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You don’t need to know about integration to make a platformer. That’s an absurd thing to say. I think this is called gatekeeping. “You couldn’t possibly participate in X without first having these credentials that I specify.”
I’ve seen this message over and over again because I have a hacker news RSS feed of the word “spreadsheet”. I’ve flagged this post because it feels like Groundhog Day with this spam. Stop please!
How do you plan to make money? Consulting?
I guess I can add Notion to my list of companies that ignore its customers unless shamed on social media. One to avoid.
You shouldn’t have to publicly shame a company on hacker news to make them be baseline level good to their customers.
But many tech companies are like that once they scale up.
Having no say in having to use any piece of software is a straightforward way to make people hate it.
I do think of tests as a kind of double accounting.
How do you plan to make money and sustain vitality from this open source offering?
Open source has a lot of overhead, and if you offer “enterprise” versions, others will compete with you, or worse, Amazon may offer your service for free as a bundle.
I’m interested in hearing your plan.
I liked the part where they talked about the blocks with the blocks and the block blocks and how they all block together.
I thought the reference to field pioneers was a bit much, I wouldn’t have the blocks to do that with a straight face. I wish these app makers (see also Figma, AirTable) would refrain from making their self-aggrandizing “we’re bringing computing to the masses”; what a load of blocks. What you’re doing is creating a product (another silo in waiting) serving a market that presently is interested. This block model is also not unique (see WordPress and Drupal): Notion may be refining some of that in a more seamless experience, but this is a different kind of statement. Perhaps “we added collaboration to blocks” would be a possible claim for uniqueness.
Aside from this, I found the technical decisions interesting and worth a read.
Would you like to set permissions per column? Read-write-modify?
What in particular did you not like about their API?
Bubble sort was perfectly natural to me before I learned about algorithms. I think your “fairly strong collection of evidence” is weak. We teach it because it’s a study in how not to sort, most of the time.
Similar things said of Drupal.
Why moving away from AirTable? Pricing or feature set?
As someone developing essentially a competitor to Excel-and-PowerQuery/M, I find all this very interesting.
My language is strict and statically typed. However, after arrays (tables are arrays of records conceptually) exceed a certain length, rather than processing them in-memory as arrays, they will be offloaded to storage and processed (transparently) in a streaming fashion.
I’m surprised that this doesn’t work well in PowerQuery. I would have thought that 100K would be peanuts for it.
Mine is a SaaS however, so the user’s laptop isn’t a constraint, and I can transparently throw a million records in BigQuery or some other data warehouse and use its aggregates if needed. Although at the 100K scale you can use SQLite and it can handle that scale of data trivially on commodity laptops.
So your experience is interesting indeed.
How many rows does this support in a table before it starts becoming too slow? The cloud version. What’s the practical upper limit? 10k, 100k, 1million?
You can also read The Economist as a report for middle class and above capitalists with disposal income to track where world events and trends are going in order to make good investments and business decisions. At the end of the newspaper is the stocks and stats, but the whole thing is a report.
UK has higher standards for livestock than EU, esp. related to well being and roaming space; which is partly why it is very difficult for UK farmers to compete with almost anywhere else. I think you mischaracterize the disparity of standards in that particular space. I don’t comment on your other points.
Your link contradicts you. Says such a deal with Swiss will do little to reverse the exodus to Paris and Amsterdam, some 96% moved straight to EU on day of Brexit, and regulations will probably make it prohibitive to manage financial assets outside the bloc.
Dave Chang has a small scene in one of his Ugly Delicious (great show, by the way) episodes where he gets a group of non-Asian Americans, who claim to be MSG-allergic, to come and share their stories of MSG-related symptoms after eating at Chinese restaurants. He then hands out Doritos and American products that the participants claim they love and can eat all day. Hard to see where this is going... he says, all these umami flavored products contain MSG. Finally, Dave proposes, “do you think racism plays a part?”
I'm very happy with Stripe's API; it's one of their best selling points.
I'm very unhappy with their support, which is automated by bots and I've gone around in circles with such a bot.
Unfortunately their support plans are between a rock and a hard place. It's either[1]:
(1) Free, but garbage. (2) Starting at £1,400 per month.
The reason I chose Azure for my cloud provider was because Microsoft are obsessed with support, and I can get[2]:
Free, £21.62 per month, £74.54 per month, £745.31 per month for different levels of availability, response times, and assistance type.
I wish I could pay Stripe some amount per month to talk to a human who speaks English when I need it.
Or else, the first competitor to Stripe that offers this and I will jump ship. I already took a look at Paddle, but their approach with customers is equally appalling.
[1]: https://stripe.com/en-gb/support-and-services#compare-plans
[2]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/support/plans/
Instagram and YouTube are examples of algorithms optimizing the wrong thing. Whatever you like, it gives you more of it. More moreness, to the point people find themselves in dark echo chambers. Eventually you stop seeing contrary opinions or viewpoints. You stop growing.
Rust is not running in the context of JavaScript. It's running on WebAssembly, which has no garbage collector.
I've also read both books. It's a good exploration into the minds of spiders and octopuses, if given "uplift".
A recent study I read about shows that spider intelligence is ill-studied but actually holds a wealth of interesting facets. Jumping spiders plan, such as when hunting, and can be surprised. They are also doing elaborate planning when building webs, and make adjustments to strength/stickiness in webs based on failed catches. It's sophisticated tool use. And yet their brains are teeny weeny puny things.
Another novel that you might enjoy if you haven't read is "A Deepness in the Sky", it's similar to Children of Time (and predates it), but told in a different way. Both are highly enjoyable and packed with ideas.