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j03w··on Which has more sales: a single long checkout form or a multi-step one?
I live in Sydney and sometime items coming from Sydney or Melb can take longer than items coming from US
j03w··on The Island Dispute No One Is Talking About
Just came back from Korea and they have ads running on trains that claims about their authority over the said islands since centuries ago and the Japanese illicitly used the island as their naval base in 1905.
j03w··on Fastest way to slice arguments in JavaScript
Could be, I remember reading an article about how using Array.proto.slice on arguments will not get optimised by V8.

https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...

j03w··on "We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."
I think he's Aussie so that's normal.
j03w··on GitHub search for 84600 seconds. Oops.
I think that's timezone offset
j03w··on Google Hangouts system requirements (2GHz dual core)
May be size matters.
j03w··on JSON5 is a proposed extension to JSON
Then you don't need JSON, all you need is the plain old JS object.
j03w··on Sriracha founder reveals the 'secret' wholesale price of his sauce
I often find this one in supermarket in Sydney - http://minichariie.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/img_5044.jpg

As far as the name Sriracha hot sauce is concerned, that is actually the original original. They used to bottled it differently but have changed to this squeeze bottle just recently, probably to compete with the rooster brand.

j03w··on Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different
Sure, but it's not like companies in western world don't make similar mistake. WoW/DB3 have plenty of exploits too. Bad code are produced by everyone regardless the cultural or native language background.
j03w··on Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different
Apart from having Latin-like script I don't think there is much similarity between English and Vietnamese.

Either way, isn't Japan also famous for its engineering prowess? I doubt that country with such high engineering competency will lack talent for web development simply because of the language barrier (if there is actually the lack of talent at all). I'm not saying language barrier doesn't exist but if language barrier didn't prevent them from having companies like Konami, Square Enix, Namco, Bandai, Nintendo or Sony then why would it prevents them to have more web developers?

Ruby was created by a Japanese for that matter.

j03w··on Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter
I'm in Sydney but I'm seeing otherwise. Most if not all of my Chinese friends are using WeChat primarily. Sure they may have WhatsApp installed and use them sometime but if they talk to their Chinese friends it always WeChat.
j03w··on Apple Bought $578M Worth of Sapphire
Have you seen this talk? http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toast...
j03w··on Winter is coming
Would moving overseas help then? Winter in US is summer in downunder.
j03w··on The History of Apple Mice in Pure CSS
What about the prove for usage of contextual menu? I'm pretty sure people use it quite regularly especially when they are browsing the web, editing text in word processor, post processing images with Photoshop or editing video in Final Cut Pro.

I for one, use it everyday to open links in a new tab. Cmd+click doesn't work on every website you know.

j03w··on iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones
May be because it is a bug not vulnerability? Also, if someone with malice intent can get physical access to your phone then may be you will have much more to worry about?
j03w··on Automatically Add Loading Bars to Your Website
I think Chrome Android has this sort of progress bar way before iOS7.