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I learned that too in the last 12 months.

For me the number one trigger was caffeine, but because I'd never had that much, doctors just said it was probably stress, so I didn't eliminate it. Also because this all happened when I was…

Brands are more valuable than products - see Nike, Coca-Cola etc. - read 'No Logo' by Naomi Klein

Don't overdo the Reddit male fashion advice

This is hacker news so take it all with a grain of salt but I found that buying clothes that fit, and just buying and trying a lot of stuff to see what worked over a few years led to a massive improve…

Thanks, I will check it out!

I love Bruce and his music, and this book gave me way more than I bargained for. This is a good review. Bruce is really thoughtful about his own psychological issues, workaholism, teetotalism, obsessi…

Got a few easy ones that were about language implementation details wrong because I've never done Python. Only realised it was Python and not some kind of beautiful pseudocode when I kept getting…

OurPath maybe. 23andMe ? Medical / health stuff

I think I find the fattening more disturbing. It was a precursor to me becoming vegetarian though so ymmv

Just felt sorry for the cows

Turned down a job for a yc startup doing genetic tests on cows to maximise meat yield

Where did you go?

That's cool. Anyone know if in London your average risk of death goes up or down if you cycle to work? I'm scared of pollution (which has already started making me ill as a pedestrian) and t…

Great! I need this. I asked a friend about it when I first thought of making this for myself. My friend said he achieved the same thing using some customer relationship management software and then de…

When I was younger I used to try not to subvocalise (?) my computer passwords, thinking that might stop someone reading my mind. Might start that again

It's directly comparable, because all the aliens apart from Isserley believe that the humans have no language. Just like we believe that pigs, cows etc. have no language. But they do communicate …

I have to agree with you. Funny you should say "alien" - I watched "Under The Skin" recently, and then read excerpts from the book. Without spoiling it, the fate of human (males) i…

Got excited, clicked on it, and then realised I'd been using it for a while anyway. Wish I hadn't given away my 2007 twitter account for free.

Any advice on how to find a part-time programming job?

Gotta tell you, that "giving a shit" scale isn't true in my case. I work for an agency and we give much more of a shit about our client than the client's internal devs do... about …