Hacker News: alaaf

New comment by alaaf in "Antioxidants found to spur cancer growth and metastasis in mice"

alaaf — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:10:53 +0000

Is this about concentrated synthetic vitamin C or about the natural form? From a chemistry perspective the same, but the natural one comes in a different "package" of other substances (vitamin C complex). I wonder if the effect is the same.

New comment by alaaf in "Helping Native Bees Thrive in a Honeybee World"

alaaf — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:29:26 +0000

Shameless plug: https://www.beehome.design/ I worked on an app that lets you design your own Bee Home and let it be fabricated at a local makerspace. This way you can help the population of solitary bees.

New comment by alaaf in "Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections (2017)"

alaaf — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:40:41 +0000

It actually isn’t. 400 IU is based on preventing disease. To obtain optimal health though, dosages should usually be much higher. Obviously this differs from person to person, but 2000 IU should lead to optimal vitamin D levels. This is an interesting video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeLC_b5gDUM

New comment by alaaf in "Congrats! Web scraping is legal! (US precedent)"

alaaf — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 14:35:58 +0000

Isn’t this different from read access? Apart from server resources, downloading content doesn’t effect a web site as much as posting on it.

Activists Cheer Victory in Landmark Dutch Climate Case

alaaf — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:00:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/12/20/business/bc-eu-netherlands-climate-case.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21844129

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

When will the Netherlands disappear?

alaaf — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:35:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/when-will-the-netherlands-disappear-climate-change/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824617

Points: 122

# Comments: 177

New comment by alaaf in "WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation"

alaaf — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:41:58 +0000

Figma uses Emscripten which is technically not Webassembly (to my knowledge)

Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us

alaaf — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:51:03 +0000

Article URL: https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496043

Points: 239

# Comments: 103

Diversity and Inclusion Guidebook – Bakken and Bæck

alaaf — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:34:10 +0000

Article URL: https://bakkenbaeck.com/diversity-inclusion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19431777

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by alaaf in "Ask HN: Developers who became engineering managers, how was the experience?"

alaaf — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:12:08 +0000

I asked a similar question some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284742 not about the experience, but more about what to keep in mind when switching. Hope it helps.

New comment by alaaf in "Lyme Is 'All in Your Head' – A Wake-Up Call to Mental Health Professionals"

alaaf — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 15:14:26 +0000

> Every day, in doctors’ offices across the US—as well as in Canada, the UK, Ireland, Amsterdam, Australia, Sweden, in 80 countries and on every continent

Amsterdam is not a country. The country is called The Netherlands. Amsterdam is the capital.

Ask HN: Switching from developer to project manager. What to keep in mind?

alaaf — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 15:22:49 +0000

What is the most important thing to think about when you’re switching from a development to a (project) management position?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284742

Points: 164

# Comments: 103

New comment by alaaf in "Facebook charged with misleading EU on $22B WhatsApp merger"

alaaf — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:02:05 +0000

> the free content ad network failed to disclose

Interesting they don’t call it a ‘social network’. ‘content ad network’ is more accurate in my opinion.

New comment by alaaf in "Facebook is slowly eating the rest of the Internet"

alaaf — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:02:16 +0000

# Hostfile

  127.0.0.1 localhost facebook.com www.facebook.com

Best decision ever.

SpiritJS – easily animate objects on the web

alaaf — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 15:39:11 +0000

Article URL: https://spiritjs.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11073415

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Philips reverses decision to close the Hue Platform

alaaf — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:03:59 +0000

Article URL: http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/friends-hue-program-update