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		throw_away_bank on April 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with ... Back in 2014 I was contracted to do spreadsheet devops when a similar spreadsheet went rogue and cost the company some 10m dollars: It stopped updating exchange rates because yahoo finance did something with their API.

nerdponx on April 6, 2023 [–]

Wouldn't this same problem arise if you used a "real" programming language and not a spreadsheet?

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