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Tell HN: Somebody implemented something I wrote a blog about
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#42Bravo!!! Such a simple (and more secure) change to the way 2FA works. This should be the standard and also mandatory in many similar cases. Good for you and for sharing this improvement, that’s the mentality all of us should have. Reminds me on how Volvo shared the 3 point safety belt patent with everyone else so as to make all cars safer, instead of keeping it to themselves I order to profit [ https://www.forbes.com…
Re: Volvo's good deed -- In contrast, Edward Land (the Polaroid camera guy) came up with a system for polarizing car headlights and windshields to lessen glare from oncoming headlights in 1948. Apparently, none of the car manufacturers implemented it because there was nothing to gain financially from such a safety feature.
https://www.polarization.com/land/land.html
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#43Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding. I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted. At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer suppor…
i still see this behavior in firefox. the save password popup disappears by the time the page is loaded. and it baffles me every time how that is supposed to be useful.
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#44Such a great idea! I filed a feature request on our GH issues list to implement this: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-issues/issues/1888
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#45I had a similar experience and it certainly made my day! I wrote some code to parse nested JSON and fill a hole in a tutorial. Here's my relevant post: https://bcmullins.github.io/parsing-json-python/.
Here's the plug for the project using my code: https://github.com/sinnfeinn/microweather.
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#46It's a nice courtesy from the product authors/implementors. Not only it's polite, it also acknowledges your contribution to the idea, not sure to which extent it is formally.
All in all it is a great feeling to see your idea getting a concrete life. In a way, reporting an issue and a possible improvement to any product you care about is an essence of collaboration. Open source further helps to contribute by augmenting such effort with a skill to implement it.
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#47Years back, every web browser's built-in password manager locked up the page when submitting a login form, waiting for the user to answer "do you want to save this password?" before proceeding. I thought that was silly: how do I know if I want to save the password before I've seen whether it's correct? Which I can't see until the form is submitted. At the time I was using Opera, so I wrote in to their customer suppor…
This still sometimes happens on iOS Safari. I don’t know what is different about the pages where it happens, but it’s annoying.
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#48That’s awesome. I was expecting a lament on how an amazing startup idea was stolen and monetized by someone else. Glad I’m wrong and the world is a little bit better.
Same here. Came to say the same and to explain how i publicly share all my 'great' ideas publicly even though so many friends think I'm nuts in case someone 'steals it' and makes a successful startup from my idea.
My answer: "Great for them. At least they had the determination and focus to follow through with bringing the idea to fruition when I couldn't."
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#49That’s awesome. I was expecting a lament on how an amazing startup idea was stolen and monetized by someone else. Glad I’m wrong and the world is a little bit better.
Same here. Came to say the same and to explain how i publicly share all my 'great' ideas publicly even though so many friends think I'm nuts in case someone 'steals it' and makes a successful startup from my idea. My answer: "Great for them. At least they had the determination and focus to follow through with bringing the idea to fruition when I couldn't."
People tend to overvalue ideas. I see this all the time in writing where people are worried someone will steal their great idea for a story. The truth of the matter is that it’s unlikely that you’ve come up with something truly new and in any event, ideas tend to breed and multiply. I will never write all the stories and novels that I have jotted down in my notebook before I die and there are more every day.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. Came to say the same and to explain how i publicly share all my 'great' ideas publicly even though so many friends think I'm nuts in case someone 'steals it' and makes a successful startup from my idea. My answer: "Great for them. At least they had the determination and focus to follow through with bringing the idea to fruition when I couldn't."
People tend to overvalue ideas. I see this all the time in writing where people are worried someone will steal their great idea for a story. The truth of the matter is that it’s unlikely that you’ve come up with something truly new and in any event, ideas tend to breed and multiply. I will never write all the stories and novels that I have jotted down in my notebook before I die and there are more every day.
On that note though, is there a way to protect your story if you want to pitch it to a publisher, or anywhere else ? Like a registry for story ideas ?