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Review our app (To→done) | pedalpete: Very nice and simple. What I really like about it is it gets to the 'just get something started' mentality.Great work. |
Why do automated bank transfers take X "business" days? | wmf: Previous rant on this topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=949027Unfortunately, we didn't come up with any good answers. |
Why do automated bank transfers take X "business" days? | jolan: Most banks pool their ACH transfers at the end of a business day. Then the ACH tabulates the transfers for the day and sends them to the destination bank.There is usually a hold when receiving funds for "security reasons". |
Good programming language for kids | myke1829: I'd recommend Scratch. It's approachable and intuitive - and cross platform. It bundles loads of sprites, images, sounds, music loops, and sample projects. It also imports photos straight from your webcam.Lot's of people will rail against a language like Scratch because it doesn't have any "real world" uses. However, teaching is a real world use, and that's why Scratch was developed. Programming concepts transcend languages.Most people focus on Scratch's drag-and-drop interface, which does prevent syntax errors. Not fighting syntax errors means kids can spend more time learning programming concepts and experimenting with things that matter, such as arrays, variables, and stuff.The under-talked about feature in Scratch that makes a good teaching tool is the "single stepping" mode. This mode steps through the scripts, one block at a time, allowing you to see the code "execute" as the game/story plays out. Great for debugging or learning.Lot's of great places to find tutorials online. Try:
http://scratch.mit.edu
http://www.scratchguide.com |
Writing an iPhone dev book for teens -- would love to hear thoughts. | mdolon: Sounds very interesting, something I would definitely consider purchasing for myself, as I've been interested in iPhone app development but haven't had time to read through my thick Cocoa and Objective-C books. If you can make yours simple and short, I would certainly check it out.On a side note, I wonder if it would compete with this: http://www.amazon.com/iPhone-Application-Development-Dummies... |
Interesting (Non software) books? | gursikh: The Teenage Liberation Handbook |
Are web 2.0 to-do lists just hype? | imsaar: I am using Toodledo.com (very ugly web interface but good functionality) with Ultimate To Do iphone app which can sync with Toodledo and it has been working out pretty well.I agree a To Do list that is not always with you is not an effective list.I have tried all the ones you mentioned except Todoist and none of them is as effective as my current solution.Another nice thing with Toodledo is that they have a good and simple API that can be used to make it available on other smartphones as an offline app. |
Why do automated bank transfers take X "business" days? | ig1: Doesn't happen in the UK anymore, since 2008 most UK banks have been part of the "Faster Payments Service" which means interbank transfers generally happen within 2 hours.At the time it happened banks considered charging for the new faster service as it meant they would lose out on the interest they would otherwise earn from the slower transfer. So I'm guessing that's the same reason US banks are reluctant for faster transfers. |
How to automatically monitor keywords (eg. Java, DBA...) on job sites? | rokhayakebe: I think most will give you an alert. |
Are web 2.0 to-do lists just hype? | TodoneApp: Heh, was this in response to my "Ask HN" earlier today? :) I agree that these list based systems are always trumped by a text file or pen/paper for portability and simplicity. However, having tried so many list-based systems as well as the "simpler methods", I still found myself just not getting things done. That's why I built http://todoneapp.com, which is really an experiment with a new methodology for doing things. The point isn't to organize you, it's to compel you to fulfill promises to yourself, in a way. This is the system I needed to help me pull weeds. Putting it down on paper wasn't helping. Building a system that allowed me to say "I need to pull the weeds" and at some point asking it "What should I do now?" to be told "You should pull the weeds. Go away and pull the weeds." That's what I needed. It's much easier to do something that "someone else" is telling you to do, than listening to yourself tell you to do it. YMMV of course. :) |
Can we get a "hide story" button? | pg: The reason I don't do this is that it would remove the pressure to make the content of the site be good.One reason public transport is bad in most US cities is that rich people rarely use it. |
The unaddressed iPad ebooks question | cmelbye: I'm wondering the same exact thing. Luckily I haven't purchased many ebooks (only one from Amazon actually, REWORK) so I'm starting from scratch and figuring out which one is the best to use. I'm excited to see the various apps though. |
Why do automated bank transfers take X "business" days? | brk: An ACH is basically an electronic check. Like a check it has to be routed through a Fed bank on its path to clearing, and it can also be stopped like a real check.A wire is more instant (usually less than 24 hours), more direct, and more expensive. A wire cannot be recalled by the sender without agreement by the recipient. |
Are web 2.0 to-do lists just hype? | apowell: I'm not sure if it's "web 2.0", but it's nice looking and has an iPhone app to accompany it -- I've been using Things for a year now. I have definitely become more reliable and efficient since I began using it seriously. |
got any food hacks? | dnsworks: You might follow http://www.foodhacking.com/ |
The unaddressed iPad ebooks question | mechanical_fish: What if you had to use a different music player for music you purchased from Amazon?Well, what if every time you bought a book it came as a separate stack of paper in a form factor and layout that was chosen for you and which you couldn't change?Oh, wait, that was how all books worked for five hundred years.Perhaps you are looking the gift horse in the mouth a bit too sharply?Anyway, a big reason why the music industry worked differently is that computer wizards invented machines that were really good at taking a legally-purchased CD and turning it into iPod-compatible digital music in five minutes without human intervention. That's just not possible for books. (Though it might eventually be possible for digital books, DRM or no.)I think it even might be legal, and it's certainly low-risk, for you to buy a book, slice off the binding, feed every page through OCR and put the result into any format that you like for your personal use... but it's so much work that you'd probably rather spend the five or ten bucks and cope with the different book-reading interfaces. (If you're interested, though, I hear the Fujitsu Scansnap is pretty nice.)The other factor is piracy, of course. Perhaps the need to compete against pirated books will eventually drive the book industry to shed DRM. I do wonder, though. Counterintuitively, books really may be harder to pirate than digital music -- at least for now, and for my taste -- because the lowest-common-denominator format is plain text, and plain text can be painful to read. After spending five minutes reading a Project Gutenberg book on the iPhone the other day, and tripping over poor spacing, miserable hyphenation, and misplaced chapter breaks the whole time, I found myself craving the ability to spend three bucks on a version that had been laid out by a competent typographer.What I hope is going to happen is that eleven different iPhone reader apps will come out, and compete, and the profit margins will flow to the one that lets artists and typographers lay out the books in a thoughtful manner, and then everyone will copy that one. But, even if I get my wish, we might have to suffer through years of garbage first, just as we did with CD-ROMs, or laser printers, or the early days of HTML when the blink tag and the animated GIF roamed far and wide. |
got any food hacks? | shard: In my bachelor days during my bulking phases, I'd do the following to pack in the nutrients I needed:1. Buy several bags of chicken drumsticks (de-skin if you want to lower fat intake), poke holes with a fork, marinate with wine / vinegar / soy sauce / herbs and spices for a few hours, put into broiler. I'd cook 30 or so at a time, and it'd last me days.2. Ham or turkey or peanut butter sandwiches.3. bags of frozen veggies. Stir-fry if you have time, boil or microwave if you don't.4. Peanut butter & banana & milk & protein powder drinks. I'd make a big glass every night for my snack.5. Mixed nuts to snack on.Lots of good fats, low glycemic index carbs, and protein; inexpensive and quick. |
got any food hacks? | Frazzydee: This is going to sound really simple, but it's what I do. Take at your own risk, because I have a strong stomach.I cook food in bulk, and just re-cook it on the stove, make a bowl of rice, and eat it over the next week. Even meat, and it tastes about as good as the first time. I usually keep it in the fridge, but I'm fine even if it's left outside and covered.Might take a bit of time to cook the first time, but you can make some healthy and nutritious food, and it'll be ready in minutes every time after the first. |
got any food hacks? | x2Opteron: Oatmeal is healthy, cheap, quick, and add a bit of honey or brown sugar makes it super tasty. Steel cut oats take longer to cook than quick oats, but they're more satisfying IMO. |
got any food hacks? | gte910h: Eat lots of blueberries.Buy from vegan delivery chefs in your area.I's pretty easy, and a counterbalance to any eating out you might want to do |
got any food hacks? | sfgfdhgfdshdhhd: Technology could certainly help with the time aspect. Rig an electric timer to your toaster or toaster oven so that it's cooking you breakfast before/as you wake up. Hack together a device to do the stirring for you for foods that need to just be stirred over heat for a long time. Just be wary of fire hazards. |
got any food hacks? | anateus: I've found fish tacos to be a fantastic food, I try to eat them for breakfast as often as I can. --------------
Ingredients:* Frozen tilapia fillets (probably the healthiest fish you can buy, not as high in Omega-3 as larger ocean fish, but it's super low in mercury).* Yellow corn tortillas (much lower in fat and sodium than the wheat or white corn ones).* Salsa (I buy Herdez brand, it's basically Pico De Gallo with no additives. I can't stand tomatoes in any other form. Red vegetables are good for you, and it's the one way I can get some)* Queso Fresco or some other cheese (not too much)Procedure:The tilapia you can just stick in a toaster oven (or a full on oven) under broil for 15-20mins, with some salt and pepper, and whatever other spices you feel like that day.Put tortillas on ungreased skillet (or hot plate) for 10-15 secs each side. Take off, add your cheese, put in fish (slice the fillet as you see fit), and add salsa and whatever other vegetables (some chopped lettuce, and sometimes even cabbage works).EAT! --------------
1 tilapia fillet is very filling and makes 2-3 tacos.In conclusion: fast, easy, delicious, and very healthy. The frozen tilapia fillets keep in the freezer for quite a while. Trader Joe's sells panko-crusted ones that you can substitute once in a for some extra fun. |
got any food hacks? | araneae: http://hackerhousewife.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/hack-shredde... |
got any food hacks? | ableal: Beans. They have protein and fiber, no sugar. Canned pre-cooked red or brown beans. (In the U.S., buy chili beans - they don't have sugar added, the others do.)Add a little meat for flavor. I'm partial to a small chunk of sausage/chorizo/pepperoni, diced in small bits. Plus tomato paste (not ketchup - sugar again) and paprika. Spice up at will, but I find Tabasco too vinegary.Add water to make it soupy, boil for 10 minutes, eat with bread. Microwave in a bowl if you're lazy (er, efficient) like me, or are re-heating a leftover portion.Tossing a portion of chicken breast, in a dry non-stick frying pan, into the oven for 20 or 30 minutes (?), while doing something else, was also a favorite in my grad student days. |
got any food hacks? | punkrockgeekboy: My favorite vegetarian food hacks are Quinoa and Peanut Butter Oatmeal. Both are great sources of protein.When I want to spend a weekend hacking, and don't want to be bothered, I'll cook a big batch of steel cut oats in the slow cooker, starting it on a Friday night. Then I know I can just mix in a few table spoon of the good "grind it yourself" peanut butter with a cup or two of oatmeal. It leaves me feeling satiated, and is rather healthy with lots of fiber and protein without much fat, and without sugar. |
got any food hacks? | Raphael: Hard-boiled eggs. |
got any food hacks? | byrneseyeview: I've recently switched to a fairly paleo diet; I enjoy it. My first step was to start every day with scrambled eggs. There are infinite variations (you can mix in about a quarter of a pound of arugula or spinach, or a couple sliced mushrooms--or you can pour some salsa on it when you're done). Takes about fifteen minutes to cook, consume, and clean, and you'll simply have a better day once you do it. I've found that a protein-and-fat breakfast at seven means I can decide whether I want to eat again at noon or at three, which is nice. |
got any food hacks? | samdk: Couscous. It's cheap, cooks really quickly (about 6-7 minutes), makes no mess, and requires no dishes other than the pot it's cooked in.It's also really versatile. I often use it instead of rice in simple rice dishes (rice and beans, etc.), and it can substitute for pasta too. |
got any food hacks? | PostOnce: Spend money to save time, or spend time to save money. There aren't a whole lot of ways around it.There are some tricks, but it boils down to either you spend the time or the money, or you're going to end up with unhealthy/bland/repetitive food. If it's fast, cheap, and healthy, then it's one of the few meals in that category and will therefore become repetitive. You see where I'm going. |
got any food hacks? | thomasthornton: At least once a week I microwave a sweet potato (10 minutes or so). Then microwave black beans and mix in a little salsa. Serve the potato with the bean mixture as a topping. The result is a healthy dinner in about 15 minutes with almost no work. You can also add cumin and ground corriander to give it more flavor. |
got any food hacks? | bmj: A quick favorite in my house is lentil-rice casserole. Basic recipe is here:http://www.gettingfreedom.net/2009/02/lentil-brown-rice-cass...Very easy, and can produce several days of leftovers.Another variation on the easy burritos is simply taking a can or two of beans, mashing them with a jar salsa, and adding some rice.Quinoa is another option for cheap, healthy food. It cooks relatively quickly and is purported to have one of the most complete types of protein.Also, to spice up rice, couscous, or quinoa, cook it with vegetable broth instead of plain water. |
got any food hacks? | gcv: Learn to make stews in a Dutch oven. The cooking process takes about 2-3 hours, but prep only requires about 20 minutes. Just learn to use a chef's knife efficiently. Easy, efficient, and produces several days' worth of delicious dinners. Eat with raw vegetables.PS: If you drink whole milk in large quantities, make sure you do the weight training to compensate. Otherwise, you'll just get fat. |
got any food hacks? | mattmaroon: What you just asked for is a full-sized SUV that costs $10,000, rides like a Lexus, gets 45mpg city, and never loses the new car smell.If you don't want to cook or clean, that means someone has to cook/package for you. If you don't want processed food (and I don't blame you) where this is done by machine, then you have to pay for something done by real people. This will by-definition be not cheap, since labor is relatively expensive in food prep.You could just snack on raw veggies but I'm guessing you wouldn't consider that tasty for long.Much better would be to structure your life in such a way that you can spare the hour. Go read In Defense of Food as to why, then ask yourself about your priorities. To do otherwise is to put work/school above your health which makes no sense at all. |
got any food hacks? | rjett: Breakfast: Some sort of cereal; for mornings that I have more time, I might make an omelet and toast.
Snacks: Peanut Butter Sandwiches
Lunch: Turkey, cheese, lettuce, condiment on wheat, apple, cottage cheese
Dinner: I usually get home late so I don't have the energy to cook. I love to cook though so I do all my cooking on the weekends and store it for the week.Spaghetti with Italian sausage is cheap to make and lasts 3-4 meals.
Stir Fry using frozen chicken breasts, rice, and frozen stir-fry vegetables is also cheap and lasts for a few meals.
For my "nice" meal, I usually buy a manager's special (a couple days from being unsaleable) London Broil or a pot roast and have that with potatos and peas.
Then there's always the old constant of beans and rice any of the 5000 ways you want to prepare it.I'm not a ramen fan btw. There are plenty of healthy, cheap alternatives. In Sacramento, this diet costs about $45/week. |
got any food hacks? | SlyShy: Ramen noodles don't have to be unhealthy, if you add a tiny bit more expense.Start cooking ramen like normal. When it starts to boil, crack and egg in and stir. The soup will cook the egg, of course. Also peel a few leafs off a head of lettuce, cut them to your preference, and toss those in too. When you are done you've got a meal that has protean and fiber, in addition to your loads of gluten. ;) |
got any food hacks? | pingswept: A few suggestions:1. Fresh pasta cooks faster than dry pasta, is still pretty cheap, and it tastes better too. Definitely an improved taste/time ratio.2. If you can find a place that sells enormous sandwiches, you can make each half a meal. I often eat half a sandwich at 11 AM and the second half around 3 PM.3. I think a rice cooker is a worthwhile investment (google Zojirushi). |
got any food hacks? | thunk: Rice cooker. Rice-to-water ratio 1:1.5 for white and 1:2 for brown. 15-20 minutes for white and 30-40 minutes for brown. Throw in vegetables and/or fish for the last 7-10 minutes to steam. Season to taste. I like teriyaki sauce (with tons of garlic and ginger) on it. Corn starch is the key to a thick, shiny sauce. |
Are web 2.0 to-do lists just hype? | pedalpete: I don't use any web-based todo list, but have tried a few more for curiosity than as a solution to a problem.I think the reason so many of these things exist is
1) the functionality seems fairly simple
2) the market opportunity is hugeWhere I think most of them fail is that they don't (as far as I have seen) provide a compelling differentiator or improvement over pen & paper or txt file.Sure they are easy to use, but so are the alternatives.
Is there a killer feature that is making a to do list better than a txt file?
If so, i haven't seen it. |
got any food hacks? | ramidarigaz: Rice and dal is excellent, and if you invest in a rice cooker, you can make pretty much the entire dinner without thinking about it. The lentils are apparently pretty good protein.I posted a recipe a while back, and it's still one of my favorites. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726619Edit: Rice and lentils are both quite inexpensive if you buy bulk, and they both keep for a long time. The spices are initially more expensive, but they last for a long time as well. |
got any food hacks? | edj: A few of things I do:1) Leftovers. I often cook chili, dal, chana masala, or soups in large quantities. I eat them fresh, then from the fridge for a day or two, then freeze the rest. Anything flavorful and goopy works (since textures degrade with freezing and reheating).2) Rice cooker. Most useful kitchen appliance I've ever owned. They really are fire and forget. I bought mine for $13 at target. It only has one button (maybe Apple should get into this market?). It's pretty forgiving--I don't even measure the water anymore.3) Whole pre-cooked chickens. They can cost as little as $3 or as much as $10 (for the organic ones). I get 2-4 meals from one chicken depending on its size and what I eat with it. Then I throw the carcass in a pot of water with onions and celery and make soup stock. (Throw away the bones, onions, and celery before making soup).4) Instant oatmeal is the cheapest good breakfast I know of. I use fancy steel cut organic instant oats with organic milk and the cost is around $0.50 per meal. Adding fresh berries brings it to around $1.50. (That said, my current favorite breakfast is whole wheat bread, scrambled eggs, and sauteed kale or spinach.) |
got any food hacks? | pgbovine: subway sandwiches are probably the cheapest, quickest, and healthiest 'fast food' that you might tolerate eating on a daily basis. you can get a decent sandwich for ~$4. |
got any food hacks? | dnsworks: Also, if you're not vegan & can stomach it, Cottage Cheese is a fantastic source of protein. It's also cheap and really simple. |
got any food hacks? | lotharbot: 1) get a rice cooker, preferably one with a top basket that lets it double as a veggie steamer. Rice with some veggies and lean meat is fairly healthy, tasty, inexpensive, and requires little active prep time (which is what I assume you mean by "quick".) You may have to cook the meat separately, depending on the type.2) get a slow cooker. Much of the same applies, only instead of a rice base, use potatoes and/or beans. This works pretty well with larger portions of meat (chicken is cheap.) IIRC you can do some pasta dishes in a slow cooker as well.3) For variety, change up the specific mix of veggies, the type of meat (may need to be cooked separately), and the spices in both of the above. You'd be amazed how different rice with chicken, carrots, onions and potatoes tastes when you spice it with oregano vs. curry powder vs. garlic and ginger.4) Hit up the day-old bread rack, the reduced-price meat section, and so on. It's a good way to add occasional bits of variety at a low cost. I also get most of my produce from a small neighborhood produce stand, rather than the big grocery store.5) [EDIT]: one simple dish I've started making on the stovetop recently: Throw some pasta, canned/frozen/fresh-cut veggies, and a can of concentrated soup (tomato, cream of chicken, etc.) in a saucepan with the appropriate amount of water. Cook it just like you would cook plain pasta. Again, you can add a bit of meat and change up the spices, veggies, or soup type and have a totally different meal. |
got any food hacks? | pgbovine: iirc, pg mentioned something about cooking rice and beans or some other cheap but healthy food during his startup hacking days ... could somebody post a link if you remember it? |
got any food hacks? | RevRal: Get potstickers, use ~5 for every bowl of ramen. Eat the raman, then a carrot.I am highly anticipating Roger Ebert's book "The Pot And How To Use It." A rice cooker pot, not marijuana -- I got excited, too. The book sounds like it'll be a compilation of the best food hacks ever. |
got any food hacks? | mprovost: The ultimate food hack is the pressure cooker. You can cook things much quicker than usual by changing the rules (ie raising the boiling point of water). They're really good for making basics like rice and quinoa very quickly and you can turn something like boiling potatoes from a 20 minute exercise into about 7 minutes.Another good one is using an electric kettle/jug to boil water. It's the fastest way (obviously immersing the heating element directly in the water is going to be more efficient than going through a pan). Lots of people use them for tea etc but I use mine to boil water for pasta. |
got any food hacks? | cynicalkane: Problem: Vegetables are gross, and hard to prepare such that they taste good.Solution: vegetable smoothie. Ice, a banana, yogurt, milk, and a whole bunch of spinach, in proportions according to taste. This sounds disgusting, but it actually tastes really good. Make sure you have a banana though. Otherwise it will tastes like spinach, and that's not the goal here.After trying to report my discovery to the world, it seems I'm the only person who thinks spinach smoothies are a good idea. For some reason, everyone thinks it's disgusting to fill a blender with spinach and other things and then drink it. I can't imagine why. |
got any food hacks? | aheilbut: Greek yogurt is tasty (especially if you add some fresh fruit and honey to it...) and has lots of protein. |
got any food hacks? | limist: Cheap, fast, and potentially very healthy: smoothies. One basic recipe:2 cups fruit juice, e.g. orange juice or apple juice2-3 tablespoons ground flax seed (omega-3, trace minerals, fiber)2-3 tablespoons protein powder (soy, hemp, whatever)2 bananas2-3 cups of greens: kale, frozen spinach (organic, conventional has too much pesticides), collard greens; frozen means no washing, so it's faster1 cup frozen mango, blueberries, etc.1 kiwispices (cinnamon, etc.)Obviously, you can mix and experiment and find what you like. You can also include a lot more greens than you'd ever eat in one salad, and thanks to the blender, not spend time chewing, nor get sated with the (sometimes bitter) taste of greens. Enjoy! |
Interesting (Non software) books? | gursikh: On Writing, Stephen King |
got any food hacks? | dood: The best trick is to batch it. Fill your freezer with tasty, quality foods which can be made in nice big batches: stew, casserole, bolognaise (which can be quickly converted to chilli), curry, dal, etc.All of the above foods can be reheated quickly, can be eaten in a variety of ways (various carb-staples & veg), and you can tweak the recipe each time if you like.If you don't have much money, or don't want to eat much meat, you can add as much beans/potatoes to the basic dish as you like, and/or eat small portions combined with whatever staples you prefer.Every week cook a big batch of something. Soon you'll have a freezer full of a variety of tasty, nurtitious goodness. |
got any food hacks? | davidedicillo: My mom would cry if she could read english...Cheap and fast: PASTABase for the pasta:
- boil the water and salt it
- add pasta (but please, don't overcook it, just stick to the box instruction. Barilla is an excellent brand and decently priced)Sauces for the pastaTuna Pasta
- In a small pot add a spoon of olive oil and diced onion, crushed red pepper, and stir-fry it.
- When the onion looks "gold" add a can of tuna (drain the water from the can first) and a can of tomato sauce.
- let cook for 15 minutes medium heatPasta Carbonara
- on a small pan stir-fry some cured bacon
- in a bowl beat 1 egg, a spoon of heavy cream and 1/4 cup of parmigiano cheese.
- when the pasta is ready add first the bacon with its oil and then the mix from the bowl |
The unaddressed iPad ebooks question | gte910h: Why does this matter? Use different readers. Voila, you can read what you buy. Worry less. Be happy more. |
any white-label/SaaS virtual-currency/"MyPoints" services out there? | jasonlbaptiste: We need to talk ASAP. j@cloudomatic.com (Normally I'd email, but there isn't a direct one in your profile). |
got any food hacks? | ubergeekchick: Learn to Bake
Required Hardware: The best food hack ever is as older than the origins of the word "hack" and almost every one has one: its called an oven.The best part of baking is all the wonderful things that can be hacked together to improve your daily caffeine supply. From biscuits/cookies, cakes, coffee cake, yummy biscotties, and so so much more.--BAKING HACK README--Dependencies: Than on to ready-to-raise flour, eggs, water, and butter. With those four ingredients you can begin an template for many baking projects.Recommended Ingredients: Sugar, Salt, Cinnamon, and Milk.Optional Ingredients: Fruits, Veggies, Meats, and just about about any thing.Optional Hardware: Aluminum foil and any of many various baking pans, e.g.: Cookie Sheets, Pie pans, Muffin pans, Bread pans, Pie pans, and etc.To prove your "leet skillz": try replacing any said pan with an aluminum foil struct of a similar thickness & shape. Though for reasons of taste & safety this may also prove your absolute stupidity as well. But who care's cause you're leet: right? :-)Now: go get baked! |
got any food hacks? | tjr: I've consistently enjoyed a can of fat-free refried beans, salsa, corn or flour tortillas, and (optionally) some shredded cheese. |
got any food hacks? | reasonattlm: Alternate day fasting. Cut your work in half, drop your food budget by 2/3 or so.Cook lentil + onion + carrot + split pea soup in a pot on the weekend, then freeze it in portion sized boxes for the coming week. Buy bread with very high fiber content to go with it. That makes for one meal a day that's so easy no-one can mess it up, and doesn't take more than two hours a week to arrange in advance. |
got any food hacks? | dlevine: A friend of mine runs a blog called BrokeAss Gourmet, which focuses on cheap and easy to make meals http://www.brokeassgourmet.com/It's not exactly $1 per meal cooking, but you can make a good meal for not all that much (especially because, if you're single, one recipe will yield multiple servings) |
The unaddressed iPad ebooks question | Bradlinc: Its not a good solution but my plan is to purchase only fiction or items I don't plan on reading again. Unfortantly my local library will miss out as I typically give it the books I no longer need to keep as a reference. |
got any food hacks? | renesugar: Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, has a video titled 'Sugar: The Bitter Truth' where he talks about how fructose (sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose via sucrase) shuts down the signal to stop eating.If you eat a diet with less fructose, you will eat less.You can do a search on 'fructose intolerance diet' which is used by people who cannot metabolize fructose. It shows you how to reduce the amount of fructose you consume.To make bread without using sugar, you can do a search on 'The Minimalist' and 'no knead bread'. Making bread yourself is cheaper than buying it. |
got any food hacks? | phillaf: Bach student here. here is the best ratio health/$ that I've found.
Hard boiled eggs (the white part only)
Canned Tuna
oatmeal
Bananas
Frozen vegetables |
got any food hacks? | nhebb: I thought "sudo make me a sandwich" was the ultimate food hack: http://xkcd.com/149/ |
Review our app (To→done) | askar: It's a simple app and a different concept but why is the the minimum time limit is 15 mins? What if I just have 5 mins? Also, can we set some priorities to the tasks so when you try to figure out what to present you can give the tasks some priority? Also, a way to see all my tasks as a list would be helpful at some point.A few things could be improved but a good start I think. |
got any food hacks? | stck: I'm somewhat surprised no-one has mentioned just plain fruit. Often times I eat nothing but apples, oranges, avocados, kiwis, pineapples and bananas after work. Doesn't get much healthier than that. |
got any food hacks? | NZ_Matt: I make a big batch of 30 - 40 wraps (burritos or kebabs) and freeze them. After a 60 second nuke they are good to go.I'm also a student and have found that carrying a water bottle everywhere stops me from buying sodas. It saves me money and of course is a lot healthier. |
got any food hacks? | mmaunder: You need the Julia Child Omlette! All you need are eggs, water, butter and a hot pan and it takes 3 minutes and tastes awesome! The water is the trick. When you whisk water and eggs together, as they hit the hot pan the water turns to steam and fluffs the eggs up. I've made this many times and once you get the pan shaking and timing right, you will impress the hell out of your friends every time.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWmvfUKwBrgGet a dozen eggs and some friends over and practice making this. Then start throwing in pre-cooked items like bacon bits etc. The possibilities are endless.Once you've got it down, make this for breakfast for a date one morning and you won't be single long. |
got any food hacks? | askar_yu: does not really apply to you...
but those living with roommates could cook alternately throughout the week. A duty cooks and cleans everything up for everybody in house - so you get to cook fewer times than everyday but eat healthy dinner everyday. not sure if it's common thing in here, but I remember being surprised (when I first came to US) seeing Americans (students sharing house/dorm) eating dinners separately.
of course, it only applies to dinner, but that's the most time consuming one I guess. |
got any food hacks? | Flemlord: I consider this as a hack--I never was able to consistently cook/grill meat until I got a good instant-read thermometer. Now it's embarrassingly easy. Char the meat on the stove or grill for a couple minutes, then throw it in the oven on low heat until it hits the right temperature. It comes out perfectly every time and there's very little effort involved. |
got any food hacks? | awongh: I think the ultimate time saver for cooking good tasting food with little effort is a crock pot. Anything that cooks food over low heat over a long period of time.This method always seems to produce food that has that special "something" where all the ingredients meld into something magic. It's virtually impossible to mess up and it's good for getting rid of odd bits left in your fridge.It can also be easily adopted to your nutritional requirements, and to any type of cuisine. Basically every single culture on earth has a version of stuff-thrown-in-pot-and-cooked-for-a-long-time.The secret to success is to begin with similar ingredients. Usually onions and carrots and garlic- then celery for something european, bell pepper for something south american, maybe ginger for something asian.Then you add some kind of cheap cut of meat, chicken, pork, beef, it doesn't matter, (sausage or ham, leftover meats- doesn't matter if they've been cooked already) then some other appropriate long cooking vegetable (potatoes, corn, anything that won't fall apart during cooking, an hour before eating, you can put in the more delicate vegetables). Then some water. Cover and leave it for like 4 or 5 hours and when you come back it'll be amazing. If it's appropriate, you can also add any kind of dried beans.Prep is also easy, because you dont really have to worry about cutting the vegetables carefully. Just cut them any way you like and dump them in.You can make rice or cous cous or quinoa (starch) to go along with it, or you can have it with bread or crackers.Some specific examples: osso bucco, coq au vin (adding alcohol in really helps make it good) cassoulet, chili, goulash, tangine, gumbo, indian-style curries, etc., you can see how versatile this method is..... |
got any food hacks? | garply: In terms of preparation speed - there's a reason we Americans like sandwiches - if you're preparing food for yourself, a sandwich is about as fast to produce as you can get. Also, can be made just about as healthy as you want, depending on what you put in.For example, buy a chunk of deli meat, a block of cheese, some lettuce, some tomatoes, and various sauces (mustard, mayo), and you can slice them up and have a meal in about 5-10 minutes. You can do that all week, alternating condiments, meats, and cheeses for variation. |
got any food hacks? | grandalf: Check out this great blog dedicated to exactly the purpose you describe:http://vegstrong.orgedit: this is one of my favs: http://vegstrong.org/post/422370700/tasty-breakfast-scramble |
got any food hacks? | jseifer: You just can't have all those at the same time. Healthy and cheap almost never go together though healthy and quick can if you prepare for a few days. That said, the best source for cheap healthy food is usually farmer's markets. I get fruits, veggies, meats, cheeses, butter, and milk from a couple of different local farmers markets. Fruits are usually much cheaper ($5-$8 for 2 dozen oranges) but meat is usually more expensive because it's much better quality.Get your ingredients and figure out two days to cook. I do the bulk of everything Wednesday and Sunday. This is a good balance for me with freshness of food and cooking frequency. Also fresh OJ only last 2 to 3 days. Whole milk (preferably raw if you can find good stuff) is a good balanced snack, so is fruit and cheese.If you're really wanting to be healthy and cheap, and can stomach it, animal parts that people don't usually want are priced pretty well. The Whole Foods here sells grass-fed beef liver at $4/lb and it's incredibly good for you though it tastes terrible (email me for a recipe that makes it tolerable if you're interested). Make broth out of beef ox tails and marrow bones or chicken feet. Eat every 2-3 hours. Eat shellfish once a week.Anyway, as another poster here said, it's worth it to spend the time on your food. You'll be surprised how much better you feel and work when you're healthy. |
analytics for web api? | Rust: If you shoot your stats data out in the same (or similar) format that Apache does, you could use AWStats or Analog (or numerous others) to get graphs and analysis pages - including IP resolution and geo-locating,error frequency, etc.They're not web apps, per se - you'll need to download and run through PHP. |
Web designer who codes, or designer + front-end coder? | lovitt: I don't think you're being unrealistic, and I think your quest is worthy. I work with a guy who fits your description: he designs screens and then implements them in HTML and CSS. And it's awesome. When those skills are in a single brain, the result is interfaces that feel native to the web (and not like pretty pictures that were sliced up and made clickable).But these guys are indeed tough to find. It might be helpful to advertise for two positions -- web designer and front-end developer -- and in each description mention the other skills you expect applicants to have. Most people I think will naturally be stronger in one area than the other, or will just self-identify with one job title or the other for whatever reason. Framing the position in a couple of different ways might help you cast a wider net. |
got any food hacks? | bhseo: You can use miracle fruit (or miracle berry) to make sour/bitter things taste sweet. It binds to your tastebuds for about half an hour, during which sour things will taste quite sweet. You could suck on a lemon and it will feel like sweet lemonade. It's a good way to cut down on sugar.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit |
got any food hacks? | btilly: The trick is called advance planning.Similar to the "whole bunch of meals" I remember a fellow grad student who would cook a large dish every Sunday, then parcel it out into meal sized portions which he would then freeze. He always had meals from multiple weeks in there, so he could microwave chili, lasagna, stew, etc, whatever he felt like.He did this with a normal sized freezer, but it was a well organized one.Personally I'm fond of pancakes. I always cook more than I need, put the excess in the fridge, then microwave one when I want a pancake. See http://www.recipefiles.org/view_user.php?user=ben_tilly for some of the pancake recipes I make. Particularly with the buttermilk, I find that the pan gets hot in the same time it takes me to make the batter, and cooking from scratch tastes a lot better.You'll also find there something called "Daddy's chicken". I do that as a marinade in the fridge. Many marinades are surprisingly fast to cook. You just prepare them, let them sit in the fridge, then the next day pop them into an oven and come back when they are done. Sure, it takes 40 minutes to an hour of cooking time. But that is wall time, not your time. |
Startup idea feedback, please | goodmars: "Haul Vloggers" welcomed. |
got any food hacks? | armandososa: Well, I think I'm going to advocate tacos. The best thing about tacos is: they are easy to make and can be filled with just about anything.Take one or two hours off the weekend you can cook nice meals for the rest of the week. Cook some meat wit tomato sauce, fry little potato squares with some olive oil, grill some chicken steaks. Also grab a can of beans, some cheese (mozzarella or oaxaca for better results) and of course good tortillas.That's it. You can have an infinite variety of tacos for each day of the week.Dude, this thread made me hungry. |
got any food hacks? | bluesmoon: I'm a geek living alone and working long hours. I like to eat healthy. I treat cooking the same way I treat website optimisation... iterate till I get it right, and I blog about my cooking experiences (at least the ones that work) at http://food.bluesmoon.info/The food's good enough that I can invite people over for dinner every now and then. Some of it takes time, but my stirfrys and salads are all under 10 minutes preparation time.I went from being 20Kg overweight to 8Kg overweight. |
got any food hacks? | fbailey: oh god, don't hack food... it's not worth the saved time. Just learn to cook, good food is cheap. I make dinner for friends all the time 5 courses and the cost per person is 5€ if I want. Preparing good pasta never takes an hour, a simple rice dish is fast, you can cook nearly everything with very little preparation time, it's just a matter of training. So don't hack food hack your food preparation skills. It's like buying something like this http://www.stimrx.com/instead of finding a a better way to exercise. If you learn to cook well, you will be able to do it without concentrating on it, so it's not lost time.
Now imagine how long you are going to eat.. 60 years for every day? What would you do with every other kind of work you have to do for that amount of time?
How long did you need to learn driving? Or to learn to programm?And don't believe anybody who tells you with some kind of powder and some nutrients you will be perfectly healthy, if the research into nutrition has shown anything it's that the system is pretty complex and the only safe bet is a mixed traditional diet. |
What can I do to improve my website? | brianlash: I wanted to tell you that I used Nova materials to study for the GMAT and absolutely loved them. I remember Nova's concern for teaching fundamental math and verbal stuff where most other companies were preoccupied with superficial strategies and one-trick pony tactics.That stuff has its place in test prep, but there's a strong case for balance between theory and strategy. I really appreciated your materials for that. |
analytics for web api? | olefoo: You could always integrate mixpanel or something similar.Or tweak the log format output from your webserver so that you can shove it into any of many analytics programs. |
What can I do to improve my website? | oscardelben: One thing I'm noticing is that what I believe to be a read more button is mostly hidden to me. http://imgur.com/rkaHx.png |
got any food hacks? | cianestro: http://www.dollaradaybook.com/kitchen or Costco food. |
What can I do to improve my website? | dbz: I'm going to assume the design ect. isn't causing the problem, so I have some suggestions in the order of what I would do:1. Posting on HN2. Email all your favorite bloggers3. Email TechCrunch (you may get lucky with a ten second email)4. Go onto the correct types of forum and advertise (possibly Second Life forums?)Now, if you are just interested in getting some traffic, you can:1. Ask your friends to post the link on their social media sites2. Pay some myspace dudes with tens of thousands of friends $50 bucks to message all of their friends a note you have written (including the link of course)3. Go onto Second Life and pay advertisers to advertise for you4. Eh, Google AdsenseWell, that's all I can think of off the top of my head. |
What can I do to improve my website? | eam: Not that's probably an issue, but the site looks too much like apple! |
What can I do to improve my website? | Tichy: Can't you do redirects for Google from the old navigation to the new? |
What can I do to improve my website? | apsurd: No direct experience but I have always thought running affiliate programs for online-digital products makes great sense. Let the sellers do the selling and everybody wins. |
got any food hacks? | sketerpot: Chili. Make it in a slow cooker in a large batch, and refrigerate most of it for later meals. Here's what you do:Brown these in a pan:1 pound cheapest ground beef1 onion, chopped2 cloves garlic, choppedsome thyme, salt, pepper, any other spices you think are coolsoy saucePut the contents of the pan into the slow cooker. Then stick this stuff in the cooker after it:1 Anaheim pepper, chopped4 pods okra, chopped1 can kidney beans1 can black-eyed peas1 can diced tomatoes1 can tomato saucesome salt1 tblsp cuminchili powder, liberally sprinkled on topenough habanero sauce to make it spicy. This is important.a dash of fish sauce. Also important.a dash of vigegar (optional).Be sure to drain the beans first. Add a bit of water if it seems too thick. Add any other spices you think are nice. Stir and let it cook for 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high. Eat some, refrigerate the rest. Takes maybe 40 minutes to prepare, but it lasts for a while. |
got any food hacks? | chunkyslink: Shameless self promotion.Our startup (coming soon) helps solve exactly the problem you are having. In fact, one of the reasons we started building it was to solve the problems you describe, which we also suffer from.http://delicioustasty.comIt will be free and as a tool, does some things we haven't seen done (very well) on the web before. |
any white-label/SaaS virtual-currency/"MyPoints" services out there? | apsurd: i just took on a contract job to build a "reward points" system for an event dating service. The business is handled mainly by an email list. Events are planned and promoted via the list. Company makes money on ticket sales. The owner wanted a way to reward members for attending events, and referring friends. Great idea that is sure to pay off I think. So this concept definitely has relevance.I want to say that I think initially the scope should be very very small. Instead of trying to develop an alternate currency and exchange marketplace, why not just laser in on a "dead-simple" api type service that tracked user accounts, methods of reward, products available for purchase, and a shopping cart system that allowed members to exchange earned points for products available. +1 for the automatic fulfillment of digital goods. Course this all off just thought exploration but I think the simpler the better since a lot more "low tech" businesses could benefit from this as opposed to code-ninjas that would just want to roll their own in the proverbial weekend anyway.In a nutshell: Don't underestimate how many businesses rely on the simplicity of an email list to run their business. Add rewards system as an integration to mailchimp, campaignmonitor, icontact, hell constant contact and you've got something worth testing at least.I'm on board if anyone wants to talk about it. |
got any food hacks? | pmccool: Yeah, cooking can be difficult when you're time poor. I've found that:A dishwasher helps.Razor sharp knives that are properly cared for help. Blunt knives waste a lot of time when cooking.Putting a bit of time into mastering quick recipes (e.g. stir fries) helps. |
got any food hacks? | macco: My personal favorites are frozen veggies and pre-washed salad. For a simple salad you don't need no time. Put the salad in a bowl add tuna (best cheap protein source), onions, corn or what to like; then add vinegar, oil, salt - then you are finished.
Frozen veggies are great if you have a microwave - put it in, 5 to 10 minutes and they are ready to eat - they have more vitamins than fresh veggies.
Frozen stuff is also good for meat and fish, but you have to cook it in a pan, so you need about 10 minutes.
Often I would prepare things in the evening so you have to cook only once a day. This way you can have healthy food that is tasty and prepared in 15 minutes per day. |
What can I do to improve my website? | ohashi: Doesn't sound like you want to improve your website, just drive traffic. Basically you've got 3 major ways to drive traffic:search - paid or organiclinks - from anywhere, anyonetype in - people going to your site directly, often connected to offline advertisingyou're probably best of scaling one/both of the first two options.organic seo rankings is going to take time, you should spend maybe couple hours a day building links to your site for keywords you think are most relevant.paid search (sem) is another scalable and faster strategy. it's not 'hands off' and requires you to create (well ok, not requires, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND) some landing pages optimized to each keyword and drive traffic to them. It's a math game, clicks * price per click < your margin * conversion rate. YOU WILL LOSE MONEY. You will also learn and improve if you do this properly and can find keywords where you can meet that basic criteria.as far as getting links... there is the tried and true for SEO purposes: article marketing, directory marketing, social commenting. But don't forget the real purpose of those links back in the day was to actually DRIVE traffic. I saw some creative ways here about having myspace messages, same with twitter, facebook, etc. The best advice I can give you here is MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO LINK YOU. Create some compelling and interesting content. (checkout mint's strategy http://jasonputorti.com/post/472866002/how-mint-com-acquired...)Good luck. |
What can I do to improve my website? | vijaydev: Clickable link: http://www.novapress.net |
got any food hacks? | herdrick: Dried lentils are really cheap, wonderfully healthful, and much faster to cook than dried beans.Peanut butter is already ready to eat, and pretty cheap.Eggs are cheap protein.You can pour milk right over uncooked, raw rolled oats and eat it immediately. (This is Quaker's (or store brand) traditional oatmeal or old fashioned oats or something like that. It's the kind that comes in a big cardboard cylinder.) Very cheap and it is delicious and takes only seconds to "prepare". |
got any food hacks? | cool-RR: Fish fillets. Specifically Perch. I buy them frozen.Defrost in 20 minutes by putting in a bag (or box) of tap water.Put oven (or toaster-oven) on high heat so it'll be already hot when you need it. Put a bunch of butter on a porcelain/ceramic plate. Put in microwave for a minute to make it melt and cover the plate. Put the fish on the plate. Turn it over so it'll have butter all over it. Pour lemon juice on it. (Can use store-bought lemon juice from a bottle.) Put salt on it. Put it in the oven. Come back after 7-10 minutes. Ready to it.Healthiness: Awesome. (You can use less butter.)Price: Awesome. Where I live the whole deal is $4-$5.Quickness: Mediocre. Total time is ~30 minutes, but most of it you can be away. No need to stir like in cooking. Also, no pots or pans to watch! You make it straight in the plate!Tastiness: Awesome, assuming you love fish. (And I do, so that's good for me.) |
got any food hacks? | FreeRadical: For breakfast - instant porridge! Simple, quick, high protein and good for you. You can always vary it slightly by throwing in other things like raisins. |
got any food hacks? | inevaexisted: 1/2 cup cous cous
1/2 cup chicken/beef stock
+ shallots (chopped finely)
+ any vege's you want+ curried meat ( you can make this in a batch for the week and dish out as required or resort to chinese/indian take out - just a box of curry make the rice yourself..you might as well)It takes 5min for the cous cous and about 1min to reheat the curry.This meal gets me by when I need something in a rush..If its winter a pot of chicken soup goes down well too.. add rice for more 'substance' when required.. |
got any food hacks? | iamelgringo: I wrote this post a while back: http://iamelgringo.blogspot.com/2008/12/hacking-your-food-su... I think that's one of the posts you were referring to.We haven't done once a month cooking for a while, though. We've actually outsourced a lot of our meal prep to Dream Dinners now. Link: http://www.dreamdinners.com/main.php?static=indexYou can either go there and prep the meals in a two hour period, or for an extra $20, they will actually prep the food for you. It's not really grad school budget, but we figure it saves us around 40-60 hours a month of cooking prep time. So, to us, the extra time is worth the expense.That takes care of our main courses and every weekend, we go to the local farmer's market, and get our produce for the week. We also stop by the local deli, and pick up some fresh bread.And, we recently discovered Trader Joe's wine selection. They have a bunch of wines for less than $10. A lot of them are undrinkable, but we've found a couple of $4 bottles of wine that we love, and we tend to buy several cases of them at the same time. That helps us keep the Mediterranean diet going.For a long time, we also went to Costco or Sam's club. We'd buy a whole bunch of food in bulk and then wrap it up into smaller portions and save it. I hate grocery shopping, and it really helped to only have to do it once every couple of months. The $200 mini freezer also helped a lot. It's move from Chicago, to New England, to the Bay Area with us. We love it.We also love SafeWay's grocery delivery. It's $10, or $8 if your order is over $100. It really helps cut down on spending time dealing with buying groceries. They keep track of the products that you buy and like, and it's really easy to reorder stuff. The prices are exactly the same as in store, too, so you're not paying hidden fees. I don't know why more people don't do that.We've been trying http://Alice.com, too for non-grocery items. It's a pain to tell them what you purchase up front, but over all, after the initial hour of setting up the account and preferences, it makes recurring purchases of TP, deodorant, toothpaste, etc.. a cinch. |
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