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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.