Spreadsheet Blamed For UK Rail Bid Fiasco 125
First time accepted submitter Bruce66423 writes "As a sometime computer programmer who was always very sniffy about the quality of the stuff being knocked up by amateurs aka power users, the current claim that it was a messed up spreadsheet that caused a multi-million pound fiasco is very satisfying. 'The key mechanism... mixed up real and inflated financial figures and contained elements of double counting.'"
Re:WTF (Score:5, Funny)
As a Unix sysadmin, I know that all developers - full time or not - are way too full of their perceived abilities to do things correctly. ;)
MS added a special feature to Excel - UK edition (Score:5, Funny)
"Create Huge Row"
Re:WTF (Score:5, Funny)
As a Unix sysadmin, I know that all developers - full time or not - are way too full of their perceived abilities to do things correctly. ;)
The Excel manager (or the closely related Powerpoint manager) has something in common with the Only-Development Matters developer, the Without-Sysadmin-The-Universe-Would-Shutdown-Now systems guy and the Nothing-Happens-When-I-Dont Sell people. Silo silliness.
Re:MS added a special feature to Excel - UK editio (Score:5, Funny)
"Create Huge Row"
And the Daily Mail dedicated several Columns to it.