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Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

#91

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But do they turn a profit as a company?

You're funny. But to answer your question, yes, it turned a profit: > The maker of cloud-based file-sharing software reported profit, excluding some costs, of 10 cents a share, above the 6 cent average estimate of analysts polled by Bloomberg.

>excluding some costs

So, not really then?

From the same article:

>The company also posted a narrower net loss of $7.7 million

Dropbox is still not profitable.

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

#93

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And another FYI: Soulver 2 is still available on the Mac App Store for $9. Whereas Soulver 3 is on their website for $30.

Why would anyone buy Soulver outside the Mac App Store? Any compelling new features that warrants the higher price and risk?

Because $ brew cask install soulver # is convenient

How does Soulver get the data for the USD conversion?

There's Alfred workflows for both Soulver and Numi. Soulver even has a CLI version.

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

#94
post #81

Soulver is great, but there's one feature that seriously makes me hate using it. I often open up "scratchpad" text documents. I Paste some text, edit it, Select All, then Cut. I press CMD-W to close the window. Because the document is blank, I'm not prompted to save the unsaved File. If I try to do the same thing with Soulver, when I close the (blank) window the app pops up a modal dialog asking me where I want to sa…

Have you told the developer> I've found him quite responsive to suggestions and comments.

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

#95
post #71

Slightly off topic: Back in the early days of the Newton, there was an app that let you manipulate algebraic expressions by dragging and dropping individual elements of the expression. Think factoring out a common factor represented by the expression sprouting parentheses with the factor out front. There was a later effort called MathDrag'n but that seemed to run out of steam. Does anyone know if a similar thing exis…

The old (pre-OS X) Macintosh app Graphing Calculator did this. I really miss it.

It's still around -

https://www.pacifict.com/WhatsNew.html

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

#96

I wrote https://dedo.io/ as a web version of this, since there's no good equivalent for linux

That's pretty impressive. Is it open source? I'd love to see something like this as a plugin for something like https://turtlapp.com/ (edit: and apparently I'm not the only person with this thought! Good work :D)

Edit : NVM, it's just an old version of the front end :/

https://github.com/gabipurcaru/dedo

Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator

#99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're funny. But to answer your question, yes, it turned a profit: > The maker of cloud-based file-sharing software reported profit, excluding some costs, of 10 cents a share, above the 6 cent average estimate of analysts polled by Bloomberg.

>excluding some costs So, not really then? From the same article: >The company also posted a narrower net loss of $7.7 million Dropbox is still not profitable.

I'm sitting here laughing like how can they report a profit, excluding some costs? what? Thanks for pointing this out
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