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Firefox UI/UX History
Firefox UI/UX History
It looks like you’re trying to take over the world
TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack
Killed by Microsoft
Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?
If you were to choose one book (or maybe more than one :P) to lure a curious person to your field of study, which will you choose?<p>For example: How to Design Programs for Computer Science.<p>Note: It has to be inviting for someone that knows nothing about the field but becomes hooked after reading it. Not some epitome which is revered by experts only.
Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work for the last 2 years
Wolfenstein 3D secrets revealed by John Romero in lengthy post-mortem chat
The counterintuitive rise of Python in scientific computing (2020)
FDA Approves First CRISPR Cows for Beef
`COPY –chmod` reduced the size of my container image by 35%
Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?
Recently, I cannot help but notice how shy and socially awkward I might be at times, which is quite frustrating.<p>To be fair to myself, I am not awful in social situations in that depending on the context I can be seemingly confident and calm, especially when I am among people I know and the context is familiar.<p>When it comes to new people and places, everything changes dramatically. My voice changes, my posture changes, everything changes. I can start being awkward in all possible senses.<p>The discomfort gets to the point where I blush and this physical state of vulnerability and self-doubt of course makes things even worse :)<p>I understand that all of that relates to self-esteem and phychology in general therefore my question.<p>It's common to advise hitting on the gym, which I just started doing last week. Funnily, the gym is the place where I last noticed my awkward behavior :)<p>If you have managed to deal with that and improve in that regard, what is your success story?
Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?
Recently, I cannot help but notice how shy and socially awkward I might be at times, which is quite frustrating.<p>To be fair to myself, I am not awful in social situations in that depending on the context I can be seemingly confident and calm, especially when I am among people I know and the context is familiar.<p>When it comes to new people and places, everything changes dramatically. My voice changes, my posture changes, everything changes. I can start being awkward in all possible senses.<p>The discomfort gets to the point where I blush and this physical state of vulnerability and self-doubt of course makes things even worse :)<p>I understand that all of that relates to self-esteem and phychology in general therefore my question.<p>It's common to advise hitting on the gym, which I just started doing last week. Funnily, the gym is the place where I last noticed my awkward behavior :)<p>If you have managed to deal with that and improve in that regard, what is your success story?
Mourning loss as a remote team
Mourning loss as a remote team
The Edited Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto
The illusion of evidence based medicine
Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting (2020)