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vivekjishtuon The vision behind Opera 15 and beyond

They should have just named it "<New Browser Name>" by Opera. It would set the expectations right. When its the same name and a higher version number with most of the features missing it just alienates the existing users.

This would give time to add new features to the new browser while keeping the existing users happy with what they already have. The existing users would not crib about missing that one obscure feature that no one else uses.

In the current scenario the power users who normally jump to the next version end up missing the features they are used to. The best example in this case would be Phoenix/Firefox which rose from the ashes of Mozilla Suite. The stripped out all the fat and made a lean browser. What happened to Firefox after version 4 is another story.

vivekjishtuon Data compression proxy for Chrome for Android (beta)

Yes Opera Mobile has the turbo mode which is similar to this technology http://www.opera.com/turbo where it proxies the connection and compresses the data.

Opera Mini on the other hand uses OBML http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-binary-markup-langu... which is an entirely different thing.

vivekjishtuon Show HN: After a couple of months playing with the Reddit API, I built this...

I had made something similar a while back. http://pics.fefoo.com/

vivekjishtuon Ask HN: Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From?

Just saw a video about something similar about how we normally talk to a real person compared to someone online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwwHa-7Ux8

vivekjishtuon Chrome 19 doesn't respect basic auth details embedded in the URL

What if I send it over https https://foo:bar@dump.ansman.se/basic-auth/foo? I don't think it should be insecure in this case.

vivekjishtuon Poll: How long have you been programming?

Nibbles and Gorillas was the first piece of code that I saw and was amazed how it worked. It taught me why we need to use functions and subs. And as a 13 year old it was fascinating to understand those concepts.

And most of the programming I learnt was from the snippets of code in the QBasic help files.

vivekjishtuon Poll: How long have you been programming?

QBasic on a 80386 and I was 13 when I started.

vivekjishtuon Use Vim with Google Docs

Its returning a 404 here is the content from Google Cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.mi...

vivekjishtuon Show HN: We made an addictive way to browse pictures on reddit

http://pics.fefoo.com/

I had made something similar a while back.

vivekjishtuon Are you a programmer with chronic headaches? If so please read

The only problem I see with lenses is the constant cleaning and the extra care that they require.

vivekjishtuon Are you a programmer with chronic headaches? If so please read

Even I was suffering from headaches for a few months and then I went to the optician and was prescribed to wear glasses.

Am still trying to get used to wearing them. And the first time I wore my glasses everything seemed so much clearer.

vivekjishtuon Google Video shutting down, disabling public downloads on April 29

I ran into the same problem. There is no download link. They should have an option to directly upload it to youtube.

UPDATE: Finally figured out a way to download the video, incase you don't see the download link. Find the "cid" from the "Edit Video Info>>" link and paste it in this url http://www.google.com/video/upload/DownloadVideo?cid=[video_...

vivekjishtuon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

Where is it located in India?

vivekjishtuon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

I think you forgot to post a url.

vivekjishtuon BreakDOM

Something similar http://justbenicestudio.com

vivekjishtuon Open-source, JavaScript JSON HTML viewer released

There is a bug while parsing http://reddit.com/.json It is unable to render it.

vivekjishtuon Ask HN: Tell me about your failed startup.

Not really a failure since I still believe in the idea and use it. But the project has been a failure as I was unable to get it across to the users.

I started with http://fefoo.com some 4 years back and finally launched it one and half year ago. I got some good initial feedback but almost very little coverage in blogs or twitter.

I completely failed in promoting it to the target audience. Since it looks like Google the comparison would inevitably come up and most "bloggers" would not even give it a second chance. It was for people who use more than one search engine, but without the right promotion and zero marketing skills it almost never got any coverage.

Its still not dead but I am keeping it alive as I use it and a few hundred people seem to use it.

vivekjishtuon Ask HN: Where can I find people to review a web service?

Thanks, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for.

- Will probably add an overlay for first time user.

- Have changed it to :help

- The main reason why I started with fefoo was to make sure that I don't have to remember search engines. There are at least 5 different source code search engines, but I doubt any one knows any other engines except Google Code Search. With fefoo you only need to figure out that you are searching for source code and you have 5 different source code search engines to choose from. Same goes for the 40 other search categories there. If a music site like Seeqpod closes down you still have 10 other music search engines to choose from.

- With the toolbar its easy to search on multiple search engines. You don't have to type the search query again and again. But I guess that needs to be specified in the overlay the first time a user searches for anything.

- The back button should work on Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE but I would need to test it again.

- I fully agree about the part about the documentation.

- As for monetization I made the application for my own use and there is hardly any cost for me to run it. It might look like a server side application but the whole thing is made in JavaScript and once you visit the website it gets cached on the browser and works from there. This not only increases the speed but also gives you access to all the 200+ search engines. Even if you set it as the homepage it will not take more than the about:blank page to load. It acts like an extension for your browser.

vivekjishtuon Ask HN: Where can I find people to review a web service?

Thanks for the information, will post it on Launchly and Usefultoos. Posting the links directly on HN seemed a bit spamming and wanted to stay away from it.

vivekjishtuon Ask HN: Where can I find people to review a web service?

The problem with my text is that it almost sounds like an infomercial :P

Since am not very good with words, the service ends up looking like a cheap copy of Yubnub and Ubiquity.

vivekjishtuon Ask HN: Where can I find people to review a web service?

The website is http://fefoo.com/

Add-on for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12886

Ways to add it to other browsers http://fefoo.com/add2browser