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I built something in VB6 and Access back in 1999 and it's still in use today. The only maintenance I've ever done on it was visit the premises and replace the power supply on the tower PC that runs 24/7. They're completely happy with it and have no interest in updating or migrating it to something else. I was 14 and they were a family friend who gave me enough money to buy a voodoo 2 What I'm saying is that computers are a scam and for children
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SpaceAceJase posted:I built something in VB6 and Access back in 1999 and it's still in use today. so how does it feel that your usefulness to society peaked at 14?
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:so how does it feel that your usefulness to society peaked at 14? feels good I hope you can experience an achievement in your lifetime too, friend
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Apr 2, 2022 15:52
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and that is why access owns a workable ui over a workable single user rdbms or a seperate big boi rdbms solves heaps of problems for people and is enough to do a lot. it’s like a pareto principle at 1:95 for business software
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Apr 10, 2022 16:17
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i did a brief side gig in college working at some place that... idk advertised compliance training to lawyers or something? they had us go over a bunch of court system PDFs to get attorneys' addresses and enter them into a database i spent one of the shifts writing some janky python thing to scrape the PDFs and vomit out the relevant bits, since they were mostly standardized--still needed manual review but it was a lot faster than manually opening and reading the PDFs. didn't occur to me that i probably coulda sold that poo poo to them instead of just using it to complete a "shift" in like 10% of the time i used to need and work on homework during the rest
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Apr 10, 2022 17:13
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heck, I’m using access right now!
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Apr 15, 2022 01:57
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lol today's hn is literally bastardized spreadheet as issue tracker as a saas app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31098065
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Apr 21, 2022 03:17
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jesus christ, at least its not only this one client, at least
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Apr 21, 2022 14:08
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jeeeeesus, just read this thread title after dealing with it for the third time in as many jobs. my boss may be an awesome self-taught mutually respectful Legitimate Authority nerd, but he has zero radar for stopping Product from manipulating junior employees anyone have advice for dealing with Lumberg?
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Apr 27, 2022 09:27
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Analytic Engine posted:jeeeeesus, just read this thread title after dealing with it for the third time in as many jobs. my boss may be an awesome self-taught mutually respectful Legitimate Authority nerd, but he has zero radar for stopping Product from manipulating junior employees What you do is you dip 10 minutes earlier so he can’t ask you to work Saturday
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Apr 27, 2022 09:35
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Armitag3 posted:What you do is you dip 10 minutes earlier so he can’t ask you to work Saturday yeah I've been manually setting slack to Away and Stop Alerts despite coding at night
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Mr. Nice! posted:in 2011 during the lead up to a major ship inspection while i was still in the navy, i gave all the division officers on the ship a standard spreadsheet format to use to list and track all their discrepancies (my division had one that was around 10k line items because i had to track every single fuse on the ship). they were supposed to save an updated version with their division name in a particular directory on our share drive. i then had a master sheet with a macro that would pull the relevant info from everyone's spreadsheets and compile them into a single document. the front sheet of this workbook had the charts and actionable statistics to put on the powerpoint presentation that was given daily to the captain, the commodore's staff, the admiral's staff, and whoever else felt like showing up. Product asked a junior employee to update the crash message for users, demanding she have a live testable example in production. I diffused the situation by rattling off how I would implement a user-inaccessible game Debug Room, and I just saw it as an in-progress PR with no attribution called Secret Menu Drawer Edit: god drat it, just realized I really was that dumb. we're talking cartoon-characters-learn-a-lesson dumb Analytic Engine fucked around with this message at 12:10 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Apr 27, 2022 09:42
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if you double-click certain labels in certain forms, Secret controls appear for testing and debug functions not kidding.
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Apr 28, 2022 02:44
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 you're within your excel sheet, within sharepoint, within microsoft teams, and this comes flying at you. how do you open?
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Generic Monk posted:
i open the nearest window and jump out of it
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May 17, 2022 20:07
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Generic Monk posted:
why would i be within teams? in a world with these employment opportunities, why would anyone work at a company that made them do this? would literally quit my job over that
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May 17, 2022 21:37
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Tom Collins posted:why would i be within teams? in a world with these employment opportunities, why would anyone work at a company that made them do this? this popped up covering half of the gigantic excel spreadsheet we use as a project management tool, that is only accessible through the ‘files’ section of a team in teams, so i can’t fault the timing
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May 17, 2022 22:35
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Files tab of a team in teams are backed by Sharepoint document libraries, so it's usually best to go to that page and bookmark it in your browser.
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~Coxy posted:Files tab of a team in teams are backed by Sharepoint document libraries, so it's usually best to go to that page and bookmark it in your browser. i should probably put in that tiny bit of work; I've managed to avoid engaging with it apart from this one document and i just don't want to think about it. like, sometimes people apply filters to the thing that i spend 2 minutes trying to figure out how to remove and then i just call someone to see if they can tell me what i was trying to find out. i've just gone back to using email to send poo poo because i just don't want to deal with this lmao
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May 18, 2022 08:45
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im glad other people share my pain
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May 18, 2022 14:46
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alright people, looks like Bill the project manager is going to embed the excel sheet into a sharepoint point page. please hold off on changes until wednesday.
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:alright people, looks like Bill the project manager is going to embed the excel sheet into a sharepoint point page. please hold off on changes until wednesday. sorry, I just updated a bunch of our issues with new tags - will they make it into the new version?
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distortion park posted:sorry, I just updated a bunch of our issues with new tags - will they make it into the new version? did you update them into v1_final or v1_salesfinal
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hi please migrate these pages to google sheets microsoft office support will end in q4
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distortion park posted:sorry, I just updated a bunch of our issues with new tags - will they make it into the new version? Hey I don't think you added me to the distro when you added tags, so I don't have that revision. I need you to send it to me so I can copy paste it into the new Google sheet. Sometimes it doesn't copy right so I just input in the values as I see em on my second monitor.
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KirbyKhan posted:Hey I don't think you added me to the distro when you added tags, so I don't have that revision. I need you to send it to me so I can copy paste it into the new Google sheet. Sometimes it doesn't copy right so I just input in the values as I see em on my second monitor. ok done, make sure you include the changes from the sharepoint version too
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distortion park posted:ok done, make sure you include the changes from the sharepoint version too i don't have access to that one, can you have james just send me the latest copy
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Remember that tomorrow we're having a training session where 7 people crowd around my desktop and I show them my 73-step procedure for producing the one output value that we ever use from the data in this 70MB spreadsheet that comes out from the Colorado branch every Wednesday morning No, I won't write this down or learn how to use formulas, you need to memorize it like I did because my boomer boss is super impressed by watching me click stuff in rapid sequence. I'm trying to help your career here.
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kk, heres the training file with all the PII sanitized. Hope it helps your class posting_enemies.xlsx
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Aug 1, 2022 01:43
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resent with correct file v1_salesfinal_training.xlsx
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Increasing the font size instead of zooming in on the document. Can you guys save the file in .doc format? I paid for this oem license* of office 2003 and I'm not upgrading to subscription poo poo *peeled the key off a gateway 2000 pc at work
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hey folks we didn’t get budget for jira again this quarter but have you heard of airtable?
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SpaceAceJase posted:Increasing the font size instead of zooming in on the document. its ridiculously easy to do this with the subscription versions btw. just saying
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qirex posted:hey folks we didn’t get budget for jira again this quarter but have you heard of airtable? how about we just run our expired version of jira for the next 5 years instead?
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KirbyKhan posted:resent with correct file this doesn’t have James’s latest edits i don’t think
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meat sweats posted:Remember that tomorrow we're having a training session where 7 people crowd around my desktop and I show them my 73-step procedure for producing the one output value that we ever use from the data in this 70MB spreadsheet that comes out from the Colorado branch every Wednesday morning Captain Foo posted:this doesn’t have James’s latest edits i don’t think Oh last I heard he was gone. I can't find any mention of it in my email, but I swear he bombed the slack meme chat with that Half Baked gif of Scarface quitting the burger spot.
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qirex posted:hey folks we didn’t get budget for jira again this quarter but have you heard of airtable? can i install a powerbi plugin for it
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