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sheetjs
13y ago
His name is Gabe Newell (not Newel)
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13y ago
I'm similarly surprised mozilla hasn't come out with an SM-powered node
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13y ago
> Importantly, with eight months of runway, Groove didn’t need the money. There were great arguments to be made about how we could use the money, but weren’t running out of cash. No other reason is needed. If you don't need the mon
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sheetjs
13y ago
Is there any form of recourse if you discover that a designer you hired actually stole a logo?
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sheetjs
13y ago
FYI: the github link 404s. I think the file was removed. It should be https://github.com/astrosilverio/english/
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13y ago
According to the article, IBM and Microsoft are notable for their portfolio size and lobbying budgets: > And few firms have larger software patent portfolios than Microsoft and IBM. These companies, which also happen to have two of the s
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sheetjs
13y ago
Remember the cloud to butt chrome extension? Sounds like we need a new one for hack
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sheetjs
13y ago
Is there some excel spreadsheet or google doc with all of this information?
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13y ago
What changed since your last post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5671831 ) ?
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13y ago
On the other hand, you should never feel shame about applying for food stamps. Those programs exist for good reason, and if you were employed before you've probably paid your fair share into the social safety nets (in some states they
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13y ago
Note that this is only MtGox. Other places, like https://btc-e.com/ , show a much lower price
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13y ago
IME credit card companies can't do anything until the charge clears (which may take a few days). So you'll see the charge is wrong, but you can't do anything about it because it's still pending. Given that it may also
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13y ago
> Going forward, I am probably just going to initiate a chargeback. They aren’t giving me many choices. Give them a week to sort it out. Don't immediately chargeback, but call the credit card company and tell them about the irregul
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13y ago
The problem is that the total economic value (as measured by market price) for the users who only use that 80% of perceived functionality is close to 0 (google docs and OO/LO are free) The incredibly difficult 20% is what people pay fo
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13y ago
Right now it's just reading. My approach is to attack reading first because it is the harder problem (and exposes more features that need to be represented in the internal format). Once I'm confident I've covered what needs
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13y ago
If anyone from GitHub is reading this: People are reporting 503 Backend is unhealthy: "Error 503 Backend is unhealthy Backend is unhealthy Guru Meditation: XID: 2049396566 Varnish cache server"
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sheetjs
13y ago
That's exactly what I'm using (view source)!
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sheetjs
13y ago
This is hosted on github ( https://github.com/sheetjs/sheetjs.github.io ) so I can't directly do it from there. If you want to see an example using AJAX, the browser stress test ( http://oss.sheetjs.com&#x
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13y ago
There are some deeper issues with the grid component -- it's what I deserve for not building it myself :/ The interactive demos http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xlsx and http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls
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13y ago
The date processing is one of the worst-documented features, and there are conflicts in the documentation between MS-XLS (XLS files), ECMA-376 (the office open xml standard), and MS-XLSX (describing how excel deviated from ECMA-376 -- yes,
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Pure JS in-browser Excel file parser
(oss.sheetjs.com)
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13y ago
Money isn't just for working full time. Sometimes you need hardware or software for compatibility testing. For example, suppose you were trying to build parsers/writers for PSD or XLS files. To test on older versions of photosh
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13y ago
Did not expect this to show up so soon. This is far from production quality. As this is all open source, I would deeply appreciate any help in the form of bad data files or code
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13y ago
Is "All of them" an acceptable answer? In particular, http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xls/ and http://sheetjs.github.io/js-xlsx/ (which really should have been one; due to licensing concerns