Not while working, but I've been told I look like a serial killer when driving.
Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
That tendency of other humans to jump to conclusions about a person's demeanor and personality based on facial expression is one of the most irritating characteristics of humans. No matter how many times we hear cliche's like "don't judge a book by its cover," people routinely (and confidently) do that all the time.
At the same time I think a lot of people walk around angry at the world and unaware of their problem. Or a lot of people are depressed and don't realize it. Or any number of issues. A lot of times it can be all over somebody's face and body language. Self awareness is hard. I used to take selfies to help neutrally assess my own mood. A lot of the time I was feeling something and unaware, but I could tell from the pho…
> I used to take selfies to help neutrally assess my own mood. A lot of the time I was feeling something and unaware, but I could tell from the photo.
What were you feeling that you could only identify by your outward appearance ? You don't have to look happy and smiling all the time, in many cultures ( Germany, France ) people actively distrust people who do this.
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#163100%. I do not look happy when looking at a screen.
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#164"Do you suffer from Bitchy Resting Face" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XinArKp_6fs
Although kinda unisex name, the male version is the resting murder face. Which sounds about right for certain kinds of bugs :) https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Resting%20Mu...
I'm male, and I prefer to think of it as my (unisex) bitchy resting face. :)
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#165Yeah, any time I'm engaged in deep thought, including coding, I just... look angry. I've had to explain to people at work that that's just how my face is when I'm working.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the same time I think a lot of people walk around angry at the world and unaware of their problem. Or a lot of people are depressed and don't realize it. Or any number of issues. A lot of times it can be all over somebody's face and body language. Self awareness is hard. I used to take selfies to help neutrally assess my own mood. A lot of the time I was feeling something and unaware, but I could tell from the pho…
> I used to take selfies to help neutrally assess my own mood. A lot of the time I was feeling something and unaware, but I could tell from the photo. What were you feeling that you could only identify by your outward appearance ? You don't have to look happy and smiling all the time, in many cultures ( Germany, France ) people actively distrust people who do this.
Depends on what was going on. That's a bit of a personal question.
But as I recall, one of the biggest things I would notice is if I hadn't gotten very restful sleep.
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#167Earlier 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.
> 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's just a URL anchor syntax for when there's no applicable id attribute, you could recognize the syntax in Javascript and implement a "polyfill" on-page.
Re: Ask HN: Do you look angry while you work?
#168I look angry while I work, because I typically am angry. Have you heard the things people say in meetings?
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think resting bitch face is about looking angry, but I understand your overall point.
What else could it possibly be about?
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#170I feel you. I get the same thing a lot