Developer recounts rideshare giant's strange Middle Kingdom journey, and its fears interns were spies
As luck would have it, Basta had worked on a basic collaborative spreadsheet during his time at Box.
Nothing came of the project at Box, but Basta kept the code and decided it might be the basis of a tool to address Uber’s needs.going to be Excel, but it would behave sort of like Excel, it would read an Excel file as input, and it would Excel formulas on some data,” he wrote. “That was about as close to ‘just make it like Excel’ that we were going to get. And it also meant that we could skip the process of translating thousands of dense formulas to JavaScript.
You see, when formulas create a circular reference, Excel will run that computation up to a number of times. If, in those computations, the magnitude of the difference between the most recent and previous computed values for the cell falls below some pre-defined epsilon value , Excel will stop recomputing the cell and pretend like it finished successfully.
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