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Joseph Smarr
Personal blog · josephsmarr.com · on HN as jsmarrwebstartupscareer
Joseph Smarr's personal blog at josephsmarr.com covers web, startups and career. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread about Qpicker, a tool for choosing titles from a Netflix queue. The one comment explains OAuth login, where the user authenticates with Netflix, and does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on web development, tech, and life.
What Hacker News says?
Hi marcc, actually it is done correctly and that is how OAuth works. In order to get the user access token the user has to first login to authenticate they are the rightful owner of the account and then grant access to the application. In our case, we could have sent the user to Netflix to login or we could have asked for the credentials on Qpicker and sent the details to Netflix who handles the authentication/acces…
Comment linking /2008/10/01/using-netflixs-new-api-a-step-by-step-guide/
on “Tons of movies in your Netflix Que? What to watch? Qpicker can help.”Submitted Scaling deepdream to run on 8'+ panoramic landscapes (tech + gallery) as a story · 6 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Joseph Smarr joins Google as a story · 3 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Implementing the Open Web (Web 2.0 Expo New York) as a story · 1 points
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