heleph

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What gambling firms don’t want you to know – and how they keep you hooked(theguardian.com)
40 points by heleph 5y ago|8 comments
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by heleph 6y ago
You don’t have to live where you were born. Find a place where you feel like it’s ok to be you and a group of people who like you and share your values.
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How to put together an earthquake/typhoon preparedness kit at the ¥100 shop(japantoday.com)
7 points by heleph 8y ago|0 comments
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by heleph 8y ago
Navigating my city’s public transport with a stroller also gave me new appreciation of how difficult it must be for people in a wheelchair. There are only a handful of step free stations in my city.
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by heleph 9y ago
Food labs actually levelled up my cooking to the next level. So many great recipes and ideas. It was a very readable book too, I pretty much read it cover to cover. The best thing was buying a meat thermometer. Why did I cook for so long wi
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by heleph 9y ago
Good on your mother for persisting until she got to the bottom of the brownie mystery! It’s a bit of a pity the company tampered with such a successful recipe! My brownie recipe is from a cookbook and I tried a lot of variations on it and t
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by heleph 9y ago
I have Fridays off to spend with my kids too. It's really nice. I've always found it quite difficult to switch off, but after three days with the kids I go back to work refreshed and with a fresh sense of perspective. It's lo
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by heleph 9y ago
Success is fun and should be celebrated. It's definitely something that's nice to achieve from time to time. What is problematic is when you look for something in success that success can't give you. If you don't like yo
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by heleph 10y ago
I met many of my local friends in a cafe here. We all have small kids, which give you a very easy opportunity to talk to people you don't know and make it difficult to spend time with a phone or laptop. After four years of living in ou
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by heleph 10y ago
It's a little bit dated now, but the C2 wiki is a fun place to read about software development. There are quite a lot of patterns, anti-patterns, practices, rambling debates and just generally interesting ideas: http://wiki.
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by heleph 10y ago
The group of people you're working with may not be as mutable as you think. I've been working in my programming language community in the city where I live for about ten years. There are people I have worked with before at pretty
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by heleph 10y ago
I have an anecdote about my experience not working for a long period of time. Sounds like I'm in quite a different place in my life to you but I hope you don't mind me sharing and maybe there might be some part of it that is usefu
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by heleph 10y ago
I bought a Fitbit because I wanted to nudge my physical activity from sedentary into not noteworthy. I've been wearing it about three months and it has helped me do that. The other smart phone things I really love are notifications abo
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by heleph 10y ago
Or someone else in your team who tried to make the change last time it came around, who has now left and lives in another time zone.
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by heleph 10y ago
I do UK to Australia every other year. I started in my early twenties and am now mid thirties. I've found jetlag has gotten worse as I've got older. I hardly felt it when I was 21! I'd say it takes about three days to be slee
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by heleph 11y ago
I think it's difficult because no one particular change is a problem and in isolation they are mostly completely reasonable. It's the accumulation of these changes that cause the code to rot. There are a whole heap of "human
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by heleph 11y ago
I have started sending samples to my kindle as a kind of place holder for books I'd like to read when I have time. It's saved me heaps of money!
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Crossrail: the end of the beginning(londonreconnections.com)
2 points by heleph 11y ago|0 comments
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by heleph 11y ago
I've got ten years of photos on Flickr and have been a paying subscriber almost that long. For me my Flickr is my story of the past ten years: moving to the UK, share housing, meeting my husband, getting married, many fun holidays, hav
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by heleph 11y ago
I've always had to do that in the UK. Your previous employer gives you a form called a P45 when you leave that has information about your tax code and your earnings for the previous year.
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by heleph 11y ago
I finally got around to reading Logicomix, a graphic novel about the development of mathematical logic around the first half of the 20th century. It's told as the story of Bertrand Russell and has a theme of wanting to understand the w
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by heleph 11y ago
I really loved Containment, one where the human race woke up one day to find that the stars had disappeared because the solar system had been placed in a huge container. I loved how humanity reacted to having their horizons limited, but in
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by heleph 12y ago
What kind of thing would you say to avoid giving your current salary without appearing like a jerk?
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by heleph 12y ago
Their problem is more that it's not installed on Mum's phone or tablet. :)
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by heleph 12y ago
One thing that really helped me with resume writing is learning to think of it as advertising. You want to make it as easy for the person reading it to say yes to you as possible. I'm involved with hiring pretty frequently and here are
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by heleph 12y ago
Also programming languages and frameworks quickly go out of date, while the fundmentals like algorithms help you out no matter which language you're working in.
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by heleph 12y ago
I liked what I first heard described as "t shaped" people when I read the Valve new starter guide [0]. That is people whose experience covers a fair amount of breadth with pockets of depth. The breadth is good because knowing a lo
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by heleph 12y ago
We find whenever we significantly change the look of our website or our emails, conversion goes up significantly for a couple of weeks and then most the time goes back to the normal levels. I think a difference just stimulates the brain, al
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by heleph 12y ago
I've been watching the original Thomas the tank engine with my son and was a bit surprised to notice the theme around obeying the Fat Controller's authority. He is a mostly benevolent authority figure who helps the engines out of
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by heleph 12y ago
Also if you look at the skin of older people from a sunny place compared to the skin of people from an overcast place, it's noticeably tougher and more wrinkled. I'm an Australian who has lived the last ten years in the UK and my

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