alanbyrne

I think you need some more info as to how it works. A simple page explaining it or a walkthrough video?

Upvote and comment because I want to see all Show HN's on the front page.

Haha, I appreciate your concern.

I was merely trying to give colorful context to an issue that many people currently face. I haven't a clue what my mothers password is, us IT folk instinctively look away whenever someone is typing in a password (well, if we like them...)

I barely noticed any difference. My personal laptop, work PC and iPad are trusted devices, so I only need to enter the code every 30 days (or when I clear my cookies). I only really need to enter a code when using a different pc such as a hotel kiosk pc when traveling or at a friends house.

So I've been using these tweaks for an hour and I have noticed a large perceivable speed increase.

Let's see what crashes over the next few weeks (Once I've forgotten that I've set these flags and end up swearing at my browser for a few hours)

Pagedown scrolls down the page for me.

Not to mention the fact that the tax payers don't pay Bloomberg a salary to do his job, he does it for free.

Perhaps you can post over at hackful.eu as well (Assuming you've not already done that)

Why are we still creating apps? Can't these optical nuances can be achieved on both devices using HTML5 and CSS3 and run them in the browser of any modern device? (I'm legitimately asking, I don't know the answer)

Another unfortunate example of a US company forgetting that there people outside their own borders with different constraints and requirements.

I'd rather Apple just gave a boat load of money to UK mobile networks to help them upgrade to 4G :)

What's so bad about being a cog?

I work 9-5 for a large company (100,000+ employees). I clock on each day, they pay me a great daily rate and I enjoy the work that I do.

Work doesn't define who I am and I am definitely not unfulfilled. I take French classes, dabble in photography and build the occasional web app. Once a month I take a 3 day weekend and go somewhere I've never been before. So far this year I've been to Switzerland, Belgium, Iceland and I'm shortly off to Madrid. I also enjoy cooking and going to fine restaurants.

The only reason I can afford to do these things is because of the money I receive from my work as a cog. Sure, I could try and grow one of my web app ideas, work a bazillon hours for the small chance that it takes off and I become a millionaire.

But what would I do then? Most likely the exact same things that I am doing now.

I'm not advocating working in a job you hate and avoiding following your dreams. I'm saying that working as a cog allows me to afford my dream, so don't be so quick to bag it.

That is great, well done! I'll be using this a fair bit!

A thing that annoyed me, when I double clicked an object to type text it, it seemed to type the text at the top, rather than the middle of the object. Once I was done editing, it popped to the middle. Not a big deal, but the only negative thing I could find!

I used to have to pull these kind of random hours from time to time whilst working for a global investment bank with hundreds of thousands of employees. I sure as heck didn't get a large share in the company!

But the challenge of solving the problems and finding creative ways to overcome an issue seem like crack to me at that time of the night. As long as it is not a consistent (every night) thing, then I don't mind it at all.

I was.

I recently traveled for 6 months without a data connection on my phone and used the Google Authenticator app without any problems at all. I changed the timezone setting many times too.

> "The total company expenditures since being founded in 2002 through the 2010 fiscal year were less than $800 million which includes all the development costs for the Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon."

Wow. Facebook could have started an entire space program for less money than they spent on Instagram.

My name is Alan Byrne, I work in IT and I'm a password re-user :(

On that note, does anyone know of a secure keysafe app that will sync across my various PCs, iPad and Android phone? This is what is stopping me from going the single use password route.

I've done a similar thing but put them on my colo server. Hopefully getting SSH access in an internet cafe doesn't work out to be too hard.

I agree with the highlight point.

But looks like a great product. Also double kudos for being Europe based, always happy to see us taking on the valley!

I was just wondering the same thing, using the onchange action.

There are also a lot of web sites that store that same access token in plain text cookies...

Well done for discovering the hole and the way you handled it. Glad to see you wearing that white hat!

I work for a big corporation and work from home roughly 4 days a week. I go into the office for that other day just so I have some human interaction (And to make sure the people who sign off on my invoices know I am still around!)

I generally work normal business hours and I am definitely much more productive at home than in the office. A lot of my work involves writing documentation or complex scripts, the types of things where you need to "get in the zone" and all of a sudden you realize 5 hours have passed and you've forgotten to eat. In the office it's hard to focus like that as everyone around you is talking about football scores, people are on conference calls with the speakerphone on etc.

I don't think it works for all types of roles, but for me it doesn't really matter where I am. I work on servers remotely, I dial into conference calls and communication between team mates happens over IM/Email.

I have worked for employers in the past where they had the attitude of "If you're not in the office, you're not working". I think that is a very poor attitude, especially when you are dealing with IT workers who are expected to be on call.

Oh my word yes please! I am not a "mobile device gamer" in any way, but I would definitely start for Larry or SQ

Ha! Wow, this is pretty much exactly how I started. Playing with the numbers in Gorillas to make the Banana blast radius much larger.

The holy grail was to create a "homing banana", but my 10 year old brain couldn't work out the math.

That's really disappointing. It's hard enough trying to get people to trust your app without jokers like this ruining it for the rest of us. I agree with alpb, report it!