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Cool. For even more privacy, you could generate the PDF client-side.
Asking as a self-taught not-so-advanced-yet guy wanting to build a similar I/O web app: Could you elaborate a bit on how client-side transformation/ generation could be achieved?
"We take privacy seriously" With an unencrypted service, without any way for others to audit your code, without even basic contact info and with a misleading company name... Who are you kidding? Is that some sort of social science experiment?
"We take privacy seriously" With an unencrypted service, without any way for others to audit your code, without even basic contact info and with a misleading company name... Who are you kidding? Is that some sort of social science experiment?
Take it easy. Let's encourage others and give feedback, not nerd rage on them for releasing their first web app.
I mean unless someone personally know the author how can you tell this isn't a guy phishing for personnal data and posing as a newbie? Here more than everywhere else we should not take privacy statement at face value. And even if he's honestly wrong, lake of encryption mean this really isn't as secure as claimed.
I find it confusing, especially in the middle of the Hilary e-mail stuff that so much HN commenters are so forgiving about a serious flaw.
Of course I understood that there is a lots of irony in some comments. So sorry to be captain obvious. But I'm not sure given the context that irony is more serving than a plain and brutal reminder.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Consider replacing "We take privacy seriously" with "I take privacy seriously". There's some tension between wanting to be taken seriously ("we" makes it sound like there is a team supporting the product) and using the correct pronoun number for a single author. I see the appeal of using the royal "we" everywhere, even when there is only one person behind the project, because at least then the pronouns don't need t…
Yeah, I'd be very curious to hear what people think about this. Is it better to us "I" or "We" when running a site yourself? And does the answer change depending on the type of site?
Gooogle takes your privacy seriously.
"I, Sergei, takes you privacy seriously." Not as convincing.
++kudos for that. Simple, yet effective. Does one thing, but does it well. I was impressed that when I didn't fill in the "Organization" field, it left it out of the PDF completely. I sort of had the expectation that it would create an empty box in the PDF. But it didn't, that shows that you thought about it. Any chance you can share some information on what you used to build this? One piece of feedback though: The "…
Came here to say exactly the same thing. Other than that, 5 stars. =)
* There seems to be no tag on the page, or at least I don't see a title for the page.
* When the browser downloads the output, it is served to it as a "binary file" (Firefox on Mac), not PDF, meaning I have no other option than to download it. I think (though I'm not sure) that if you set the content type correctly it could open straight in a new tab, or at least let me open it straight in a PDF viewer.
* The paper format looks a bit off to me, I guess it's because it's letter? In that case, not everyone uses that (we use A4), though lettings users set it would increase UI complexity.
Wtf. 1st in the HN? Is this a joke I don't get?
Perhaps readers are happy to see something about a hacker hacking than the latest Elon-love-fest or continued Apple drama or discussion of SF real estate.
Nice work! Would you be interested in sharing anything interesting you used or learned while making this? These are the kinds of posts that made me fall in love with HN over 2535 day ago.
> These are the kinds of posts that made me fall in love with HN over 2535 day ago. And are sadly relatively rare these days :(
It's so much easier to open up Ms Word, have a template by your choice, and export as PDF. I don't get it guys. Super nice domain occupied for a trivial thing... edit: Maybe an OK solution if you don't have Ms Word. But, almost all text editors can export as PDF anyway..