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134 sats \ 5 replies \ @jeff 23 Oct 2023 \ on: What OLD technology needs to make a comeback? tech

Microsoft Excel 2010

Everything after that, is just brutal unnecessary re-writes and designed-for-SaaS-features.

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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @ruS7Y 23 Oct 2023

Fuck Microsoft

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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 24 Oct 2023

Typescript is nice. Github is nice. Kubernetes is nice.

Microsoft is one of the biggest supporters of open source software in the world. But it has only been this way since around 2017, when Bill Gates and Ballmer screwed off.

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @jeff 23 Oct 2023

Yah, pretty much. But, day-jobs are going to day-job. And employers tend to like maintaining supportable software.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 24 Oct 2023

I enjoy excel too🫡

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Michelson_Morley 24 Oct 2023

Agreed! Excel, truly functional dataflow programming, is a paradigm that is lost to many today.

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