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WeavingBird1917
WeavingBird1917
12:48 AM
Thanks @b3m2a1. Ctrl+K on windows seem to work occasionally, for example it works on solve but not ConditionalExpression. However it doesn't give the menu which has the quick drop down menu. It only has the info button. I am seeking the menu with the down arrow, where it outlines the syntax of the function, and if you click on it, it will load a template. Sometimes hovering the mouse over a function gives it, other times not.
 
b3m2a1
b3m2a1
1:11 AM
@WeavingBird1917 can’t remember the exact shortcut but I think it’s in the Format menu or Insert menu. Check there for the shortcut.
It’ll be something like “Show Syntax Template”
 
WeavingBird1917
WeavingBird1917
Thanks, I'll try and find it.
 
 
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b3m2a1
b3m2a1
6:40 AM
Finally got tab switching times in my IDE down below 1s. Turns out to be a lot of work to do...
But the result is a much smoother UX so its worth it.
 
Meta
Meta
7:14 AM
1
Q: Gauging community interest and feedback on packages

Kevin AusmanI have developed a package that I think might be of general interest to a wide range of Mathematica users, and could lower the barrier to attracting new users. I am not certain that it is at the stage of development where it would be ready for submission to the Mathematica Package Repository, how...

discussion packages
 
b3m2a1
b3m2a1
7:44 AM
Even better, got tab switching times down to below .2s :)
That's probably good enough for government work, I'd say
 
 
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kirma
kirma
11:49 AM
Hrmm. Suddenly Mathematica Online is... gone. Well, Wolfram Cloud talks of "free deployments" or something, I don't see Mathematica Online option, and "Plan: Home Edition" is gone. What is this? (Considering convoluted licensing logic of WRI, it might be nothing.)
 
Vitaliy Kaurov
Vitaliy Kaurov
12:18 PM
US Climate Change at the County Level bit.ly/2VvoMZF
 
Chris K
Chris K
1:01 PM
@kirma I got an email from Wolfram Monday, subject "Your Wolfram Development Platform plan will be upgraded soon"
maybe related?
"Thank you for your continued usage of the Wolfram Cloud through your free Wolfram Development Platform plan. Feedback from users such as yourself has been instrumental in the direction of the Wolfram Cloud. As a result of this feedback and months of planning, you will see significant changes this week."
"Below are some of the changes:

- Paid users of Wolfram Development Platform are being automatically upgraded to Wolfram|One, which provides both cloud and desktop access.
- Free users such as yourself will continue to have access to the Wolfram Cloud through our new Wolfram Cloud Basic plan.
- We are introducing new publishing and deployment workflows.
- Documentation and tutorials for new users are being improved.
- Each plan will include increased allocations of Wolfram Cloud Credits."
sounds nice
"What does this mean for you? You will automatically have your free Development Platform plan converted into a Wolfram Cloud Basic plan."
ok...
"Wolfram Cloud Basic will still enable you to learn the Wolfram Language, prototype applications and more. Any files created will expire after 60 days. As a result, your existing files will no longer be accessible 60 days after the change. To prevent this, please download these files or upgrade your plan."
oh... not so nice
so much for my using wolfram cloud for notebook-blogging idea
 
 
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b3m2a1
b3m2a1
4:05 PM
@ChrisK time to move my personal paclet server to GitHub 😒
Plus who knows what other stuff I will now be missing.
 
b3m2a1
b3m2a1
4:28 PM
@ChrisK I can still give you notebook blogging :) Unfortunately it'll be static HTML though... On the other hand, there should be a way to make this work for arbitrary content by figuring out how to work with the CloudDeploy API mechanism through JavaScript...
That way you can put your notebook content in a GitHub repo, have JS ping the cloud to see if your notebook exists there, and if not deploy it and embed it in your current page.
Admittedly, anything sophisticated or JavaScript is outside of my domain of expertise, but @CarlLange probably has that expertise
 
Carl Lange
Carl Lange
🤷‍♀️ maybe :)
 
b3m2a1
b3m2a1
4:55 PM
Gotta write a lot of patch code now 🙃🙃🙃
Once again reminding me it's not good to rely on WRI. GitHub I feel I can trust since the user base is huge enough to push back against any capricious changes like this, but WRI probably not.
 
Carl Lange
Carl Lange
In general seems like a sensible change to me. they had so many competing products before
honestly I'm surprised they still have the "Finance Platform" since the "Data Science Platform" appears to have disappeared
The thing that really worries me is that the development platform used to be the cheapest way to a commercial WL license
particularly if you wanted to use a cloud-deployed api, etc
Now, it seems like the cheapest option, Wolfram|One Professional, is €180/mo as opposed to the $85/mo a "Producer" license was for the Development Platform
(the very cheapest would have been $15/mo for the Explorer license, which, though it's not totally clear, was probably also a commercial-use license)
that's potentially an order of magnitude price increase for commercial use, which frankly sucks
(some hand-waving when you think about yearly plans vs monthly etc)
 
Chris K
Chris K
5:18 PM
@b3m2a1 thanks, I may take you up on that once I get caught up
 
b3m2a1
b3m2a1
I'm currently having to rewrite the core deployment code to seamlessly integrate with GitHub Pages, so it ought to still be easy to deploy if you have a GitHub account.
Of course in practice that means there will be bumps and hiccups and all that.
 
Chris K
Chris K
@CarlLange I've got a Mathematica site license through my university, but there's no way for me to add cloud to it
without paying for the base mathematica twice at least
 
 
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Szabolcs
Szabolcs
8:36 PM
 
kirma
kirma
9:02 PM
@ChrisK I have paid for a license which includes Mathematica Online. After some arbitrary clicking through the service they seem to approve that I'm on a Home Edition plan instead of a Free plan. This kind of uncertainty is frankly not increasing confidence of any paying customer...
 
 
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b3m2a1
b3m2a1
11:28 PM
Got my website deployment mechanism to automatically work for deploying to GitHub:
Since the cloud is now unreliable this is the default mechanism, but both are supported if you'd like to have a slower, buggier, more expensive system.
 

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