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by sheetjs 12y ago
There are two types of formats generally recognized as XLS: Excel 5.0/95 "BIFF5" and Excel 97-2003 "BIFF8". The former uses a language-specific codepage like 1252 and the latter can use a language-specific codepage
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Excel 97-2003 (XLS) actually uses UTF16LE in that case, not UTF8. Excel 2007+ XLSB exclusively uses UTF16LE -- there is no way to force it to use a codepage
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> Streaming Photoshop can be run on any Chromebook or Chrome Browser. It doesn't necessarily mean that they disable support for chrome on linux. It's possible that it can run on Chrome for Linux but Adobe won't necessaril
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by sheetjs 12y ago
That's a misunderstanding of the Microsoft situation. The antitrust issue in that case was tying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce) With the notable exception of Google+ (which has now been relaxed),
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BuiltWith for hn(builtwith.com)
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I'm a fan of mocha + blanket for coverage: https://github.com/alex-seville/blanket The mocha integration is incredibly easy: mocha --require blanket -R html-cov # for html output
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In general, how do you determine what software is running on the server side? None of the obvious links are to .php documents and the headers only indicate nginx
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THAW: Hybrid Interactions with Phones on Computer Screens(vimeo.com)
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It sounds like they added it to the list because other people were reading too much into the omission. > Microsoft doesn’t even mention it on status.modern.ie, however, so it isn’t likely to support it anytime soon. http://tec
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Is there any good solution for blocking ads on iOS? Many sites are flat out unusable on my iPhone thanks to the obnoxious ads that take more screen real estate than the content
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Let me try to give a different perspective on NodeJS: We've been building tools to work with Excel files. The hardest problems aren't related to writing code. It's all about finding files that use different combinations of
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I'm sure it's hiding somewhere in Concrete Mathematics (knuth/graham/patashnik), and I'm sure there are more elegant proofs, but it's not too hard to work out this proof yourself. Here is a hint: Suppose you w
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That's commonly referred to as the Mediant algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediant_(mathematics) -- GDocs, LO and other programs use this algorithm when rendering. Shameless plug: our JS fraction library
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Here is a fun little anecdote you may consider incorporating into part 2: The default Excel number format (known as General) draws numbers with up to 11 characters, granular enough to mask the ulps in common numbers like 0.1+0.2. Excel als
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Your possibilities aren't mutually exclusive: There are many unminified javascript files floating around that are not OSS. > Is this OSS Unless the author releases it under an open source license, the answer is no > am I going to
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> There are two main ways to earn money with this game. One is using Google Adsense. > These values are estimated, but I believe one can get at least $20–$25 per day. That’s about $750 per month. Until you actually see your first payo
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You clicked link, they got page views -> mission accomplished! (the sad state of affairs of tech "journalism")
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> if drivers are so willing to switch networks for better opportunities, there isn't a compelling reason for Uber to have the valuation that they do. There are two sides to the story: If customers are so enamored with Uber that they
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I'd like to see this concept (presentation to GIF) for powerpoint (PPT/PPTX).
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Same with legal/in-house counsel.
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According to the vfmd spec history[1] the first version appeared in july 2013. According to the other project[2], they started "about two years" ago. It would be impossible for the former to discover the latter, given that the w
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That doesn't excuse certain behaviors like breaking a contract early (we haven't seen the contract, but it's reasonable to assume there's some provision) After seeing this and similar situations like https://n
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You should be able to do this entire thing in-browser. Going further, leveraging WebSQL or SQL.js, it should be possible to pump the queries into a client-side database and run queries. Shameless plug: I built an in-browser tool to generat
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There are two logically consistent ways of handling this type of request: A) Pro-rate the cost and immediately drop down to a free tier or cancel the service B) Disable renewal, but keep the same level of service until the renewal date. Acc
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One possible explanation: Dropbox is a YC company, HN is a YC website, and the previous discussion seemed to take a turn for the negative
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I primarily deal with Excel (xls) files nowadays. I wrote a command line tool to extract data: https://www.npmjs.org/package/j In my current workflow, I generate JSON from the excel files and use the really awesome JQ
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You can do this without sorting: awk '!x[$0]++'
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caveat: delimiter-based commands are not quote-aware. For example, this is a CSV line with two fields: foo,"bar,baz" However, the tools will treat it as 3 columns: $ echo 'foo,"bar,baz"' | awk -
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What do you use instead of Dropbox?
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10.1.1 (f) (x): > you agree not to: > (x) delete, obscure, or in any manner alter any brand features, logos, warnings, notices (including but not limited to any copyright or other proprietary rights notices), or links that appear in t

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