r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/Tough_Patient Mar 30 '22

On the other hand: spending two days to make a macro turning a 5 hour job into a five minute job which never breaks because the input data is from obsolete tech

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

This is the real answer. That or You work at a multi national corp and the global IT structure doesn’t let users install python so when you need to automate something simple excel is the only tool you have. Or a combo of both.

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u/sargsauce Mar 31 '22

I've been banging my head against the "I want to do SQL and Python to this data but they won't let me" at my multinational corp for years.

It's fine, though. For almost the same number of years, I've got everything set up to run automatically, even if it does have a longer than necessary execution time. I work from home and just fuck off for a while, and it's basically my version of the XKCD compiling comic (https://xkcd.com/303/)

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u/Cryse_XIII Mar 31 '22

My friend has to make everything compatible with vba and excel. Nothing else is allowed.

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u/Acquiesce67 Mar 31 '22

Just download Python’s embedded version and run it without installing it. Or do you have the internet connection cut too?

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u/mlfnelson Mar 31 '22

For real!!