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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 knowi…

Background: There are many great spreadsheets. Spreadsheets for creating quotes, for tracking orders, tracking kids learning to swim. But staff would rather use a good user interfa…

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…

UI formulas - to build web apps http://sheet.cellmaster.com.au/examples I added these :)

A JSFiddle example would be handy. A record and replay example.

Demo of a spreadsheet that links button formulas to action formulas. https://youtu.be/R-oDB1PDWqY Looking for feedback and early adopters

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…

In a YC video, PG said teams are advised to spend 80% of their time building and talking to users. Any idea what video it was in? Also, are there any good stories that demonstrate …

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 f…

availability: you need a retry. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22099780/unable-to-comple...

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/gridspr…

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 …

Hello again. Why are you into spreadsheets?

is this gridspree, looks almost exactly like gridspree https://assembly.com/gridspree

Also a simple spreadsheet API: https://assembly.com/gridspree The two look to have a lot in common.

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 ...

I like ethercalc.org an open source google like spreadsheet that puts spreadsheet data into an online database.

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.…

Michael Stok's 3 questions (from hardvard i-lab): 1) who is it for 2) what is the benefit 3) what makes it unique

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 collab…

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 knowled…

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 li…

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)?

If the mistake had been made using pen and paper it would have been called human error.