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by breckognize 3y ago
9's are overblown. When cloud providers report that, they're really saying "Assuming random hard drive failure at the rates we've historically measured and how we quickly we detect and fix those failures, what's the
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by breckognize 3y ago
Backing up across two different regions is possible for any provider with two "regions" but requires either doubling your storage footprint or accepting a latency hit because you have to make a roundtrip from Fremont to Denver. Th
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by breckognize 3y ago
> I haven't heard of people having problems [with S3's Durability] but equally: I've never seen these claims tested. I am at least a bit curious about these claims. Believe the hype. S3's durability is industry leadin
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by breckognize 3y ago
I don't know enough about QuickBooks to say we can replace it. But we do have enterprise accounting teams using us to pivot millions of rows of general ledger data. So if you're looking to (e.g.) create summaries of categorized ex
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by breckognize 3y ago
We have development desktop builds. A few product questions for you: Would you be ok with a new file format or do we need to save to .xlsx? How important is Python in a desktop version? Would you need integration with conda or virtualenv? H
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by breckognize 3y ago
Sounds like a bug, but I'm having trouble reproducing. If you share repro steps with breck at rowzero.io, we'll get it fixed.
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by breckognize 3y ago
Equals and Row Zero are in the same space. They've put more effort into their suite of cloud data connectors, while we've focused on performance and first class Python support. We'll be adding more connectors in the coming mo
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by breckognize 3y ago
Yes, Excel compatible: https://rowzero.io/docs/spreadsheet-functions If we're missing any formulas you need, message me at breck at rowzero.io and we'll add them (usually within 24 hours).
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by breckognize 3y ago
Nothing in particular. I'd have been happy with anything that has a real open source community around it, which VBA doesn't. For data tasks, Python's a natural choice. We've also had requests for R, which is on our roadm
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by breckognize 3y ago
The reason we launched a hosted product first is to get around the chicken and egg problem you describe. You can create a workbook and just share a link with a colleague - they don't have to install anything. If you turn on link-sharin
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by breckognize 3y ago
The spreadsheet DAG is derived from the formulas. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting . Let me know if I'm misunderstanding!
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by breckognize 3y ago
Can you reach out to breck at rowzero.io? We've heard this a few times and would love to learn more about your use case.
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by breckognize 3y ago
We do not use customer data. From https://rowzero.io/security : "Row Zero does not use customer data for any purpose."
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by breckognize 3y ago
For S3 specifically, we support IAM-based role assumption. If you go to Data > Import from Amazon S3 > Add S3 Bucket, you can grant our AWS account permissions to read an S3 bucket in your account. We also have dedicated hosting optio
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by breckognize 3y ago
After you create a workbook, click the checkbox under Share > Anyone with link can view. Then your friend doesn't need to create an account.
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by breckognize 3y ago
We wrote our own CSV parser to get fast import performance, and we do occasionally encounter novel encodings and weirdness. I sent you an e-mail to get more details.
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by breckognize 3y ago
We're a spreadsheet-first UI. If you're familiar with the Microsoft suite, we're more like a hosted Excel plus Power Query, but way easier to use.
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by breckognize 3y ago
Row Zero supports Python pandas, which handles multi-dimensional data. So you can process your data with Pandas in the code window and then view "2d slices" of that data in the spreadsheet UI. Feel free to message me at breck at r
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by breckognize 3y ago
There's no difference in how data is stored or processed between the tiers. We updated our pricing page to address the confusion. We only provide the SOC 2 report or BAA for Business accounts.
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by breckognize 3y ago
When we claim 100x faster than desktop Excel, we're looking at supported row counts, import speeds from Snowflake, and time to drag large XLOOKUPs. We'll do a deep dive on performance in another blog post next week. Stay tuned!
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by breckognize 3y ago
We've got some sample data sets in S3 if you go to Data > Import from Amazon S3. The bucket rowzero-public-datasets has some neat ones.
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by breckognize 3y ago
Founder/CEO here. When I worked in AWS S3, I spent a lot of time in Excel. Even as a dev, it was the fastest way to explore data, build models, and share forecasts with business partners. My Excel usage was plagued by slow performance,
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by breckognize 12y ago
Shoefitr - Software Engineer - Pittsburgh, PA 1 in 3 shoes bought online is returned, and 65% of the time it's for fit-related reasons. We think that's super lame. That's why we make software that helps online shoppers get th
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by breckognize 14y ago
CMU CS alum and Pittsburgh resident here. While $1.17 billion would more than double the university's endowment, it's hard to be excited about this. I don't understand how this settlement is remotely proportional to the damage Marvell could
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by breckognize 14y ago
If you decide to do footwear and need help with the sizing (or want to help your customers switch from other brands into yours), we're happy to help! (www.shoefitr.com)
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by breckognize 14y ago
Pittsburgh: Technical Generalist / Front-End Engineer at Shoefitr We make software that helps online shoe shoppers find the best-fitting shoe. We’re looking for a talented front-end engineer to help us shape the future of Internet apparel r
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by breckognize 15y ago
We were at SuperConf last year (as one of the presenting companies) and got tremendous exposure. If you're a pre-series A start up, this is a perfect conference to practice your pitch at and to meet cool people. The speakers were also fanta
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Shoefitr is looking for a Front-End engineer (Pittsburgh)
3 points by breckognize 15y ago|0 comments
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by breckognize 16y ago
Hey, I'm one of the Shoefitr co-founders. The demo on the homepage assumes you're buying the Asics GT-2150 and just need to know what size to buy (and how it will feel). You can try it for all sorts of running shoes at http://www.runningwa
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by breckognize 16y ago
Am I the only one who thinks their business is completely indefensible? I haven't read their patent applications, but I'd be shocked if you can patent not showing information. What they've done is definitely clever, but it seems to me that

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