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funnily enough. I wrote out my calculations for bonuses and budgetting for next year on a piece of paper this weekend. Because I didn't want to deal with a computer then
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I most often use the HP41CV emulator on my phone nowadays. My real one is still **in** my desk, but the emulator is **on** my desk -- or in my pocket in the lab when I need it. Much faster for me to use that than Windows calculator for most things I need to do.
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My $10 calculator uses cells both recovered from and charged with solar lights.
It's probably been about 2 years since I last charged them.
I use a paring knife, a meat cleaver and a chef's knife in the kitchen.
Use the appropriate tool for the job when I'm in the office too.
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I actually now use the calculator in my iPhone (if I have to, I do a lot more mental math, especially converting Fahrenheit to Celsius).
Funny though, long before I hacked my Sony PSP to learn videogame console programming, I learned to program portable devices with my TX-89...those were the days.
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Got my TI-36X Pro right beside me on the desk, and a drawerful of more sophisticated calculators for when additional horsepower is required.
Of course if I'm feeling particularly nostalgic, not in a hurry, and don't need eleventy digits, I'll reach for one of my collection of slide rules.
When the CME hits and solid-state electronics become paperweights, I shall be a god 
Michael
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I have a TI-83 emulator app on my launch bar. I use the VTI emulator. There is also Wabbitemu if you'd rather use the TI-84.
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Well, I definitely agree about it not being very convenient to do the quick calculation on a desktop but the app I have on my cell phone is about as good as a dedicated calculator. Before I retired, I would start the app on my phone when I got to work so it would be ready to use when I needed it. It's an old calculator app that appears to no longer be available in the google store. It looks very similar to the RealCalc app.
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That's a no-brainer. Most of what the Windows calculator can do, I can do in my head. For anything mildly challenging, I reach for my trusty HP-35s. I may be biased, but my first calculator was an HP-67, and I wrote immensely complicated programs for that thing that got me through engineering final exams. My favorite was a huge one that would solve the roots of a 20th order linear control system transfer function. I've tried others, but there is nothing as efficient as RPN for complex calculations.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I know that in this area, Java is very big because of all the government work and .Net can be a second class citizen. How is it on the West Coast, SoCal? My nephew is starting his career after college and I am trying to offer some direction. He knows Java and I figure he should leverage what he knows, but it still might be better for him to just jump to .Net. What do you think? How about C++? His brother learned that but I think that is a smaller niche than .Net or Java. Can you suggest other resources to research this?
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Fascinating... Java Andriod... That makes sense but his training is primarily in networking so I figure his path will be to learn Linux first, which is also Java friendly. Hmmm.
By the way, there are an awful lot of developers working in SoCal.
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Michael Breeden wrote: awful lot of developers working in SoCal
... and likely a lot of awful developers...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well, I mean, I'm no longer in SoCal...
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Honestly, the "most common language" is determined by the target platform on/to which you're coding, and really has no relationship to your geographic location.
I've found that when you get right down to it, all languages are pretty much the same. Hell, java and c# are almost like conjoined twins separated at birth.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You are correct about the similarities but you can get paid much more for Java around here. It's also easier to get a Java job. I'm partial to C#.
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You spelt communist wrong. 
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Javascript/Typescript/CSS
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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See if there's a duuuuude language.
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I think one needs a "major": machine learning; "big" data; security; quantum computing; robotics; etc. Otherwise, you'll just wind up maintaining somebody's web site. Which implies continued learning and embracing / avoiding trends (which last year was "blockchain").
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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So I'm wrapping this
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
And I've traversed all the nastiness with Unicode's non-breaking spaces, and invisible breaks and all of that.
I get this:
The quick
brown
fox jumped
over the
lazy dog
Look at the 2nd line.
"Oh just remove the whitespace around the line" they said
"It will be easy" they said
"You can call char.IsWhitespace()" except wait.
This isn't .NET. It's an IoT machine with C++
C++ doesn't do 32-bit codepoints out of the box.
Do have any idea how hard it is to determine if a character is whitespace in Unicode?
I need a massive table.
*headdesk*
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I have a simple(r) solution.
Print the character to an image (in-memory, obviously).
Now connect to some OCR service and let it scan the image.
If the result is null, "", " " or "
" it's whitespace.
Just thinking outside the box
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*angeryface* 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Hmmm,
Can you go into technical details about the difficulties? I can't figure out why you need 'a massive table'.
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