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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.
You can evaluate emacs lisp everywhere in the editor with C-x C-e. C-u C-x C-e pastes into the buffer. IDK if that fits your use case or not but I hope it's helpful.
My solution for Windows has been the NppCalc plugin for Notepad++. It is not quite as advanced, but does have a lot of functions that the alternatives don't (like some common encryption algorithms which came in useful recently)
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You can evaluate emacs lisp everywhere in the editor with C-x C-e. C-u C-x C-e pastes into the buffer. IDK if that fits your use case or not but I hope it's helpful.
what does this correspond to? I'm on spacemacs
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> I almost never buy an app from the Mac App Store when it's also available directly. Unpopular opinion, but I always try to buy Apps from the Mac App Store. It is easy to purchase and with buyer protection. You can easily install the app on another Mac and it updates automatically and all my apps are in the same place with just one account. But most importantly, Mac App Store Apps must run in a sandbox which is much…
Ha-ha. ))) C' mon man! So superficial about Belarus. )) I just don't want to bother with MAS, so it's much easier to automate all stuff. Btw all recent updates are notarized.
That might sound good to you, but not to your users. Please put it in a sandbox and on the MAS. There is no reason for a calculator to _not_ run in a sandbox. Discoverability and sales will probably improve as well on the App Store. I for one, would purchase in an instance, whereas now the only purchase option is a paddle (sic) preorder button.
> Btw all recent updates are notarized.
That is nice.
"There are two hard problems in programming: naming, cache maintenance, and off-by-one errors."
Not just in programming.
The problem I have with this type of app is that I am never sure what will work and what will not. It's "natural language" only after you learn which subset of language the app actually understands. I still can't find anything that beats my HP 50g (either physical or running in one of the emulators) for just about any kind of computation involving several pieces of data. For more data, a spreadsheet is really hard to…
Eg "what % of 198 is 22" You can still calculate this the normal way, but this syntax sugar is natural enough and easier to remember.
Or the other big example somebody already posted is currency conversion. "1 USD to GBP"
Even if you don't use any of that, the ability to have a readable notebook, variables, and other features make it far better than a traditional calculator. I could never go back.
It 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/
I didn’t continue working on it after the class finished, though – I lost all interest after I realized that the Frink programming language, despite being free, is not open source.
This looks neat, but I'm struggling with the landing page. There are a bunch of animated gifs that show off how Soulver works - great! But just as they finish the exercise and show the result, they immediately blank and restart. I don't get any time to figure out what just happened. It's incredibly frustrating. Put a 5s pause at the "complete" frame.
Apple’s marketing pages do this type of fade-in better – the fade-in happens quickly as soon as the page is scrolled to a certain point, and after that, the faded-in item doesn’t fade out again unless you refresh the page.
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…
So when you want to close a window without saving:
1. Hit ⌘W
2. Wait a moment for the dialog to open
3. Hit ⌘⌫
I'm using a thing called microMath+ on Android (available on F-Droid) but it's kind of clumsy. I haven't tried hacking on it yet to improve the UI, but I'm wondering if there might be something else out there that's already better. (Not proprietary software, obviously.)