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by jlees 14y ago
I'm a tech person who rents out a furnished spare room (including to interns in the past) for $1000 in Mountain View, after looking at the going rates; from my experience, your advice isn't too far off. It's just a case of supply and demand
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Completely agree on point 3; fear of success is a big issue when it comes to side projects and the like, or in another form, fear of what the future/task looks like once the project is underway. There's also an aspect of enjoying the planni
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by jlees 14y ago
With bagged tea, leaving the bag in the milk while the kettle boils tends to take away an aspect of bitterness, which makes breakfast tea taste extraordinarily lovely. Though, having recently discovered the joys of quality leaf tea made pro
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by jlees 14y ago
There are several meal replacement programs sold in the dieting community. I was on one for three months where I could choose to consume zero solid food and get all my nutrition from powdered soups and shakes; the US equivalent seems to be
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Free child care at Google I/O 2013(plus.google.com)
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by jlees 14y ago
I was just telling my husband (who used to order food for his startup every single day) about you guys and he pointed out that your website really doesn't make it clear you're in the Bay Area, or whereabouts you serve. The yelp page is a lo
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by jlees 14y ago
The thermic effect of protein is pretty much negligible, and food restriction has also been shown to not be the obvious explanation in trials where they partitioned out exactly the same amount of food (2000 kcal, I believe) in different rat
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by jlees 14y ago
The article mentions in multiple places the saturated fat content of the junk food, often alongside sodium and sugar content, implying that these are the "bad numbers" to care about.
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Thirty minutes, and a helicopter(trendpreneur.com)
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The job description varies by product and company; products at different stages of development and growth within the same company demand different things of their PMs. Fundamentally, the PM's the one who gets the product shipped, whatever t
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by jlees 14y ago
I have been following a very similar routine to the one in this PDF, prescribed by a physical therapist due to limited mobility in my shoulders. (About 2.5 years ago I woke up with blinding pain in my left shoulder for no apparent reason. T
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by jlees 14y ago
If you already have upper crossed syndrome or otherwise stretched out lats and tight pecs, deadlifting without paying attention to form will not only exacerbate this but also cause you lower back strain. Glad to hear you avoided this, but I
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by jlees 14y ago
I classify them all as kind of cyberpunk/ARG fiction. Pattern Recognition takes place more in the physical world than Ready Player One, but they are both digital treasure hunts. As an ARG junkie, they naturally feel the 'same' to me. The st
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by jlees 14y ago
It Starts With Food was the book that has had the most significant impact on my life this year. Power, Speed, Endurance , which I recently got, has a shot at being the next most impactful. Among Others was one of the most enjoyable fic
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by jlees 14y ago
I wouldn't class Ready Player One as the best book of 2012, but it was certainly enjoyable (when I read it in 2011). I prefer This Is Not A Game and Pattern Recognition in this genre; also worth checking out is Tad Williams' Otherlan
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by jlees 14y ago
One of the issues I find with Twitter is the increasing amount to which it (like all channels) is used for commercial messages and notifications; when spammy @-replies and stream tweets started outweighing those from genuine people I wanted
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by jlees 14y ago
It's not just about happiness, but also productivity, diversity of thought, ideas and working styles, having a well-rounded team, and all that jazz. Though I'm sure happiness comes into it, too. I'm female, and half the reason I'm tempted t
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More people want Romney to be TIME's Person of the Year than Marissa Mayer(time.com)
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The link explains more - I'm raising money to fight cancer (the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, http://www.lls.org/ ) and offering up 1:1 hangout office hours in return for charitable donations. The office hours are primarily to focus on pr
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Offering 1:1 office hours in return for charity donations(trendpreneur.com)
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I don't think it's necessarily laziness. Sometimes the provider might design their star rating system purely as a consumption experience, not as a recommendation signal. Not every product has the data or reasons to use star ratings as recom
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by jlees 14y ago
On USENET, especially without a threaded client, top-posting was a sin because it often removed valuable context - or forced the reader to scroll down to see the context then back up to see the reply. It also made for poor arguments in long
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How to Create New Habits(huffingtonpost.com)
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The advice to break things down in advance is definitely helpful. The feeling of an insurmountable huge project when you're tired after a long day isn't exactly motivating. Some other suggestions (I've a similar work style): - Try the morni
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by jlees 14y ago
This is alluded to in the article - the "programming a VCR" comment. I can see how using a dial or buttons to control it just wouldn't feel right. Waving your hands? Maybe not quite there yet either (how about a NeuroSky?), but a neat hack
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by jlees 14y ago
We had the exact same problem (also around 4 years ago). The large companies which have the volume of tweets to need a service like this don't care too much if there is fancy machine learning behind it, but do care if there's sufficient mar
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by jlees 14y ago
Ah, but that's the issue. That list is huge . It's incredibly intimidating for a non-programmer (at least, for the non-programmers I've talked to). The matrix approach is much better in terms of "OK, here's where you start", though it also
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The Hard Life of an NFL Long Shot(nytimes.com)
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I've never been a big fan of podcasts. Some have done a good job of mixing current topics with in-depth dives into specific areas and a dash of humour/personality (boagworld, for example), but most of the others I've tried out are either lo
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by jlees 14y ago
Wonder if there should be an option to over-donate. I'm particularly sympathetic to certain illnesses that I've lost loved ones to, and covering the cost of the immediate treatment is lovely but I wouldn't mind giving that person a little m

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