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> We don't recommend oh-my-fish for various reasons

Care to elaborate a bit on those? Or is it the kind of thing that's impolite to discuss?
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·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
There’s no need for this extension: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425681
chisquared
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
If b is negative, define c = -b, and use the linked result to show that

a^2 - b^2 = a^2 - (-c)^2 = a^2 - c^2 = (a + c)(a - c) = (a + b)(a - b)
chisquared
·2 वर्ष पहले·discuss
> Then you've just skipped the case when a^2 - b^2 is negative.

Not really. If b > a, then swap them to conclude that b^2 - a^2 = (b + a)(b - a), which is what the visual proof demonstrates.

Your conclusion is equivalent to saying that a^2 - b^2 = (a + b)(a - b).
chisquared
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Steve Jobs would have agreed with you at one point.

I'm not sure what changed his mind (or if he ever even really did), but he also thought that aside from the native apps that came with the iPhone, everything else should just be a web app.