sheetjs

19 ms·

181.
by sheetjs 12y ago
The whole reason why this "innovation" is possible is because taxi regulations put strict limits on price discrimination. For example, in NYC the peak weekday surcharge (analogue of surge pricing) is $1 per trip. source: http:&#
182.
by sheetjs 12y ago
Oracle has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_NoSQL_Database
183.
by sheetjs 12y ago
There is another awesome-lua list that predates this one: https://github.com/forhappy/awesome-lua The "master list": https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness
184.
by sheetjs 12y ago
techno-sensationalism = page views = ad impressions = $$
185.
by sheetjs 12y ago
There was an excellent comment some months ago that best captures my thought on the matter (and on the players): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7384317 > If services like Uber and Lyft simply decided to be a cab co
186.
by sheetjs 12y ago
> If it makes any difference, I am funding this myself initially. The primary concern, if you are funding this and building this yourself, is getting to market. Each day is coming out of your pocket. Choose the technology stack that ge
187.
by sheetjs 12y ago
> a .NET stack may put off early employees. Any choice may put off early employees. By sheer numbers, choosing .NET gives you a much larger hiring pool than, say, Haskell or NodeJS.
188.
by sheetjs 12y ago
> Please do us all a favor and let us know who they are beyond "a YC startup" so that none of us find ourselves in your shoes. Two other reasons for considering revealing the name: 1) a casual bystander might see this and concl
189.
by sheetjs 12y ago
I'd say he'd be doing a public service to other people considering a job at that company. If I were a prospective employee I'd like to know more
190.
by sheetjs 12y ago
In fact, it looks like the blog is hosted by Blogger, which IIRC is a google company.
191.
by sheetjs 12y ago
> since the new Common Core online testing will require a keyboard. Is common core testing available on paper, or is it only computerized?
192.
by sheetjs 12y ago
> is not compatible with the old-school .xls files You can save as XLS (97-2003) files and Excel serializes the formula using the name `_xlfn.IFERROR`. The file obviously doesn't work in older versions of Excel but will work in 200
193.
by sheetjs 12y ago
> if(iserror(formula), 0, formula) The IFERROR function was designed for this pattern: IFERROR(formula, 0)
194.
by sheetjs 12y ago
Audrey also wrote a very nice section in the Architecture of Open Source Applications: http://www.aosabook.org/en/posa/from-socialcalc-to-ethercalc...
195.
EtherCalc: Open-source web spreadsheet(ethercalc.org)
245 points by sheetjs 12y ago|26 comments
196.
by sheetjs 12y ago
The node module by the same name ( https://github.com/dbashford/textract ) also supports image OCR (via tesseract), excel files, RTF and other formats.
197.
by sheetjs 12y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6330598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3237478
198.
by sheetjs 12y ago
> It's possible HN suffers from the same flaw (initial sort and feedback loop from such) since it's the natural (naive) way to produce such algorithms. I always assumed that's why blatant blogspam sometimes makes it to the
199.
by sheetjs 12y ago
The email that was just sent out to MDN users seems to differ from this post. The email says: > Your email address (but not password) was posted on that server for that 30 day time period. There is no other mention of the word password
200.
by sheetjs 12y ago
From 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094351
201.
by sheetjs 12y ago
Using Rails requires Ruby, and arguably the PHP ecosystem is stronger than the Ruby ecosystem.
202.
by sheetjs 12y ago
I highly recommend researching the Nissan Motors vs Nissan Computer case, as it covers many subtleties regarding names and trademarks
203.
by sheetjs 12y ago
I think you miss the problem here. There is very little confusion between BoltBus and Bolt.co in the sense that they are in completely different industries and the likelihood of confusion is low. As bolt.co is claiming, there are many peop
204.
by sheetjs 12y ago
Technically, for characters whose codepoint exceeds 0xFFFF, javascript treats them as two characters. To see that, consider the Sushi character "🍣" (U+1f363): "🍣".length // 2 "🍣".charCodeAt
205.
by sheetjs 12y ago
You actually missed the more relevant term here: Regulatory Arbitrage. Uber is not constrained by the same type of regulations that encumber taxi cabs (including but not limited to the price ceiling you mentioned). The price ceiling is on
206.
by sheetjs 12y ago
> if taxis were great then Uber wouldn't get any traction. Uber has a few luxuries that taxis are not afforded (due to regulation), including significant surge pricing and the general ability to turn down fares. To compare, Uber is
207.
by sheetjs 12y ago
relevant: http://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-gets-lucky-settles-irs-audi...
208.
by sheetjs 12y ago
Has anyone cleared the corporate logo use with a lawyer? In particular, keep in mind the following regarding the Apple logo: # NOTE: The graphic image associated with the Apple logo character # is not authorized for use witho
209.
by sheetjs 12y ago
You still haven't refuted the point. This isn't about the relationship between Verizon and its customers, at all. The agreement between Level3 and Verizon probably has some balanced traffic requirement, with penalties for asymm
210.
by sheetjs 12y ago
Clever technique to draw attention away from what is most likely a contractual dispute. Verizon's argument is clear: > Netflix chose to attempt to deliver that traffic to Verizon through a few third-party transit providers with limi

More ›