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evandwight

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    Comment #33987231

    What doesn't click? I've found it pretty intuitive, though I've explicitly avoided making complicated types.

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    Comment #33299913

    It's not hard to use tailwind without knowing css. Google answers your question 90% of the time. The other 10% you read about the appropriate css and then translate that to tailwin…

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    Comment #33029524

    Selling derivatives looks great until it doesn't.

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    Comment #32804912

    Not even pedestrians die at 30kmph. Edit: you are right it's about 3% die at 30kpmh, vs ~35% at 50kpmh. My bad. Still lower speeds dramatically improve the safety of cars. https://…

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    Comment #32804127

    Can't you get flagged/dead posts on the new listing or firebase if you really wanted?

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    Comment #32795413

    Can you just plot the histogram and guesstimate based on the distribution?

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    Comment #32794976

    >>>0.4% or 163 books sold 100,000 copies or more >>>0.7% or 320 books sold between 50,000-99,999 copies >>>2.2% or 1,015 books sold between 20,000-49,999 copies >>>3.4% or 1,572 bo…

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    Comment #32793506

    The incentives encourage selling the data and there's no reason they can't just change their mind one day. It's a weak promise and a valid criticism.

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    Comment #32743846

    Ah thanks for clearing that up

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    Comment #32743641

    Someone just created that! https://excelformulabot.com/ Apparently Microsoft is creating a plugin. (Not affiliated)

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    Comment #32743619

    Don't they have arrays in single cells? https://www.lifewire.com/excel-single-cell-array-formula-312...

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    Comment #32735259

    This was inspired by a hn comment that linked to "you suck at excel" [0]. First, I realized how much I suck at excel despite being in love with it. Excel just has so many features …

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    Show HN: An Excel addin to automatically use cell names in formulas

    Automatically convert Excel files formatted like the following: /* Tax rate */ var b1 = 50%; /* Salary */ var b2 = 120000; var b3 = b1 * b2; To: var tax_rate = 50%; var salary = 12…

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    Comment #32703454

    Wow! No, probably not. I don't scan macros or other plugins. I only have 1 recommendation right now and it's super simple: look at formula references to find interesting cells then…

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    Show HN: Stop writing Excel like it's assembly

    I suck at excel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c I would write the equivalent of: /* Tax rate */ var b1 = 50%; /* Salary */ var b2 = 120000; var b3 = b1 * b2; When exc…

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    Comment #32698347

    Why not an index on created for speeding up the "new" sort? What indexes should you create? One for each sort you have? (I'm just playing around cloning Reddit and running into all…

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    Comment #31642084

    For those who are wondering how this equation is true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_total_variance

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    Comment #31417845

    2015. This is not a new take on the current state.

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    Comment #29880181

    Unlikely to ever find a gp - Victoria Bc

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    Comment #29789606

    Ah. That makes sense. It's a tool that tests certain things. My question was what percentage of results in mice generalize to humans? To confirm I'm interpreting your answer direct…

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    Comment #29789228

    How good are mice models? My uneducated thoughts are they are unlikely to generalize to humans - like testing carcinogens in petri dishes

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    Comment #29707093

    I agree that as a community diversifies beyond a single group a referendum will give a more generic answer. It works well so long as you are like the group. I think subreddits are …

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    Comment #29696576

    I'm trying to solve this by crowd sourcing curation. Most votes != Weekly news letter worthy I separated them by making a "deeply important" flag. That flag gets set by efficiently…