prakash

Re:DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator on Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:01AM (#4881121)

Can you please point us to that article?

Just so there is no ambiguity, we are alive, doing well and growing: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Re:DuckDuckHack on Sunday October 28, 2012 @01:01PM (#4709366)

Our immediate plans don't involve maintaing country specific domains. We might revisit this if/when DDG is available in additional languages.

Also, some users don't like that country level redirect and prefer the .com.

One solution, which does require a couple of steps is to use our Cloud save & save your settings anonymously in the cloud.

At the bottom of the settings page (https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html), you can enable cloud save, there is also a FAQ.

Re:DuckDuckHack on Sunday October 28, 2012 @09:31AM (#4708874)

Right now, you can go to settings (https://duckduckgo.com/settings.html) & select UK from the region settings.

Re:DuckDuckHack on Sunday October 28, 2012 @04:27AM (#4708441)

Please check github: - https://github.com/duckduckgo - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-fathead - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice - https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies

Some of these are listed on our Goodies page: https://duckduckgo.com/goodies/

New plugins are announced on http://twitter.com/duckduckhack

Feedback welcome.

Re:DuckDuckHack on Sunday October 28, 2012 @04:23AM (#4708435)

Thanks for the feedback, will pass it along.

Re:Bing vs. Google on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:20PM (#4485173)

(we're still the only search engine that lets you completely turn off ads as a user preference for example)

You can do that with DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckgo.com/settings.html > Layout tab > Advertisements.

[I work at DDG.]

Re:Introducing DuckDuckHack on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @04:05PM (#3916157)

Good ideas, we are collecting all of them here: http://ideas.duckduckhack.com/

Re:Introducing DuckDuckHack on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @02:14PM (#3915668)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3915588

Don't "Hire by Keyword"

Posted by prakash on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @08:19AM
from the michaelrwolfe.posterous.com dept.

http://michaelrwolfe.posterous.com/you-are-not-your-keywords

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Re:DuckDuckGo is blowing up on Thursday March 29, 2012 @10:45AM (#3771283)

!g "search query" on DDG will do the search on google.

Entire list here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html reply

Re:DuckDuckGo is blowing up on Thursday March 29, 2012 @10:42AM (#3771271)

!g "search query" on DDG will do the search on google.

Entire list here: http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Re:DuckDuckGo is blowing up on Thursday March 29, 2012 @10:38AM (#3771247)

Fastestfox, Cyberspace and others use our API: http://duckduckgo.com/api.html

Would love to hear ideas on (iii).

Re:DuckDuckGo is blowing up on Thursday March 29, 2012 @10:33AM (#3771222)

Fastestfox, Cyberspace and others use our API: http://duckduckgo.com/api.html

45+10=1 hour (Getting Things Done)

Posted by prakash on Friday March 16, 2012 @01:19PM
from the continuations.com dept.

http://continuations.com/post/19400879884/45-10-1-hour-getting-things-done

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Re:Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012 on Saturday March 03, 2012 @11:39PM (#3662003)

You can use "!gi" to search google images from DDG & "!bi" to search bing images.

Re:New AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Thursday December 15, 2011 @02:55AM (#3355382)

don't wait. You can use Cedexis to do geo/cost/more with multiple aws regions/ availability zones: http://www.cedexis.com/products/cedexis-openmix/

A Warrior's Guide to Raising Money in the Battleﬁelds of the Silicon Valley

Posted by prakash on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @02:52PM
from the blognewcomb.squarespace.com dept.

http://blognewcomb.squarespace.com/essays/2011/12/12/the-art-of-war.html

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Re:Don't Call Yourself a Programmer on Saturday October 29, 2011 @02:37AM (#3171344)

I recently stumbled across a web-page from the guy whose professional bio is “wrote the backend billing code that 97% of Google’s revenue passes through.” He’s now an angel investor (a polite synonym for “rich”).

Any idea who this person is?

Re:Global average response times from EC2 regions on Saturday October 01, 2011 @05:50AM (#3059741)

Here's a country based comparison of cloud perf: http://www.cedexis.com/which-is-the-right-cloud-for-the-job-...

You can get access to this data (my comment above and the cloud connect presentation) by signing up for a free account on our site: http://www.cedexis.com/which-is-the-right-cloud-for-the-job-...

Re:"Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken proc... on Friday August 19, 2011 @06:52AM (#2902915)

That bookmark service that did great out of the del.ici.ous fiasco (sorry I honestly can't remember your name!).

http://pinboard.in/

Re:Why Facebook Needs Sheryl Sandberg on Thursday May 12, 2011 @05:14AM (#2539907)

Josh has been on HN since the beginning: http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jkopelman

I'm about to quit my job to learn to program.

Posted by prakash on Sunday April 24, 2011 @05:07PM
from the quora.com dept.

http://www.quora.com/Im-about-to-quit-my-job-to-learn-to-program-Im-25-and-have-USD-100k-in-savings-what-should-I-do-with-the-money?

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Re:Why DNS-based Global Server Load Balancing does not work [2004] on Sunday April 24, 2011 @04:17PM (#2479529)

Since the Amazon outage, I've been wondering about the best way to quickly switch to another host.

This is exact problem we (Cedexis) solve.

Assume your site is www.website.com, in general points to an A record or a CNAME to a datacenter/ cloud/ CDN.

We add an intermediate hostname, low TTL (20 seconds), global anycast network, which can be scripted (write your load-balancing logic in php) to handout a CNAME (one of many) based on performance (RTT), load, cost, anything else you can think of, etc.

Re.: AWS's recent outage, assuming you are running your apps in multiple zones/ regions/ clouds, we would have noticed the latency and automatically routed away to a different zone/ region/ cloud.

We collect hundreds of millions of performance measurements daily: http://gigaom.com/cloud/heres-what-amazon-outage-looked-like...

Drop an email and I am happy to explain more and setup folks from HN with a free account: prakash at cedexis.com

Re:Amazon Web Services are down on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:21PM (#2471201)

Here's the 24h latency data on EC2 east, west, eu, apac: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-24h.png

Last 60 minutes comparison data: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/EC2-multiple-zones-60m.png

time in GMT.

A study we (Cedexis) did in January comparing multiple ec2 zones and other cloud providers: (pdf) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/76-marty-kagan.pdf

Re:Rackspace cloud beats Amazon EC2, by a lot on Friday April 15, 2011 @11:03AM (#2450755)

At Cedexis, we compared cloud performance using 15 billion measurements from actual end-users in 220 countries and 23,800 networks between:

- Amazon, Rackspace, Joyent, Google App Engine and Azure and

- How do EC2's East, West, EU & APAC zones compare

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1898990/76-marty-kagan.pdf

Drop me a note if you are interested in additional information, a similar test for your website -- prakash at cedexis.com

Re:"Amazon's EBSs are a barrel of laughs in terms of performance and r... on Friday March 18, 2011 @11:05AM (#2340620)

We (Cedexis) presented our findings on - How do EC2's East, West, EU & APAC zones compare: (pdf) http://www.cloudconnectevent.com/2011/presentations/free/76-...

If you would like to know more please send me an email: prakash [at] cedexis.com

The Value of Promise

Posted by prakash on Monday March 07, 2011 @08:05AM
from the kuwayama.com dept.

http://kuwayama.com/the-value-of-promise

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Re:Cloud Ping on Friday March 04, 2011 @12:36PM (#2288914)

we do that for 233 countries and 32,000 networks: http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&provider...

We also throw away the end-user IP.

Re:Now Open: AWS Region in Tokyo on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @10:23AM (#2279822)

Here's a comparison of various EC2 regions & other providers in the US: http://cedexis.com/data/charts.html?country=223&provider...

Re:Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why? on Thursday January 20, 2011 @05:47PM (#2125647)

Slava (coffeemug) has some excellent thoughts on this subject: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=455008