Wait, Google Sent Me • Hacker News Board

jfoster wrote: post #8

It would be nice if Google could make some of the Chrome permissions a bit more fine-grained. This one needs to "read and change your data on all websites", but with a better extensions architecture could be something much less scary like "read and change your data on the current website whenever you click the extension's icon".

Yeah, especially that last part. It would be great if all permissions started with "Upon page load..." or "Upon clicking the extension icon..."

Re: Wait, Google Sent Me

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Post by k-mcgrady » Tue, May 12, 2015, 3:17 PM UTC

joshtaku wrote: post #11

I think it's funny that Jeremy made this considering his background.

I was curious so I googled him and saw he created Coffeescript, backbone.js and underscore.js. Is there part of his background I'm missing that makes this funny. Seriously I don't get it and it's bugging me :)

Re: Wait, Google Sent Me

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Post by joshtaku » Tue, May 12, 2015, 3:18 PM UTC

k-mcgrady wrote: post #16

joshtaku wrote: post #11

I think it's funny that Jeremy made this considering his background.

I was curious so I googled him and saw he created Coffeescript, backbone.js and underscore.js. Is there part of his background I'm missing that makes this funny. Seriously I don't get it and it's bugging me :)

The backbone.js stuff was during NYT work if I recall.

Re: Wait, Google Sent Me

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Post by austenallred » Tue, May 12, 2015, 3:18 PM UTC

joshtaku wrote: post #11

I think it's funny that Jeremy made this considering his background.

Is he not still at the New York Times?

Re: Wait, Google Sent Me

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Post by toxicFork » Tue, May 12, 2015, 3:19 PM UTC

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #13

So change useragent to googlebot?

No: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531943

Re: Wait, Google Sent Me

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Post by k-mcgrady » Tue, May 12, 2015, 3:20 PM UTC

joshtaku wrote: post #17

k-mcgrady wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was curious so I googled him and saw he created Coffeescript, backbone.js and underscore.js. Is there part of his background I'm missing that makes this funny. Seriously I don't get it and it's bugging me :)

The backbone.js stuff was during NYT work if I recall.

Ah ok, that is pretty funny.