jkhaui

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by jkhaui 6y ago
Good on you, but this doesn't prove anything imo. People are almost always positively biased toward attractive faces due to the halo effect. Biologically/psychologically this is a result of one's facial bone structure, skin,
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by jkhaui 6y ago
It's a fallacy to think that the only outcome of COVID is binary (i.e. death or perfect recovery). Just browse r/covidpositive. There are so many "survivors" who say they still have so much internal organ pain 4 months a
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by jkhaui 6y ago
Jesus. That's gruesome. And trust that the initial comments on HN are about how to most efficiently kill someone, rather than any visceral reaction.
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by jkhaui 6y ago
C'mon, let's be real... most devs are working on features/products that will never see the light of day. Or they're restyling the company's "contact us" form for the thousandth time. The market is not effi
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by jkhaui 6y ago
Amazing book. The funny thing is I never expected to see it applied to software engineering - but in this context it's very appropriate.
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by jkhaui 6y ago
Yes. As a frontend developer, my default mode now is to almost always go straight to searching issues in the GitHub repo of an npm package I'm using. I only end up on SO when googling very generic questions about React, TypeScript or J
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by jkhaui 6y ago
I really enjoyed Bryan's book. I'd always thought uni was ridiculously overpriced, but hearing it straight from the mouth of a professor really hammered the point home for me. I believe we are on the verge of the education bubble
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by jkhaui 6y ago
Yeah, totally agree. Ironically COVID has made me realise how much I want to work in an office now, as I'm going slightly insane from the lack of social contact. Moving forward, the best middle ground for most jobs would probably be ha
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by jkhaui 6y ago
"Online education used to be like online dating: only something losers would do. But now it seems to moving towards the default way of doing business." As a self-taught developer and proud of it, I like this quote. A lot. It'
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by jkhaui 6y ago
Can you please explain what you mean by every component re-rendering? Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I don't think that's correct (unless you made a really bad app). Other than that I agree with the gist of your post
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by jkhaui 6y ago
What's bothered me most is how if you collapse Gmail's sidebar, the "no Hangouts contacts" section in the bottom half doesn't resize or adapt. It probably doesn't hurt usability directly, but it seems very unpr
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by jkhaui 6y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this. Also, to second your question: what the hell did happen to Windows search? I always just assumed I'd done something to break it (and honestly, could never be bothered trying to "fix" it... even a
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by jkhaui 6y ago
From everything I've read about COVID-19 and flu-like infections, I'm also inclined to believe that warmer climates help slow COVID-19 outbreaks. It is (in my opinion) the most plausible explanation why certain regions are hit so
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by jkhaui 6y ago
That capitalism, in its current state, is a broken system? As cliche as it sounds, there's no other way to describe it when you have frontline workers risking their life—and their family's lives—to make a man whose net worth is $1
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by jkhaui 7y ago
So in other words: "who cares, the virus only kills old people who were probably useless to the economy anyway, so business as usual." I sure hope you don't have any elderly family members. Plenty of people in their 40s have
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by jkhaui 7y ago
For a forum of ostensibly intelligent people, it's amusing to see the rise in anti-china sentiment brought about by the coronavirus. Sure, China has a poor human rights record in many regards. But objectively, their handling of the cor
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by jkhaui 7y ago
"Fact-Check Scarcity Principle: This article is called 100 Little Ideas but there are fewer than 100 ideas. 99% of readers won’t notice because they’re not checking, and most of those who notice won’t say anything. Don’t believe everyt
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by jkhaui 7y ago
Except it seems the consensus is that it really does suck - both from the perspective of HackerNews and the people forced to use it
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by jkhaui 7y ago
Completely agree. The author glosses over the fact that half of coding is just pattern recognition derived from seeing something written a certain way many, many, many times over. It's not far-fetched to consider that exposing kids to
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by jkhaui 7y ago
As someone who is heavily interested in the EdTech space (I've had the unfortunate luck of being a student for far too long and experienced how woefully inadequate the education system is), I was thinking pretty much the same sentiment