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Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows

67 mentions on Hacker News by 62 people: 7 stories, 60 comments · first 2019-03-06 · latest 2026-04-09

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  1. …years in places. If you look at the core engine you'll see plenty of comments dating back to 1995: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/search?q=1995&unscop...
    comment by acdha · 2019-03-13 · in Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
  2. …interface contract worth testing, no matter what a linter and clueless blog author says. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/docs/App...
    comment by lifthrasiir · 2019-03-13 · in Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
  3. They accepted my pull request: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/pull/106
    comment by edward · 2019-03-07 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
  4. AKA wtf?!? https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/169
    comment by kumarharsh · 2019-03-07 · in A More Inclusive Repository
  5. I can’t believe the core of it is still some C code from ’95 called “Ratpack”: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/tree/master/src/Calc... over which they added a whole bunch of enterprise fluff.
    comment by mihaitodor · 2019-03-07 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
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    Microsoft Open-Sourced Calculator
    story by Sytten · 2019-03-07 · 18 comments
  7. "Closing since this is a duplicate of #113" 113 at https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/113 is closed with: > Although I'd also like to see some of Calculator's features on my Linux box, Calculator's UI is highly customized for…
  8. The history is truncated on GitHub. (first real commit is https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/commit/c13b8a099eea1... ) They're using GitHub to merge PRs now. Was this source previously in the Windows repository? Has all development…
    comment by jacobparker · 2019-03-07 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
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    Windows Calculator does not work on gnu/Linux
    story by prabir · 2019-03-06 · 1 comment
  10. …calculation feature. And, needed to discover if any customers had issues after the change was made. https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/057401f5f2b4bb1...
    comment by palisade · 2019-03-06 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
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    Windows Calculator: A simple yet powerful calculator that ships with Windows
    story by ingve · 2019-03-06 · 0 comments
  12. …my company to open source the project I am working on so I can offload some of my work too ;) [0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...
    comment by cbsks · 2019-03-06 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
  13. Here is the list of events, the jokes seem pretty on point to me: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/057401f5f2b4bb1... A small selection: constexpr auto EVENT_NAME_INVALID_INPUT_PASTED = L"InvalidInputPasted"; constexpr auto…
    comment by gpm · 2019-03-06 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
  14. Here's what they are actually collecting: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...
    comment by Titanous · 2019-03-06 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
  15. In case anyone is wondering what telemetry is collected: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/blob/master/src/Calc...
    comment by Titanous · 2019-03-06 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
  16. 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…
    comment by turrini · 2019-03-06 · in Open-Sourcing Windows Calculator
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    Windows Calculator Is Now on GitHub
    story by amaccuish · 2019-03-06 · 2 comments