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Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

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Post by alok-g »

sharkdp wrote: post #44
linker3000 wrote: post #42

Fails at the first fundamental test: Meaning of life Meaning × of × life Unknown identifier: Meaning

Oh no :-) Quick workaround: ≫ Meaning = 6 ≫ of = 1 ≫ life = 7

Hmmm, I now wish Douglas Adams had chosen 56.

Meaning = 7

of = 2

Life = 4

Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

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Post by nautilus12 »

franciscop wrote: post #50

Sorry to be the party stopper for a really awesome tool, just wanted to let you know that you have a dead butterfly as a logo: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Seriously? Not to be negative but this is even more pedantic than I would expect from hacker news, and thats saying alot.

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Post by ythn »

sharkdp wrote: post #61
franciscop wrote: post #50

Sorry to be the party stopper for a really awesome tool, just wanted to let you know that you have a dead butterfly as a logo: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Oh, I didn't know that :-)... that's interesting. I'm very much open for suggestions on how to improve the logo. I already went through a couple of iterations... https://github.com/sharkdp/insect/blob/master/media/insect.s...

Fwiw I think the logo looks great

Re: Show HN: Insect – a high-precision scientific calculator with physical units

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Post by ythn »

wotamRobin wrote: post #68

I really like the UI and seeming wealth of different units. It doesn't look like it supports fluid ounces though. I tried "4 tbsp to oz" and it interprets oz as mass instead of volume. Google correctly gives me 2 as the answer.

It doesn't support "stones" (st?) either. I tried "20 st -> kg" (Game of Thrones uses stones as units of mass) but it didn't work.

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Post by paperpunk »

Animats wrote: post #63

That's cute. Are there any phone apps which do that? Remember Graphing Calculator? That could use such features. Autodesk Inventor understands units in formulas, but mostly for length and angle. Everything becomes meters internally.

Soulver does it (Mac/iPhone), it just uses 'as' instead of '->'

E.g. "6Mbit/s * 1.5h as GB"

I've been using it for a while now and I can't imagine going back to a traditional calculator

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Post by sharkdp »

wotamRobin wrote: post #68

I really like the UI and seeming wealth of different units. It doesn't look like it supports fluid ounces though. I tried "4 tbsp to oz" and it interprets oz as mass instead of volume. Google correctly gives me 2 as the answer.

Thank you for the feedback. I'm not sure how to support this. I would probably have to call it "fluid_ounce" / "fl_oz" or "fl.oz." in order to distinguish it from the unit of mass.

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Post by Pfhreak »

nautilus12 wrote: post #72
franciscop wrote: post #50

Sorry to be the party stopper for a really awesome tool, just wanted to let you know that you have a dead butterfly as a logo: http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/

Seriously? Not to be negative but this is even more pedantic than I would expect from hacker news, and thats saying alot.

It's not a critical comment, he's just making the author aware that his logo represents something he might not be aware of.
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