jkkramer

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   by jkkramer 16y ago

   I know. They launched half-way through my development, to my chagrin. YumTab has a number of advantages: - Automatic ingredients capture (no copy & paste) - Planner, shopping list - Easier to show off recipes you make, follow others EDI
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   by jkkramer 16y ago

   The culprit is apparently FlashHeed, an otherwise helpful script which helps lightboxes show above Flash content. Are you using something to suppress Flash? I attempted a fix, which may require a cache clear (haven't put in static file vers
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   by jkkramer 16y ago

   Thanks for tips & for submitting random non-recipe links, which gave me an idea about how to handle them :)
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   by jkkramer 16y ago

   Great input & tips, thank you. I added a note about missing instructions as you suggest. Re the edge case, what browser are you using?
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   by jkkramer 16y ago

   Scraping is as you might expect: it has to go fetch the page if it hasn't yet (URLs are only fetched once). One thing I can do to help here is pre-fetch/parse pages from popular sites. I'm already doing this for Food Network and Allrecipes.
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   by jkkramer 16y ago

   Thanks! Extracting info from the wild web is hard, and that's one of the reasons I did it -- because no one else was. Clojure + some basic machine learning made it feasible.
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   by jkkramer 16y ago

   iPhone app is definitely something I'd like to do. I'm not completely opposed to ads, I'd just like to avoid slowing down the site -- loading time & usability-wise. Which I think is probably doable. EDIT: To clarify/expand something: If
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   by jkkramer 16y ago

   http://yumtab.com/
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   Ask HN: Review my startup - YumTab, universal recipe box, Delicious replacement

   14 points by jkkramer 16y ago|24 comments
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    Nicely done. The tone seems just right for this kind of service: a combination of celebration and reverence.
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    The original paper is linked at the bottom of the article: http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0666
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    In my experience, using CouchDB for prototyping is not fun. With SQL and (from what I gather) MongoDB, you can create ad-hoc queries as you go. Creating views in CouchDB requires thought and time -- usually lots of time -- to generate the v
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    http://www.economist.com/node/13815141?story_id=13815141 http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2009/wood...
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    Simple Legacy(johndcook.com)

    1 points by jkkramer 16y ago|0 comments
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    I think they both chose a terrible name.
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    Thanks for the Goldberg pointer. I have a rudimentary bidirectional, parallel BFS working which I'll be blogging about once it's ready. It runs very fast even on huge graphs.
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    So You Wanna Be a Chef - Anthony Bourdain(ruhlman.com)

    259 points by jkkramer 16y ago|63 comments
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    Soda Pop Stop - Niche Business Insights(youtube.com)

    9 points by jkkramer 16y ago|2 comments
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    Spoiler: INTJ/P will be hugely represented. Previous polls: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943722
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    Sure, editing is one of the exceptions Tog mentions. (I'm an Emacs user, too.) My point was that just because you think or feel that something is faster doesn't mean that it is. Also, when it comes to programming, the biggest bottleneck for
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    I'm reminded of a tidbit from an old AskTog[1] article: "We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: * Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding i
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    The article's right that Clojure doesn't have a great newbie experience yet. However, the language and community is still very young: Clojure: 3 years old PHP: 15 Java: 15 Ruby: 15 Python: 19 Objective-C: 24 I think the fac
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    That wasn't my intention. I enjoy seeing idiomatic solutions to problems in different languages and thought others might, too.
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    Clojure: (reduce + (map face-value dice))
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    Clojure, from a Ruby Perspective(briancarper.net)

    65 points by jkkramer 16y ago|2 comments
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    by jkkramer 16y ago

    NetBeans+Enclojure is really nice. It has some features even Emacs doesn't. I'm an Emacs user, too (thanks to Clojure) but I still kind of resent having to spend half my time configuring and learning crazy key-chords to get things done.
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    Margaret Atwood on Twitter(blogs.nybooks.com)

    2 points by jkkramer 17y ago|0 comments
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    by jkkramer 17y ago

    If Tk doesn't look old and crufty anymore, you wouldn't know it from the official website: there are no screenshots to be found. I spent five minutes trying to see what a modern Tk GUI looks like then gave up.
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    No More Free Bugs(trailofbits.com)

    1 points by jkkramer 17y ago|0 comments
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    by jkkramer 17y ago

    "So how does the user actually find the best recipe for a particular dish?" Users may have better luck finding quality recipes by going to curated sites Cooks Illustrated rather than mob-rule sites like RecipeZaar. As with social sites (Dig