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Ask HN: How do you fuel your brain on a sugar-free diet?

Posted by goodfellaw on Sunday December 13, 2015 @05:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have been trying out a sugar-free diet, but I feel that this leaves me less able to sustain long programming sessions.What is the appropriate nutrition for sustained mental activity?

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Re:Ask HN: Chrome browser phones home, how to disable this? on Saturday December 05, 2015 @07:12PM (#10683817)

"Due its complexity, Chromium uses a set of custom tools to check out and build. Here’s an overview of the steps you’ll run:

    gclient. A checkout involves pulling nearly 100 different SVN repositories of code. This process is managed with a tool called gclient.

. . . "

// everytime i upgrade a browser? cmon..

Ask HN: Chrome browser phones home, how to disable this?

Posted by goodfellaw on Saturday December 05, 2015 @04:13PM
from the ask-hn dept.

When I startup Google-chrome it "phones home" - makes a TLS connection to Google and exchnages some data. Does anyone know what this data is?It happens with the open source version as well... so this must be documented, and there must be a way to turn it off?Edit: 1. You can confirm this using a network traffic analyzer. 2. Start page is set to about:blank

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