Ian Hinder

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I’m a postdoctoral researcher at the Albert Einstein Institute in Germany working in the Numerical Relativity group. My research interests include binary black holes, high-performance computing, computer algebra, automatic code generation and numerical analysis.

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Mar 4	asked	How to find the name of the current function
Jan 30	awarded	Yearling
Jan 13	awarded	Popular Question
Oct 2	comment	What is the best way for an application to provide customisation options for the user? @Leonid We recommend that our application is installed there, but it could also be installed somewhere else that Mathematica looks for application (e.g. globally). I just think it's bad programming practice to store user-specific data inside an application code directory.
Sep 7	awarded	Commentator
Sep 7	comment	What is the best way for an application to provide customisation options for the user? Where should Settings.m live? In the application's own directory, or in the user's configuration directory (i.e. ~/.Mathematica or ~/Library/Mathematica etc)? I think the latter, as the application directory might be shared between users or not be writable, and might also be overwritten when the application is upgraded. If it should be in the configuration directory, is there a standard convention for where exactly to put it?
Sep 6	comment	Context unique to each group at a specified level I think it would be useful to be able to do this on an as-needed basis. i.e. right-click on the specific cell group and set the context of that group.
Aug 24	comment	What is the best way for an application to provide customisation options for the user? Ideally, I think I would like for the user to provide a variable setting which was only activated once the package was loaded, and which then lived in the package context. This might be achieved by the package loading a specific file on startup. Something like $UserBaseDirectory/ApplicationConfig/MyApp/config.m. Is there a convention for this?
Aug 24	asked	What is the best way for an application to provide customisation options for the user?
Aug 24	answered	What is the best way for an application to provide customisation options for the user?
Jul 20	awarded	Teacher
Jul 20	answered	Importing HDF5 with compound data
Mar 30	comment	How can I run MUnit TestSuites outside WorkBench? Thanks, but this doesn't really answer the question. I want to use the same TestSuite construct that I use in Workbench outside of Workbench.
Mar 30	asked	How can I run MUnit TestSuites outside WorkBench?
Feb 25	comment	How to write a function-defining function which stores the function arguments in a stack? Oh no! I caused a ruckus! I didn't use the Unevaluated, as I used the more natural f[args] as an argument to the (held) WithStackFrame. I would say the original question was "how do I store the arguments in a stack", and the split into f and args was just my example of something I had tried and which had not worked. Mr Wizard's answer is the simplest and cleanest, which is why I use it, but I do feel it is almost a derivation of Rojo's. Anyway, I will go with the community consensus, if you can point me to it in the meta site?
Feb 24	awarded	Supporter
Feb 24	comment	How to write a function-defining function which stores the function arguments in a stack? This would basically solve my problem, and was posted before Mr. Wizard's solution, but his is a bit cleaner so I'm actually using that. Anyway, thanks for all the help! StackExchange is amazing!
Feb 24	accepted	How to write a function-defining function which stores the function arguments in a stack?
Feb 23	comment	How to write a function-defining function which stores the function arguments in a stack? Thanks - I couldn't find a link to the markup documentation. I searched for "markup" in meta and the FAQ, but it didn't give me anything.
Feb 23	comment	How do you convert a string containing a number in C scientific notation to a Mathematica number? This seems like functionality that should be available (officially) in Mathematica. Will Wolfram accept feature-requests?