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What was "the incident" at your work place? (lemmy.world)

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Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.

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[-] CEbbinghaus@lemmy.world 103 points 2 months ago

Software company before git. The source server corrupted and the product code was lost. 5 guys had to get together and figure out the latest version between them (everybody had different changesets) and produce a new "current" version. At the end we lost all history prior and ever since all changes prior to 2008 have been attributed to 1 guy.

[-] MikeOxlong@lemm.ee 59 points 2 months ago

I used to work at an accounting/consulting firm who were dead set on writing business applications in VBA within Excel. The code was embedded in the notebook, and to distribute the software was sending the latest version of the Excel file. This made version control virtually impossible, and we would instead combine our work manually.

I cannot recommend having tech-illiterate people lead software projects.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 32 points 2 months ago

The amount of times I hear people telling me that "I should just do it in Excel". Excel. Is not. A database.

[-] Strider@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 months ago

Close enough when your actual database system is written in fucking COBOL.

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