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cade

45 karma · joined November 2, 2011

Just some old guy on the interwebs.
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cade··on Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt
One of the more amusing versions of, "I may be mistaken on some points and need to reconsider" that I've read in a while...
cade··on Back pain is a problem which is badly treated
I'm sorry for your friend. That's terrible. However,

> Do yourself a favor and stay as far away from chiropractors as you can. They're not doctors and what they do can have serious consequences.

I've heard of one or two malpractice suits against MDs. Do you blanketly recommend avoiding hospitals as well?

cade··on Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?
While visiting my parents a month ago, they had a scale sitting out in the bathroom. My five year old daughter exclaimed, "Daddy, look how much I weigh! ... How much do you weigh?"

If you had asked me without a scale for reference, I would have said 160 pounds.

It was 172.

172 isn't a crazy weight, but not realizing I'd made it into the 170s (which I'd never been before) while simultaneously believing I was 12 pounds lighter was definitely a "moment".

After a month of very low carb diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes, I'm down to 153 and feel much better too. :)

cade··on Adrian Frutiger has died
Is the sample from wikipedia indicative of the typical kerning for Tratex? If so, that'd be unfortunate...
cade··on San Francisco Should Always Have a Subway Under Construction
Interesting to hear of objections from an economic angle. Around where I live, the argument tends to be framed as a "spreading crime" issue, which translates to allowing predominantly poor, black neighborhoods access to rich, white parts of town. It bums me out.
cade··on Why drivers in China intentionally kill the pedestrians they hit
> Of course what's absolutely a joke is people acting all aghast about another country's culture from behind their white picket fences. You do realize that if you were born in their country, you would have the exact same perspective?

From the article:

> With so many hit-to-kill drivers escaping serious punishment, the Chinese public has sometimes taken matters into its own hands. In 2013 a crowd in Zhengzhou in Henan province beat a wealthy driver who killed a 6-year-old after allegedly running him over twice.

Clearly people born and raised in China do not "have the exact same perspective".

cade··on The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online
My wife and I have been working on our own startup: https://www.land-of-nosh.com/.

You can plan a week of meals and generate the grocery list (among other things). I (and especially my wife) look forward to the day I can integrate with grocery order and/or delivery services to have groceries ready for pickup or delivered.

cade··on Lego’s 1981 Ad Campaign
> The relentless specialist themed sets sucks. The move towards many small fiddly pieces and some specialist pieces to create a Lego-thing sort of sucks.

Very much this.

I have a couple of kids, and I try to steer clear of the specialized sets. I've heard stories of friends' kids pointing out set after set in the store and saying "Done that one. Done that one. Done that one. ..."

They have no sense of dumping out that giant bucket, delighting in the rushing chatter of a plastic avalanche, then asking themselves, "What do I want to build today?"

Sort of makes me sad...

cade··on Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
Good point on the pricing. I know not many people are going to see this comment at this point, but I'd be curious to know if anyone has experience or recommendations on how to do price discovery for one's non-native country!
cade··on Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
Thanks for the feedback! I'm really curious: how do you envision your ideal system for discovering your preferences and recommending new recipes based on them? (Obviously, there's lots of ways to approach that, but I'm interested to know your take!)

It'd be really fun to have enough data on user's recipe preferences to see if sensible groupings ever emerged as a basis for useful recommendations. (I guess not unlike Netflix's projected ratings.)

cade··on Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
Thanks! :) Fair critique for being too US-centric. I see you're from Uruguay! My wife grew up in Ecuador, is fluent in Spanish and still has family there, so there could be some I18N on the horizon!

Feel free to e-mail me directly (in my profile) or there's a feedback form on the site (in the profile navigation dropdown). I'd love to hear your thoughts!

cade··on Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
This is fudging the question, but after many months of nights-and-weekends toiling, I launched https://www.land-of-nosh.com out of beta testing today and hope to be making $1,000+/month at some point!

My wife has always hated the meal planning/recipe organization and sharing process and available tools (she'd used a few different products). After asking lots of friends for recommendations and hearing enough times, "I use X, but I don't like it, so if you find something better, let me know." it seemed like a promising lead for a side project!

Worst case: I make no money, and my wife finally has the meal planning tool she's always wanted.

cade··on Gmail’s new look
Check the element's class/id. Create a user stylesheet for your browser. Set the element to display:none. Profit.
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