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grannyg00se··on Now, I can see wifi signals
I found a great explanation from the reddit link that rawnlq posted.

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

grannyg00se··on Now, I can see wifi signals
Why is there so much variation in strength from such a small change of position?
grannyg00se··on A 12-Hour Window for a Healthy Weight
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.

grannyg00se··on India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
Does anyone have an example of ISIS supplied anti-India content?
grannyg00se··on What if Finland’s great teachers taught in U.S. schools?
Aside from pushing children to complete their homework and take it seriously, what does a parent's attitude toward education do to help?
grannyg00se··on Java for Everything
"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.

grannyg00se··on AngularJS: The Bad Parts
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/

grannyg00se··on One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software
For anybody who is trying out different window managers, I'd suggest giving herbstluftwm a shot.

http://herbstluftwm.org/

grannyg00se··on One Thing Well – A weblog about simple, useful software
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.
grannyg00se··on Read Slowly to Benefit Your Brain and Cut Stress
Despite many occurrences of the word "slow", this article seems to have nothing at all to do with the speed at which you read.
grannyg00se··on The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998)
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. "

grannyg00se··on Show HN: Pup – A command-line HTML parser
Also see w3's html-xml-utils. For example hxextract: http://www.w3.org/Tools/HTML-XML-utils/man1/hxextract.html
grannyg00se··on Drop that spoon: The truth about breakfast cereals (2010)
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.

grannyg00se··on Toxins That Threaten Our Brains
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.
grannyg00se··on Black families fight to get fair discipline for their children in schools
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.

grannyg00se··on React v0.11
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.
grannyg00se··on Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data
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.
grannyg00se··on Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data
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.

grannyg00se··on Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data
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.

grannyg00se··on A Hacker’s Guide to Git
Try this http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/?NODEMO

It's command line, but it's interactive and visual.

Start off by typing the command `levels` into the prompt at the bottom left.

grannyg00se··on Fitness Crazed
Why does it have to be one or the other? Your main point is that one requires instruction to attain the correct form. That can be achieved by reading the book and properly following it, or seeing a competent trainer, or both.

There are some good trainers who can help, and there are certainly many who are worse than useless.

As for the book, it has hundreds of pages explaining in great technical detail exactly how each exercise is to be performed and some useful photos are also included. There's no reason why you can't get the form down properly using the instructions in the book, and maybe even have a friend record your form so you can check it against the photos.

grannyg00se··on Floating Point Routines by Steve Wozniak
Haha. Definitely can relate to some screenshots looking a little too LSD inspired, but I must say I appreciate having strings stand out separately. For one, I know right away if I have too many hardcoded strings dispersed throughout the code. And it also helps to catch quote closing, although basic syntax checker would also do that.
grannyg00se··on How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved Into Serious Weapons in a Year
"a key part of a semi-automatic weapon called the lower receiver. That part, which comprises most of the body of a gun, is the most regulated element of a firearm. Print a lower receiver, and you can buy the rest of a gun’s components off the shelf without an ID or waiting period."

That's an easy fix I would think. But I'm surprised that the barrel isn't just as highly regulated.

grannyg00se··on Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
Parent is downvoted but this seems like a valid question to me. The interface consists of git sub commands and their flags. One could argue that there are too many flags, or even too many commands, but why not offer flexibility when you can as long as you keep sane defaults?

I think that git commit, init, add, fetch, branch, checkout, merge, and push all have sane defaults and anybody can pick up very basic git usage using those commands in less than a few hours.

Things get complicated when you start looking at the details, but I don't see any way around that. And the interface doesn't change. It's just a matter of learning more flags and commands.

grannyg00se··on TDD, Straw Men, and Rhetoric
> Why compromise between unit tests and integration tests when the two aren't exclusive and serve different purposes? Why not actually have good unit tests and good integration tests, instead of beasts that are neither fish nor fowl and are less than optimal as either?

I wonder this myself. Unit tests serve a completely different purpose and should not get in the way of integration testing. They may/should help with structuring the code so that it is easier to integration test. They definitely shouldn't hinder. Then there is also the system level test, and then manual testing as well. All of these serve different purposes and can live happily together.

grannyg00se··on Groundbreaking drone coverage of tornado damage piques ire of FAA
Flown in remote, designated flying fields sanctioned by a regulatory body whose membership were all trained and checked out.

At least in my experience. You didn't have people flying RC choppers or airplanes in the street.

They were quite a bit heavier, larger, and noisier so you didn't have the same issues as we're now having to face with drones.

grannyg00se··on Will you drown?
You just keep clicking on whatever links show up? I'm not catching the spark.

But it reminds me of A Dark Room, which was excellent. http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

grannyg00se··on Obama pledges Net neutrality laws if elected president (2007)
No, which makes the entire process rather dubious. If I can't trust the campaign platform, what exactly am I basing my vote on?
grannyg00se··on Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
"We saw lots of people in the City University of New York system who graduated as computer science majors but weren't going into the tech industry...It was a lot of access and network problems, and a lack of technical training."

This is really confusing. How do you graduate as a computer science major and lack technical training? And if that's the case, how does such a faculty remain in business?

grannyg00se··on Levinux – A Tiny Version of Linux for Education
You'd also want to map something more convenient to ESC. Like jk. That way you won't have people immediately cursing this system that requires them to find the ESC key every time they finish editing a piece of text. Something more convenient can be mapped to :wq as well.

Actually....I think I'm with vukmir on the beginner in education being somewhat overwhelmed and I'm confused as to why Linux Server skill is being conflated with programming.

"consider Levinux a stepping stone for newbs, because it gives you a taste of Linux Server and sets you on your way to being able to do SOMETHING within minutes......Push your code up from Levinux and pull it down from whatever other system you end up using in the future."

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