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syamilmj | 4 years ago | on: Reddit can't build a better search engine

Maybe Google should just add an upvote button.

syamilmj | 4 years ago | on: A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries

The article pointed out a paper on an increase of 1.4% overweight horses. It does not seem to have a meaningful relationship with the steep increase of overweight population in human (~24%).

syamilmj | 4 years ago | on: A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries

What about stress?

Elevated cortisol level induces over-eating; moreover, increases craving for high-sugar, high-fat foods.

The big change in human behavior in the last 2 decades is that now people consume more information that leads to depression, anxiety and stress.

syamilmj | 4 years ago

> MATTI FRIEDMAN is an Israeli-Canadian reporter based in Jerusalem and the author of Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story and The Aleppo Codex.

syamilmj | 4 years ago | on: LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online

Probably a minority here - but I could not stomach the horrible comments on LiveLeak, especially because it almost seemed like they were all written by a bunch of really young audience.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: Firefox changing its tab design

Not loving where this is going. FF on iOS was great, with icon showing the number of tabs I have opened unlike Safari. Please translate that sensible UI choices into your desktop version too.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation

You could go on Facebook with no opinion on anything and leave an extremist.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: Most security products are useless

it’s not useless if they only work to solve specific problems faced by specific group of companies

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: Is it Worth Reading if I Forget Everything I Read?

I find that fiction books are usually more memorable than non-fiction. I also find that technical books with a story-telling structure to be more memorable.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is Safari the New Internet Explorer?

That is a moot point to discuss. If you’re looking for the worst browser in the market however, Chrome is a strong candidate.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: 10 years-ish of Elixir

Celebrating my sixth year with Elixir! The adoption rates here is still quite low (Malaysia) but I'm glad to say that onboarding new Elixir developers has always been a breeze.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: Notion is having a service interruption

Notion is about the only service today out of many other major platforms (see: https://downdetector.com) that cared to email me about the downtime. I’ve been a happy Notion user since about a year ago and this is probably the only one time I have experienced major downtime as far as I can remember.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: Computer science is not software engineering

Those who made “mistakes” like re-implementing basic data structure or algorithm will learn much more than what compsci degree can teach them.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: Vercel raise $40M Series B

Had to use Zeit/Vercel a few months for a “serious” project that requires SSR, caching and multiple staging environments. As the project progresses I noticed an increasing pain from constantly fighting with outdated documentations and limited configurability. I hope that’s changed now though, because there were some parts of Zeit that we loved. For simpler static sites, it’s hard to beat Netlify.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: GitHub Dark Mode is too Dark

Most people I know who uses GitHub daily are premium users. People who use GitHub for free are probably not going to be bothered by the dark mode.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: TailwindCSS v2.0

We’ll have an entirely new generatiom of front-end developers who don’t know anything about CSS beyond some arbitrary class names soon.

syamilmj | 5 years ago | on: Document your code just by hitting “record”

Being able to automatically translate the texts would be a killer feature. It's probably outside of the scope for this product but language is quite a significant barrier for at least 80% of world population that doesn't speak English.