Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by sillysaurusx » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

davidthewatson wrote: post #38

wanderingstan wrote: post #17

I was inspired by a friend who saved hundreds of Webcam selfies of himself at half hour intervals. The face.com API classified the majority as “sad” or “angry”. Mentioned in my Quantified Self talk here at 1m 15s: https://vimeo.com/42239564#t=1m15s This led to the development of LifeSlice, which lets anyone do the same, and I now have s as decade of 30-min periodic selfies. Not sure what I’ll do with them all but it’…

My favorite part about this is that it captures pandiculation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21665102/#:~:text=Pandiculat... . And makes me wonder whether a simple computer vision algorithm could classify frequency of pandiculation in the work and we could begin making correlations between pandiculation and perception of mood valence.

Text anchors only work on chrome desktop fyi. It sucks. I once spent all night making a cool lisp tutorial based on text anchors, then realized 80% of the world won’t see it since that’s the percentage of mobile traffic.

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by proto-n » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:06 PM UTC

My SO always tells me I look worried while working. Used to ask me whats wrong, nowadays just accepts is as a sign that I 'm focusing.

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:07 PM UTC

wanderingstan wrote: post #17

I was inspired by a friend who saved hundreds of Webcam selfies of himself at half hour intervals. The face.com API classified the majority as “sad” or “angry”. Mentioned in my Quantified Self talk here at 1m 15s: https://vimeo.com/42239564#t=1m15s This led to the development of LifeSlice, which lets anyone do the same, and I now have s as decade of 30-min periodic selfies. Not sure what I’ll do with them all but it’…

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Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by gorjusborg » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:08 PM UTC

groffee wrote: post #14

onion2k wrote: post #3

Yes, but only because I am angry.

That's my secret, Captain

The secret is that I'm always angry.

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by wara23arish » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:09 PM UTC

cletus wrote: post #23

Mandatory Seinfeld reference [1]. Honestly, this is good advice. So much of work is actually just perception management. Looking annoyed or angry without actually being mean or inconsiderate is a bit of a cheat code. Beyond perception management there's the issue of avoiding unnecessary interruptions. It can be hard to define what's necesary and what isn't. Rarely does it have anything to do with what someone is inte…

I have noticed this since joining a new team this year. There is one person on my team who is always annoyed and complaining about something but really they just dont get anything done. There are various times I had to work with them, and when there are no blockers whatsoever they wont do shit.

I would love to be able to say “do something about it” when they goes on their rants but american culture is too polite. Most of their contributions to team meetings is “docked has this new thing that could be helpful” and various other name-drops. Idk if the rest of the ppl are fooled or its just a thing we put up with.

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by Tade0 » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:11 PM UTC

I stick my tongue out to the side like a cartoon character.

I always thought this was just some sort of trope and not a real thing, but then one time my monitor went blank suddenly and I saw myself.

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by cuttysnark » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:11 PM UTC

If I were angry whilst at the cafe, and received a photo of myself, looking angry—I'm pretty sure that'd make it worse. An unusual way to show concern, but I guess that's the age we live in.

edit: misplaced modifier

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by BugsJustFindMe » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:11 PM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #51

davidthewatson wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite part about this is that it captures pandiculation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21665102/#:~:text=Pandiculat... . And makes me wonder whether a simple computer vision algorithm could classify frequency of pandiculation in the work and we could begin making correlations between pandiculation and perception of mood valence.

Text anchors only work on chrome desktop fyi. It sucks. I once spent all night making a cool lisp tutorial based on text anchors, then realized 80% of the world won’t see it since that’s the percentage of mobile traffic.

It works for me on mobile Safari.

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by JimDabell » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #51

davidthewatson wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favorite part about this is that it captures pandiculation: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21665102/#:~:text=Pandiculat... . And makes me wonder whether a simple computer vision algorithm could classify frequency of pandiculation in the work and we could begin making correlations between pandiculation and perception of mood valence.

Text anchors only work on chrome desktop fyi. It sucks. I once spent all night making a cool lisp tutorial based on text anchors, then realized 80% of the world won’t see it since that’s the percentage of mobile traffic.

It works on Safari / Mobile Safari from 16.1 onwards (the latest version).

Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?

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Post by asimpleusecase » Wed, Nov 30, 2022, 2:13 PM UTC

Yes, apparently I am in the Focused/Angry Face cohort. When I am reading deeply, or thinking through complex issues I must be wearing a scary face as it prompts my wife to ask “ are you ok?” Which always makes me angry as it breaks my concentration. As far as I know, until interrupted I was in a neutral emotional state .