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jimleion Ask HN: Why don't browsers extend “This site wants your location” to all data?

How is the law in your country for cookie handling? In Norway we have no laws actually requiring web sites to have popups like that but they still use them for some reason.

jimleion Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production

Wondering about this myself, going to write up a tutorial soon for people I know who use Windows. Last time I tried Docker for Windows it broke VirtualBox completely (just had to disable Hyper-V). Might be an easy fix for that though, didn't spend any time investigating

jimleion Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production

> Can I run any linux-based container on Windows?

No, on windows you still have to run a Linux vm which the containers will run inside. Meaning all containers actually run on a Linux host. The new Docker for Windows app only abstract away some stuff so it feels easier working with.

> does it work the other way around

jimleion Ask HN: Describing skills and competencies in a resume?

If you want/need a new job I'd tailor it for whatever I felt would be easiest to land while still being interesting enough to consider.

If you're not really looking I'd tailor it for whatever job I'd really really want. You never know, but even if that dream job isn't available a CV like that will emphazise what you're truly passionate about. It might lead to something great

jimleion Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37D2bRsthfI

jimleion Turn your PC upside down to boot into Linux (2003)

Well, "quite slow" is of course subjective. But compared to 10+ years ago standards it's barely noticeable today. It seems to be mostly an issue with GPU virtualization. So if you plan your hardware and set it up right (pci passthrough) you can get very good performance, even in a VM. To see it (over)done, check out Linus Tech Tips

2 Gaming Rigs, 1 Tower - Virtualized Gaming Build Log https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJYMCbIbPk

7 Gamers 1 CPU is back! But does it ACTUALLY work!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opX-AsJ5Uy8

jimleion Bitcointalk Server Compromised

He got it back like a month later. Just browse back in N's twitter feed (late february 2014)

jimleion Norwegian butter crisis (2011)

Not as I recall, we made our own butter during the "crisis". At least kt was possible to get (full?) cream

jimleion Norwegian butter crisis (2011)

Yeah I remember this, we just made our own butter. Shared a butter recipe on my facebook wall - instant hero.

jimleion Learn AngularJS

React even say themselves they're just the V in MVC. Angular is full stack. What you need and which is best is probably up to yourself to answer. I personally found it nice that angular is a working framework, instead of having to piece together a framework myself using react++

jimleion Learn AngularJS

The part about "not compatible" is simply not true. You will be able to use angular 1 and angular 2 in the same app.

jimleion What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money

I would download a car, a handbag, a television and a ten dollar bill if I could.

edit: just kidding - I'd probably download a parking lot worth of cars

jimleion What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money

They mention this was "discovered three years ago", but I was sure I remembered this from years back.

"Adobe adds algorithms to Photoshop that prevent users from opening or printing scanned money. While we've been aware of this feature for quite a while" Posted by Craig Swanson on May 14, 2006 07:03 PM http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/how_to_use_scanned_money_in_...

edit: seems to be more info here, from 2004. Latest Photoshop version contains anti-counterfeit measures http://www.geek.com/news/latest-photoshop-version-contains-a...

jimleion Show HN: Add “Magic” to Your Business

I actually do like this concept. I've always found it cumbersome that online support is a live session where either one of you can get disconnected at any time, or that you might get occupied and can't finish the session there and then. Sonar easily solves that, while giving me the possibility to just pick up "messages" on my phone and ask them something out of the blue later on.

jimleion Super easy project planning and estimation

Yeah I could see this function well if you have some option to set all tasks on the same level. Atm it feels kind of confusing though, and especially the "bubbling". I made this structure, then added an estimation to subtask 2-1-1, and all the other estimations were filled in. I didn't understand at all what was going on at first and thought I had hit a bug.

http://s12.postimg.org/xth7k6fi5/Screenshot_from_2015_02_01_...

jimleion Ask HN: Where do you see web and desktop apps in 5 years?

Going totally off topic here, but if you're willing to try something different than iOS then have a look at the Sony Xperia Z3 compact. Small (by todays huge standards) but packs a good punch in specs :)

jimleion Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

Won't complain FOSS/OSS has its drawbacks, but everything has two sides.

I might be a strange case, but I just have this feeling "real" companies spend their $$$ on meetings in Bahamas and Ferraris, while FOSS/OSS would be more open to security audits/etc.

A company with money on the line can (also) easily be shut down or aquired. I imagine a FOSS/OSS team would be demanding more guarantees for the future of the project, while "in it for the money" companies would take the check and not give a damn if it was shut down the same day.

"Real" companies often seem to push releases/features (prematurely?) to attract new customers. That the new features pass review/QA doesn't necessarily mean they are implemented right (goto fail?). In addition FOSS/OSS have public bug trackers, I'd rather know there are x number of bugs labeled "security" in my os, than not beeing told at all.

Support can (should?) be where open source make money, there are lots of FOSS/OSS projects out there offering paid support/installations/sass.

And the unknown collection of open source developers _may_ be a much better collection of security specialists/coders than in the "real" company. As most of FOSS/OSS is done voluntarily you don't have to pay huge paychecks for top of the line expertise.

Bottom line, I trust Debian (& co) and Mozilla. I don't trust Microsoft, Apple and Google.

This is 100% biased as to what I think. I understand that this is a two sided issue, and fully understand people who think like you sketched out. I'm just not one of those people :P

jimleion Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft

Why do you assume paid software is more reliable?

jimleion Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users

Android clients exist for both keepass v1 and keepass v2 :)

jimleion 71 TiB DIY NAS Based on ZFS on Linux

I used FreeNAS with ZFS before but was put off by their HW recommendations at around 1GB ECC ram for each TB storage space. They do say home users can soften this up, whatever that means.

Are they totally wrong, do they have some kind of special implementation that requires lots of ram not to fail, or are you just not worried about it?

ref: http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Hardware_Recommendations

jimleion Ask HN: What programming font do you use?

I think the default fonts work great so I have never changed the font of the editor(s) I use. Am I weird?

jimleion Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?

Buy a wireless charger, trust me it is worth every single dollar (not that expensive for a cheap qi charger on ebay anyway).

I have one at my workstation at home and one at work, and never have to find the cable to charge my phone. Which also mean I'll never wear out the charging socket :)

jimleion Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?

No, I don't want a smartwatch.

First of all it doesn't help they are in their infant stage (meaning: they suck), I also don't feel the huge need to be even more connected than I am today.

In fact I am doing the opposite. I'm trying to leave my phone more often as it takes away my attention at times when I should give attention to other things / people.

I find it's kinda rude when I'm at a dinner or meeting and people sit there watching their own little screen instead of actually beeing part of what's going on in the real world.

I'm guessing another screen won't make it any better.

jimleion Ask HN: Is coding a passion or just work?

Should be a passion, when a developer go into "get by to pay the bills" mode he/she should get restructured to a new project or whatever else can spark their passion again.

Me? Passion. I work from 7 to 15 and code on hobby projects / play with new languages/frameworks almost daily after that.

jimleion SSH Kung Fu

Why not use the more common "no"?

jimleion How not to write an API

You mean like Symfony, Laravel, etc? Frameworks that a lot of PHP developers use these days...