achanlon

Re:GoFlow: a DIY tDCS brain-boosting kit on Friday March 09, 2012 @09:21AM (#3684112)

Agreed. I listened to an article recently about a study that purported to show that wearing a 'lab coat' increased performance. Similarly, I believe that the tDCS results could be explained by a form of mental 'priming'.

Ask HN: Idea for improving email threading

Posted by achanlon on Sunday February 26, 2012 @04:06PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I believe we can all agree that grouping email by thread (à la Gmail, apple mail, etc.) is a great usability improvement; however, I find that all too often a single thread becomes very long, and (due to human laziness) the topic of discussion veers greatly from the subject line. I believe all threaded email readers should implement a command that 'breaks' a thread at any desired point within...

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Re:Visual Studio '11' Announced on Friday February 24, 2012 @09:46AM (#3629306)

I would point out that line numbers are an option in VS. Secondly, I believe we are getting to a point where giant monolithic files should be the exception rather than the rule. Lastly, the ability to right click on a symbol and go directly to it's definition, see a clickable list of all its uses, and the fact that all warnings/errors are clickable means that the line numbers are less-important frankly. I still have mine on always but I rarely use them.

Re:Visualising weather reports as a graph on Thursday February 09, 2012 @05:48PM (#3573527)

I really wish the terms 'chart' and 'graph' were not used synonymously.