This Hacker News thread on @baselinescene's great piece ab Excel & building financial spreadsheets is a must-read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198187 .
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@avibryant@fredbenenson there's a weird bias against financial tools among SV types. have you heard engineers talk ab Bloomberg terminals? -
@noUpside@avibryant@fredbenenson you havering be pretty wealthy or work in finance to have access to a bloomberg terminal -
@JorgeO@avibryant@fredbenenson that doesn't stop people who've never touched one from having strong opinions about the "need" to redesign
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@avibryant@fredbenenson@noupside versatile, yup. successful, yup. but still awful. surely we can keep the good and fix the shitty? -
@JorgeO why do you think it's awful? -
@noUpside it's software, but you can't do unit tests or source control or code reviews or type checking or... -
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