sekizaru

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   by sekizaru 16y ago

   Wow! Nice work. I had the exact same idea awhile back and even started on a prototype version of it. Really happy (and a bit jealous) to see it done so well. Some of the things that I thought would be good: Auto-complete (with a drop-down
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   by sekizaru 16y ago

   I spoke to someone at Wolfram about using the API about 6 months ago and they said they would try and get me access to their "Pioneer Grant" which is the free version of the API. No word since then. The pricing for the regular API is prohib
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   by sekizaru 17y ago

   Congratulations on making the move to full-time! At the beginning of last year I made a similar move from being a Japanese salaryman to my own business. I was writing code in a notebook on my 1.5 hour train commute and on my lunch break and
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   Experience porting a Firefox add-on to a Chrome extension(sidthemonkey.com)

   37 points by sekizaru 17y ago|1 comments
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   by sekizaru 17y ago

   Thanks for this. Lamson looks very powerful but it's probably overkill for what I'm looking for.
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   by sekizaru 17y ago

   Thanks. This does look amazing. I'll try it out and post my results back here. Interested to hear what kind of things you you or others use it for. It really gets you thinking about new possibilities.
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   by sekizaru 17y ago

   This reminds me of a problem I've been wanting to solve for a long time. A lot of web apps use email to deliver notifications and other data like reports. I want to take these emails and process them whenever a new email arrives. A few qua
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   by sekizaru 17y ago

   I second this one but would recommend learning Javascript by using Greasemonkey and the introductory guide "Dive Into Greasemonkey" which was discussed here recently http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897706 . Greasemonkey lets you make c
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   by sekizaru 17y ago

   The Firefox add-ons blog just posted some results from their "Contributions Pilot" where they were testing accepting donations for add-ons. http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/10/19/contributions-a-lo... Interestingly, the $5-$10 range s
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    Firefox Add-ons Donations - Stats from trial(blog.mozilla.com)

    4 points by sekizaru 17y ago|0 comments
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    by sekizaru 17y ago

    Point taken. Perhaps a more appropriate analogy is the PR industry. I know the PR industry gets almost as much criticism as SEO. But the argument that we shouldn't use specialists in whatever field because we could do it ourselves is very d
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    by sekizaru 17y ago

    The argument that web designers, web developers etc. should understand everything related to their work is fine at a small scale eg. creating a personal blog/small website. But it's a stretch to say that nobody should focus on just one area
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    by sekizaru 17y ago

    I was looking forward to using the API in my Firefox add-on that shows the Wolfram Alpha results next to the Google results. Quick calculation of the cost: 18,000 users/day * say 3 searches/day = ~$2,300/day. I think I'll stick with loading