brandonhorst

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by brandonhorst 6y ago
It's definitely a trade-off. I am betting that for some users, the discoverability and simplicity of typing natural language wins out over syntax that needs to be learned - but it's not for everyone. It does support fuzzy matching
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by brandonhorst 6y ago
In addition to supporting search, it supports natural-language commands. You can use it like Spotlight (type to search), but then you have options beyond just opening - you can move files, or complete reminders, or create events. Or you can
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by brandonhorst 6y ago
That's the goal I want it to fill! It's powerful and 95% of the features are completely free, I'd encourage you to give it a shot.
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by brandonhorst 6y ago
It'll be up on Setapp tomorrow. Not planning to sell directly at the moment. Thus far, the Sandbox hasn't been a limitation for what I want to do - it's pretty clear that that's the way that Apple is moving, and I don&#x
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Show HN: Lacona – Search and natural language commands for Mac(lacona.app)
36 points by brandonhorst 6y ago|18 comments
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by brandonhorst 6y ago
All of that is managed by the Secure Enclave in exactly the same way that it is for all over auth on Apple devices. The browser doesn't touch it at all.
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by brandonhorst 6y ago
Web 2.0. Such a bright outlook in those days :)
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by brandonhorst 6y ago
You can fix this by removing the “Google” account and connecting to Gmail as a regular IMAP account. Since I did that, I haven’t had any issues with this.
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
Siri can also show web results on watch. I believe the News app uses WebView as well.
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
Grandparent was saying that paracetamol is a synonym for Tylenlol/acetaminophen
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
I distinctly remember using that feature on Windows 98
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
Google Search App. The app called "Google" on Android and iOS.
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
None of this is true in modern iOS.
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
It's no longer true since iOS 13. Safari has a full-featured download manager now.
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
There is already an emoji for the company:  (only works on iStuff)
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
Swift handles this exact problem quite elegantly with the "if case let" construct, allowing you to destructure sum types directly within an if statement. https://alisoftware.github.io/swift/pattern-matching&#x
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
That isn't what techwear means https://www.grailed.com/drycleanonly/an-introduction-to-tech...
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
Karabiner can map it to Esc on its own, but to Ctrl if you combine it with another key. Best of both worlds.
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
FWIW, I work for Google (not on google.com), and would definitely fit into the "geek" category, and I still assumed you were talking about an OSS search engine.
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
It is the exact same thing. The first cup of black tea brewed from given leaves has about half as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.
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by brandonhorst 7y ago
You're in luck! Those requirements were removed months ago. You can use Assistant with those settings disabled no problem.
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by brandonhorst 8y ago
This is already the world with JavaScript. It can be nice as the compiled code is still humanly understandable.
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by brandonhorst 8y ago
Considered building something like this last year, and couldn't find any prior art online. Looking forward to reading your report!
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by brandonhorst 8y ago
Unfortunately, the line drawing doesn't make this as cool as it could be. The line representing the flight from BOS to PEK is drawn due west, as would look natural on a 2D map. The real flight (and shortest route) heads north and passe
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by brandonhorst 8y ago
Google has been doing this for ages, not only with Books results but web search results. If the query is associated with some Entity, it will return various (hopefully useful) about that entity even if they do not contain text involved at a
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by brandonhorst 8y ago
> I don't get the obsession americans have with reducing huge demographics into single buckets. The irony.
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by brandonhorst 9y ago
If you put a newline in the middle of a word English, it changes the meaning too.
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by brandonhorst 9y ago
It's going away for non-ChromeOS systems.
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Lacona – Natural Language Commands for Mac [#1 in Tech on ProductHunt](producthunt.com)
1 points by brandonhorst 10y ago|0 comments
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Lacona Natural Langauge Commands Dev API Released Today(lacona.io)
3 points by brandonhorst 10y ago|0 comments

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