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by tagawa 10y ago
I guess you meant this as confirmation of his/her statement?
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The Economist is looking for a technology correspondent(economist.com)
3 points by tagawa 10y ago|0 comments
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Technology lures expats back to Vietnam(bbc.com)
3 points by tagawa 10y ago|0 comments
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Estonia – the Skype effect(bbc.com)
103 points by tagawa 10y ago|50 comments
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by tagawa 10y ago
Message received and understood! Although we're currently trying to improve Instant Answers for developers, we're also continuing to work on better search results for mainstream users as awareness of privacy issues increases.
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by tagawa 10y ago
We use several sources[1], in particular Yahoo, Bing and Yandex, and then try to improve relevancy in the results as much as possible. [1] https://duck.co/help/results/sources
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by tagawa 10y ago
The money is from DuckDuckGo but we do involve users by calling for nominations from the community (see https://duck.co/blog/post/247/2016-foss-donation-nominations )
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by tagawa 10y ago
We did have some non-encryption/security nominations from the community, but we decided in advance that this year's theme would be "raising the standard of trust online", hence this final list of recipients.
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7 Lessons from DuckDuckGo's Instant Answers Project(opensource.com)
2 points by tagawa 10y ago|0 comments
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by tagawa 10y ago
And that comment will go straight to the docs guy - thank you!
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by tagawa 10y ago
No need for the apology! As much as we need contributions, we also need feedback beyond just code, whether it's praise or criticism. I didn't take your comment as rude at all and you make valid points. We're continually looki
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by tagawa 10y ago
DDG staff here. The non-cheat sheet Instant Answers we have all either use data from a third-party API or show a snippet of an external page's content. In all cases we link to the source. For cheat sheets, we either write the informati
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by tagawa 10y ago
Sorry for the confusion. In the reddit post there are a couple of Linux Instant Answers referenced. They each have an overview page with metadata: https://duck.co/ia/view/linux_cheat_sheet https://duck.
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by tagawa 11y ago
DuckDuckHack is the public contribution part of DuckDuckGo. Most of our Instant Answers are created by developers submitting code to repos on GitHub which we then review and publish. Many of these are programming-related but a bit different
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by tagawa 11y ago
That's a good idea. I've filed it as a feature request: https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/issues/2... Thanks
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by tagawa 11y ago
Yes, there's an API available for many of the instant answers: https://duckduckgo.com/api Not all though, because of syndication restrictions from the original data providers.
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How DuckDuckGo is trying to help programmers(duck.co)
355 points by tagawa 11y ago|67 comments
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The vulnerable web API for my Nissan Leaf(scotthelme.co.uk)
2 points by tagawa 11y ago|0 comments
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by tagawa 11y ago
tldr; You can use your keyword with any of these trigger words: 'char', 'chars', 'character', 'characters', 'cheat sheet', 'cheatsheet', 'command', 'commands',
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by tagawa 11y ago
If it's any consolation, there's a LaTeX quick lookup: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=latex+integral&ia=answer
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by tagawa 11y ago
Related: We (DuckDuckGo) have a table of programming-related Instant Answers, including cheat sheets, that we're trying to complete here, so you can see what's currently available or waiting for a developer: https://git
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by tagawa 11y ago
We've suggested people try saying "Duck it", but admittedly it's not in popular use just yet...
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by tagawa 11y ago
All human, made by a community of volunteers. There are currently about 200 cheat sheets: https://duck.co/ia?q=cheat (Disclaimer: DuckDuckGo staff)
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Call for DuckDuckGo donation nominations: Projects that increase trust online(duck.co)
5 points by tagawa 11y ago|0 comments
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The takeaway worker who set up a fast-growing IT firm(bbc.com)
1 points by tagawa 11y ago|0 comments
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by tagawa 11y ago
Nice. This would be good as part of a dashboard on a second monitor. Request: I'd love to see domain names included. Submitter usernames would also be nice as long as it doesn't make it too cluttered. Edit: I'd really like to
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by tagawa 11y ago
Or a case for counting a single author's multiple links of the same book as one vote.
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by tagawa 11y ago
Re. web pages, the feature is called DeviceOrientation Event and no, the spec doesn't require user permission: https://www.w3.org/TR/orientation-event/
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A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010)(en.wikipedia.org)
53 points by tagawa 11y ago|12 comments
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by tagawa 11y ago
Thanks. It was the "tourbillon" in the title that made me click. Amazing.

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