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jgaxnon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

The iPhone user experience for messaging with Android users (especially MMS) is awful and the Android users in the group chat get blamed for it. Having blue text bubbles show up when someone texts you can be seen in some circles as a status symbol.

jgaxnon Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?

As a self-taught, formerly inexperienced programmer, my advice to you is to apply. In the early stages of a programming career, you want to try to get a job you're underqualified for. That's where you will grow the most. Don't be scared off by what it says in the job posting. I've never met all the qualifications of any job I've ever gotten.

jgaxnon Ask HN: How do I get a job abroad?

Europe, generally. England and France more specifically. Other first-world countries (Australia, New Zealand) also considered.

jgaxnon Ask HN: How do I get a job abroad?

Yes. Looking at it, it has a listing of jobs in non-US countries looking specifically for foreign (including US) workers in my field. At a glance I saw multiple jobs that I would be interested in applying for.

jgaxnon Ask HN: How do I get a job abroad?

Hey thanks! That looks like an extremely useful site.

jgaxnon Improving the Experience When Relationships End

I once received a Facebook notification on my phone when my ex-girlfriend got engaged. If this had been in place then I might have been able to avoid that temporary kick in the gut.

jgaxnon Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked

Nice try, CIA.

jgaxnon F*** those popups – signing up those who deserve it

Navigating away from the page, although there was no interaction on the popup that would have kept them on the site so they left entirely.

It should be noted that the traffic to that site at that point was nearly 100% search traffic looking for a specific data point and the content on the page was tables of data, not an article. I would assume that a site with an engaging article would have a much smaller bounce rate.

jgaxnon F*** those popups – signing up those who deserve it

We ran a test of info-gathering popups on one of my sites a little while back. We split tested using various triggers.

popup after 5 seconds:

- 73.5% left the page without closing the popup.

popup after 10 seconds:

- 75.8% left the page without closing the popup.

popup triggered when the user scrolled near the bottom of the page:

- 21.5% left the page without closing the popup.

The scroll trigger was pretty useless though because only 2.6% of users scrolled low enough to trigger it.