Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Could result in some very cursed codebases.

  “We dont use git, we just update the excel spreadsheet”

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  • Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve worked at places where they did that anyway lol

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s just called Access

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Is that creepy thing still alive?

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It can’t be … but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was. I remember making fun of Access on StackOverflow circa 2008 and running afoul of some dude there who was like the last living Access consultant on Earth. I’ve never encountered defensive rage like that before or since.

      Fun Access fact, the Diebold-manufactured voting machines that featured prominently in the 2000 presidential election cycle used an Access database as their underlying data storage mechanism. Access DBs did incorporate an audit table - which was manually-editable.

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      • PokerChips@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That explains why they didn’t want anyone investigating the machines. Did proper authorities finally get access (no pun intended lol) to investigate? Or was that already known?

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      • crapton_america@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I did not want to read this, today … or ever.

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