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trapezoid

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    Comment #8115462

    What's this written in?

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    Comment #7467717

    This looks very straightforward. What API's do you support?

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    Comment #7277748

    Chinese and Japanese grammar have very little relation to each other - about as much as Chinese and English. (The alphabets are, of course, very similar, as the Japanese adopted Ch…

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    Comment #6605928

    I think he intends to =)

  6. story
    Ask HN: Do you need help solving business problems with data?

    My company is looking to better understand how businesses use data from disparate sources to inform decision-making. Do you have a business problem you've been wanting to solve wit…

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    Comment #6355855

    sincere question - what do you value your time at?

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    Comment #6122364

    I think the point is to get the data into Excel. You can use the API wherever you like, but how are you going to get it into a live spreadsheet? (Writing to a CSV and importing the…

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    Comment #5864894

    Excel is a great tool, but it has its shortcomings. The article is highlighting the main one: it's easy to build huge, brittle systems with Excel. This immediately brings up questi…

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    Comment #5759346

    Like the article says, SQLite is a good choice when you're starting out. It's included in Python and is great for the basics. Once you have a lot of data, it really depends on your…

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    Comment #5751342

    No. Its singular obligation is to the shareholders - not even to the customers, except insofar as that builds longterm shareholder value. Of course, in practice there's a lot of le…

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    Comment #5751197

    This article, and others like it, imply that what Apple is doing is unethical. However, the opposite is true: it would be negligent for Apple not to do this. Apple's responsibility…