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Bo
A note about being late to market. Computerized POS systems have been out since at least the 80's, but lately I've been noticing a LOT of businesses are now using the Square POS systems which just came out a couple of years ago. So if you have a product that is well-designed, simple and not TOO expensive, then a lot of people will take notice.

Gregg
It's also a new world. Old POS systems were sometimes a POS with a different meaning. And if you were a new business, with minimal needs, the cost, learning, hardware, etc. was way too high. Now a tablet can do it all, within limits, and is accessible to startup retail shops. But I have yet to see a big retail chain switch over. They will integrate them of course, in time.

Endo
Thank you very much Ashley, great work!
I also added percent! support, if a value ends with % and parsed as a number then it formatted as percent in generated excel file.
I'll share my change here, if you like you add it to next version.
Additionally, what about using column names in /update instead of using column positions?
>> munge/update/where [a 1 b 2] [x y] [2 [0]] [x = 'b]  ;OK
>> munge/update/where [a 1 b 2] [x y] [y [0]] [x = 'b]  ;error
Of course there is a workaround like;
>> munge/update/where [a 1 b 2] d: [x y] [index? find d 'y [0]] [x = 'b]    ;OK
But if there are several columns need to be updated at the same time then it is necessary to find (or store) indexes for all of them.
Ashley
> munge/update/where [a 1 b 2] [x y] [y [0]] [x = 'b]
munge/update/where [a 1 b 2] [x y] ['y [0]] [x = 'b] ; OK
This (changing Y to 'Y) works as the update block is REDUCEd.
Can also just be written as:
munge/update/where [a 1 b 2] [x y] ['y 0] [x = 'b]

Endo
Ah block reduced, ok then great!

Reichart
Bo, you did a great job.
None of this is needed, just things to consider in future videos.
- Transitions - When looking at hardware, do a slow zoom-in, not left/right or up/down wipes.  It is always best to make it easier and easier to see the hero.
- When showing graphs comparing speeds or other metrics, just use shades of gray for the competition, and a single colour (perhaps the blue of the mother board) for your hero device.  It will read much better.
- I'm a fan of throwing a TOC on the screen for tech break downs like this.  It can be vertical or horizontal.  For example, show I/O, POWER, SPEED in a row/column, etc.  While you are talking about a given topic, highlight that word on the screen.  With this, people can zoom to the section they care about, and know where they are in the video.  You can leave your logo in a corner of this as well.
Bo
Reichart, thanks for the excellent advice! I'll try to make use of that next time.

Reichart
:)
Kaj
Did YouTube move to Belgium? :-)

Maarten
Where did BrianS post this? That's a pretty good piece of work
Rebolek
In the Stack Overflow chat.
Maarten
OK, I'm ready to be upvoted so I can participate. Just asked a question
Rebolek
Question upvoted.
Maarten
thanks
Robert
Very cool to things move forward!
Maarten
Yes, indeed.
Gregg
Go Ren/C Go!

james_nak
Nice video Bo.

Gerard
Are there many Red users that have used Ren Garden from HostileFork since it has appeared or any other GUI framework or editor based?

Gerard
In all cases, many thanks to you BrianD for all of your software Ren/C, Ren/Cpp + Ren/Garden. Let us know about your future experiments. I love the way you work and the results you have got up to now.

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