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by phugoid 11y ago
Very nice site (diarytail.com), by the way. Unfortunately nutritionix has only basic nutritional data as well, the sort of thing you find on a product label. Not bad but not great. Have a look at their sample data. Plus it's around 10
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by phugoid 11y ago
I really like your suggestion. I think I will implement it. The end goal is to get enough people interested and using the site, then introduce premium features based on the feedback they give.
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by phugoid 11y ago
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I have no intention of spamming users or of publishing their info. I will take another look at the text when time permits.
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by phugoid 11y ago
Yes, that site does a pretty good job. At first glance the copy/paste approach is promising - in practice it's a bit more hassle and less precise than what recipelab does in my opinion, plus I'm starting from a clutter-free
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by phugoid 11y ago
Do you think a full screenshot might be interesting? But a simple screenshot image would not work for all cases, because the calculator page renders differently on mobile devices. On the other hand, if I offer a full working version withou
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by phugoid 11y ago
Nice site! I don't think I can offer much of an API. As I mentioned in another comment, I gave up on trying to parse a free-text recipe. I avoid a lot of headache by directing users to enter ingredients from the database list only. T
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by phugoid 11y ago
For many ingredients, you have the option of selecting raw or cooked. For popular items like potatoes there are dozens of options including fried, baked, salted, etc. Try entering "potato fried" in the search box.
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by phugoid 11y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by phugoid 11y ago
Thanks for checking it out. In my understanding, MyFitnessPal is oriented toward the fitness crowd, with a focus on daily energy consumption. After a lot of exploration I decided to limit the scope as much as possible and target home cooks
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by phugoid 11y ago
Thanks! 1) Yes, it uses a USA gov' database. But I'm curious about why it looks American to you. Could you please elaborate? 2) To be frank, this is django's registration system, off-the-shelf (least effort). If I see enoug
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Show HN: Recipelab, a simple nutrition calculator / recipe analyzer(recipelab.org)
46 points by phugoid 11y ago|31 comments
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by phugoid 12y ago
Not at all. But if it turned out that Toyota was already trying three times harder than everyone else to get it right, it would be harder to argue they didn't take "reasonable" precautions. In the talk, he did mention that t
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by phugoid 12y ago
My only criticism is that he's comparing Toyota's code and processes to a published but unenforced standard and clearly they are nowhere near that standard. It would be more relevant to compare Toyota to other manufacturers. It s
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by phugoid 12y ago
What inspires me is fear. Fear that I'm stuck in a dead-end job that won't give me any options or marketable skills. That I won't be able to pay for my children's education, that I'll be a burden to them when I re
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by phugoid 12y ago
I was convinced that it wouldn't work unless I dove in and did it full-time. You lose your residency visa when you quit your job here, and you have 3 months to leave the country. There are ways around it but they are too expensive if
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by phugoid 12y ago
I left my comfortable job in Dubai, moved the family (with 2 small kids) to Toronto to build an enterprise database product, launched it at the niche's world conference, pivoted once, and spent all the money I had. That took nine mont
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by phugoid 13y ago
I had a rough experience as a one-man-show founder of a failed startup. At the time I had two young ones aged 2 and 5. It's not just a matter of finding the hours to put into the two roles. Fatherhood is spiritually and emotionally d
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by phugoid 14y ago
That's exactly the kind of snarky douche bag comment that keeps me away from HN these days. Still, I'll assume you're trying hard to be funny. I was asking whether there's something already built. Google searches invariably bring up big-e
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Ask HN: Online video conferencing services for small users?
1 points by phugoid 14y ago|2 comments
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by phugoid 15y ago
I touch-type quickly but poorly, and it's because of my father. I was ten years old, writing BASIC programs on a Tandy CoCo2 that someone gave me. My father saw that between chores I was spending inordinate amounts of time with my CoCo2 ho
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by phugoid 15y ago
1. I agree. I need to improve that. I think I just don't have the distance from the project anymore to properly articulate it to someone seeing it for the first time - I'll work on this. 3. I've built a similar system for a previous emplo
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by phugoid 15y ago
This is my solo founder startup. It's a maintenance management system for people who maintain equipment, facilities, or installations (from golf courses to oil rigs to buildings). All these people need to schedule maintenance tasks, track
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Show HN: Stratos CMMS, web-based maintenance management software(stratossystems.com)
3 points by phugoid 15y ago|3 comments
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by phugoid 15y ago
I'm in a similar situation (quit high-paying job, following startup dream). May I ask how you broke into dev/design consulting? I'll have to go that way too, and soon. But I'm still a bit mystified about where one finds consulting gigs...
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by phugoid 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Toronto or remote Web Developement: my strength is in back-end programming, but I've built (and launched) a SaaS from start to finish including subscription billing and graphic design: http://stratossystems.com/ back-end: d
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Ask HN: Is the online demo a good idea?
1 points by phugoid 15y ago|0 comments
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by phugoid 15y ago
Unless you actually want to turn some other type of iterator into a list, why wouldn't you use python's generic copy? from copy import copy b = copy(a) This has the advantage of being advertised as a shallow copy, so the intent of
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by phugoid 15y ago
It's a real shame that teachers are not being compensated better. I'm not in the habit of confronting people, teachers least of all. I don't think it's productive most of the time. My point was simply about priorities. My son is a gorgeo
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by phugoid 15y ago
My son had his very first day of school today, and this article irks me. Everyone who works for a living could write a similar article about how great it would be to have unbounded trust, power and authority to carry out one's job. But that
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by phugoid 15y ago
I appreciate you sharing this; it was sweet. But there's something disturbing in the way you're framing it. Have we lost perspective to the point where even the basic notions of how to live one's life have to be seen through the lens of a

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