At my shop, any customer-facing computation in Excel is a one warning offence for juniors and zero warnings for anyone else. We've learned this the hard way, as have countless others.
Some notes on @bryan_caplan's complaints that nobody looked at his spreadsheets:https://www.natemeyvis.com/writing/on-bryan-caplans-spreadsheets/ …
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Excel is basically an obsessively detailed logging framework with a terrible afterthought of a programming language attached
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Here: "P.S. Using Excel does not count as “demonstrable error.” It’s my comparative advantage." I took Bryan's meaning as it is cheaper for him to produce statistics in Excel than in R/Python.
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uhhh... that's a hard pass for me, chiefpic.twitter.com/q04MFZP6RS
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I’ve written things like this
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This is completely correct. No one wants to punish older scholars for not being experienced software engineers, but he's basically bragging about an actual weakness in his work.
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One that can be fixed and can be worked on!
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