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by DavidHm 2814 days ago
Not me personally, but the amount of complex workflow that I've seen relying on tortured Excel and VBA is mind-boggling.

In the hands of someone who knows how to use it, Excel is incredibly powerful. Though at some point it crosses the threshold of "why don't you just get a junior developer to code this?". And the answer is always "we are technologically dinosaurs, and we think that any devolopment project costs at least $200k"

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In some very large enterprises, that's not far off the mark unfortunately.

Large corporate governance is at best, a shitshow.

I see! In your opinion, if I am trying to track various parts of my life. Like a schedule, todo stuff. Should I just code it as a programmer, instead of using excel?