Hacker News: nigel182

New comment by nigel182 in "Rewriting my website in plain HTML and CSS"

nigel182 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:22:18 +0000

We've got frames and iframes...

New comment by nigel182 in "Power imbalances and sex"

nigel182 — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:11:21 +0000

Can you elaborate on the very close estimate of mutual vulnerability?

New comment by nigel182 in "Phishing attack uses Unicode characters in domains to clone known safe sites"

nigel182 — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 17:05:04 +0000

Interestingly, Safari doesn't translate https://www.xn--e1awd7f.com but it _does_ translate http://xn--8q8h17eba.ga/ to emoji in the address bar.

Chrome behaves oppositely, showing unicode for https://www.xn--e1awd7f.com/ but not showing emoji for http://xn--8q8h17eba.ga/

New comment by nigel182 in "Ask HN: Do you log your time at work?"

nigel182 — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 18:16:45 +0000

I use http://mydamntime.com of which I am the author. I track time there because it's easy to account for lots of task switching, then transcribe the summary to the company timesheet app at the end if the day.

Note: the mobile interface is very dated. I only use it in desktop.

New comment by nigel182 in "Isomorphic JavaScript, let’s make it easier"

nigel182 — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 07:18:12 +0000

This looks pretty damn good. I'm a little wary though because it makes me remember unfondly the leaky abstractions and blurred line between client and server in ASP.NET webforms. Granted, there is no generated client code here (not counting what webpack compiles from JSX) but I'm suspicious of things that claim to bridge the client/server gap.

New comment by nigel182 in "My favorite interview question"

nigel182 — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 06:42:37 +0000

Judging by the comments here, I would be one of the few people to answer this question honestly. Although I haven't been desperate for a job in a long time, I think an honest discussion around this question would be best for both sides.

New comment by nigel182 in "Apache NiFi"

nigel182 — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:43:19 +0000

It looks like DTS from MS SQL Server. Is it a competing product?

New comment by nigel182 in "Tell HN: How we bootstrapped to the #1 rated mattress on Amazon.com"

nigel182 — Sat, 14 Dec 2013 05:33:27 +0000

Here's a little usability feedback on your site:

I decided that I wanted to buy the bed but I couldn't immediately figure out how. I was looking for a link in the main menu like "Products" or "Beds" and didn't think to click the large "Buy Now" button. I thought it was just me and didn't think much more about it.

Later, I told my wife about the bed and she wanted to check out the website. She had a similar experience. She was wanting to cut to the chase and see a list of products with prices and couldn't figure out how to get there. She didn't think to click the Buy Now button either, because she assumed it was what you clicked when you had things in your cart and were ready to check out. She said if I hadn't been standing there and told her how to click the Buy Now button, she would have just headed to Amazon instead and searched for the bed.

Also, you don't ship to Alaska? I just tried to buy one but I can't.

New comment by nigel182 in "The Great Ivy League Nude Posture Photo Scandal (1995)"

nigel182 — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:35:17 +0000

Or you could interpret is (as I think other replies are suggesting) as men feeling no shame or threat to being nude. I'm not sure how to articulate this but the women may have felt they were "losing" something by being photographed nude. The men probably didn't.