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September 23rd, 2009 Chris Aniszczyk Leave a comment Go to comments

Don’t ask why, but I was mucking with Excel this morning and came across this new error:

What!? What dumb design decision made this possible? Who developed this?

A great way to start your morning.

Categories: work Tags: excel

http://blog.ryonday.com/ Ryon Day

Here is what I guarantee happened:

1: Bug discovered
2: “Fuck it, let’s just pop up a dialog”
3: ship.
http://blog.ryonday.com Ryon Day

Here is what I guarantee happened:

1: Bug discovered
2: “Fuck it, let’s just pop up a dialog”
3: ship.
http://www.peterfriese.de/ Peter Friese

I hear Joel Spolsky was a program manager on the MS Excel team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky
http://www.peterfriese.de Peter Friese

I hear Joel Spolsky was a program manager on the MS Excel team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky
http://eclipse.put.poznan.pl/ Chris Daniel

This is a good candidate for the daily worse than failure
http://eclipse.put.poznan.pl Chris Daniel

This is a good candidate for the daily worse than failure
http://aniszczyk.org/ Chris Aniszczyk

Hah Chris, I completely forgot about The Daily WTF! I’m ashamed!

I submitted it! Let’s hope it appears on the main page
http://aniszczyk.org Chris Aniszczyk

Hah Chris, I completely forgot about The Daily WTF! I’m ashamed!

I submitted it! Let’s hope it appears on the main page
http://www.eclipse.org/ Denis Roy

That’s an odd restriction…
http://www.eclipse.org Denis Roy

That’s an odd restriction…
Carey

One key for the items in the Excel Workbooks collection is the base filename. Strange but true.
Carey

One key for the items in the Excel Workbooks collection is the base filename. Strange but true.