Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes::Microsoft now allows users to disable automatic date conversion, which means scientists no longer have to worry about using alternative names for genes.

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I read this meme several times trying to figure out what is supposed to be funny about it… Then I realized it’s from Friends and based on a “joke” from that show. No wonder it wasn’t funny.

Edit: mmm yes, your downvotes only strengthen my resolve. Friends is shit and has always been shit. So unbelievably unfunny.

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Who shit in your cheerios?

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Nowhere here is it implied that they were using it instead of a database. They could run into this issue whether or not they were properly using Excel for what it is for.

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It’s a well known phenomenon. The title of the article even alludes to it.

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What about the title?

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I have a spreadsheet that has been going for 20 years, across 2 companies, and hundreds of people.

Thousands and thousands of lines, going back like an ice core sample. Zooming out is wild.

“What’s this layer?”

“Oh that’s when Terry worked here”

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