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by trapezoid 12y ago
What's this written in?
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by trapezoid 13y ago
This looks very straightforward. What API's do you support?
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by trapezoid 13y ago
Chinese and Japanese grammar have very little relation to each other - about as much as Chinese and English. (The alphabets are, of course, very similar, as the Japanese adopted Chinese characters.)
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DataNitro (YC S12) Uses Hadoop to Explore Company Data(rightstartups.com)
3 points by trapezoid 13y ago|0 comments
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by trapezoid 13y ago
I think he intends to =)
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Ask HN: Do you need help solving business problems with data?
12 points by trapezoid 13y ago|1 comments
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by trapezoid 13y ago
sincere question - what do you value your time at?
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by trapezoid 13y ago
I think the point is to get the data into Excel. You can use the API wherever you like, but how are you going to get it into a live spreadsheet? (Writing to a CSV and importing the result isn't the same thing.)
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by trapezoid 13y ago
Excel is a great tool, but it has its shortcomings. The article is highlighting the main one: it's easy to build huge, brittle systems with Excel. This immediately brings up questions: What tools exist for building robust spreadsheets
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by trapezoid 13y ago
Like the article says, SQLite is a good choice when you're starting out. It's included in Python and is great for the basics. Once you have a lot of data, it really depends on your specific situation. If you don't have any preferences, yo
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by trapezoid 13y ago
No. Its singular obligation is to the shareholders - not even to the customers, except insofar as that builds longterm shareholder value. Of course, in practice there's a lot of leeway in deciding how much attention one should pay to custom
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by trapezoid 13y ago
This article, and others like it, imply that what Apple is doing is unethical. However, the opposite is true: it would be negligent for Apple not to do this. Apple's responsibility is to its shareholders, and that responsibity is to maximi