Shameless plug, I made https://instacalc.com (pastebin for calcs) for back-of-the-envelope number crunching. Fast, free, gets out of your way.
Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
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#112It looks neat but I wish it had physics calculations - I want to be able to write something like 10m * 1000kg * 9.8m/s^2 in kWh and see a correct result
Not as polished as Soulver and Numi, but maybe Frink is something for you: https://frinklang.org/
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#113My editor JOE has a built-in calculator equivalent to a Casio scientific: for example it can do statistics (sum, count, average, standard deviation) on a block of numbers you select in the edit buffer. I use this all the time.
In another project, I wrote a preprocessor for TeX- somewhat like Markdown, so that you can make TeX documents with an easier syntax. One of its features is a built-in calculator/spreadsheet. The idea is that \{1+2+3} is expanded with 6. You can also assign and reference variables \{a=3}. If these appear in a table, you can reference other cells: \{RRD+7} "Get first expression from cell two to the Right Right one Down and add 7 to it".
https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/doc/nice...
Anyway, I'd like this capability in the editor, will add it someday..
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#114My editor JOE has a built-in calculator equivalent to a Casio scientific: for example it can do statistics (sum, count, average, standard deviation) on a block of numbers you select in the edit buffer. I use this all the time. In another project, I wrote a preprocessor for TeX- somewhat like Markdown, so that you can make TeX documents with an easier syntax. One of its features is a built-in calculator/spreadsheet. T…
Is this the same JOE editor I was using when I first started using Linux around 1999?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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
It is funny - but to add a little nuance here, it sounds like they're reinvesting tons of cash back into R&D. If they were not reinvesting as heavily, they would be cash positive.
> Dropbox has demonstrated impressive growth since 2015, roughly doubling the number of paying users and revenue. Dropbox became cash-flow positive in 2016, but recorded a loss of $111 million that year after pouring money back into its product development efforts.
https://qz.com/1214822/dropbox-is-filing-for-a-500-million-i...
Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#116My editor JOE has a built-in calculator equivalent to a Casio scientific: for example it can do statistics (sum, count, average, standard deviation) on a block of numbers you select in the edit buffer. I use this all the time. In another project, I wrote a preprocessor for TeX- somewhat like Markdown, so that you can make TeX documents with an easier syntax. One of its features is a built-in calculator/spreadsheet. T…
Is this the same JOE editor I was using when I first started using Linux around 1999?
Yes.
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#117A paid, Mac only app which could fairly easily be implemented as a plugin to any popular text editor... I'm not sure I understand the appeal - what am I missing here, please? :)
Probably joy of having good looking and easy to use specialized apps. Of course “emasc can do anything” is ages old argument, but should it?
Yes, the answer is yes it should do it if people want it and are willing to work on it. Let people decide what they want to build and use within the software they use.
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#118Org-mode: Notepad, meet calculator, spreadsheet, mind map, literate programming tool, blogging/Web CMS, presentation builder...
I really can't find a good way to recreate what I have with something like soulver.
With tables I don't see the formulas at glance. Only alternative would be a real programming language but than something like time is a pain again.
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#119Re: Soulver – Notepad, meet calculator
#120you can build your own reactive editor or content with data streams using TagleJS: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/ and it is open source. :) Not just calculator.
Isn't that a slightly different kind of thing though? That makes a static document interactive.