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Generate QR codes with DuckDuckGo
- ozh 13y agoSince a mention in HN a couple weeks ago I've been using the DDG extension for Firefox, and love it: even if you're not using DDG as a search engine, it adds very cool insights to Google result pages.
- eksith 13y agoI'm finding a lot of my information without even needing to visit a page. A bit like Google's info-boxes, I can get quick answers to a lot of things without hassle. The one area it could be a bit better is for some things that are slightly esoteric or articles that are very new. I just search with "!g" added to the query and get those via redirect (of course, that does negate privacy a bit since results are from Google).
- nikolaplejic 13y agoYou can always use "!s" to fetch the results through startpage.com, which anonymizes your Google query.
- rollo_tommasi 13y agoIs there a difference between using Startpage through DDG, and just using Startpage?
- nikolaplejic 13y agoNo - DDG simply redirects your query to Startpage. For me, it's just a convenient way to reach out to Google when DDG doesn't cut it.
- SunboX 13y agoOfftopic: Is there any way to read QR codes via JavaScript? Something like ZBar?
- eksith 13y agoThere's one for HTML5 https://github.com/LazarSoft/jsqrcode https://github.com/LazarSoft/jsqrcode . I haven't really tried it though.
- SunboX 13y agoLooks nice! Thanks, will try that one. :) Btw, found a JS barcode reader today. Didn't try it: https://github.com/EddieLa/BarcodeReader https://github.com/EddieLa/BarcodeReader
- BtM909 13y ago/sarcastic-mode: and for what reason? For the 3 people that still use QR? :P
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agohttp://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/ http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
- consultant23522 13y agoI was wondering this myself.
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- ozh 13y agoyeah arguably that particular example wasn't very useful, but there are dozens which really rock: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies https://duckduckgo.com/goodies
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- _zekiel 13y agoWe're (DuckDuckGo) happy to see the response to this! Our instant answers are open source and we'd love to have one for every possible search, no matter how niche. If anyone's interested in suggesting or creating an instant answer, check out: http://duckduckhack.com/ http://duckduckhack.com/ Also--to see most of the current IAs, look here: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies https://duckduckgo.com/goodies
- prezjordan 13y agoAdding onto this (I don't work for DDG), seriously check out the zeroclickinfo project[0] if you're looking to do some open-source over the coming holidays. I wrote a SoundCloud instant answer[1] and it was my first contribution to open-source (a little less than a year ago). That one pull request led to many others that have opened a lot of doors for me. It's a super approachable codebase and I had a lot of fun with it. [0]: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies#Music/soundcloud_ray_bradbury https://duckduckgo.com/goodies#Music/soundcloud_ray_bradbury
- kafkaesque 13y agoAre there different sizes available or just 100x100?
- btbuildem 13y agolooks like the size depends on the length of your input -- capped at some max value