Hacker News: sharker8

New comment by sharker8 in "My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website"

sharker8 — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:48:34 +0000

whats the dns setup?

New comment by sharker8 in "Is Delaware the cheapest place to incorporate?"

sharker8 — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:18:11 +0000

Please provide references for the term "scary" and "not for the uninitiated."

New comment by sharker8 in "Earthworms contribute to 6.5% of global grain production"

sharker8 — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:54:11 +0000

Spider plants are great cover for a compost bucket with composting worms in case you are getting into composting.

New comment by sharker8 in "Ask HN: What web frameworks do you use?"

sharker8 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:21:17 +0000

I like Next.js

New comment by sharker8 in "Escaping High School"

sharker8 — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:17:40 +0000

"wear a helmet until you are comfortable with whatever wheels you are riding" sounds like a formula for "die on a bike once you've hit the dunning kruger effect"

New comment by sharker8 in "Tech layoffs shock young workers, older people not so much"

sharker8 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:33:02 +0000

Rent is still less than 1/3 of post tax income most places if you have a high paying tech job. Also you can always downsize on stuff to save on floorspace.

New comment by sharker8 in "Tech layoffs shock young workers, older people not so much"

sharker8 — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:27:58 +0000

This both oversimplifies the experiences of people who have been through economic cycles before (some of them are shocked too), and underestimates the power of the human imagination. I for one believe I can read about an era I didn't experience, use my imagination to think about what it would have been like to live during that time, and if something similar happens in my lifetime, be less 'shocked'. I think many people can do this too!

New comment by sharker8 in "Can Duolingo actually teach you Spanish?"

sharker8 — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:40:12 +0000

Followers of Krashen know that it's sensible input that results in language acquisition. Duolingo gamifies the frequency of sensible input. Therefore Duolingo will work if frequently and consistently used. Fluent is an outdated term. It probably takes about six months to achieve any lasting result. Illusion of progress is impossible to prove or disprove probably.

New comment by sharker8 in "Ask HN: How do you upskill your teams technical writing?"

sharker8 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 18:10:20 +0000

A deliberate practice environment has four elements: 1) Repeat exposure (aka volume of attempts) 2) Valid environment (a win is a win and a loss is a loss) 3) Timely feedback (you know immediately whether you won or lost) 4) Deliberate practice. Deliberate practice without the other three is not complete.

New comment by sharker8 in "Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement"

sharker8 — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 17:13:24 +0000

The Anti Cramer portfolio is not a sufficient contrarian approach, because the Cramer portfolio also underperforms similar to a random walk. Put another way, the opposite of a random walk is another random walk.

New comment by sharker8 in "Stop Interviewing with Leet Code"

sharker8 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 17:21:55 +0000

I think the bias against Leetcode is not specific enough. My bias against leetcode: stop screening at leetcode easy/medium. Screen instead at Hard/Extra hard.

New comment by sharker8 in "Credit Scores Can Run – and Ruin – Our Lives"

sharker8 — Wed, 25 May 2022 17:08:40 +0000

Credit scores are part of the marketing scheme to make people think they need mortgages. Slight exaggeration but not far from the truth.

New comment by sharker8 in "U.S. forgives 40k student loans"

sharker8 — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 16:20:26 +0000

Companies value people who can apply the scientific method (experimental design, data gathering, data analysis, etc). They hire people who have acquired this specific knowledge often through grants. Whether these subsidies lead to application of the specific knowledge gained through the grant underwriting process is debatable. Companies will hire people who studied something that requires the scientific method for which there is maybe no market, and make them apply that approach to things for which there is a market.

New comment by sharker8 in "U.S. forgives 40k student loans"

sharker8 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:16:34 +0000

This create market driven dynamics in which degrees basically are tailor made for industry. This approach disincentivizes pure research for scientific purposes.

New comment by sharker8 in "Ketogenic Diets and Chronic Disease: Benefits vs. Risks"

sharker8 — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 00:51:37 +0000

I tried Keto and all I got out of it was weight loss in year one, followed by plateauing, and then weight gain, and then a nice update from my dentist that I had borderline high blood pressure. Since then I've gone to mostly "low fat, mostly starch, not much animal protein" and I look and feel much better.

New comment by sharker8 in "On Leaving Facebook"

sharker8 — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:35:36 +0000

This post is missing the key detail: is this person taking risks with 'the house's money' (high net worth, can generate passive income) or not? The answer is probably yes having spent that many years at fb, but I found the tone of 'I'll cut to the chase, I took a pay cut' disingenuous. The real questions is 'is this person already high net worth or not'.

New comment by sharker8 in "Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done"

sharker8 — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 18:32:27 +0000

I think progress would be to use terms like 'mild' and 'addiction' in different sentences.

New comment by sharker8 in "Ask HN: Is there a place on HN for interesting yet flame-war inducing topics?"

sharker8 — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 20:34:39 +0000

I think people like myself have throwaway accounts for this purpose. For example, I use this account to say things I think might end up with negative karma. However, right now this account has positive 78 karma. Just a hack I and probably others use to get around 'reasonable-ey' filters like the HN karma system.

New comment by sharker8 in "The Universal Structure of Storytelling"

sharker8 — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:49:36 +0000

No, it is as the author argues the effect of stories with clearly defined antagonists and protagonists.

New comment by sharker8 in "The Universal Structure of Storytelling"

sharker8 — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:48:28 +0000

Agreed on that one can interpret the author's stance as bigoted because there is a cultivated myth here which is sentimental and all about how stories pre printing press were all about banding tribes together. People love this myth because it fits the mold of 'techno-optimism'. They were of course also about kinda boring things like record keeping about crops, but westerners ignore that and say those aren't stories because they don't have characters or something. As if we can generalize about things for which we have absolutely no record in many cases. Also as if western people invented the concept of a narrator (implied in this article but I've heard it elsewhere).