Hacker News: wkdown

New comment by wkdown in "NASA declines to rename JWST"

wkdown — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:59:22 +0000

This is why the right hates the left.

New comment by wkdown in "New partnership changes everything for the DIY diabetes community"

wkdown — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 20:11:31 +0000

Open source medical devices! Is this a first? There is potential for some genuine health concerns where QA and security are involved.

New comment by wkdown in "Family traumatized after Nest system hacked by stranger"

wkdown — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 15:49:51 +0000

Is there a sensible way to log IoT traffic? I'm paranoid not just of who may be trying to access IP cameras, but what they may be sending back to their manufacturer.

New comment by wkdown in "Tunnel with a rail system is found under Mexico-California border"

wkdown — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:18:51 +0000

Can the USGS conduct some seismic tests along the US-Mexico border that would identify these types of man-made changes?

New comment by wkdown in "It’s eating fat that makes you fat, new mouse study suggests"

wkdown — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:47:40 +0000

We need to stop consuming these food "studies". Every day, fat/carbs/coffee/wine is good/bad/cancerous/prevents cancer in a "new study".

New comment by wkdown in "Why are America's elite universities censoring themselves on China?"

wkdown — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:41:32 +0000

The banner image is a woman in a Chinese flag turtleneck and the man has a Japanese yen symbol on his mouth?

New comment by wkdown in "Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads"

wkdown — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:12:20 +0000

slack x 10000000

New comment by wkdown in "A Lincoln High teacher gets all his students to pass the AP Calculus exam"

wkdown — Sat, 14 May 2016 16:11:49 +0000

The "how" is quite lacking.

New comment by wkdown in "Now Gmail on Android is forcing Chrome as web browser"

wkdown — Fri, 06 May 2016 15:53:03 +0000

I had thought it indicated clickthrough by Feedly users. How could they have overall clickthrough numbers?

New comment by wkdown in "Congress has added CISA to the federal budget bill"

wkdown — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:57:03 +0000

"Divison N" or page 1728

New comment by wkdown in "Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, Is Time 'Person of the Year'"

wkdown — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 23:19:41 +0000

> Mrs Merkel, 61, joins an eclectic list of former winners, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin ...

A German is given the title and those are the first two names you choose to use?

New comment by wkdown in "Amazon Underground"

wkdown — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:28:12 +0000

Typical "You are the product" disclaimer

New comment by wkdown in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)"

wkdown — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:19:45 +0000

TransUnion Consumer Interactive | San Luis Obispo, CA | ONSITE

Web Developer III

In search of a Javascript expert with experience in MVC frameworks, Handlebars templating, Sass pre-processor, among others to join our UI team in an Agile Java environment making the transition from SOAP to REST.

For more information: https://transunion.taleo.net/careersection/tuext/jobdetail.f...

New comment by wkdown in "Can we colonize the moon?"

wkdown — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:31:04 +0000

"We are so concerned with if we could, we didn't stop to consider if we should."

New comment by wkdown in "Kindle Paperwhite"

wkdown — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 22:42:36 +0000

I want to be able to use it for RSS feeds as well. Even native Pocket or Evernote integration would be great.

New comment by wkdown in "I Do Not Agree to Your Terms"

wkdown — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:29:11 +0000

Are you referring also to Columbia House and BMG in the 90s? Sign up, get seven CDs for a buck, then you forget to cancel and they send you "A Barry Manilow and Kenny G Christmas" for $18 plus S&H.

This still happens online with an X-day trial of something, fine print says to cancel or be charged $XX.XX/mo. Good luck figuring out how to cancel, though.

New comment by wkdown in "Best Books to Movies in 2015"

wkdown — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:43:20 +0000

Glaring omission of Andy Weir's "The Martian"

[Book](http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B...) | [Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/)

New comment by wkdown in "What’s the Matter with Ebooks?"

wkdown — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:13:41 +0000

This is a good point. I love my Kindle and I read fiction and non-fiction on it regularly. However, anything technical I vastly prefer print. I cannot really say why, other than traversing a technical book is just "easier" to flip around with versus a linear progression like other books.

New comment by wkdown in "“Reasons you shouldn't join us: if you're looking for work-life balance.”"

wkdown — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:13:06 +0000

Reply to the emails that, maybe once they start respecting employees and hiring developers that respect themselves.

New comment by wkdown in "Firefox Developer Edition"

wkdown — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:07:26 +0000

For some reason, I convinced myself that Valence was going to allow us to change the engine to Webkit and Trident as well as Gecko. While testing iOS and Android is awesome, this would have been downright incredible.