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scrumper on Oct 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge (1984)

This is a good read, and far from a one-sided paean of praise for the spreadsheet. Lots of discussion of pitfalls.

This is a fun quote:

Already, the spreadsheet has redefined the nature of some jobs; to be an accountant in the age of spreadsheet program is — well, almost sexy.

0003 on Oct 29, 2014 [–]

As an accountant, sexy is not how I feel. I think the right word is sexworker... I kid.

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