mattmccutchen

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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   Thanks for the thoughtful questions (even if the answer to many of them was "not yet"!). It looks like most people are done here, so I'm no longer watching the thread. If you'd like a response from us, please email obj
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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   Kayia had intrigued me before but I seem to have lost my notes about it, so I watched the video again. I confess I still don't feel like I have a solid understanding of the semantics. It looks like Kayia (like many general-purpose pr
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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   We want to have a good API for this, but we haven't figured out yet what it should look like. Right now, it's possible to read and write the underlying data representation via the Meteor Dynamic Data Protocol, and we have some Ja
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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   If you tried to access the public demo server with Google Chrome and got an error message, "Oops, looks like there's no route...", that should now be fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. If anyone runs into further problems,
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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   FWIW, user-defined functions as such and the ability to pass composite data types by value are part of our vision but haven't been a priority to implement. In the meantime, a formula can be mapped over a set with a computed field (you
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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   > Can you handle multiple users with different security/permissions? Not yet. We obviously need this for real-world use, but we assumed it would be straightforward compared to the other features we've been working on, so it ha
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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   > It's like a database GUI tool but for spreadsheets with some structured data inside the cells? I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. Our tool provides a spreadsheet-style interface to an underlying structured data model w
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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   I just ran through our "simplified parent-teacher conference" example in Airtable. It looks like the main things Object Spreadsheets has and Airtable doesn't are: 1. Object nesting for the purposes of the spreadsheet UI and
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   by mattmccutchen 10y ago

   Hi! I'm one of the developers of Object Spreadsheets and will do my best to answer the substantive questions in this thread. Thanks to richardboegli for notifying us.