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

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Post by nautilus12 »

franciscop wrote: post #87
nautilus12 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ah it was meant to be a fun fact/"were you aware of?" kind of comment, not even criticism (;

It has the ring of a know it all type of pedantic comment. I can safely assume that butterflys are deformed when they are pinned, I dont have to have a big expose revealing it as some hidden secret. Hackernews has the habbit of making disability level OCD seem like some grand hidden nugget that will make everyone think you are nerding better than everyone else.

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

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Post by NotSammyHagar »

sharkdp wrote: post #188
NotSammyHagar wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, please add light years, parsecs. Perhaps weight of planets in our solar system, and the sun?

lightyears and parsecs are here, now.

Thanks! You could also add speedoflight?

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

nautilus12 wrote: post #201
franciscop wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah it was meant to be a fun fact/"were you aware of?" kind of comment, not even criticism (;

It has the ring of a know it all type of pedantic comment. I can safely assume that butterflys are deformed when they are pinned, I dont have to have a big expose revealing it as some hidden secret. Hackernews has the habbit of making disability level OCD seem like some grand hidden nugget that will make everyone think you are nerding better than everyone else.

Come on. This was an obvious reference to the article that was hot on HN recently.

Also while you "can safely assume that butterflys are deformed when they are pinned", you can also safely assume vast majority of the world doesn't know that, and you can also assume many people might want to reconsider using a dead butterfly as a symbol once they learn the image doesn't show what they thought it shows.

AKA regular, friendly, and completely warranted pedantry.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

JetSpiegel wrote: post #108
olegkikin wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why 99% of the time there's no need to use the calculator, just type your formula straight into the search.

And use a remote server with at least 1RTT of delay to do basic arithmetic. Big Data indeed.

Also, how that statistic goes? Each Google search costs burns them about $1 in electricity costs? ;).

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

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Post by JetSpiegel »

olegkikin wrote: post #140
JetSpiegel wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And use a remote server with at least 1RTT of delay to do basic arithmetic. Big Data indeed.

It's not so basic though. Google knows the current value of most currencies, for instance. It's actually more efficient for the central servers to pull that data and the clients to query once in a while, rather than every single client (local calculator) to constantly keep all that data up to date. And that's just the currencies.

How many times in you lifetime does the inches-meters conversion rate will change?

Currencies I can understand hitting a remote server, but general unit conversion and basic arithmetic?

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