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by TeeMassive
1739 days ago
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> The truth is that localized excel has enabled a generation of people speaking poor english to still do pretty dope stuff for their business. I got paid a lot to transform projects that used abusively Excel sheets. All of them had absurdly long delay and cost explosions caused by this. Excel sheets are for small business and small projects by non-programmers. Excel sheets in a non-English language are for small businesses and small projects by non-programmers that are doomed to stay this way. This is because having programmers that want to unfuck a mess of macro AND speaking your foreign language simply are very rare AND doing so before the business implodes are very slim. |
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I wonder where all this money came from.
I also got paid a lot to transform projects that abused excel, among other things. The usual truth was that, without excel (or, on other projects, without their tortured python scripts, or without the off-the-shelf software modded to death), these companies would never have built a business successful enough to pay entire teams for months or years before any returns.
> having programmers that want to unfuck a mess of macro AND speaking your foreign language
I mean, at which point did the idea "Oh, that language is so weird that very few can possibly speak it _and_ learn to program" start to make sense to you?
Did it ever occur to you that my foreign language was the first language of a whole lot of people living in my country, and that maybe there are a few good universities here?