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Instadeq
Company blog · instadeq.com/blog/posts · on HN as marianoguerradataprogramming
Instadeq is the company blog at instadeq.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2017, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Lotus Improv – Spreadsheets Done Right (2002)”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Instadeq's blog for posts on spreadsheet and no-code history, including Lotus Improv and why OpenDoc failed. One commenter calls the OpenDoc discussion post good.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Instadeq is the easiest way for individuals and teams to collaboratively analyze and share data, visualizations, and dashboards.
Most-linked posts?
- Lotus Improv – Spreadsheets Done Right (2002)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-10-21
- Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed (Fred Brooks)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-22
- Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-10
- Past Futures of Programming: General Magic's Telescript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-22
- Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Systems: Success or Failure?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-02
- The Sketchpad Project (1963)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-06
- Things end users care about but programmers don't2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-09
What Hacker News says?
You might be interested in reading about the Japanese "Fifth Generation Computer Systems" project from 1982, which revolved around PROLOG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst... >The Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS; Japanese: 第五世代コンピュータ, romanized: daigosedai konpyūta) was a 10-year initiative begun in 1982 by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to create comp…
Comment linking /blog/posts/japans-fifth-generation-computer-systems-success-or-failure/
on “Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?”Submitted Things end users care about but programmers don't as a story · 406 points
HN discussionhttps://instadeq.com/blog/posts/no-code-history-lotus-improv...
Comment linking /blog/posts/no-code-history-lotus-improv-spreadsheets-done-right-1991/
on “Ask HN: Was anyone working at Apple during Steve Jobs' return in 1997?”Submitted Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times? as a story · 89 points
HN discussionI need something which allows me to interactively re-arrange the date on-the-fly --- if you've never worked w/ Improv it's hard to express. There was the beginnings of an opensource implementation, Flexisheet, or see: https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/no-code-history-lotus-improv...
Comment linking /blog/posts/no-code-history-lotus-improv-spreadsheets-done-right-1991/
on “Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet”Submitted Show HN: Take YouTube video notes without leaving your keyboard as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI'm working on a version of this: https://instadeq.com/
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on “Voila – From notebooks to standalone web applications and dashboards”Submitted Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Systems: Success or Failure? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionthe payment and data integration services of instadeq[1] are implemented in clojure (component, immutant, bidi, cheshire). also the data integration backend (same stack as above), and it's frontend and an admin interface for users, groups and permissions for event fabric[2] (clojurescript, om.next, garden). just to be clear, backend and frontend of both product aren't clojure/clojurescript. [1] https://instadeq.com/…
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on “Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what?”Submitted Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed (Fred Brooks) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAlan's observations, especially in regards to Netscape and their lack of vision, make me morose for OpenDoc which did not deserve its untimely death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc Some good discussion from 2021: https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/why-opendoc-failed-and-then-... https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/OpenDoc (the links at the end are better than the page) https://www.wired.com/1997/03/closing-opendoc-a-g…
Comment linking /blog/posts/why-opendoc-failed-and-then-failed-3-more-times/
on “Alan Kay on “Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers?” and ...”Submitted Past Futures of Programming: General Magic's Telescript as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's too bad that the pivot table is a poor approximation of a true multidimensional spreadsheet, for example Lotus Improv: https://instadeq.com/blog/posts/no-code-history-lotus-improv...
Comment linking /blog/posts/no-code-history-lotus-improv-spreadsheets-done-right-1991/
on “The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)”Submitted Peridot – UIs by Example, Visual Programming and Constr (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy point was that modifications to the higher up system (e.g., file mounts) could be isolated per process (and then trickled down to sub-processes). If the process corrupted the OS' function in any way, only that process would feel it, everything above it would be fine. I do agree that AI could be used as a rare reason to actually innovate in the OS space. > do files even matter anymore if you interact primarily via…
Comment linking /blog/posts/why-opendoc-failed-and-then-failed-3-more-times/
on “Desktop Is Dead”Submitted How Visual Is Your Language? Semantic Mutation Testing (2022) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Sketchpad Project (1963) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted McMansion Software Architecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things end users care about but programmers don't as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lotus Improv – Spreadsheets Done Right (2002) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No-code History: Sketchpad (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted No-Code History: GRAphical Input Language – Grail 1969 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed (Fred Brooks) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted General Magic’s telescript. Programs that moved instead of data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Query CSV Data by Example as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elixir: A low floor high ceiling language for your projects (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interval Research Corporation: a 1990s PARC without a Xerox (2022) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Market Research at Bell Labs: Picture Phone vs. Mobile Phone as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed (Fred Brooks) as a story · 1 points
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