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Comment · 9 years ago
Do you have any plans on making a mobile app? Reminders are most useful on mobile only.
Comment · 9 years ago
Possibly email addresses that won't accept more than 200 plain text chars, so real people get to the point quickly and spam becomes easier to determine.
Comment · 9 years ago
You're absolutely right about this and I can attest. Whenever I tell someone I run my own software business the first question I'm asked is how many employees do I have?

Nobody cares about the revenue of the sites, it's just that if I have more than 10 employees then you're successful. So in India a person making 1 mil / month is less successful than someone who has a company of 10+ employees that is drowning in debt.

Comment · 9 years ago
Makes you wonder why HN won't budge with those <table> tags in the source code. One day I hope to see "Table layouts are back with <table> tags" and the HN programmers would have saved themselves so much work.
Comment · 9 years ago
Not to mention that even AngularJS 1.x still bundles jqLite and switches to full jQuery if you include it first.
Comment · 9 years ago
Congrat on shipping. The game idea is very original and interesting. I will definitely give this a try (forgot to bring my phone today but thanks to the really nice feature of Play store that lets you install apps from browser, it should be installed on my phone already).
Comment · 9 years ago
Just wanted to say thanks for answering in such detail. Your string analogy really helped me understand it quite easily.
Comment · 9 years ago
This is super interesting for someone who has no knowledge of the field. Has my interest piqued as to how they do it, what is number of bases, why do mice have more bases than us, etc. Very nice presentation wise, even if it is incomplete (as other comments state).
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I often store my password using PHP's password_hash('password', PASSWORD_DEFAULT) function. This function has been baked into the language since version 5.0 I think. I'm sure most other languages must have a similar function too, yet so many sites save the password in plain text. Doesn't make any sense.
Comment · 10 years ago
This is a great move. Though I only hope that depositing whatever money you have is easy because all I can imagine now is kilometer long lines at every bank
Comment · 10 years ago
I think there is where the connected version can play an important role. From my understanding it stores everything but the password, so that can keep track of password rules, counters, etc per site.

I think the biggest issue still is what happens when you change your master password? Because I couldn't find an answer for that.

>aside of storing the state somewhere, but if you're doing that, why not just store the password?

Because even if the state information is compromised, it is useless to the attacker. On the other hand, if a password is leaked that can be used to access the account.

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