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by jvvw 8y ago
I think some back pain is nocebo effect and his book basically also deconstructs the issues with many explanations for back pain helping alleviate those nocebo effects. If you want a placebo, then his book is about as cheap a placebo as you
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by jvvw 8y ago
We try and do all this - the hard thing I find is what limits to put in place and how when they do find stuff that feels less worthwhile or on the addictive side, which they obviously do. It's actually harder than it sounds I have foun
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by jvvw 8y ago
My sister lives there (though she doesn't work in tech) and massively prefers it to Budapest. Her main issues are that the summers are hotter than she find pleasant and that politics is moving in quite a right-wing/anti-immigrant
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by jvvw 8y ago
But employers know that you might have children and if you are a woman that you will have a certain amount of time off work as a result. So they might choose to employ a man instead even if you don't plan to have children yourself. Obv
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Certainly, with kids, it seems very apparent to me that my emotional state rubs off on them. I think there's a bigger feedback loop going on though. Obviously if they behave less well it makes me less happy too and it's easy to ge
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by jvvw 8y ago
That implies eating breakfast at work for most people. Also you need to be leaving work promptly at 5pm, not have too long a commute home and then start cooking straight away if you want to eat dinner by 6.30pm. (I do this, but didn't
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by jvvw 8y ago
I think the big difference between having one and two, other than the baby/toddler phase being extended, is that with one, it is easier for one parent to look after them while the other does something non-child related. It's obvio
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by jvvw 8y ago
I have interviewed maths applicants at Oxford, with the caveat that it was 20 years ago. The things that struck me were that a lot is dependent on the individual interviewers. I tried hard to look for potential as did most of the interviewe
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by jvvw 8y ago
If anybody is interested in this, then it's worth looking at the RIE approach for babies and toddlers (Janet Lansbury's blog is a good place to start http://www.janetlansbury.com/ ). A large part of it is about all
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by jvvw 8y ago
I'm half-time (18.75 hours per week) but got my job by originally being full-time and putting in a flexible working request - which you have a legal right to do in the UK if you have children under a certain age and have worked there a
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by jvvw 9y ago
It's actually six weeks maternity on nearly full pay and then about nine months 'statutory maternity pay' which is about £145 per week. Paternity leave is the same level as statutory maternity pay. Obviously individual compan
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by jvvw 9y ago
What age? I've got a 7 year old and recently started helping out a local 'Code Club' for 9-11 year olds. The projects provided by Code Club are definitely worth a look and include Scratch, Python as well as stuff for the Rasp
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by jvvw 9y ago
We have a morning restriction on school days because it's nigh on impossible to get the kids to school if they start playing games! (We also have an evening restriction so doesn't interfere with bedtime or disrupt sleep but are ot
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by jvvw 9y ago
Having done web dev for 10+ years, I would say that not all HTML/CSS implementation is trivial, especially when you have complicated layouts, are supporting older browsers and need your pages to be responsive. Not rocket science, but n
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by jvvw 9y ago
My sister is a professional translator and when companies pay her they generally do it because they want really good translations not because they just want people to understand the content. This can be for semi-legalistic reasons (though s
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by jvvw 9y ago
Realistically though, most of us working as developers wouldn't be working in a restaurant though instead. With a degree in maths, I would have probably ended up in something like statistics, science, finance or teaching. Not saying th
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by jvvw 9y ago
If you are in a professional career, then it's not the median salary that matters but the median salary for your particular profession (and indeed whether there are any jobs in your profession in that area). You also want to be looking
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by jvvw 9y ago
The battery of my four year old Nexus 4 can certainly still manage nearly a day.
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by jvvw 9y ago
For anybody looking into vue.js for the first time, I highly recommend starting with Laracasts series of screencasts which I found much more helpful than the information on the vue.js site itself when I was getting to grips to with it: htt
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by jvvw 9y ago
I've got a 2.5 day a week job as a developer in the south east of the UK, but got it by originally working there full-time and then later applying for flexible working (I have kids so had a legal right to request flexible working, alth
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by jvvw 9y ago
The article obviously make comparisons to the UK and having given birth twice in the UK, it struck me as really strange that you could go for 8 hours without having your blood pressure measured. I can't remember the exact interval they
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by jvvw 9y ago
I remember a physics academic I knew giving all his colleagues a short question and lots of sample incorrect answers and asking them how they would grade them out a certain mark. There was absolutely no agreement whatsoever. On the other ha
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by jvvw 10y ago
I don't agree with the policy but surely you use vacation time not sick leave when your children are sick? I do at least and assumed everybody else did too. (I'm in the UK though so appreciate sick leave may be a different concept
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by jvvw 10y ago
I'm in my forties and hence learned to code as a kid (in BASIC) before I learned to copy and paste :-)
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by jvvw 10y ago
You have to remember that this is a British app and we're probably not the best at things like asking for seats. As somebody who has been pregnant twice (and in the UK),I still can't really see what improvement this is over the ba
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by jvvw 10y ago
It's worth pointing out that there isn't any evidence (that I know of at least - I would be very interested to see any) of a link between 'attachment parenting' and secure attachment as defined by attachment theory, desp
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by jvvw 10y ago
Four weeks seems ludicrously short too. I'm curious about this because my sister is ludicrously good at languages (learned to speak ridiculously early, became fluent in Hungarian in less than six months etc.) but I'm not sure you&
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by jvvw 10y ago
Hmm, some games are definitely addictive. We didn't have too many issues with our kids (3 and 6) and screens until recently when our six year old discovered a particular game (slither.io) which I can definitely say he got addicted to.
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by jvvw 10y ago
The danger is that incorporating history is very easily to do badly. I remember various science lessons at school which were made duller and more confusing by the teacher taking a historical approach. We have better mathematical notation, e
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by jvvw 10y ago
There's a big difference between a three year old who has just turned three and one who is nearly four. We've got a three and a half year old (as well as a six year old who loves board games with a passion). He has just got the ha

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