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Comment by bvan | Hacker News Reader

Sounds like user-error, not a software error. Learn to use the software and its idiosyncrasies. RTFM.

God I hate programmers so much.

"Hurdurdur it's not my fault. The end users are wrong. We shouldn't have to spend time creating an interface and UX that actually works as expected"

Absolute fucking retards. We make tools for these people. If these tools do not work as end users would expect to that is our mistake. Stop coping about 'training end users'.

This. There is absolutely no excuse for Excel's behavior here. It's been DECADES and they still haven't added a goddamn dialog that says, upon importing data, "OH, it looks like your data contains stuff that looks like dates, are they dates, or are they NOT DATES? Thanks, have a nice day"

This does indeed exist in the latest version I have running. When opening a CSV all automatic conversion can be disabled

That's not programmers, that's business analysts, product owners, quality assurance, programmers only code what is asked for.

Having score set straight - not everything can be made "just do the UX that actually works" because there is more users and more "what actually works" than you can implement.

Not everything can be "just simple", excel for instance is powerful beast but it is powerful because it is complex and one can do really complex stuff with it. I can make simple spreadsheet software but no one will be using it because it will not allow to do really complex stuff.

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