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by sheetjs 8y ago
For those who have a switch: https://www.switchbru.com/dns/ is a simple hosted DNS server that lets you browse the web. And the web browser runs webkit! https://i.imgur.com/0h803Ux.jpg shows a Chart.J
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The original "study" http://redmonk.com/fryan/2018/04/03/who-contributes-an-analy... has an appropriate title: > TL; DR: The vast of code contributions to each CNCF projects outside of Kuber
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This article is incredibly light on actual details. JS development, as long as you aren't using webpack or some other nodejs-based toolchain, is awesome on an iPad Pro. Many developer-oriented apps ship with WebDAV servers which can s
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> the developers feel no sense of obligation to the end users or the people who donate to them. An open source project creates no obligation on the part of the developers. Open source licenses explicitly indemnify the authors. Receivin
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> how much dislike there is for the stars metric From the giving standpoint, people read too much into the meaning of individuals starring repos. Employee for $CORP starring a repo just means that person felt compelled to star the repo,
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Yes, this is the default setting: https://www.verdaccio.org/docs/en/uplinks.html
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If you look at their example, the "type information" is actually encoded in an ancillary JSON file: https://github.com/OfficeDev/Excel-Custom-Functions/blob/mas... In theory, you could embed all of
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The looming threat to Windows is the post-"PC" device space. The mobile Office offerings on iOS definitely leave much to be desired, and there's an opening for a "mobile-first" approach to data that extends to the
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Is it technically possible to add an image/link like "Find us on Twitter" without embedding anything that ultimately requests a Twitter-hosted asset?
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JS can be a serious language in the data science and scientific computation fields, but one of the biggest ecosystem weaknesses is the lack of numeric libraries. This library is very promising!
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The table of contents in a zip file is at the end , not the beginning, so you need random access to the full file if you want to properly jump to the right location. Some zip files use the length feature of local file headers so you can j
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For most uses, Docs and Sheets "work". It is extremely easy to create a basic collaborative table or document. So long as you aren't stressing the sync features, everyone is on the same page. Where G-Suite suffers is in the
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Spolsky's discussion of Excel is probably the best way to understand Airtable: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-diff... > Over the next two weeks we visited dozens of Excel cust
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The original context is more nuanced. The quote was responding to "Can you have product market fit without monetization?" > It depends your product. My definition of product-market fit is: you are drowning in demand—your produ
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> It also has no "break" functionality , which is important if we are talking about performance (i.e. when iterating the array to find a specific member). The article is woefully misinformed regarding `forEach` and I agree that
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@patio11's recent tweetstorm touched upon the core point > Most open source software is written by programmers who are full-time employed by companies which directly consume the software, at the explicit or implicit blessing of thei
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> It sucks, but that's the reality of SaaS. I'm a fan of using local apps whenever possible. For instance, Google Docs is just too damn useful not to use sometimes. But I still, majority of the time, will choose to use a local
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Modern versions of Office use stronger encryption methods. Office 2013 and 2016 by default use SHA-512 with AES-256-CBC. Given the constraints when the schemes were first devised, 40-bit represented a reasonable tradeoff given the computin
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Don't go into open source expecting anyone to pay you. It doesn't work like that. The reason your open source project is used by anyone is, to a great extent, because it's free and open source. If you charged money at the
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It's actually surprising the Excel team isn't considering TypeScript. TS is a modern language that they control, gives them an out for eventual browser compatibility, and they've already built great tooling (better than the
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License compliance is incredibly important and unfortunately overlooked by many smaller firms. The potential liability to a GPL or other violation is just not worth it. Anecdote: We have released code under the Apache 2 License (our bigges
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> Google hopes to “standardize machine learning on a single framework and API,” namely TensorFlow, then supplement it “with a service that can [manage] it all for you more efficiently and with less operational overhead,” namely Google Cl
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The related github issue https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-coreteampackages/is... has more context: > Telerik reached out and is asking that the Fiddler package be removed as it is giving direct access t
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"If you give a mouse a cookie, the mouse will ask for a glass of milk"
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> People _pay_. From our experience ( http://sheetjs.com/ , our major open source library is https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx ), even with multinational corporations, they move heaven and earth to f
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Excel is an incredible swiss army knife when dealing with one person in one location on one computer, but the warts start showing up when any of those assumptions break. One computer: once you decide you want to use your smartphone, for all
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> my career in business software has still mostly been about converting spreadsheets into more "proper" applications. Still true for many people in 2017. @patio11 probably said it best: > Every spreadsheet shared in a busi
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Excel is simultaneously flexible enough to solve a wide array of problems and structured enough to enable larger tasks like slicing and filtering data. This article is trying to push for cloud-based silos that solve specific problems, but
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