crazedpsyc

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by crazedpsyc 10y ago
>>> float('inf') < 'hi' True Fixed in Python 3, but still. There are more of these things.
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by crazedpsyc 10y ago
Enlightenment's Terminology[1] supports a few fancy things including image previews, animated cursors (nyancat is a builtin theme...) and local file links. More impressively, it actually works really well, it's native, and it&#x27
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by crazedpsyc 13y ago
Because it varies widely :). It is entirely based on your query -- whichever source is detected as best for that type of query (i.e. Yandex is better at handling symbols, Bing's advanced syntax is better [mostly]), and of course it cha
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by crazedpsyc 13y ago
In the very beginning, Gabriel was more focused on the instant answers and hadn't thought much of privacy -- users brought it up after he launched it on HN.
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by crazedpsyc 13y ago
1. Region can be changed in DuckDuckGo's settings, for more localized results -- by default it is set to "No region," so there is nothing localized in the results. 2. Bing is one of very very many sources, which are all remix
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by crazedpsyc 13y ago
A lot of those plugins are written in client-side Javascript, so the bot can't (easily) work with those.
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by crazedpsyc 13y ago
Not sure what you mean there -- these are two completely different things. That disables using a service (Google or Bing) to autocomplete. It does not affect what extensions like the DuckDuckGo one do.
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by crazedpsyc 13y ago
There is nothing malicious going on there. It does that so you can get instant answers where there would normally be auto-completion. This is covered very nicely in a paragraph in the addon's description, and can very obviously be disabled
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by crazedpsyc 14y ago
Yup, no offices in India, but contractors are distributed worldwide and work over the wire. :)
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by crazedpsyc 14y ago
You can type "r:xx" in your query to set the region, in any case. (e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bonjour+r%3Afr )
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by crazedpsyc 14y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+duckdu... Still works, it's just harder to type and less reliable.
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by crazedpsyc 14y ago
No, there are over 50 sources: http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s... And they aren't just copied verbatim (with the same ranking, etc), but are re-ranked and mixed.
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by crazedpsyc 14y ago
You can download plugins from github, but note that they are under GPL as far as I know. EDIT: Nope, perl5 license.
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by crazedpsyc 14y ago
They exist for sites you've never been to before, you don't have to do anything to a fresh browser install to make them work, they are browser-indepenent (I don't use or like chrome personally), and you can use them on any computer at any t
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by crazedpsyc 14y ago
No, they will be native.
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by crazedpsyc 14y ago
Not sure what uservoice is, but there is also an official trello board: https://trello.com/board/duckduckgo-open-source-plugins/4f08...
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by crazedpsyc 15y ago
Well for one, results come from far more sources than /just/ bing and yahoo, and they are also put through a custom algorithm. Then there is the 0-click info, official sites, etc. As for building an index, I'm not sure what the plans are th
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by crazedpsyc 15y ago
It uses Yahoo, Bing, and a number of other sources (but not google). See http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s... :)
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by crazedpsyc 15y ago
There has been no PR firm involved as far as I know, it is being spread by fans and advertising efforts by the founder. In my experience the results are almost always more relevant than google's, especially the 0-click info. I use DDG mostl