Drinking NO MILK accounts for 8 years of less aging and reduced cases of Osteoporosis in adults.
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justboxing commented on Drinking 1% rather than 2% milk accounts for 4.5 years of less aging in adults medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/lelf
justboxing commented on Ask HN: Is there a platform for sharing ideas that people want to “give away”? · Posted by u/balzss
24K Members: https://www.reddit.com/r/Startup_Ideas/
569K Members: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyIdeas/
The 1st one is pretty active in that you get feedback also from the community.
justboxing commented on Notes on Technical Writing mkaz.blog/misc/notes-on-t... · Posted by u/marcuskaz
Anyone know where I can get legit technical writing gigs? I used to get paid to write about Elasticsearch for a company's blog and that was pretty cool. Would be keen to do something like that again. I can write about anything in the sysadmin/devops space or in the penetration testing space.
Thanks
Hey Tim,
Upwork. Create a profile as a technical writer, and put links to your docs.
I've picked up partime gigs for API documentation, product usage documentation / User Guide, with screenshots and gifs on that platform. If you are US based, even better cos lot of Companies want to hire US based freelancer for TAX reasons and what not.
Upwork search for client even has a filter that says "US only" and I've used that as a client also, to hire freelancers from within US.
Besides traditional technical writing, there are also gigs for Technical blog posts on various subjects. Avoid the one-off gigs that are low paying, and focus on startups or companies that have already paid for other gigs (you can see it in their profile).
justboxing commented on Notes on Technical Writing mkaz.blog/misc/notes-on-t... · Posted by u/marcuskaz
I actually found this article a bit confusing to read. I suppose they are "notes" but I found myself having to reread stuff a few times and it wasn't organized in a particularly clear way.
Here are some notes I had:
This is a very weird sentence:
> In the 1980s, they developed a minimalist approach and created a wonderful Operator Training Manual for the IBM Displaywriter, imagine having to introduce someone to using a word processor for the first time.
There is also a misspelling in "the four principals of minimalist instruction".
In that same section it is confusing to bullet point the four principles but include a summary of the principle at the end of the bullet point. This makes it hard to skim. (It's also self-referential, which the previous section recommends against.)
You will do really well as a proof-reader.
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justboxing commented on Tumblr’s First Year Without Porn theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/jseliger
It's sad when social networks and messaging platforms die. Every major one I've gotten invested in has gone belly up: AIM, Xanga, Yahoo Messanger, MSN, Myspace, and now Facebook is hemmoraging users. And Whatsapp isn't too far behind with a lot of its functionality duplicated by RCS or iMessage. The point is, don't get too invested in a messaging platform or social network because they don't last forever.
> Facebook is hemmoraging users.
Source?
Last I checked, they were serving 2.37 BILLION M.A.U.s.
...That's literally like 30% of the world population. If you exclude babies and under 5, the number is probably more like 40 to 45% of world population.
> Facebook now serves 2.37 billion monthly active users, an increase of 55 million on the previous quarter.
Source: Q1 2019 Earnings Report https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2019/Q1...
justboxing commented on Ask HN: What have you done to improve your desk ergonomics? · Posted by u/varrock
The iMac is almost 10kg (22lbs), that's what it costs for a monitor arm that can support that weight.
20$ arm from Amazon works just as well.
justboxing commented on Ask HN: What have you done to improve your desk ergonomics? · Posted by u/varrock
Do you feel the chair does justice to the price? How is your experience so far?
> Do you feel the chair does justice to the price?
Was thinking the same thing. Also what about the $300+ Monitor Arm. First time seeing someone pay an arm and length for an arm.
justboxing commented on I Wasn’t Prepared for Work (2013) web.archive.org/web/20140... · Posted by u/reikonomusha
> How has this affected me? I’ve mentally atrophied. I now feel like I can’t talk about any subject with more than a centimeter of depth. A half a decade ago, I could dive with you to the penetralia of convergence theorems of hypergeometric series, but now I cannot. Even my programming has taken a toll even though I do it every day. I find myself abstaining from studying advanced topics in programming and computer science, and instead sticking to this comfort zone of what I know.
How does one go about overcoming mental atrophy? Especially after spending a decade or more programming, I think most (if not all) developers battle with this problem...
If any one of you has successfully done this, please share.