I configured Reddit as a "Lense" (similar to what Kagi uses for things like searching across Forums, or news). With that, now I have a simple toggle at the top of Kagi which allows me to immediately turn a search into a Reddit search.
I did the same and added a custom bang so I can use it from the address bar directly (!r pointing at https://kagi.com/search?q=%s&l=8 where 8 is the lens id).
Probably least a third of my queries are preceded by an !r now. A third of the rest are now question mark queries that activates their AI fast answer. It's like the google info box on steroids since it can answer any query and it works with lenses to restrict the fast answer to specific domains.
By the way, you don't have to manually add a custom bang and point it to your lens id, you can configure a bang for the lens directly in the settings of your lens
It took me way too long to start using Lenses. I've been a Kagi user for a while now, but lenses never really seemed that useful. The unlock for me is that I'm often looking for 3D models, so I added one for all the usual 3D model suspects (Thangs, Printables, etc).
Thats the best way, because then what you're looking for gets surfaced rather organically, and its right there, so you don't have to go out of your way to find it.
Generally I've started using bangs and lenses for changing searches in a wholly categorical manner. I.e. the !i bang for image search.
I did change the !p bang from podcasts to activating the programming lens, because programming tends to have a lot of terms that overlap with more general language, and so sometimes its nice to swap in and out of that mode.
I experienced this just the other day. My father was looking at a price in his computer that I couldn't get (I was getting one that was $500 extra). I erased the cookies of the AA site, refreshed (exactly the same flights, the same days, everything the same) and bam! $500 dollars cheaper.
I met the creator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus) the other day, and he LOVES to micro-optimize. He's a genius, and made a vere light uTorrent (it was supposed to be a really light bittorrent client) and then he sold it to bittorrent and stopped developing it (and that's why it stopped being lightweight).
But isn't that just between Stripe and the company requesting payment?
e.g: Acme, Inc. sends Stripe your CC#, Stripe sends them some unique token, and they store that; correct?
So Stripe still has your CC#, and is at risk.
So this is really just risk mitigation; what I think TP is suggesting we need is unique authorizations at the banking level.
Something on the order of virtual credit cards, or temporary tokens, which are ultimately verified by your bank [or in other words: the lender(s) making anti-fraud guarantees, etc.]
(e.g: this token is authorized for 24 hours up to this limit; this token is authorized indefinitely up to $xx/mo.; this token is authorized for 1 year; etc.)
No. Customer sends Stripe their CC number, via AJAX in the browser. Acme, Inc. never has it even transiently. Stripe return a token to the browser, which is sent in a POST to Acme, Inc., then they verify it server side with a private API key.
Edit: yes Stripe has your number, but since their sole business is about securing that information, they probably do a better job of it than your typical online merchant.
I don't have JoC 2e yet, but I've read several other Manning books (including the first edition of JoC) on my e-ink Kindle and they looked good. You lose a little formatting and sometimes particularly wide tables or code samples get screwed up, but that's the nature of reflowed text and multiple target devices.
Yeah, they seem to be static images stored on the server, rather than generated dynamically via, say, Google Search. Personally I would have gone via that route. Have the word "kitten" and the pixel size as parameters, and serve a random photo out of the first 50 results.
This would mean no caching, so your computer would have to download the image every time, even if it was the same as one you'd already seen.
Unless you're only using these images for client demos, it can be very slow and frustrating waiting for them to load every time you refresh while trying to do html, css or js tweaks.
I'm also not a lawyer, but I think you'd have a very hard time litigating for user-contributed content that has no creative value and is publicly available for download.
