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Its quite old, so I apologise if this is a repost. http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/434.aspx[^] Its not just marketing that can develop an unhealthy obsession with spreadsheets, a developer at a company I once worked for liked to use Excel or spreadsheet controls for everything. And I really mean everything - user interface, configuration, IPC, logging. He liked generating VBA too. This was for a company that manufactured automated blood grouping machines. Thank god they still test blood immediately before transfusions. Oh, and guess what his favourite language was? :-D Ryan
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Its quite old, so I apologise if this is a repost. http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/434.aspx[^] Its not just marketing that can develop an unhealthy obsession with spreadsheets, a developer at a company I once worked for liked to use Excel or spreadsheet controls for everything. And I really mean everything - user interface, configuration, IPC, logging. He liked generating VBA too. This was for a company that manufactured automated blood grouping machines. Thank god they still test blood immediately before transfusions. Oh, and guess what his favourite language was? :-D Ryan
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/[^] Or even http://www.mines.edu/students/b/bolmstea/malbolge/ [^] Heres an example program http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/malbolge.html[^] Nice:omg: Pete
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Its quite old, so I apologise if this is a repost. http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/434.aspx[^] Its not just marketing that can develop an unhealthy obsession with spreadsheets, a developer at a company I once worked for liked to use Excel or spreadsheet controls for everything. And I really mean everything - user interface, configuration, IPC, logging. He liked generating VBA too. This was for a company that manufactured automated blood grouping machines. Thank god they still test blood immediately before transfusions. Oh, and guess what his favourite language was? :-D Ryan
True? Just this past Thursday. The only thing I can think of right now ( today has been another *bad* day) worse than being in marketing is being a coder supporting marketing. Oh, wait...that's me...no WONDER I feel like this. I need drugs. ROTFL. Unfortunately Bianca has already seen this so I had to deny that programming to support marketing is a horror. I love Marketing. Honestly Bianca. Please put down that stapler... cheers, Chris Maunder
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True? Just this past Thursday. The only thing I can think of right now ( today has been another *bad* day) worse than being in marketing is being a coder supporting marketing. Oh, wait...that's me...no WONDER I feel like this. I need drugs. ROTFL. Unfortunately Bianca has already seen this so I had to deny that programming to support marketing is a horror. I love Marketing. Honestly Bianca. Please put down that stapler... cheers, Chris Maunder
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Its quite old, so I apologise if this is a repost. http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/434.aspx[^] Its not just marketing that can develop an unhealthy obsession with spreadsheets, a developer at a company I once worked for liked to use Excel or spreadsheet controls for everything. And I really mean everything - user interface, configuration, IPC, logging. He liked generating VBA too. This was for a company that manufactured automated blood grouping machines. Thank god they still test blood immediately before transfusions. Oh, and guess what his favourite language was? :-D Ryan
It might be a repost, but it gave me a good laugh. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Its quite old, so I apologise if this is a repost. http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/434.aspx[^] Its not just marketing that can develop an unhealthy obsession with spreadsheets, a developer at a company I once worked for liked to use Excel or spreadsheet controls for everything. And I really mean everything - user interface, configuration, IPC, logging. He liked generating VBA too. This was for a company that manufactured automated blood grouping machines. Thank god they still test blood immediately before transfusions. Oh, and guess what his favourite language was? :-D Ryan
:laugh::laugh::laugh: Scroll down to read the comments and you'll find one about creating a Powerpoint presentation. I recently read an article about NASA and the Colombia failure which described a scenario the engineers there called, "Death by PowerPoint,' which refers to the fact that there are no actual engineering drawings for the Shuttles, just a bunch of PowerPoint presentations. Since the engineers who put these together are now all gone, the folks now working there are finding they have to reverse engineer everything!:eek::eek: Here's the text from the article: At NASA, the men and women who tended the space shuttles were no longer its inventors and innovators. They were by necessity curators of an operational museum piece. At least a quarter of NASA's scientists and engineers were expected to retire within five years. Already the people over 60 outnumbered those under 30 by nearly 3 to 1. "People talk about the learning curve," said physicist Paul Dimotakis of Caltech. "Nobody talks about the forgetting curve." When it came to Columbia, time had made a mockery of NASA's institutional memory. The space agency had millions of technical documents meant to capture the expertise of the thousands of engineers who had designed and built the space shuttle fleet. Over the years, there had been so many design changes and so little money to document them that thousands of shuttle blueprints appeared to describe a vehicle that no longer existed. When accident investigators sought out a report documenting details of the shuttle's design or performance, they often found only PowerPoint presentations. Without the knowledgeable voice of the engineers who had originally presented them, the slides were meaningless. The board's investigators soon coined a phrase for this new institutional amnesia. "Death by PowerPoint." Copyright 2004 Los Angeles Times 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse