something on my timeline is making me want to make a better spreadsheet software than excel. i bet i could do it, too. probably make more money than any of the games i have and will ever make combined
@eniko for specific goals, those already exist. Gnumeric and LibreOffice Calc already do some stuff much better than Excel does, and for tabular data visidata is amazing.
@lapingvino oh i heard about the whole "it supports python now but its computed in the cloud" thing and im like "i could make something that uses python or lua not in the cloud"
@eniko@lapingvino I think the one cautionary tale that comes to mind is that I think most people forget just how many domains Excel covers; for stuff that does "some stuff better", there's almost certainly one "Wait; why is that an important feature? What do you mean you use Excel specifically for that?", And probably one "Wait - why does it even do that? No seriously; that means we need to remap this whole thing in genetics because you keep converting them to dates!" thing.
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