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I built an app to model this out. It forecasts your future down to the millisecond. It's super simple right now, but has a "time machine" function to see where

I built an app to model this out. It forecasts your future down to the millisecond. It's super simple right now, but has a "time machine" function to see where you'll be in 5 / 10 / 30 years -- and whole life. i.e. You might spend 20,000 hours in the bathroom and 10,000 hours writing novels. What's valuable to me and the people who have used it is to compare how much time you'll spend on type 1 hedonistic fun vs. type 2 accretive fun. Free / easy. https://app.sundialcalendar.com/ https://app.sundialcalendar.com/

fezfight 4y ago
I enjoyed messing around with that. I'm very old and your app helped reinforce that. I have a stupid question that is likely due to my age. Please feel free to ignore me. Why is this called an app and not a webpage? Is it just modern parlance or is there some functional difference?
- davchana 4y ago
  I have not opened the link above poster shared, but in my mind, a webpage is linear, like a page, where I read, and get info. It does not change state significantly if it even offers any interaction with user. There might be a new oage loading, or images load dynamically, but it does not get or ask information from user, process it & then spit out some data about it. An app usually displays something on a page, but most of the data is asked from me, app processes it, stores it, displays it.
  - fezfight 4y ago
    Thank you for your helpful reply.
  - reality_inspctr 4y ago
    That defines this pretty well. It's interactive.
- rmetzler 4y ago
  It’s a website, because it has a URL, you use a browser to access it and it’s written in html, css and JavaScript. It’s an app, because it’s interactive. App means application, program, etc. but it doesn’t necessarily needs to be downloaded.
  - fezfight 4y ago
    I guess JavaScript blurred the lines a bit, eh. Thanks for your reply.
- reality_inspctr 4y ago
  Thanks for trying it out! Modern parlance, imo.

fezfight 4y ago

I enjoyed messing around with that. I'm very old and your app helped reinforce that. I have a stupid question that is likely due to my age. Please feel free to ignore me. Why is this called an app and not a webpage? Is it just modern parlance or is there some functional difference?

davchana 4y ago
I have not opened the link above poster shared, but in my mind, a webpage is linear, like a page, where I read, and get info. It does not change state significantly if it even offers any interaction with user. There might be a new oage loading, or images load dynamically, but it does not get or ask information from user, process it & then spit out some data about it. An app usually displays something on a page, but most of the data is asked from me, app processes it, stores it, displays it.
- fezfight 4y ago
  Thank you for your helpful reply.
- reality_inspctr 4y ago
  That defines this pretty well. It's interactive.
rmetzler 4y ago
It’s a website, because it has a URL, you use a browser to access it and it’s written in html, css and JavaScript. It’s an app, because it’s interactive. App means application, program, etc. but it doesn’t necessarily needs to be downloaded.
- fezfight 4y ago
  I guess JavaScript blurred the lines a bit, eh. Thanks for your reply.
reality_inspctr 4y ago
Thanks for trying it out! Modern parlance, imo.