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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Korkki@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 102 points 2 years ago (3 children)

To write a script, you need someone who can write scripts.
If all you have is someone who can write VLOOKUPs in Excel, and the CEO is too cheap to hire someone, then that's what you use.

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 76 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So basically it's a project done by MBA geniuses, entrepreneurs and visionaries who optimized by cutting on those mundane and boring nautical engineers and software developers?

God, do I like how evolution works.

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 108 points 2 years ago