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by skalkin 7mo ago
https://datagrok.ai A platform to efficiently work with any data right in the browser. Like interactively visualizing millions or rows, and at the same time augmenting the data with domain-specific capabilities. For instance, th
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by skalkin 11mo ago
Thanks for sharing! If converting SQLite to CSV/parquet is a one-off task for you, you can also import SQLite files (among the other 50+ formats for tabular data) and export to multiple supported formats (CSV and parquet included) usin
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by skalkin 7y ago
I was productive in Dart after few hours, it really fells a lot more solid and thought-out compared to JS or TS. Everything just works immediately and as expected, and the language is super simple yet expressive.
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by skalkin 9y ago
I understand where you are coming from - however, Dart is super easy to start using, you will feel at home in no time. Solid, though-out standard library, everything just works out of the box. Honestly, it's a very refreshing experienc
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by skalkin 9y ago
This is awesome - kudos to the Dart team! Dart was a pleasure to work with since the very beginning, and it is getting better with each new release. I absolutely love the recent focus on strong mode support. DDC is an important addition to
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by skalkin 9y ago
Sorry for not explaining the reasons, I thought they were obvious. First, dealers cut into margins; second, they are not interested in selling vehicles that require very little service; third, they won't be able to provide great custom
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by skalkin 9y ago
Let me disagree with some of the points: > Ford has all the infrastructure that Tesla is attempting to build now * no battery production facilities * no charging infrastructure * no vertical integration (unlike Tesla, Ford has to sell th
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by skalkin 10y ago
Same here. I have been heavily exposed to C# / .NET at that time, but after the announcement came out we started looking into other platforms, and it has never been the same ever since.
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by skalkin 11y ago
Clicked on it hoping that this is a new browser feature that I can access from the web page via JavaScript... but this is just a dev tool. I hope that this feature will eventually appear, currently taking snapshots from the client side is a
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by skalkin 11y ago
This is a great move by the Dart team. There is now a single story for the web development, their efforts can be more focused, and accusations regarding trying to break the web will stop. Win-win-win. After developing with Dart for quite a
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by skalkin 13y ago
"Without Bing, GOOG would pretty much print money and pour money on whatever futuristic projects they feel like. " You say it like Google's futuristic projects are bad things; if anything, we need more of them!
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by skalkin 13y ago
Silverlight was a big success up until Sinofsky decided to kill it (with Silverlight, you could create rich apps and bypass Windows Store). Worst decision ever, I hope PNaCl takes over the world now.