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The Scientific/Math/Programmer expanded calculators have a bunch of features. Maybe they can test how often the "cube root" button is used versus Arcsinh or something.
This is actually pretty relevant because TI has been goofing up the cube root function in its calculators for decades.
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I'm not sure if I should be disturbed or amused by Microsoft putting telemetry in (at this rate) literally every one of its products. Like, what the hell do they even track? I guess the obvious ones are things like application crashes, but now I'm curious if they have the data on the most common calculations, folks' favorite numbers, etc.
I mean, I guess it would be cool to know what kind of operations people are doing most often? Maybe you send different ads to people who only use addition/subtraction than people who use sin / cos?
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This calculator is not written using Win32. (Why the downvotes?)
I didn't downvote you, but it comes across like you were trying to nitpick someone by pointing out a detail that isn't relevant to what they were saying.
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You don't have to imagine, you can view the data for yourself: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic-...
If we're expected to trust the party spying on us to reveal exactly the extent to which they spy on us via their proprietary, closed-source spying data viewer tool, then we deserve exactly whatever the fuck it is we end up getting.
It's always good to trust but verify, although here the the safeguard is pretty strong.
https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator#data--telemetry "This project collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. Telemetry is disabled in development builds by default, and can be enabled with the SEND_TELEMETRY build flag." Even on a simple calculator.
https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/057401f5f2b4bb1...
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I had an interview last year with the Windows and Devices Group. On the day of the interview, I was told it would be with people that work on telemetry. One interviewer told me that keystrokes were being measured by conhost.exe. Not just for internal testing. He clarified that it was done on customer machines. It wasn't clear if they collected individual key presses because we were discussing something you could infe…
Speaking as the engineering lead owning conhost.exe: I can't find anything in our code that would trace user input, or data effectively derived from user input, to even a local event stream. There are a couple instances where we trace API call timings, but only that of API calls initiated by an attached console application.
This is cool, but I really wish they'd release the source for the original Notepad. No real reason other than "this software was really important to me when I was a kid". As it stands, though, Calculator is not something I've particularly cared about in the Windows world; pretty much anyone here could write a simple calculator app in an afternoon. Still, I am glad MS is slowly becoming more OSS-friendly; I doubt anyo…
There are a ton of good reasons why this is unlikely to ever happen, though (third-party licenses mainly).
There are a ton of VB6 applications out there running, and Microsoft so far has continued to keep the runtime around, but that won't always be the case.
When it is finally EOL'd, people aren't going to be happy at all about it...
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Speaking as the engineering lead owning conhost.exe: I can't find anything in our code that would trace user input, or data effectively derived from user input, to even a local event stream. There are a couple instances where we trace API call timings, but only that of API calls initiated by an attached console application.
When are we going to see unlimited command line buffers :)?
I worked on a win32 application for my first job out of college. My boss told me "want to learn win32 and c++, go program a windows calculator clone." It was a great project to get started and I did learn a lot. Now I have something to compare my work to ha
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I had an interview last year with the Windows and Devices Group. On the day of the interview, I was told it would be with people that work on telemetry. One interviewer told me that keystrokes were being measured by conhost.exe. Not just for internal testing. He clarified that it was done on customer machines. It wasn't clear if they collected individual key presses because we were discussing something you could infe…
Speaking as the engineering lead owning conhost.exe: I can't find anything in our code that would trace user input, or data effectively derived from user input, to even a local event stream. There are a couple instances where we trace API call timings, but only that of API calls initiated by an attached console application.