Excel is a powerful tool. I was solving system of differential equations with Newton method in it. Sometimes it is easier than in Matlab (or Mathematica) if all you have is good understanding of how step-wise equations should look like, but not the differential equations themselves. Those steps may include if statements, for example.
Garbage software is one of the primary reasons I left my last job despite high pay. It just got too friggin annoying to use. They'd roll out a 'hotfix' to fix something they had broken 3 months earlier and they'd break 2 new things which previously had been working fine for years. The support was so bad I just bought a magic eight ball for our office and we'd ask it our support questions.
Yardi, I'm looking at you.
The Ribbon interface used on office products isn't there because it's good UX. It exists because there's a software patent on it.
If office didn't use a patented UI, someone could make office software that replicated the UI of MS Office which would allow companies to switch to other products without having to retrain staff.
Microsoft was enshittifying their software long before anyone else.
Solidworks, Matlab is not exactly what you call CHAD open-source tech as opposed to Python where you can get shit done with it.
Me: oracle, oracle and more oracle
Damnit, who put a maze with no exits in this cage?
Maybe you need a career shift bud. As a designer you could absolutely use those softwares!
a favorite to share: You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky
Business apps at work? Shocking!
Python and Excel should be buff wojaks with brainlette heads, they get the work done but ughhhhh to using them.
Engineer in uni vs engineering job?
They missed using Access incorrectly with too many users and too large of a database.
Capitalism somehow means managers know better than you how STEM work should be done. Sigh... get used to it if you want to continue.:-| Make some FOSS on the side for fun?:-)
I did computer science, and we used MIPS Assembly..
I ask you, when has anyone EVER wanted to use a MIPS processor lol.
Also, for AI, we were forced to use LISP, which the lecturer didn't teach. He graded us using a poorly written script, and if your program crashed his script, he gave you 0. You only got 1 attempt. But, when is the last time, ANYONE has used LISP either lol
And Perl.. And PHP, etc
Shout out to CAD users here!
I use python occasionally at work.
... Not IT approved, but well... we use an MSP, and I get to be a decision maker in the company for certain things, and just do it, because well.... I can, and the company keeps me around partially for the things I do with python and sql.
I would like to say Pandas should be used for much of that excel stuff, maybe even replace it, but... Microsoft has decided to bring Python capabilities into excel, so that will likely cement them in your workflow even further:
I'm in university and I use both...
Man I guess I’m spoiled. We get access to the top row except SolidWorks because we license an alternative. We use the entire MS suite too though but as a supplement. I don’t use excel hardly at all because JMP is superior in every single way, except for dashboards where we use PowerBI.
despite all my rage i'm still just a rat in a cave
I dynamic for crm, SQL
This just in: Redditor discovers the world runs on Excel.
So True, what about Automic, and Imformatica? Also Oracle..
I'm sorry for your loss
I for one think this demonstrates how overpriced universities are. All of academia is comparable to a ponzi scheme.
