[AccessD] I was not going to post this

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 09:52:19 CST 2013


>us meek Excel hacks will be still be making money and in demand long after MS Access is retired from general use and Access devs are extinct.

LOL, ain't that the truth.  I still prefer databases though.  Each has its place, it's just that 
Excel so often ends up being turned into a database which it doesn't Excel at (pun intended)


John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/28/2013 8:48 PM, Darryl Collins wrote:
> hehehehe, It is ok Bill, as an amatuer hack I am used to be insulted ;)  And whilst that maybe indeed the case we are mere dabblers in the dark arts of VBA - us meek Excel hacks will be still be making money and in demand long after MS Access is retired from general use and Access devs are extinct.
>
> So all good really ;) .  Arthur, please stick around on Excel - L, you will fit right in and your skills, experience and contributions will be appreciated.  Besides, I usually find you highly entertaining as well as educational - and not just with VBA stuff either.
>
> Cheers
> Darryl.
>
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] on behalf of William Benson (VBACreations.Com) [vbacreations at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2013 9:04 PM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] I was not going to post this
>
> Art, you take one thread (or a couple) and then kick an entire Listserv to
> the curb? You ought to be ashamed   ;-)
>
> Plus you just insulted both me and Darryl...
>
> Meanie.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:11 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: [AccessD] I was not going to post this
>
> For some reason I ended up joining a list about Excel
> EXCEL-L at peach.ease.lsoft.com),  mistaking it for one our our lists. Wow was
> I wrong/ These people need more than a lifetime of help. Unfortunately, as I
> age, I don't have that much time.. .
>
> To be fair, it's a user's group not a developer's group, and it does shed
> some light on the differenence.
>
> The scary part is that some of these people fancy themselves as "Quants",
> short for Quantitative Analysts, which means that they are risking the
> hard-earned money that others have made and invested in this or that fund.
> And I am aware of many of their algorithms, having once worked for a
> Bermudian hedge fund, which at least had the sense to use SQL Server rather
> then Excel.
>
> This seriously frightens me. These Excel listers, save on or two, don't even
> know that there is a difference between a Range and an Array.
>
> The prospect that these people are playing with millions of dollars of money
> belonging to other people is truly frightening. The up-side is that I have
> invested zero dollars in the opinions of these fools; the down-side is that
> many several millions have, and I fear for their prospects.
>
> I guess what I am saying is this: if you want to realize what a valuable
> group this one is, just go visit that one for a minute or two. To think that
> these people are waging millions of other people's dollars on their
> "feelings" is ghastly.
>
> Hold onto your wallet; trust no one, especially if they come bearing a
> spreadsheet.Yes, there are tools available to audit spreadsheets, and I
> trust them. But in their absence. do not trust anyone. These people are
> jokers, fools or scammers. Take your pick.
>
> I do not fancy myself as an Excel guru. But once I learned the model, I had
> no problem doing some fancy footwork in Excel. Bur rhis goes to way that
> there is a difference between a programmer and a user. The frightening part
> is that users equipped with Excel are making decisions involving millions of
> other people's dollars.
>
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