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gorm··on China mall introduces 'husband storage' pods for shopping wives
I give her my honest opinion, unless I see on her face that she likes or or dislikes it, then I support her, but the interest in her clothing is a bit faked. Obviously I love her just as much whatever she wears. And yes it works well ;)
gorm··on China mall introduces 'husband storage' pods for shopping wives
The only sane thing to do is to find the chair that is always close to the dressing room, sit down and read HN, and whenever she exists the dressing room I put down the phone and make a remark that signals I'm deeply interested, then I give her some advice. Then repeat. Pro tip: Remember to bring a charger or extra batteries.
gorm··on Ask HN: Should I create a clone of a popular SaaS with rock-bottom pricing?
If you want to communicate trust I would think hard about using a clown in marketing.

I think I understand what you want to communicate, but it reminds me more of something suitable for marketing a used car sale at jaw dropping prices.

If trust is what you want to communicate it should also be visible in the design of your web site. That means focus on details and optimization here and there.

E.g. you should check how many visited your site with a mobile phone today and see if you can spend some time on optimizing the first inoression. Also remember that users who come to your site might have other ideas on what is important. For instance maybe you should try to give your logo a little bit less prominent space and don't scroll it back into the view because it's annoying. Also optimize the page so that the call to action and testimony now beneath is visible and above the fold.

I would also focus on the value you provide to your customers and not only that you are affordable.

One issue I have with Indian companies are that they are not too good with their workers. I have heard a few stories. So maybe something that would assure me you are good with them, if you are, would be nice to see there.

Best of luck!

gorm··on An Opinionated React Progressive Web App Repository
There is no reason these apps could not run without javascript with proper universal webapp support and declarative offline support.

My point is that they are not very progressive when they fail to run without javascript, independent of what name Google marketing team put on this bad practice.

gorm··on An Opinionated React Progressive Web App Repository
Doesn't seem to work with javascript turned off.

In earlier days this was first sign of being progressive, but new generation of developers doesn't seem to care about this?

gorm··on Ask HN: Single Person startup/company?
Around 1% of users run without js. If you have a commercial site you will loose money and users if you don't think about this.
gorm··on 21: An Open Source Library for the Machine-Payable Web
Does anyone know if 21 has solved the transaction fee problem for micropayments with btc?
gorm··on FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure
Wow!

Legal Terms

© 2016 Microsoft. All rights reserved.

gorm··on Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World
If you want to experience real travel on a budget, cycling is the way to go. You would be surprised how many people cycle the silk road between Europe and Asia. I know some guys who has been doing this for many years, just going home to work a year in Europe when money runs out.
gorm··on Vivaldi 1.2 release
You seem to ignore the binary blob extensions e.g. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/not-ok-google-chromi...

Also chrome integrates with service that Are closed source. Eg forsync

gorm··on Vivaldi 1.2 release
Yea, its alot quicker to develop and experiment with new features.
gorm··on Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” (2011)
I actually posted this link because I found pagination by relnext underused while implementing fast forward (with space support) in the Vivaldi browser.

If it's not present we start, like opera did, analyzing links, which is a little messy.

gorm··on Show HN: Free Company Logo API
Great work! Very useful :)
gorm··on “Implement text editor DOM updates manually instead of via React”
From an user experience this optimization seems to have little effect I would guess. When you type, 2ms isn't noticeable. But it's a sign of good engineering and focus on details.
gorm··on Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends
Most of the UI is based on React. But we use a lot of open source projects. If you run it you should visit vivaldi://credits
gorm··on Apple promises fix 'very soon' for Macs with failed encryption
It's just silly stupid. But you can get social with a friend, then turn on your personal hotspots and connect your iPhones to install security update. Sort of like a LAN party.
gorm··on Vimperator - Make Firefox look and behave like Vim
Does pentadactly support Firefox 26? Used it before, but it no longer seems supported.
gorm··on New Vulnerability Found in Apps Using Wi-Fi
I was at their presentation earlier today. Maybe not a big thing, but I liked their conclusion. they demonstrated a mitm-proxy that gave 301s so that ignorant native apps loaded and cached external trusted resources. They also mentioned using malicious iphone profiles with new certificates or configured proxy. Demoed also using faked captive network, maybe also with pineapple/wifigate

Thy also claimed many apps had this vulnerability. They also said it was easy to fix. Think about caching in native clients, and ignore 301s in native apps. They didn't mention 302s

More info here http://www.skycure.com/blog/http-request-hijacking/

gorm··on Javascript apps can be fully crawlable
Very cool, but something I don't get:

- Try to go to prerender.io, press "Install It -> Ruby on rails". Now it loads the ruby on rails example.

- Then go all the way down and change to "Prerendereed content". Pressing "Install It -> Ruby on rails" doesn't do anything now.

Shouldn't it render the same content? "Add the middleware gem to your Gemfile..." and so on.

gorm··on Why cards are the future of the web
It's just encapsulation of content, sort of similar to the old 2004 apple widgets that you could flip around.
gorm··on Google Maps for Android lose offline Maps - seriously?
It's great for traveling in other countries when roaming charges are high
gorm··on Parental benefits and paternity leave in Norway
It was on the top when I posted this, but suddenly disappeared from the frontpage after this was posted. It was a response to this Yahoo PR post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5642705
gorm··on Parental benefits and paternity leave in Norway
It's another side of it, but actually most Norwegians think their system is unique (at least to Nordic countries), and are not aware of the similar system in countries like Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium and so on.

http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/parent-leave...

gorm··on Ask HN: Which developer laptop should I buy?
The problem with some of the above is ram. I think 4gb is too little if you spin up virtual machines while developing. The previous version of Zenbook had support for 8gb, but now only 4gb?
gorm··on Kim Dotcom's back with a new 50GB free storage service: Mega
> That said, Mega's also claims that their service saves room on its over-burdened servers by keeping a single copy of identical files How do they do that if they don't know their users' password? Good question. We don't know the answer.

How can they do this and still keep information about the file unavailable?

gorm··on Average age of StackExchange users for each tag
Thanks, didn't show on my android with opera mobile
gorm··on Average age of StackExchange users for each tag
Does anyone know which service he is running this on? There is no logo on the overload page. Ty
gorm··on How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
Norway is a rather egalitarian country compared to the US and people seems to trust each other more and one theory is that this makes us more vaccinated for populist politics. I have this from the book "The Spirit Level" [1].

Also the political system is based on pluralism so there is a built in conservatism in the system that will cause changes to take time. However, changes will come and this is a big eye-opener for many people.

When the bomb exploded I was sitting on work around 30m away. I remember the day well, it was very quiet because it was in the middle of the summer vacation and we were only 3 people working in the "Web Department" of the central government, which usually have 26 people on work.

I was working on testing the software behind https://go.usa.gov/ which is based on Drupal and I was struggling with it, working late. Short story, I suddenly was on the floor 2m away from my desk and when I looked around I was shocked to see that all my colleagues offices was blown in with papers, desk and computers laying all around. Luckily my office was facing the backside and the blast threw me away from the blown in window and I was fine again after some weeks.

Anyway, one year has past and these are now only memories.

I have visited the State Departement in Washington and seen the security messures in place there. It's really not comperable to Norway in any way, but Norway is living in the same world and I hope we can keep things as open as possible. Maybe in the future I can someday be as trusting again as I were when I was hacking Drupal back on the 22. July 2011.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level:_Why_More_Equa...

gorm··on Step by step from jQuery to Backbone
Very nice article! Thanks!
gorm··on EU Commissioner Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By EU Parliament
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_Europ...
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