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Why Starbucks Actually Helps Mom and Pop Coffeehouses(slate.com)
1 points by sheetjs 13y ago|1 comments
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by sheetjs 13y ago
It's not entirely obvious how many people playing 2048 would pay to play it, accept an ad-riddled page, or would pay for another game like Threes. I suspect a large part of the popularity stems from the easily hackable JS codebase (whi
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That's why they aren't going public yet -- I'm sure they can fetch a much larger valuation if the problems are resolved first.
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Bizspark removed Windows Azure credits?(windowsazure.com)
3 points by sheetjs 13y ago|0 comments
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What is the current state of C++11 support in major compilers (e.g. G++, clang, MSVC)
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The auto manufacturers can afford to eat into their normal profit margins and sell the cars at a much lower price (after deals) than the franchisees can, so it would be difficult to craft legislation that protects franchisees without allowi
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> the auto dealer franchise laws were originally put in place for a just cause and are now being twisted to an unjust purpose ... and Christie can argue that allowing Tesla creates a slippery slope whereby Ford and GM and other companies
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node.js does not impose it for everything. Every command in the fs library that has a natural synchronous interpretation (like reading a file, writing a file, ...) has a sync equivalent (readFileSync, writeFileSync, ...)
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by sheetjs 13y ago
There is a version using SQLite (compiled to JS using emscripten): http://sheetjs.com/sexql/sqljs.html However, the source is about 2MB, so I thought it was preferable to use WebSQL on iPhone (and fall back to SQL.js w
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While you are here: you've funded a few startups in the space, including skysheet ( http://www.skysheet.com/ ) and fivetran ( http://fivetran.com/ ). Are they targeting this "hybrid" or are you
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by sheetjs 13y ago
One advantage of an in-browser tool is that the hosting can be anywhere, from the cloud to your local computer. I set up a simple nodejs server (using the module `j` http://npm.im/j ) that exposes all of the XLSB files in a
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> And no, things like Openoffice^W Libreoffice Base or Kexi are about 1,000,000 miles away from even being useable, much less good. ... which is why we started from the problem of document compatibility (something I really wish GDocs and
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by sheetjs 13y ago
I'm glad the site is still up. The last demo was hosted on Github: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6722197 https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs.github.io ... and we managed to kill github pages
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Ask PG: Is this what you meant by "web-based Excel/database hybrid"?(sheetjs.com)
75 points by sheetjs 13y ago|82 comments
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Ghostery reports doubleclick, adsense, new relic, omniture, and visual revenue (also adobe typekit, but not sure whether you consider that a tracker/beacon) Disconnect reports new relic, "google", visual revenue EDIT to clar
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by sheetjs 13y ago
If you go through the whoishiring posts, you'll see some people actually do give numbers. For example, scribd: > We've hired SIX full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really w
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by sheetjs 13y ago
You missed the point entirely: there is a profound difference between A) Starting a business explicitly profiting from "efficiencies" created by breaking existing laws (Uber) B) Starting a business that takes advantages of loophol
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PG is off the mark here. Companies like Uber explicitly ignore the existing laws and regulations. In the case of Tesla, the ruling just passed.
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The IRS EIN Application also has "hours": http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ... > Our new hours of operation [for the application] are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 10:00
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Three reasons why Mozilla forked libjpeg-turbo, from the author(libjpeg-turbo.org)
1 points by sheetjs 13y ago|0 comments
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To be fair, even major financial firms and hedge funds have these types of problems. Lack of pre-trade risk controls and position checks (not too dissimilar to what happened with MtGox) contributed to the spectacular blow-up of Knight Capi
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Relevant: http://blog.izs.me/post/10213512387/javascript-is-not-web-as...
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6930718 Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6923744 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6595355 https:&#x2
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Beer bubble: how price of a pint has risen twenty-fold(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by sheetjs 13y ago|1 comments
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Original research: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24523551 Original NYT piece: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/how-fat-may-harm-th... If someone from fastco is reading this:
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I'm surprised the term "rollover" wasn't referenced here. Is it nonstandard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollover_(key)
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Something similar happened to CNN earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7113526 In both cases, WP-powered sites were attacked.
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At this stage, given the conversation about possible hacking, what would constitute definitive proof that someone is actually Satoshi Nakamoto?
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Viewing this on iPad in landscape, the first line seems to be cut off (even after drawing the first line)
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JavaScript is not Web Assembly(blog.izs.me)
2 points by sheetjs 13y ago|0 comments

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