darinf

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by darinf 11mo ago
Electron works differently. It runs in process, similar to how a normal Chromium embedding works (like Chrome itself).
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by darinf 11mo ago
Mobile is a different story for sure and for many reasons. We will be bringing this same architecture to Windows. It will fit it well there, and in many ways Windows is already well suited for multi-process configurations. It always has bee
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Not your run of the mill Chromium based browser(openai.com)
15 points by darinf 11mo ago|5 comments
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by darinf 11mo ago
Glad to finally be able to share Atlas with the world last week! There's a lot of novelty under the hood. While Atlas is using Chromium, it's not built on top of Chromium in the usual way. As one of the engineers who designed and
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by darinf 4y ago
^^^ this
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by darinf 4y ago
fullscreen != fullwindow Cmd+s in Arc just hides all the UI of the browser but does not change the size of the window frame. This is more akin to Chrome's add shortcut to desktop feature, except that it is easy to toggle on/off wi
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by darinf 4y ago
What bugs will we get this time?
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by darinf 4y ago
Yeah you end up designing models not to be logically separated but to instead isolate updates to Views. In theory those should align but they don’t always. And the method of finding objects thru the environment makes it all too easy to have
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by darinf 4y ago
So wish they would decouple SwiftUI from the OS releases and opensource it!
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Competing in search gets hard when the incumbent also owns the browser(twitter.com)
20 points by darinf 4y ago|0 comments
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by darinf 4y ago
I’m excited to try this out. The idea of cloud hosted browsers is not new, but this approach seems really promising. In this era of connectivity and cloud compute, it makes so much sense.
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by darinf 4y ago
Nope. Chrome usage is free traffic to google.com/search. Chrome usage is the high order bit. The rest is gravy.
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by darinf 4y ago
Yes they can act unilaterally and with Chrome OS and many popular web apps they do have incentive to care about the web. But will that translate to the Chrome organization caring? It doesn’t make Chrome a more attractive browser to users th
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by darinf 4y ago
A side-effect of a Chromium-only web is that it gives the Chrome team at Google less incentive to invest in the web platform. It used to be a way to differentiate Chrome from other browsers. Now-a-days that is no longer the case. Competitio
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by darinf 4y ago
Check out cookie cutter by Neeva: https://neeva.com/blog/introducing-cookie-cutter-by-neeva-a-...
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by darinf 4y ago
Check out Neeva. This is what we are all about.
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by darinf 4y ago
$5 / mo for a premium Neeva subscription or just use the free tier to experience ad-free search focused on the user. I left Google to join Neeva so I could be part of building a better search experience for people. Check us out. Would
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by darinf 4y ago
DDG is just repackaged Bing with their own ads inserted.
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by darinf 4y ago
Working on much of this at Neeva. We have a free tier, no ads cluttering the results. Just focused on the user experience. We also offer a premium tier for those who are keen to support us.
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by darinf 4y ago
This is why I left Google to join Neeva. Check us out. Unlike the alternatives, we are truly investing in our search stack. Unfortunately there’s just too much inertia with the ads-based business model making it too hard for Google to not l
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by darinf 4y ago
Yes you are correct. Google Desktop Search. Connected Apps in Neeva is similar but better. It supports indexing more apps, like Figma and GitHub.
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by darinf 4y ago
Exactly. Notice how "I'm feeling lucky" is only on the home page and not part of the search experience when using Chrome or any modern browser where you search from the URL bar? Wonder if that is intention? Not a wonder at al
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by darinf 4y ago
I was talking about mobile. As for desktop, Instant Search was serving up full page results instantly, which included ads. That's a different thing altogether, and of course, in the case of Instant Search there was plenty of room for b
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by darinf 4y ago
Actually, just taking the ads out of the experience can make for a simpler and better search experience. I think the google founders knew this too ( https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/rzr2n3/the_fo
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by darinf 4y ago
Actually, you are spot on. One simple feature of the Neeva app is that it shows inline search results as you type into the URL bar. This is because we aren't trying to show you ads, so we don't need you to visit the search results
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by darinf 4y ago
Happy to answer any questions you all might have about Neeva. I left Google to join Neeva about a year ago. Got inspired by the opportunity to make a better product. AMA :)
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by darinf 4y ago
I love having lunch with co-workers. It’s a great way to connect. Even though at my office only about 30% of folks are back, it’s roughly the same group each day. So I’m happy being back even if all meetings involve Zoom. At least getting a
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by darinf 4y ago
This is why we created Neeva.
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Neeva is changing our business model – we are now a 100% ALL ADS Search Engine(twitter.com)
5 points by darinf 4y ago|0 comments
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by darinf 4y ago
Neeva has this feature. Configure sites you want to see more from and sites you want to see less from. Easy.

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