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Come on, how can some of you still use IE . . . the worst browser ever made. That thing doesn't even understand Esc means 'stop loading the page'  That reminds me of Yosemite Sam: "when I say woh mule, I mean woooooooooooooooooh mule.
I run Windows 10 and I like the new Edge: a better Chrome than Chrome with all the unwanted removed.
I just can't trust Google anymore
Gilles Plante
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Gilles Plante wrote: a better Chrome than Chrome with all the unwanted removed.
What is worse, Google's browser calling Google or MicroSoft's browser calling FaceBook?
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I am with you. I like the way Edge handles Favorites too.
Anyone expecting privacy of any type in today's world is delusional at best.
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What stuff? Using Chrome and never seen a tab asking me to download more stuff.
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I use Edge all the time and don't see this behavior. I'd check your machine for malware.
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I only use Chrome for testing and still prefer IE for everything else. I really don't trust Google anymore. 
I also tend to run IE with debugging turned on. It amazes me how difficult if not impossible it is to browse some websites with all of the javascript errors popping up. I suppose it's easier to fail than to try. If a site is that buggy, I shouldn't be on it anyway. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I have been using the merge of Edge and Chrome lately. I use an AddBlocker and it loads virtually anything except some of the news sites that insist on showing their ads.
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I've been hammering on a parsing problem to compute all possible sequences of characters (aka "viable prefixes") that can result from a grammar rule. Permutation is often ugly and complicated and this is no different.
I'm glad I came off a win here recently with my parsing tutorial i published because I'm trying to use that sense of accomplishment to push through this problem.
The worst part of the problem being that I've got it almost working. Maybe you can relate there. "Almost working" is frustration. "Almost working" is a taunt as much as a challenge. "Almost working" can erode moral quicker than few other programming struggles.
So here I go. Deep breath. *cracks knuckles*
*remembers this same "almost working" issue caught me recently on my last problem and I solved it*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I find that a short walk or a good nights sleep often helps in these circumstances 
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Yeah, i break regularly to clear my head. even housework. it's a marathon this, not a sprint.
=)
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Doesn't it look like it says "Ome" giant leap? 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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That's what it does say. Matthew!
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Try a refresh. There should have been an update to fix that sneaky one that got through.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's Dutch and it means "Bob's your uncle"
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Well, not so much, really. I know you will all forgive me when I tell you it's about BASIC! 
Some while A long time ago I had an HP 95C 75Ccalculator for which I wrote what was at that time a fairly useful program, in the only supported language - HP BASIC. It was larger than would fit in the 24K available, so I had jump through all sorts of hoops to get it to fit - like using ASCII characters to represent some integers.
I no longer have the 95C 75C, and have some how lost the manual - unusual for me - but I do still have the code listings, but there are no code comments, as space did not permit. I do have one listing with scribbled comments on it, but they are sparse in the extreme. Now I am in semi-retirement, I thought I would rewrite it for my Android - and here's the problem.
I made heavy use of a built-in function ANGLE(X,Y) but I cannot remember precisely what it did. Bear in mind that I was stuck with one character variable names plus A0 through Z9. I presume it took two sides of a right triangle and returned an angle - but which one?
So, gentlemen, your mission, if you choose to accept it, is burrow away in your memories and let me know which two sides were used to provide the angle. 
Edit: Me minds goin' - it was a 75C not a 95C! 
modified 20-Jul-19 7:47am.
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Thanks for that - I now realize it was the 75C not the 95C that I had and have edited my post, and it came with two manuals - an owners manual and a reference manual. However, they have both manuals on the same CD, so I will take a punt anyway, as there are other things I need to understand - for instance, the HP 'READ' command is not standard BASIC.
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Is this of any use?
go75c - HP75C hardware emulator[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Interesting! Astounded that someone would build that! I think I would rather rewrite the program in java, as I am slowly doing, than type in hundreds of lines code on an emulator. Anyhow, I have some planned improvements that would burst a 24K emulator.
Very interesting, though, thanks.
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Thinking of HP: remember SPL/3000?
The system program language for the HP/3000 -- I never saw any assembler
And it was ... Algol !  Clean, powerful.
Wikipedia says it survived the transition from the 3000 to PA-RISC.
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Yes, I remember some SPL. OK, very little. TOS? Was that a register that held a pointer to the top of the stack?
I also remember programming HP "smart terminals" with escape sequences. For the more powerful terminals, one could draw polygons with escape sequences and thus produce various charts and other diagrams.
JohnnyCee
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Yes, the HP/3000 was a stack machine; instruction set made one think of Forth.
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Yes, most propably it is the angle. I think it is directly comparable with atan2 which you will find in c++, c# etc.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I think you are right, but I also suspect that it is upside down - instead of ANGLE(y,x) as for Atan2, it is ANGLE(x,y), but giving the same answer.
Anyhoo, I have ordered the CD suggested by Griff, and paid the extra $9 for airmail delivery, so I should be out of my misery sometime next week.
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