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Yup, if you're anywhere near Mountain View. :)


One step at a time :)

What you suggest would benefit from the performance/feedback from what the OP suggests.

This is basically what I am interested on working on currently , using "clues" gleaned from what the user is doing (a la RescueTime) to reorganize/reformulate a user's search query.


Let's talk - my e-mail address is in my profile.


I would be happy to chat about this. Please drop me a note. My email is in my profile.


Your e-mail address doesn't seem to be visible in your profile.


You're right. Fixed.


I believe he was referring to Rambo III. :)


There was a reference to the Russian helicopters windshields not being bulletproof in Afghanistan in a sci-fi or geek-y book I read a few years ago. I haven't seen Rambo III, so I know it's not that:) Possibly a Neal Stephenson book? Not sure. Also couldn't find any facts about it online.


you'd need to know where 'Q' was , absolutely , for you to know where "W" , "E" , "R" , "T" and "Y" were relative to that.

But pretty cool idea though ...


Why do you need absolute positions? Just see if the finger tapping the table is extended up/forward relative to other finger(s).


how would the computer know which key your finger was on to figure out what keys are relative to that finger?


You could assume that the non-thumb fingers of a hand span at most two rows and that one of these is the "home" row.

When you detect a tap visually, you could then infer which row that finger tapped by looking at where the other non-thumb fingers are.


i dont understand , are we still talking about a qwerty keyboard? or a special kind with just two rows, one of which is a "home" row that is placed wherever certain fingers are?


This would work with three rows, with the home row being the middle one.


apology for what?

He's providing a free service that you tried and didn't like.


I'm a customer, a potential user of duck duck go; he didn't build it out of charity. By making it TERRIBLE, he is alienating me. He also wasted my time.


a service that suggests twitter usernames? something like domainr.com


IQ in unequivocal terms ...

Thats your problem right there ...


I find that stackoverflow.com generally has very good answers about stuff like best practices.


I'd be interested in lifetagg.com if you dont see a use for it anymore ...

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letsdrive.us -> for a carpool solution

neighbourly.org -> for a craigslist+maps mashup.


Interested in neighbourly.org: [dylans]at[gmail.com]


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