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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

someone who can write VLOOKUPs

I think you're overestimating the competence on display here...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds like they did the lookups by hand actually