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Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

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458 points turrini | 1 comments | 06 Dec 25 21:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gentooflux ◴[06 Dec 25 23:37 UTC] No.46177636[source]▶
RMS could have taken a photo of his screen, or done something cheeky like dump his screen to a padded ASCII text file and submitted that. Stick in the mud.
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zvmaz ◴[07 Dec 25 01:50 UTC] No.46178480[source]▶
"I don't know how to make a screenshot"

Linus Torvalds often says that he does not know how to do X (like install a Linux distribution, or other simple stuff). I wager that it's a status thing.

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mmsimanga ◴[07 Dec 25 13:27 UTC] No.46181527[source]▶
You could be right but I would like to put forward another possible reason. They could be telling the truth. I studied computer science late 90s and to this day I cannot use MS Excel beyond summing a column of numbers. To make matters worse I work in data engineering space. So people often assume I do not want to help them when I tell them I cannot help them with their fancy spreadsheets. I have never owned a Mac book and sometimes I get asked for help and I haven't a clue how to help. The answer is how come but you have been working with computers for all these years.
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manmal ◴[07 Dec 25 23:29 UTC] No.46186492{3}[source]▶
I thought Excel is the bread and butter in your space. How is this possible?
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1. mmsimanga ◴[08 Dec 25 05:20 UTC] No.46188664{4}[source]▶
IMHO, speaking from a data engineer perspective. Excel is used excessively by industry specialists who aren't in IT or but IT people who are being constrained by environment. As in they don't have a better tool to work in. It is a great tool to quickly mock up a report.

Why am I am not good at excel, it is because I am the person who tends to fetch the data from the different systems and consolidates it for the analysts to analyse and some do use Excel to analyse the data.