream of complete bollocks that nottinum forests are spamming me with, after attending the match on Saturday.

    BrettWilliamspanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    Half-term wankbags at the barbers causing a sizeable queue because they all want a 'skin-fade, mate'. Takes forever...

    trickylens
    Board
    a year ago

    One of my servers in a datacentre has been suspended for "abuse". The suspension notice includes the abuse report for the server ip address.

    It is not the ip address of my server, which is not on the abuse list (I've checked), and appears to have been erroneously suspended because someone missed a "6" off the end of the actual ip address of the server that should have been suspended (which isn't one of mine).

    Charliepanorama_fish_eye
    Squad
    a year ago

    I hate it when that happens.

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