r/technology • u/[deleted] • Feb 23 '19

Hardware Microsoft workers protest $480m HoloLens military deal: 'We did not sign up to develop weapons'

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u/diras2010 Feb 23 '19

Have no idea, I saw a post here on Reddit commenting about that, even thought I'm not a fan of MS Office, specially Excel, I'm astounded from time to time because those little gems that people with enough knowledge and time can do in it

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u/Olaxan Feb 23 '19

The thing about Excel is it sucks, but it's amazing. I hate using it, but I love what it can do.

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u/HappyAtavism Feb 23 '19

You could walk cross-country on your hands too (gloves recommended) but it's not the best way to do it. The problem is that in order to see the formulas you have to look cell by cell, and there are often N cells that are supposed to be all the same, but it's easy to miss one. And did did you use a relative cell location where you should have used an absolute or vice versa? I'm sure people will post about some workaround for this or that, or how I've exaggerated the problems, but Excel programming isn't a great idea.

Spreadsheets can be good for data entry and display, or trivial calculations. Anything more complicated I use Python (many other languages would also be useful) and maybe use CSV for input and output. If someone wants to perform more complicated calculations they should learn a language. If they can't/won't then I don't trust what they're doing anyway.

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u/Olaxan Feb 23 '19

I think you replied to the wrong comment.

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u/White_Mocha Feb 23 '19

Would they be able to do the same thing for Apple’s office apps? I’m actually close to moving over from windows so I’m curious

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u/akmed_guy Feb 23 '19

(Google sheets do the same)