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I'd like to try - it's quite a cool idea. But the interface seems broken. Is that the HN hug of death, or my corporate netowrk playing up?
What exactly are you seeing that is broken? Can you share a screenshot?
So it's definitely not a neptyne problem (it works great on my personal laptop).
Cool product! Thanks for the good work there.
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I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but if you want unaltered text content in an Excel cell, prefix it with a single quote ('). This “escapes” the value so that it isn’t interpreted as any other data type.
I'm generally pasting the results of a SQL query so this is, while possible, massively annoying to do
Lack of review/tests etc is the main reason IMO that spreadsheets can be very dangerous tools. The more they become production applications the greater the impacts are.
This looks very useful, I can see this being used in schools and universities for a plethora of studies. However I am European in EU, and while your Privacy policy is eminently readable, I don't think it can be used in EU school settings as you do not specify who your 3rd party service providers ar, what their privacy policys are or where data is hosted (thank you for making it human non lawyer readable). Schools/Uni…
Oh, thanks. That's very helpful. Schools do seem like a good area to roll this out and in fact we did a pilot with a Swiss university (I know, not in the EU). We should look into this.
Good thing about EU Educational institutions is that once you get your foot in the door, they are very conservative and dont like to terminate accounts unless absolutely necessary. Usually buy services for 3 or 5 year cycles.
Good luck!
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> versus an app you have to do download For some, an advantage rather than just a difference. Different strokes for different folks, of course.
> For some, an advantage rather than just a difference. And for others, a disadvantage, rather than just a difference.
Founder of AlphaSheets here -- we built this back in 2015 and developed it for 3 years. We built Python, R, SQL and full excel formula/hotkey/format/conditional formatting/ribbon compatibility. It was a long slog! I wish you good luck and all the best. It's a tough field but a big market. And I still think the potential is there.
I noticed that AlphaSheets is no longer in operation - couldn't find the website. What happened?
This is cool, but I think it might be missing what the big problems with spreadsheets are. I was complaining just today because I pasted some records into Excel and it decided to treat 933349234275230104 as a number (it's a hash), convert it to scientific notation (which I NEVER want), and lose precision. Yet there is no way to globally disable scientific notation. Plus it's kind of insane that "formatting" changes d…
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I recall doing a noise model of a transimpedance amp in Gnumeric where I called out to Python/Numpy to do integration of 1/f noise based on parameters from a datasheet. That was at least 10 years ago. What's the difference between this Gnumeric feature and Neptyne?
My problem back then with the tool was that it sat between chairs. It was impossible to run Python entirely, as it only ran a subset of libraries and did not have a package manager, and it required thinking about cells, as is the case with Excel formulas.
As a result, I could only use some of my Python codebase and not collaborate with other Excel users who were not Python experts. We ended up reverting to Excel formulas or VBA.
I'm curious about who is the target user for Neptyne. Is it Python developers and data scientists who want to do some spreadsheet work?