None of the languages you listed are technically programming languages (I guess PowerShell could be considered one, but it's more for automation rather than programming actual applications). Maybe you're using the wrong terminology during your interviews.
oh definitely, i meant that i knew the basics of python, ruby, and javascript, as well as the other technologies (non-programming languages, as you said).
You got tired of packing your own capsules, so now you want to start packing other peoples capsules for money? This title doesn't make much sense.
I do like the idea though, it can be a strenuous task filling capsules one at a time for a months worth of supplements. I would recommend The Capsule Machine (http://www.amazon.com/The-Capsule-Machine-00-Kit/dp/B006OQ43...) for anyone who would like to do it themselves more efficiently.
Well, the idea was sort of those typical 'startup idea' tropes where it was a pain in the ass to make capsules... so why not abstract that away as a service!
Haha yeah I get it, and think it's a good idea. I just thought it was ironic that you'll be making even more capsules now that you're starting a service to help other people with the issue.
Rather like the focus on laundry services I was reading here (or was it on Digg?) the other day - lots of [primarily] young men hate laundry and so think "I know I'll start a laundry business" apparently.
"dudes, or duos of dudes, who have only recently experienced the crushing realization that their laundry is now their own responsibility, forever. Paradoxically, many of these dudes start companies that make laundry the central focus of their lives." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817895
When you have a population of beneficial microbes, they push the harmful ones out. The ones that cause acne, odor, etc...
When you take antibiotics it kills bacteria nonselectively, good and bad. This can lead to an overgrowth of harmful bacteria when you stop taking the antibiotics. Also good luck when the strain of bacteria you're fighting become resistant to the antibiotic you're taking... Maybe then you'll reconsider microbiomics.
Your fecal coliforms will kill other people, simply because they're yours, not theirs. They'll kill you if they don't stay in the gut (mine tried, along with a carbapenem-resistant strain of streptococcus introduced via a central line).
"A regime of concentrated AO+ caused a hundredfold decrease of Propionibacterium acnes"
The way I see it, both methods (using detergents or probiotics) are achieving the same effect: a decrease in harmful bacteria. The only difference is when probiotics are used, there is a lessened chance of a harmful microbe overgrowth.
I can't reply directly to "rosser" due to max comment depth, but fecal transplants don't generally involve introducing gut bacteria to anywhere other than the gut.
Fecal transplants are typically done with stool either very similar to your own in terms of the microbial makeup (preferably a family member that lives with you) or with synthetic, cultured stool that has been made free of pathogens.
It's still not a fun procedure, and the side effects are unpleasant. They're just less unpleasant than recurrent C. difficile.
There is nothing "nitpicking" about my correction of your misinformation (which you've now edited), and no, your point doesn't stand.
Taking an antibiotic does not kill ALL bacteria in a host, which is what you said before you edited your post. Nor can it be accurately said that antibiotics kill "nonselectively", whatever that means.
As a physician, when I've prescribed an antibiotic for your streptococcal infection or your pneumonia or whatever, you haven't been at any particular risk for "bacterial overgrowth" (whatever that means), "acne", or even "odor". But please feel free to link to some package inserts that list the relative risks and data for "bacterial overgrowth", "acne", and "odor" from popularly prescribed antibiotics.
And no, you're not at risk for "bacterial overgrowth" from washing with soap and water, of all things.
Antibiotics ARE overused. Antibiotic soaps are silly. Both help create antibiotic-resistant strains.
But scaring people who might benefit from antibiotics with misinformation about risks from "bacterial overgrowth" and simply washing with soap and water, while pushing "probiotics" puts people in about the same camp as the anti-vaccine anti-science crowd.
This entire N=1 post is laughable psuedo-science, which appears to have brought out the rest of the "reason from anecdote" crowd.
Wow, you've managed to make so many false assumptions about my original comment that I won't even bother to correct them all. Did you even read it thoroughly enough to comprehend my point? I guess not. Also have you ever heard of Broad-spectrum antibiotics? Yeah, those are nonselective.
