theism ËÎiËÉz(É(TM))m/ noun: theism
belief in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe.
"there are many different forms of theism"
a- prefix â/eÉ/ ânot, without:
Which part of 'without belief' infers 'faith' to you? Just that, I'm pretty confident in backing my understanding of atheism against your provably flawed one.
If you think people need a justification to hate nazis, news flash: Nobody cares!
There are no fucking nazis in this fucking thread. You're halucinating. Seek medical assistance.
Stop apologizing for nazis.
What fucking nazis? Seriously, where the fuck are they? This is some elite fucking camouflage they're wearing.
You can pretend that you didn't understand what he said
He said, and I quote:
"evil"
Please define that.
You're the idiotic fuckwit that's been bleating on about fucking nazis ever since, for no discernable reason, and at the same time inciting violence against him. Again for no legally or ethically defensible reason.
: You're just a nazi apologist!
I recall asking what the fuck a nazi apologist is. I suspect it's a made-up term so I may or may not be one. I don't even give a fuck if you think I'm one because you appear to think everybody is one.
You're deluded, stupid and malicious. Grow the fuck up and seek medical assistance.
That would be sensible. My ISP gets negative feedback online because some customers are getting lower performance at peak times.
My experience is that I pay for a 200/20 asynchronous connection and steam game downloads sustain 223Mbps (e.g. downloading the 110GB of games I bought in yesterday's sale) and my Youtube uploads (50-70GB at a time) sustain 22Mbps.
So the online complaints are at best representative of a specific location.
If nazis are a thing, you should expect that there will be a large number of us who do remember and will burn, cut, shoot, scrape, claw, or whatever it takes to oppose them. If all I have left is my last drop of blood, I'll try to fling it in their eye!
This does not justify declaring someone else a nazi apologist for the horrific crime of "asking you a question", then demanding that they be burned to the ground.
That makes you a cunt.
But don't expect your ignorance to factor into people's decisions.
I'm curious, in which manner have I been ignorant in this discussion?
You unleashed an unprovoked and unnecessary attack on someone, and I called out your bullshit. That's not ignorance - at least, not by me.
I've used Javelin. It was rather constrained in some ways but I did love its handling of time series data and the ease with which you could add inline documentation and clarification of what data being manipulated and shared.
Anaplan are quite new on the scene but they're promoting themselves well.
They just don't seem to have a compelling reason to ditch an extant planning solution - if you have one. Tough market, but rich pickings where you can get a foot in the door.
connect their spreadsheets directly to a database or api that allows them to work like they need, but single sources the data eliminating the data fragmentation problem
You'd have to prevent offline working, disable copy/paste and probably stop people sharing spreadsheets before you'd get close to eliminating the data fragmentation problem with that approach.
Someone I replied to earlier called this correctly: It's a process problem. More specifically it's a data provenance and governance issue that must be fixed with strong processes, and the technology is almost irrelevant.
Any technology that meets the Finance teams' needs is inevitably going to be flexible enough for them to fragment the data. So plan for that, track it, deal with it, have certainty on the master views and make sure they have the needed quality.
I fear you're omitting the powerful text manipulation capabilities of Excel, particularly when supplemented by some dodgy VBA nicked from Stack Overflow.
Planning, budgeting and reporting rarely happen in the ERP anyway.
Planning and budgeting happen in tools like Hyperion, Cognos and Anaplan. Mainly because the ERPs are pretty shit at it.
Reporting happens in Cognos, OBI, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, Business Objects and these days companies like Salesforce are pushing their cloud reporting solutions. ERPs are fucking terrible at it.
Yeah, let's take valuable company data and analysis and splatter it all over the organization in incompatible Excel crap. What well-positioned company wouldn't
I agree it's a process and business problem rather than an IT one. I'm not sure I'd accuse management of poor choices though.
Every large company's finance department is insanely dependent on spreadsheets. Every CFO hates Excel and wants it gone, and would refuse point blank to let you uninstall it from their department machines.
This is why companies like Anaplan are so attractive. They offer to take all the grief away - but then you find out the Finance teams are downloading the data to manipulate it in Excel anyway.
There are no simple answers in this space. There are lots of options, and they all have massive constraints.
There are proper tools. They just come with controls that people hate, so they get subverted and sidestepped.
They're also fucking expensive, to buy, host, configure, maintain and train. People self-learn Excel, they don't know where to fucking start with the Oracle Hyperion suite.
Wait? Someone asks a question and now you're accusing them of being a "nazi apologist" (whatever the fuck that is) and demanding they're burned to the ground?
If I had to define evil right now I fear it may be something like "See: Aighearach"
Including a particular quote in Fortune is itself a form of approbation.
I disagree. Including a quote in Fortune shows that the quote is interesting, insightful, amusing or otherwise noteworthy. It says nothing about the person being quoted.
For quite a long time, it has been considered normal not to give approval to Hitler.
There's a massive difference between giving approval and quoting stuff he's alleged to have said.
Are you really that scared of the inverse Richelieu? Would someone like Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot suddenly be a global hero if we actually acknowledged that sometimes they said something of interest?
they're too afraid to own their own racism in public
Possibly. Me, I think you're too afraid to own your own stupidty in public. People are complex organisms, declaring one entirely and wholly good or bad is asinine. Even Hitler.
What the fuck are you calling 'real'? Just because 80% of the population have the same fucked up emotional instability doesn't make the rest of us wrong.
The rational logical decision has to include within its parameters the emotional interpretation and impact of that decision. Those are legitimate factors and will directly influence the successful outcomes from the decision.
"I will do X because I adore X and hate Y" is a shit basis for a decision. "All my staff adore X and hate Y" is a bloody important factor to consider, whether it's logical or not.
Took me a fair while to learn this (and how to factor this shit into decisions).
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theism
ËÎiËÉz(É(TM))m/
noun: theism
belief in the existence of a god or gods, specifically of a creator who intervenes in the universe.
"there are many different forms of theism"
a- /eÉ/
prefix â
ânot, without:
Which part of 'without belief' infers 'faith' to you? Just that, I'm pretty confident in backing my understanding of atheism against your provably flawed one.
Could we compromise and nuke London?
come to faith in atheism
I fear you misunderstand atheism.
If you think people need a justification to hate nazis, news flash: Nobody cares!
There are no fucking nazis in this fucking thread. You're halucinating. Seek medical assistance.
Stop apologizing for nazis.
What fucking nazis? Seriously, where the fuck are they? This is some elite fucking camouflage they're wearing.
You can pretend that you didn't understand what he said
He said, and I quote:
"evil"
Please define that.
You're the idiotic fuckwit that's been bleating on about fucking nazis ever since, for no discernable reason, and at the same time inciting violence against him. Again for no legally or ethically defensible reason.
: You're just a nazi apologist!
I recall asking what the fuck a nazi apologist is. I suspect it's a made-up term so I may or may not be one. I don't even give a fuck if you think I'm one because you appear to think everybody is one.
You're deluded, stupid and malicious. Grow the fuck up and seek medical assistance.
That would be sensible. My ISP gets negative feedback online because some customers are getting lower performance at peak times.
My experience is that I pay for a 200/20 asynchronous connection and steam game downloads sustain 223Mbps (e.g. downloading the 110GB of games I bought in yesterday's sale) and my Youtube uploads (50-70GB at a time) sustain 22Mbps.
So the online complaints are at best representative of a specific location.
If you're a nazi
I'm not.
If nazis are a thing, you should expect that there will be a large number of us who do remember and will burn, cut, shoot, scrape, claw, or whatever it takes to oppose them. If all I have left is my last drop of blood, I'll try to fling it in their eye!
This does not justify declaring someone else a nazi apologist for the horrific crime of "asking you a question", then demanding that they be burned to the ground.
That makes you a cunt.
But don't expect your ignorance to factor into people's decisions.
I'm curious, in which manner have I been ignorant in this discussion?
You unleashed an unprovoked and unnecessary attack on someone, and I called out your bullshit. That's not ignorance - at least, not by me.
I've used Javelin. It was rather constrained in some ways but I did love its handling of time series data and the ease with which you could add inline documentation and clarification of what data being manipulated and shared.
Yet another reason to hate Oracle.
Anaplan are quite new on the scene but they're promoting themselves well.
They just don't seem to have a compelling reason to ditch an extant planning solution - if you have one. Tough market, but rich pickings where you can get a foot in the door.
connect their spreadsheets directly to a database or api that allows them to work like they need, but single sources the data eliminating the data fragmentation problem
You'd have to prevent offline working, disable copy/paste and probably stop people sharing spreadsheets before you'd get close to eliminating the data fragmentation problem with that approach.
Someone I replied to earlier called this correctly: It's a process problem. More specifically it's a data provenance and governance issue that must be fixed with strong processes, and the technology is almost irrelevant.
Any technology that meets the Finance teams' needs is inevitably going to be flexible enough for them to fragment the data. So plan for that, track it, deal with it, have certainty on the master views and make sure they have the needed quality.
I fear you're omitting the powerful text manipulation capabilities of Excel, particularly when supplemented by some dodgy VBA nicked from Stack Overflow.
Whoa, historical revisionism there. Lotus 1-2-3 was the daddy in the late 80s and early 90s.
Because nobody understands how Access works (meaning regular office people).
Good. It's bad when they use Excel. It's invariably a total fucking disaster when they use Access.
Seriously, there are no use cases for which Access (or its equivalents) is the optimal choice.
Planning, budgeting and reporting rarely happen in the ERP anyway.
Planning and budgeting happen in tools like Hyperion, Cognos and Anaplan. Mainly because the ERPs are pretty shit at it.
Reporting happens in Cognos, OBI, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, Business Objects and these days companies like Salesforce are pushing their cloud reporting solutions. ERPs are fucking terrible at it.
Yeah, let's take valuable company data and analysis and splatter it all over the organization in incompatible Excel crap. What well-positioned company wouldn't
At a guess, all of them would.
Oh wait..
want to do this?
"Want" has fuck all to do with it.
I agree it's a process and business problem rather than an IT one. I'm not sure I'd accuse management of poor choices though.
Every large company's finance department is insanely dependent on spreadsheets. Every CFO hates Excel and wants it gone, and would refuse point blank to let you uninstall it from their department machines.
This is why companies like Anaplan are so attractive. They offer to take all the grief away - but then you find out the Finance teams are downloading the data to manipulate it in Excel anyway.
There are no simple answers in this space. There are lots of options, and they all have massive constraints.
To be fair, for that sort of analysis there are a number of excellent (and relatively cheap) tools available.
Take a look at something like Tableau, Qlik or (if you really want to stay with Microsoft) Microsoft Power BI.
There are proper tools. They just come with controls that people hate, so they get subverted and sidestepped.
They're also fucking expensive, to buy, host, configure, maintain and train. People self-learn Excel, they don't know where to fucking start with the Oracle Hyperion suite.
Reading comprehension challenge I fear. He means it's literally a brick.
That's probably why it can't charge the laptop fast enough.
Clearly lies from the third word in. Any 1337 gamer would know that.
Joseph Goebbels may be the least reliable source in history, right up until the Iraqi Minister for Information started speaking in public.
Wait? Someone asks a question and now you're accusing them of being a "nazi apologist" (whatever the fuck that is) and demanding they're burned to the ground?
If I had to define evil right now I fear it may be something like
"See: Aighearach"
Including a particular quote in Fortune is itself a form of approbation.
I disagree. Including a quote in Fortune shows that the quote is interesting, insightful, amusing or otherwise noteworthy. It says nothing about the person being quoted.
For quite a long time, it has been considered normal not to give approval to Hitler.
There's a massive difference between giving approval and quoting stuff he's alleged to have said.
Are you really that scared of the inverse Richelieu? Would someone like Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot suddenly be a global hero if we actually acknowledged that sometimes they said something of interest?
they're too afraid to own their own racism in public
Possibly. Me, I think you're too afraid to own your own stupidty in public. People are complex organisms, declaring one entirely and wholly good or bad is asinine. Even Hitler.
What the fuck are you calling 'real'? Just because 80% of the population have the same fucked up emotional instability doesn't make the rest of us wrong.
Sadly that doesn't work.
The rational logical decision has to include within its parameters the emotional interpretation and impact of that decision. Those are legitimate factors and will directly influence the successful outcomes from the decision.
"I will do X because I adore X and hate Y" is a shit basis for a decision.
"All my staff adore X and hate Y" is a bloody important factor to consider, whether it's logical or not.
Took me a fair while to learn this (and how to factor this shit into decisions).
That's unusually hard to read for Scott Alexander. But insightful, as always.
The obvious retort though is: just because you say someone is being a dick, doesn't mean that you're wrong.