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Abstracting (too much), it's violated expectations - like broken promises, people really don't like it. Taking a tangential step, computer automation is simila
by 12ren 18y ago
Abstracting (too much), it's violated expectations - like broken promises, people really don't like it.
Taking a tangential step, computer automation is similar when it purports to be able to help you, but doesn't understand you well enough to do so; like MS's "clippy".
In contrast, Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button is automation that fulfills its promise (though the name emphases that luck is involved). Google can predict so well what I want, that this button is (very often) right. An awesome achievement. I added a simple command-line google lookup, to go directly to the page, and it's freaking me out how well it works:
> cat ~/bin/g
firefox google.com/search?q="$*"\&btnI= &
- tlrobinson 18y agoNeat idea. Here's one way on OS X: open "http://google.com/search?q="$*"\&btnI=" Or if you want to specify a non-default browser: open -a "Safari.app" "http://google.com/search?q="$*"\&btnI="