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by sheetjs 12y ago
> This writer is just being a dick to stir up controversy You clicked, ad shown (Ghostery claims there are Amazon ads), mission accomplished
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by sheetjs 12y ago
FWIW the 2007+ office file extensions are all more than 3 characters (e.g. ACCDB, ACCDT, DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM, XLAM, PPTX, PPTM, POTX, POTM, PPAM, PPSX, PPSM, SLDX, SLDM, XLSX, XLSM, XLTX, XLSM, XLSB)
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Out of curiosity: if they weren't YC, would you be more or less skeptical of the claim? I'm wondering whether you bought it because you believed the team (based on your understanding of the problem and solution) or because you be
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Sometimes it helps to do a little research before trying to make a clever retort. Wikipedia has decent coverage of search engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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> they're nailing an underserved market There's a good reason the market is underserved. If it were wildly profitable to operate in that space, you'd see many more players.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver had a great bit about this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg
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#Belladona# Bagdad Radio reports Saddam has ordered his troops out of Kuwait IMMEDIATELY! #Scott# unconfirmed, keep it to +war/+report #alex# belladona - stop making rumors ....
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I think you miss the thrust of the original argument. No one, especially not the author of the blog, argued that there was a legal requirement. The point here is that the founders arguably got to their position because people entrusted th
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> The people who used the service, and invested their belief and time in uploading photos, or forming friendships, or logging data, are left to find new virtual homes while their former hosts enjoy a nice (if possibly delayed) payday. In
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I believe the technical term is "Talent Acquisition"
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Has google drive/docs won the space, or is there still interest in a non-cloud-based document / spreadsheet / presentation editor?
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Shameless plug: we are working on a javascript solution. XLSX/XLSM/XLSB reader/writer: https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx XLS(BIFF8)/XML(2003-4) reader: https://github.com/SheetJS&#x
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On a side note, many javascript libraries and browsers don't handle astral characters in utf-8 encoded text (such as sushi 🍣). http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode
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> It's just for one JS engine among several If you are writing code for nodejs, none of the other engines are relevant. If the overwhelming majority of your users are using chrome, then v8-specific optimizations aren't a bad i
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Describing Roberts as liberal is a great stretch
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To be fair, many of these apply to other JS engines as well: - manipulating `arguments` should be avoided - when possible, avoid looping over the properties of an object (using `in` or `Object.keys`) In the process of optimizing for v8, you
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> We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software ... CC licenses may be used for software documentation, as well as separate artistic elements such as game art or music http://wiki.creativecommons.org/F
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Clicked link, ads shown -> mission accomplished (for TC, at least)
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> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs Isn't that essentially what I described? "Before seeking a third party library, be sure to check
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His "optimization killers" article is also really insightful: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...
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> start a project or feature with the coding standard of, "use the fast ones" Ironically, that involves certain habit changes that completely obviate the library: 1) avoid map. Just create an array and write a for loop directl
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Another caveat: for negative numbers, the bit-or rounds to zero while the floor rounds to negative infinity: > -0.5 -0.5 > (-0.5)|0 0 > Math.floor(-0.5) -1
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Premature optimization is the root of all evil -- Knuth V8 has excellent profiling tools (exposed in chrome and in nodejs) which should be used first before considering fallbacks. Before seeking a third party library, be sure to check if th
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Woah this is even more intense! http://ifconfig.me/host for the hostname is a great option I wished curlmyip.com had
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Find your public IP address from the command line(curlmyip.com)
15 points by sheetjs 12y ago|8 comments
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Ubuntu One File Service(one.ubuntu.com)
2 points by sheetjs 12y ago|0 comments
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Related technologies that sit somewhere between cruise control and self-driving cars in terms of automation (I only have personal experience with older versions of the BMW and MB systems, and the situation has clearly improved in the last f
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BK also refers to brooklyn
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AirBnB violates NY's illegal hotel law (e.g. http://www.scribd.com/doc/142650911/Decision-and-Order-for-N... ). AirBnB actively promotes in New York (they have been actively airing ads on local TV) and made n
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This is a commonly held belief but is false: > Companies with more than $10 million in assets whose securities are held by more than 500 owners must file annual and other periodic reports. http://www.sec.gov/about/la

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