You mean the most successful data analytics tool of all time?
lawfromabove on
What’s wrong with this?
lundah on
Every company has their dirty secrets of some completely inappropriate tool that’s at the center of their business.
JoushMark on
I mean, it’s like finding out the Titanic had poor water pressure for the bathrooms. Sort of interesting, but overshadowed by the whole ‘hull failure in extreme conditions, leading to lots of people dying’ part.
phoenixmusicman on
Of all the questionable decisions from that organization, this is the one that matters the least. So many companies still use hand typed excel spreadsheets.
East_Jacket_7151 on
One part of the vessle was secured with a ratchet strap. The last time a ratchet strap was on location was when this one woman floated away on a door.
FuzzyPedal on
If you think that’s bad, just wait until the world inevitably finds out that so do the banks.
Inutilisable on
Hand-typed?
A script-generated spreadsheet database would be weird. A manually written SQLite file would be insane.
But an excel spreadsheet made on a typewriter is just industry standard at this point.
Disc-Golf-Kid on
This isn’t a headline. The whole world runs on excel.
rigobueno on
What is the alternative to “hand-typed?” All spreadsheets had to be typed at some point.
ursastara on
The biggest problem was it used expired carbon fiber which compromised its structural integrity
DaikenTC on
You know this dude hasn’t got the slightest clue what he is talking about if he thinks using a spreadsheet is a bad thing.
rco8786 on
I mean, that doesn’t surprise me at all. So do nuclear military submarines.
teambob on
So is our entire finance system
Kizenny on
We use custom scripted spreadsheets/workbooks at NASA all the time.
terminalxposure on
So did the author of this article want Big-Data Crypto AI GPT or something?
zzzxtreme on
With Excel + vba + com object , u can do almost anything
terribilus on
That’s… that’s what Excel’s for…?
Mal-De-Terre on
So does most of the engineering world.
SpacePirateWatney on
Wait, you can type without using hands?
Unique_Feed_2939 on
Hand typed? What else do you use to type?
ThirdSunRising on
Excel is common in engineering applications as well as finance. It does numbers brilliantly. Some very high level engineering projects rely in some way on excel spreadsheets; you can’t really do much of the day-to-day number crunching without them.
Pirat on
A hand typed Excel spreadsheet would not be a bad thing if the data entered were correct.
PossibleCash6092 on
Aren’t most CSV files hand typed
Dos-Commas on
Reddit just wants to gloat on the fact that a bunch of rich people died and will up vote anything related to Titan.
R3D4F on
Also, wtf does hand-written excel sheet mean?
satanismymaster on
The comments here are a little surprising. There’s nothing wrong with Excel, it’s a great tool and there’s a good reason it’s used everywhere. But, the issue isn’t Excel, the issue is their manual process for mapping the subs location. Their process was a huge step backwards from the industry standard.
It’s easy to get lost down there, and it’s easier to prevent accidents if the subs location data is automatically loaded into mapping software. The coordinates themselves are just a string of numbers to us. Sure, they tell us exactly where the sub is but none of us could find 41.40338, 2.17403 until we plug it into some kind of mapping software.
Having to transcribe that information into a notebook by hand, and enter it Excel, and then load it into mapping software – as a process – takes much more time than the automated systems we currently have. Things can go very bad down there, very quickly, and that extra time could cost lives. And since we have automated systems for this, it’s an unnecessarily dumb risk.
That being said, this obviously wasn’t their dumbest decision. This just reinforces what we already knew about them.
goodolarchie on
I want to make sure you’re sitting down for this. If you’re driving, pull over. If you’re drinking, start driving. All good? Okay. Here we go.
Every company and organization of worth relies on hand typed Excel spreadsheets. Yep, in 2024. In fact most departments probably have a few. They might be on Google sheets now but they are still filling those cells. And I’d be more worried if they relied entirely on a dynamically or automatically generated spreadsheet, like a .csv output.
Counselors are available for anyone who finds this particularly difficult.
Spunge14 on
So does Williams F1 team
Foxy02016YT on
That’s not nearly as bad as they’re trying to make it sound
ItsBeau on
Excel is a brilliant programming tool.
I flew and programmed UAVS in the military and as a civilian contractor. The civilian system I operated was programmed by an excel sheet built to each aircraft’s specs and each flight was programmed through dropdowns and a lot of FITB data cells.
The civilian system was way more practical, user-friendly, efficient, and designed so much smarter.
TheMillenniaIFalcon on
This headline relies on people’s ignorance.
Most probably don’t realize just how much relies on excel spreadsheet…
mrbeez on
when they pooped they used hand held toilet paper
Icon_Crash on
It passes as the Minimum Viable Product. Not sure why anyone thinks that this would be an issue.
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Terrible, vague article title
You mean the most successful data analytics tool of all time?
What’s wrong with this?
Every company has their dirty secrets of some completely inappropriate tool that’s at the center of their business.
I mean, it’s like finding out the Titanic had poor water pressure for the bathrooms. Sort of interesting, but overshadowed by the whole ‘hull failure in extreme conditions, leading to lots of people dying’ part.
Of all the questionable decisions from that organization, this is the one that matters the least. So many companies still use hand typed excel spreadsheets.
One part of the vessle was secured with a ratchet strap. The last time a ratchet strap was on location was when this one woman floated away on a door.
If you think that’s bad, just wait until the world inevitably finds out that so do the banks.
Hand-typed?
A script-generated spreadsheet database would be weird. A manually written SQLite file would be insane.
But an excel spreadsheet made on a typewriter is just industry standard at this point.
This isn’t a headline. The whole world runs on excel.
What is the alternative to “hand-typed?” All spreadsheets had to be typed at some point.
The biggest problem was it used expired carbon fiber which compromised its structural integrity
You know this dude hasn’t got the slightest clue what he is talking about if he thinks using a spreadsheet is a bad thing.
I mean, that doesn’t surprise me at all. So do nuclear military submarines.
So is our entire finance system
We use custom scripted spreadsheets/workbooks at NASA all the time.
So did the author of this article want Big-Data Crypto AI GPT or something?
With Excel + vba + com object , u can do almost anything
That’s… that’s what Excel’s for…?
So does most of the engineering world.
Wait, you can type without using hands?
Hand typed? What else do you use to type?
Excel is common in engineering applications as well as finance. It does numbers brilliantly. Some very high level engineering projects rely in some way on excel spreadsheets; you can’t really do much of the day-to-day number crunching without them.
A hand typed Excel spreadsheet would not be a bad thing if the data entered were correct.
Aren’t most CSV files hand typed
Reddit just wants to gloat on the fact that a bunch of rich people died and will up vote anything related to Titan.
Also, wtf does hand-written excel sheet mean?
The comments here are a little surprising. There’s nothing wrong with Excel, it’s a great tool and there’s a good reason it’s used everywhere. But, the issue isn’t Excel, the issue is their manual process for mapping the subs location. Their process was a huge step backwards from the industry standard.
It’s easy to get lost down there, and it’s easier to prevent accidents if the subs location data is automatically loaded into mapping software. The coordinates themselves are just a string of numbers to us. Sure, they tell us exactly where the sub is but none of us could find 41.40338, 2.17403 until we plug it into some kind of mapping software.
Having to transcribe that information into a notebook by hand, and enter it Excel, and then load it into mapping software – as a process – takes much more time than the automated systems we currently have. Things can go very bad down there, very quickly, and that extra time could cost lives. And since we have automated systems for this, it’s an unnecessarily dumb risk.
That being said, this obviously wasn’t their dumbest decision. This just reinforces what we already knew about them.
I want to make sure you’re sitting down for this. If you’re driving, pull over. If you’re drinking, start driving. All good? Okay. Here we go.
Every company and organization of worth relies on hand typed Excel spreadsheets. Yep, in 2024. In fact most departments probably have a few. They might be on Google sheets now but they are still filling those cells. And I’d be more worried if they relied entirely on a dynamically or automatically generated spreadsheet, like a .csv output.
Counselors are available for anyone who finds this particularly difficult.
So does Williams F1 team
That’s not nearly as bad as they’re trying to make it sound
Excel is a brilliant programming tool.
I flew and programmed UAVS in the military and as a civilian contractor. The civilian system I operated was programmed by an excel sheet built to each aircraft’s specs and each flight was programmed through dropdowns and a lot of FITB data cells.
The civilian system was way more practical, user-friendly, efficient, and designed so much smarter.
This headline relies on people’s ignorance.
Most probably don’t realize just how much relies on excel spreadsheet…
when they pooped they used hand held toilet paper
It passes as the Minimum Viable Product. Not sure why anyone thinks that this would be an issue.
/s, but in many cases, MVP is not sarcasm
Giving off serious Nelly-Kelly Rowland vibes here
Everybody knows it should’ve been fin-typed. Duh.