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New comment by grannyg00se in "Now, I can see wifi signals"

grannyg00se — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 03:43:19 +0000

I found a great explanation from the reddit link that rawnlq posted.

http://www.reddit.com/user/Seventytvvo

New comment by grannyg00se in "Now, I can see wifi signals"

grannyg00se — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 01:35:28 +0000

Why is there so much variation in strength from such a small change of position?

New comment by grannyg00se in "A 12-Hour Window for a Healthy Weight"

grannyg00se — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 16:39:38 +0000

If you're looking to work on your eating practice, I suggest eating when you're hungry and only when you're hungry. Don't eat at any particular time of day. Make sure you're truly hungry. Some of us don't even know what that feels like anymore because we eat so often.

As a further challenge, try to stop eating as soon as you no longer feel hungry (and be sure to eat slowly). Some of us don't stop until we've finished our massive portion regardless of how full we feel. You may be surprised to see just how little food you need to consume in order to satiate hunger.

New comment by grannyg00se in "India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin"

grannyg00se — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:06:43 +0000

Does anyone have an example of ISIS supplied anti-India content?

New comment by grannyg00se in "What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools?"

grannyg00se — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 22:21:09 +0000

Aside from pushing children to complete their homework and take it seriously, what does a parent's attitude toward education do to help?

NASA presents unexpectedly successful Cannae drive tests

grannyg00se — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 00:07:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/1/5959637/nasa-cannae-drive-tests-have-promising-results

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8710689

Points: 3

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New comment by grannyg00se in "Java for Everything"

grannyg00se — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:58:27 +0000

"With few exceptions (such as parsers), unit tests are a waste of time."

I was in full agreement aside from this. Unit tests are more than just a substitute for static typing.

New comment by grannyg00se in "AngularJS: The Bad Parts"

grannyg00se — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:45:27 +0000

The scoping should be made more explicitly against a particular controller.

The issue is resolved simply by using controller as syntax which is recommended in many blogs. Point taken about the pit of dispair though.

http://jsfiddle.net/sndyxfdk/1/

New comment by grannyg00se in "One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software"

grannyg00se — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 01:20:01 +0000

For anybody who is trying out different window managers, I'd suggest giving herbstluftwm a shot.

http://herbstluftwm.org/

New comment by grannyg00se in "One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software"

grannyg00se — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 01:14:04 +0000

I use st exclusively. It's bound to my new terminal key mapping and I've never found a reason to use a different one. I tried urxvt and xterm but stuck with st.

New comment by grannyg00se in "Read Slowly to Benefit Your Brain and Cut Stress"

grannyg00se — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:55:26 +0000

Despite many occurrences of the word "slow", this article seems to have nothing at all to do with the speed at which you read.

New comment by grannyg00se in "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998)"

grannyg00se — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:25:49 +0000

I find it fascinating that, according to this story, he could not be productive without amphetamines.

"I'd have no ideas, just like an ordinary person. "

New comment by grannyg00se in "Show HN: Pup – A command-line HTML parser"

grannyg00se — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:22:38 +0000

Also see w3's html-xml-utils. For example hxextract: http://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/man1/hxextract.html

New comment by grannyg00se in "Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (2010)"

grannyg00se — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:11:30 +0000

Do we really need yet another essay on the perils of processed foods?

Just look at the ingredients on most breakfast cereals and you'll see sugar or some kind of sugar substitute as the second or third ingredient. Eat real food if you're at all interested in your health.

New comment by grannyg00se in "Toxins That Threaten Our Brains"

grannyg00se — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 02:10:31 +0000

Dow knowingly spreads poison, pays a fine, withdraws a product from household use, and that product continues to be used in farming? I had to stop reading.

New comment by grannyg00se in "Black families fight to get fair discipline for their children in schools"

grannyg00se — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:59:19 +0000

What an unusual front page HN story!

The preschool to prison pipeline is a phrase I hadn't heard before but I can believe it is absolutely a reality. The statistics are real and so is pernicious racial bias.

New comment by grannyg00se in "React v0.11"

grannyg00se — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 02:58:41 +0000

What a great site for reading. I'm not usually into design, but reading through that blog forced me into a new appreciation for layout, font, and color.

New comment by grannyg00se in "Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data"

grannyg00se — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:35:46 +0000

Your browsing behaviour in general is being recorded via user patterns, user agent strings, browser configuration, ip address, etc. An interested party can, in general, find out where your browser has been regardless of referer strings. What is so special about the url? It shouldn't contain any information that is meant to be secure.

New comment by grannyg00se in "Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data"

grannyg00se — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:31:54 +0000

By what edict?

The general default behaviour has always been to let an http server know where you're coming from so that it can take whatever actions appropriate. I don't see how or why there is a fundamental violation of some "browsing privacy" rule here.

New comment by grannyg00se in "Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data"

grannyg00se — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:33:25 +0000

Why do you consider them evil? It's useful for a destination server to be given insight into the previous url and it doesn't expose any private information.

I suppose one might consider their previous url private information, but if that's the case you've go a lot more to worry about than http referers.