{"id":155,"date":"2010-05-08T22:07:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2010-05-21T01:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T01:01:56","slug":"autocomplete-observations-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Autocomplete Observations (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most web-browsers now try to autocomplete what is put into the search box. Also, search engines such as Google have built-in calculators\u2014a convenient feature (though <tt>dc<\/tt> is still my usual default for this sort of thing&#8230;). Earlier this evening, I was looking at the UK election results and trying to calculate whether the &#8220;progressive alliance&#8221; of the centre-left being put forward by Alex Salmond would be able to command a majority if it included enough minor parties. I got as far at 258+ when the following autocomplete popped up:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2.tiff\"><img src=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2.tiff\" alt=\"Autocomplete for 258+; gives 258+57\" title=\"2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-156\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo we can use autocomplete to find out what <i>calculations<\/i> are currently popular. It might be interesting to search for other examples and see what events they are linked to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most web-browsers now try to autocomplete what is put into the search box. Also, search engines such as Google have built-in calculators\u2014a convenient feature (though dc is still my usual default for this sort of thing&#8230;). Earlier this evening, I was looking at the UK election results and trying to calculate whether the &#8220;progressive alliance&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}