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Re:Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @05:13AM (#8136113)
It's a great idea, but I've been working in multiple enterprise excel hells and most of the places use macros, because the simple stuff just does not allow needed complexity.

Now try to visualize that...

Re:Ask HN: 16-hour work week jobs? on Sunday July 06, 2014 @05:12PM (#7995786)
I've worked in two big Java/.NET consulting shops. They both were OK with 60% productive work. If you performed better, you were able to get bigger bonuses. If lower, then they started to work on your productivity (tutoring etc) or fired you. I usually showed up about 50% of the time and did some work from home. Worked great for me.
Re:Ask HN: Is it unethical to scrape OS code from GitHub to demo my Sa... on Saturday March 22, 2014 @07:53PM (#7451409)
I would not touch the code and copyright terms. We just add metrics and visualization layers.

Question is more about linking to the GitHub project and creating "mirrored" profiles. I personally hate when some what-ever-app would copy my public social media profile to "add some value" to it publicly without asking me, but I wouldn't mind if they take my OS code and make it easier to consume.

That's my dilemma.

Ask HN: Is it unethical to scrape OS code from GitHub to demo my SaaS features?

Posted by ainla on Saturday March 22, 2014 @07:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.

It's a hypothetical question. I'm thinking about productizing (and selling) one of our internal dev tools (as SaaS) and I'm wondering how would I market it. One scenario that I would imaging would be:1. Scrape OS projects from GitHub (the ones, where my tool would add value). 2. Make "project" pages for them into my SaaS (where my value add is shown) and link back to original source in GitHub...

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