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mcteapoton Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints

Awesome idea! Wish you could set your current weight and your target weight you want to go down or up to.

do you have a link to any article explaining the patent?

mcteapoton Ask HN: Be a hero, join Project Maya

A question from the other post: What is some one was to create an open-source version of the app and release the code. There is nothing to stop the parents from acquiring a developers licence and running the app on there hardware. Is there any chance of a project of this nature getting shutdown?

Also what is the patent in dispute? If it is a UI issue, it would be interesting to come up with an alternate UX/UI interface.

mcteapoton Let Maya Speak For Herself

What is some one was to create an open-source version of the app and release the code. There is nothing to stop the parents from acquiring a developers licence and running the app on there hardware. Is there any chance of a project of this nature getting shutdown?

Also what is the patent in dispute? If it is a UI issue, it would be interesting to come up with an alternate UX/UI interface.

mcteapoton Because Everyone (Still) Needs a Router

I have been burned by so many routers in the past few years. It is amazing how terrible the factory firmware is on these machines. For most of them I have had to install DD-WRT just to get them working. Thank the flying spaghetti monster for open source.

But what I dont understand is why hardware manufactures go out of there way to prevent external software from being installed.

mcteapoton The Silencing of Maya

What is the patent in dispute?

mcteapoton Hackathon No More

I never try to kill my self at Hackathons. Go to sleep when you are tired and dont eat crap. At some point you are bound to get only diminishing returns, you should know this by now if you are all grown up.

mcteapoton Miso pays disputed $10k referral bonus to ex-engineer, apologizes

Who is John Galt?

mcteapoton Hopper: Stop emailing yourself notes, files, and images

wow this is perfect for me, would be great if there was an iOS app as well!

mcteapoton The dawn of a new era: Bastion now available on Chrome for free

wonder if it is made with javascript...

mcteapoton NASA Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star

first class M planet!

mcteapoton Amit Gupta hasn't found a marrow transplant match; today's your last chance.

wish I knew about this before. why was this posted on the last day...

mcteapoton Apple pulls iTether from App Store

I am going to say yes, I am also sure there are sourced tethering ios apps out there.

mcteapoton Racism and Meritocracy

lol I think this one seas it all http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2545980399/

mcteapoton [dead]

hoax of a hoax!!!

mcteapoton Bootstrapping Design

Like programming good design takes practice. Just because you read a book is not going to make you a great designer. The question is are you willing to stop developing and put aside the time to design well or pay someone to do it for you.

mcteapoton I am a programmer

I personally work a lot with 3d animation. We use plugins and pre-made elements to create our animations. Because we are using 3rd party tools to create our final product, does this make us "middle-men (and women), glorified translators", Or is it only real if we where to make our tools form scratch.