mgj

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by mgj 16y ago
It looks like a competitor. Pik has a UI that's in the browser window rather than a pop-up prompt, which allows you to search for commands. Pik also shows you what commands are popular on a given site/page, which makes it easier to discover
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by mgj 16y ago
Most of this feedback is technical; can someone comment on whether they would use this or some future iteration of this project?
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by mgj 16y ago
Try closing the notification and using it anyways. I'm whitelisting browsers that work and I haven't gotten around to all of them.
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by mgj 16y ago
Thanks, I'll look into it. It's working for me on Chrome 5.0.342.9 on OSX.
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by mgj 16y ago
Haha, unfortunately I didn't know that. Reminds me of how I looked up "Bing" in a chinese dictionary and found that it means "disease."
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by mgj 16y ago
I will add that to my whitelist. You should be able to close the warning and continue. I'm whitelisting OS/Browser combos, and I haven't added linux yet.
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My webapp: pik(getpik.com)
17 points by mgj 16y ago|26 comments
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by mgj 17y ago
I enjoyed hearing them talk about tablets, given that was ~3 years before the iPad launch. (I believe most of that conversation occurred in part 5)
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Ask HN: Examples of sites which start free and later switch to paid?
5 points by mgj 17y ago|5 comments
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by mgj 17y ago
Yep, see: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zf/papers/keyboard-ccs05.pdf
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by mgj 17y ago
Eat less. I've also heard it's good for your health to eat less if you can. One of the common themes I hear from people who come to the US from overseas is that food portions are quite large here.
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by mgj 17y ago
My understanding is the prices are high because there's an oligopoly. To have competition, all the major browsers would have to agree to let in more companies, and they're just not doing that.
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by mgj 18y ago
FriendFeed has an in-house framework inspired by web.py and Appengine's webapp. It was written by Bret Taylor, who was the PM of appengine when it started, but is now working for FriendFeed. He mentioned that he might open source it, but ha