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Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

#41

My favourite IOS calculator app (for those who are RPN minded). Love this little free gem! https://apps.apple.com/qa/app/rpn-30/id1451413517

Also Free42, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/free42/id337692629 - free reimplementation of the best RPN calculator ever, and with niceties such as tactile feedback.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

#43

What is wrong with “bc” ;-) half joking, anybody else who uses bc? I am by no means an expert, just using the regular add/multiply and sometimes a variable. This looks way better though.

my favorite calculator app is emacs's calc-mode, it is probably one of the nicest RPN calculators on desktop

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

#44

I use a lot and tried to build a simple version for the browser (to use on windows). Not even remotely close to feature set but still works on basic stuffs. https://imaginamundo.github.io/math-notes/

Another similar web app is CalcuLaTeX https://mkhan45.github.io/CalcuLaTeX-Web/

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

#45

Nice app. Based on the source code ( https://github.com/nikolaeu/numi ) it's not clear to me how the .dmg is built. Is it explained somewhere?

It doesn't look like it's fully open source. I'm just seeing community extensions and the Alfred plugin on the github page.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

#46

I find that calculators remain weirdly unergonomic on most Operating Systems. There are so many times where I want to do some quick math but feel hobbled by the insistence of calculator software writers to ape physical calculator design -- Numi seems like a cool step in the right direction

I didn’t even know there’s a calculator app on macOS. I simply write formulas into Spotlight, and if I need history or variables or anything serious I launch an Octave prompt.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

#48

I find that calculators remain weirdly unergonomic on most Operating Systems. There are so many times where I want to do some quick math but feel hobbled by the insistence of calculator software writers to ape physical calculator design -- Numi seems like a cool step in the right direction

If you're using OS X, try using Spotlight or Alfred directly (Keypirinha[0] is a reasonable Windows alternative) - just type in `1 + 2` and you get the answer without launching a special app. There are plugins for conversions as well.

[0]. https://keypirinha.com/

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

#49
The final example in their intro video doesn't make sense to me. Can someone explain it?

Here's the text: price = $8 times 5 $40 fee = 8% 8 % fee on price in Euro 39.48 EUR

What does that mean? "fee on price" should mean "fee times price", right? So 8% of $40. That's nowhere near 39.48 EUR. Could it mean "price after fee is deducted"? But if so, it must have been made during a time when EUR was worth almost 8% less than dollars? Did that ever happen?

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

#50

Why is it that OSX gets so many of these nice little apps that seem pretty easy to make multiplatform but they just... aren't?

macOS is just a joy to develop with, unix like environment, beautiful desktop, easy to use frameworks

the environment is clean and enables people to do what they want, even if XCode is a piece of garbage shit, it gets the job done

the overall quality of Apple apps encourages devs to apply the same principles, easy to use and beautifully designed apps

in comparison, when you see official Windows metro/fluent apps looking so boring, it doesn't encourage people to develop natively

then you have the details that kills it, lack of proper windows store, lack of people native way of distributing apps (exe? msi? vsx? appbundle? zip my 100's dotnet dlls?) it makes you not want to even start

even Microsoft is ditching all that crap and rewriting their native apps with electron, wich says a lot about the windows ecosystem (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/4/22213300/microsoft-one-out...)

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