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by davidpolberger 4mo ago
I'm working on turning our statically-typed formula engine -- that we use for Calcapp, our app builder -- into a real hosted solution (as well as a library). I discussed it in July last year ( https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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Tell HN: OpenAI's Codex CLI is currently free to use
6 points by davidpolberger 8mo ago|1 comments
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by davidpolberger 8mo ago
I'm a co-founder of Calcapp, an app builder for formula-driven apps, and I recently received an email from a customer ending their subscription. They said they appreciated being able to kick the tires with Calcapp, but had now fully mo
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by davidpolberger 10mo ago
This is wild. I gave it some legacy XML describing a formula-driven calculator app, and it produced a working web app in under a minute: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%... I spent years bui
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by davidpolberger 11mo ago
I like to use Claude Code to write deterministic computer programs for me, which then perform the actual work. It saves a lot of time. I had a big backlog of "nice to have scripts" I wanted to write for years, but couldn't fi
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by davidpolberger 11mo ago
I'm a co-founder of Calcapp, an app builder for formula-driven apps using Excel-like formulas. I spent a couple of days using Claude Code to build 20 new templates for us, and I was blown away. It was able to one-shot most apps, genera
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by davidpolberger 11mo ago
I've been using Claude Code a lot lately, and I've been thinking of integrating it into our SaaS tool (a formula-driven app designer). I've been holding off primarily because I've been afraid of the cost (we're not
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by davidpolberger 1y ago
Other apt comparisons to what I'm building include HyperFormula and Microsoft Power Fx.
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by davidpolberger 1y ago
No, not really. GoRules appears to be a decision engine that allows non-technical users to define rules visually through a graphical interface. Engineers can then interpret and evaluate these rules using provided libraries. What I'm bu
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by davidpolberger 1y ago
I'm working on an engine for Excel-like formulas, which will be available both as a library and as a service (which I've mentioned on HN a few times before). I originally started work on the engine back in 2008, when our app build
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by davidpolberger 2y ago
Thanks, I'll point their support staff to that document. I was told that Firefox is no longer supported by a support technician over the phone. A different support technician wrote this to me in an email: "Regarding the printing o
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Tell HN: Stripe Dashboard no longer supports Firefox
65 points by davidpolberger 2y ago|33 comments
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by davidpolberger 2y ago
I know this doesn't add much value to the discussion, but I was really proud of my UIN when I was a teenager. And this may be my last chance to flaunt it, so here it is: 1779900 So back in the day, these were known as Universal Interne
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
Thanks, it certainly has been. After only a couple of years in the software industry proper, though, I felt I had seen all I needed to see. Crunch time. Arbitrary, ill-informed management decisions. Management who didn't believe in the
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
I have been self-employed since 2008, when I quit my job in software engineering to go all-in on my software business (that dated from 2003). That failed spectacularly, because I only focused on technology and not on the value I was creatin
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Angular v17(blog.angular.io)
2 points by davidpolberger 3y ago|0 comments
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
Could someone provide insights into the implications of a hypothetical Schrems III for EU-based SaaS companies that host their servers in the US, particularly those containing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like email addresses?
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
Everyone -- thanks for your constructive comments. I think that we'll start off by releasing the libraries under permissive licenses, and see how that goes. Releasing the code of the user-facing products publicly would probably provide
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
No, it just feels like the right thing to do, and I'm hoping that others could benefit from the work. While I would like to release some libraries under permissive licenses, I really have no plans to shepherd collaborative open source
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
A would-be competitor, in a country not respecting intellectual property laws, might get a few customers by launching our product and charging only a fraction of what we charge. However, what will this competitor do when their customers req
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
Good point.
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
The service is named Calcapp, an app builder for spreadsheet-savvy users ( https://www.calcapp.net ). The codebase weights in at half a million lines of code and documentation, with lots of generic utility libraries I have written
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Ask HN: Are there downsides to making all our source code publicly available?
16 points by davidpolberger 3y ago|17 comments
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The Evolution of Bowser ('s sprite)(randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com)
1 points by davidpolberger 3y ago|0 comments
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
You're probably referring to the wonderful nXML mode, which has been a part of stock Emacs for years now: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/nxml-mod...
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Build new generative AI powered experiences with Gen App Builder(cloud.google.com)
2 points by davidpolberger 3y ago|1 comments
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by davidpolberger 3y ago
Does anyone know if this works well (to the extent that it does), because the documented Blender Python API was part of the GPT-4 training set, or because the Blender API is fairly predictable? I'd love to add this capability to our Sa
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PhD Defence: Mutation Testing: Fewer, Faster, and Smarter(cs.lth.se)
2 points by davidpolberger 4y ago|0 comments
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by davidpolberger 4y ago
Back in 2010, I used plasTeX ( http://plastex.github.io/plastex/ ) to convert my thesis to HTML ( http://www.polberger.se/components/ ). plasTeX is "a Python package to convert LaTeX markup to DO
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by davidpolberger 4y ago
Thanks!

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