eddyparkinson

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by eddyparkinson 4y ago
The book learned optimism covers the value of both optimism and pessimism. He wrote the book to help people become more optimistic. The main thing I learned from the book, is knowing when it is good to be optimistic or pessimistic. There is
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Show HN: I made a tool for creating Web Apps with spreadsheet logic
3 points by eddyparkinson 7y ago|0 comments
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How a social network could save democracy from deadlock(bbc.com)
95 points by eddyparkinson 7y ago|36 comments
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by eddyparkinson 8y ago
Formula calculation speed. I am interested in talking, as I work on ethercalc. The big issue I have seen is formula calculation speed. I understand render speed is also an issue. I don't know your use case, but the use cases I see tend
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by eddyparkinson 8y ago
UI formulas - to build web apps http://sheet.cellmaster.com.au/examples I added these :)
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by eddyparkinson 8y ago
A JSFiddle example would be handy. A record and replay example.
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Event handling with spreadsheet formulas
2 points by eddyparkinson 10y ago|1 comments
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by eddyparkinson 11y ago
Very much like these two: https://assembly.com/gridspree (github hosted. a bit more plug and play in style. I did write a bit of code for this) https://plugins.jquery.com/sheetrock/ (just source for pu
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Ask HN: In what video did PG say: spend 80% of time building and talking to users
3 points by eddyparkinson 11y ago|0 comments
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by eddyparkinson 11y ago
Looks good, lots of details all in one place. Lots of stack overflow posts one this, but most answers are in snippet form. Would be good to have a single place to point people to for answers. Guess you have seen this python version that giv
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by eddyparkinson 11y ago
availability: you need a retry. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22099780/unable-to-comple...
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by eddyparkinson 11y ago
Not quite the same as gridspree, but has a lot in common. blockspring has SQL like commands in the client. gridspree has data formatting in the client. https://assembly.com/gridspree
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
Send e-mail with formulas: Demo https://radiant-bastion-1152.herokuapp.com/i3pqpufosc Many people want to send e-mail with a spreadsheet. Requests get posted on spreadsheet forums all the time. The same question is posted a
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
Hello again. Why are you into spreadsheets?
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
is this gridspree, looks almost exactly like gridspree https://assembly.com/gridspree
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
Also a simple spreadsheet API: https://assembly.com/gridspree The two look to have a lot in common.
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
Cool - Lots of simple advice in there. I doubt we have the numbers in Adelaide to make this work, but I posted to our FB group. Maybe ...
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
I like ethercalc.org an open source google like spreadsheet that puts spreadsheet data into an online database.
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
I do wish people would write blog posts rather than books. Sorry, but, almost all great books I have read, contain just one good idea. An idea that would easily fit on a blog post. There are exceptions, e.g. books with many authors. Sorry,
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
Michael Stok's 3 questions (from hardvard i-lab): 1) who is it for 2) what is the benefit 3) what makes it unique
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
trello.com or Google docs spreadsheet? There are lots to track time spend on a project, I use Paymo. But I have not seen anything for project planning. Sound like you want a collaborative project planning tool, I can see the need. Lots of b
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
In depth knowledge of the problem matters with an ideas list. ... When I was doing my PhD, I had lots of ideas, but limited knowledge of the subject (Logistics) and limited knowledge of what needs to be in a thesis. So my lists of ideas wer
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
What can be done? We know spreadsheets have mistakes from time to time and even very large software projects fail because of mistakes. Quality control is a problem. Tools help a little but teaching is what has a big impact. We have known fo
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
Am sure PG did a post on that topic, he said maybe. He said, it depends if they would make a good co-founder, do they have the co-founder skill set (self starter, etc)?
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
If the mistake had been made using pen and paper it would have been called human error.
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
I wish I had your design skills. My spreadsheet sideproject: www.cellmaster.com.au Small business wants to automate. At the moment they use spreadsheets, email and web forms to interact with customers, but want these to work together. I hav
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
Looks nice and simple. Two, more advanced, Mail merge programs for google spreadsheets: 1) Yet Another Mail Merge https://sites.google.com/site/scriptsexamples/available-web-... 2) FormEmailer https://s
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
How long ago? I monitor HN for the word spreadsheet, but can't think of anything that matches your description. Have you got more details. Will this work? www.cellmaster.com.au - I have a few early adopters using it. What is the proble
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
Excel means you don't need to explain things to a programmer and you can change your mind as things evolve. One problem is, no user interface. I am working on a way to add a user interface to a spreadsheet. A few early adopters are usi
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by eddyparkinson 12y ago
"Make something people want." - is on Y-combinator t-shirts. It is not about class, it is about solving a want or a need in a sustainable way.

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