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The iPad is more open than a game console and less open than a personal computer and you can't use either comparison alone to predict the future. The point of being in a new category is that it won't replace existing products, though it will change the way we use them.

I sincerely doubt that the children of tomorrow will grow up without personal computers just because the iPad is around. Computers are dirt cheap, can do way more stuff, and kids aren't afraid of them like "mom" is.

It's difficult to say whether the iPad will be a net win or loss for software freedom, in the long run. Never have so many developers been so tightly controlled by a single vendor. However, the iPhone/iPad platform has opened up a world of opportunities for developers, inspired the creation of other, more open app stores, and will probably encourage, far more than deter, aspiring young developers, as Gruber's anecdote illustrates.
Hack for making steel-cut oats quicker: soak the portion you plan to cook overnight. Cuts cooking time down to about 15 minutes. Tastes exactly the same (IMO). If you like to add cinnamon, or dried apricots, raisins, or dates or whatever, do that before actually cooking.
OK, I realize it's really disgusting, but I kind of want to eat one of these.
Also, there exists plenty of constructive criticism by people who like Apple just fine, and for one reason or another, still hold an opinion that runs contrary to the company line. Reasonable people can disagree, it's not just a matter of 'talking nonsense'.

FTA (full paragraph for context):
"And, App Store aside — which, yes, requires access to a Mac and a $99/year developer account — what about the iPad and iPhone as web clients? There are no limits imposed by Apple on web apps targeting iPhone OS devices. When I learned to program in the 1980s with BASIC, the interface of our programs was monospaced (and on some machines, all-caps) text. Just text. If we had color it was limited to 16 shades."

A lot could be said about Xcode within your core offering, but requiring $100 to submit a program to the 'open' platform. I don't really have an opinion though.

That said, how could anyone claim with a straight face that 'There are no limits imposed by Apple on web apps targeting iPhone OS devices.'? Or even that in 2010, the number of colors a completely different host OS allowed you to use in 1980 could serve as an analogy for technology 30 years into the future?

Very publicly Apple has rejected apps for duplicating 'core functionality'. More privately, they have given application developers runarounds based on fairly specious reasoning and within a poor framework for supporting the little dev shops that are supposedly so empowered by this new platform.

HN contributors have been exposed to and have discussed these issues repeatedly.
His laws are too rigid. I gravitate between the areas on his chart, depending on various factors.

Alcohol consumed, location, whether I'm among friends or not, etc.
I imagine that if I crack open my laptop and start desoldering components from the motherboard, that will void the warranty as well.

Guys, come on here. It's not like apple is against jailbreaking or open development because it's going to destroy the product and they don't want to warranty it (like desoldering components are ripping apart your engine block would), it's that it will disrupt their business model. Why can't I get a grooveshark app without jailbreaking? Is that going to physically break my iPhone? No, it's going to let grooveshark encroach on apple's bottom line.
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You just had dinner last night with someone that snapped up two of them :)

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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.
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.
It's not a virus, it just unpacks wurkeug, jinja, simplejson, and probably some other stuff. Pretty much it's an epic hack.
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.
And you can figure out what people have read using the (soon to be closed by Mozilla) CSS history hack. You can easily index every story on HN by pinging and scraping newest every 20 or minutes. Don't worry they wont block you ;)
Fully describing it, yes, but a 6th grader should at least be able to handle Ohm's law >_>
I've also found that you don't even need the pot. If you prepare an excess of boiling water and use some to pre-heat your bowl and cover, it's possible to actually cook the couscous sufficiently.
It means that if your Part 15 device experiences interference from another device, the FCC won't do anything about it, and doesn't want to hear about it.

The clause should really say "the <i>user</i> of this device must accept any interference..."
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.
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. ;)
"fork" is what we use to describe a user-branch of a project, where another user has write access to their own fork of the project. other dvcs hosts use the term 'fork' to describe this as well, such as BitBucket and MicroSofts CodePlex. Google Code has a similar concept but they call them 'clone's. I think many people now consider "fork" a good thing, not an irreconcilable branch of the codebase.
The CURL stuff seems so oddly unlike the rest of the PHP commands; it's more-or-less a direct port of the c++ library, names & all included.

The place where it reallllly irritates is the cookie management, but thankfully I didn't have to deal with that in this case. (I did for a client at a newspaper - nightmarish.)
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).
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.
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 huge

Where 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.
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=726619

Edit: 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.
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.)
One teacher once said: The sum of all human intelligence is constant over the time.
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Regarding #3: I've found that blending the boiled down onions, celery, [and carrots] into your stock after boiling it makes a much better base.
There actually was an amazing little book published by Compute! that contained information on every memory address of interest on the Atari 400/800, and what peeking/poking different values at each address did. It was fantastic, and a tinkering teenager's bible.
There are rice cookers you can purchase which will finish the rice according to a schedule. They're more expensive than the the average, but if you're going to use it frequently and you want rice ready when you get home, it's top notch.

Essentially, you measure you rice, clean it (as always) then add the water, leave it in the cooker, the the timer you want it to finished, and the cooker does the rest.

Edit: A thought on top of this: Sushi is often a mix of rice, vinegar, salt and sugar, then seaweed and a meat. If you have the rice cooker, most of the time for prep is taken out.
None of this matters, the only relevant question is whether it's interesting.
The framework isn't a SaaS app, but we're going to go and tag Cappuccino apps. I will also link to Cappuccino from there. Great reminder for me to add Atlas though.
Regarding your comment: Don't be afraid to try this. Those who don't cook often tend to see items like this as a little gross... but just consider how often you ask a chef how your meal is prepared.
Quinoa FTW! My girlfriend likes to make Quinoa salads .. She'll just make a basic quinoa pilaf style, but without the sauteed onions, then add corn, spinach greens, heirloom tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, the super crunchy japanese cucumbers, some apple or jicama slices, and some blood orange (or regular orange).

Quinoa also makes a good porridge. I've mixed a cup of cooked qunoa cookd porridge style with a cup of softly cooked (and drained and rinsed) black beans with hot milk and a TBsp of agave syrup for a super awesome breakfast.
As it stands, this is a bit of a surreal answer. Why do you advise eating lots of blueberries? And are vegan delivery chefs actually a widespread thing? Is there a central place to find local ones?
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.
Damnit - I clicked the link... But you're right, it's a novelty account, and if I had known that, I would not have clicked - out of principle.

EDIT: okay, I read the article. It's totally worthless, except maybe as an example of how plagiarism does not constitute "parody." I'm honestly a little pissed off now.
Also, if you're not vegan & can stomach it, Cottage Cheese is a fantastic source of protein. It's also cheap and really simple.
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.
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?
Yes, the article is correct - self-perpetuating bureaucracy is constant in human-civilization. What distinguishes capitalism from other forms of civilization is the ability to substitute creative destruction for bureaucratic sclerosis and collapse - some of the time, if you're lucky...
I like the idea, but I already use it in my browser URL bar, with 'g' set up as a Google search, 'w' as Wikipedia, 'gb' as Google Books, etc. (both Firefox and Chrome support it). I assume this is targeted at a niche of users who are sophisticated enough to want something like this, but not sophisticated enough to figure out how to get it to work in something like Firefox?
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.
I commute 4 hours a day.

I do it because what baffles me is how people can live in a city. I grew up in SF, and moved out ever since college. The thought of living in the city horrifies me. The people, the crowdedness, the lack of open space, etc...

I sooner quit my job and take a pay cut than move back to SF.

Personally I enjoy my 4 hour commute, 2 of which I spend on the ferry taking a nap or working, and I prefer it over living in the city.

Not a lot of people understands or agrees with me, but that's fine.
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Contrary to the sentiment of the other replies, I feel this is an interesting question. For those nearing the parapet of potential acquisition it would be interesting to know how affirmative one's actions should be.
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I'm not sure I'm really disagreeing with you, but I feel fairly confident that without unions, postal workers would not make enough money to live in many communities they serve, at least here in the sf bay area. Same goes for school teachers and peace officers. How valuable it is that these worker actually live in the same cities where they work is open for debate, of course.
I currently commute 4 hours a day (2 hours each way) on the subway and trains. I hate the subway because it's crowded, and on the train I always feel like I'm fighting for a good seat. I wish I didn't have to commute like this, but that's the only choice when your significant other's job is so far away from yours. Between a short commute and a girlfriend, I choose the latter.

Plus, the entire time I can be listening to music or podcasts, and on the train I can be catching up on Twitter or stuff in Instapaper. I'd be spending that time doing it anyway.

But I can tell you this -- I'm the only 22-year-old on that train.
I think he's trying to turn the OP blue. I checked the nutrition data at wikipedia and compared to carrots. Except for vitamin B5 and a slight advantage in vitamin C, carrots kick blueberries butt by a wide margin. (plus cost a lot less)

Of course, maybe I'm trying to turn people orange.
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.
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.
Practically, that's just not workable long term. Ideally, you want to keep using more or less the same library as everyone else, otherwise versioning becomes even more of a nightmare than it already is.
Greek yogurt is tasty (especially if you add some fresh fruit and honey to it...) and has lots of protein.
Cheap, fast, and potentially very healthy: smoothies. One basic recipe:

2 cups fruit juice, e.g. orange juice or apple juice

2-3 tablespoons ground flax seed (omega-3, trace minerals, fiber)

2-3 tablespoons protein powder (soy, hemp, whatever)

2 bananas

2-3 cups of greens: kale, frozen spinach (organic, conventional has too much pesticides), collard greens; frozen means no washing, so it's faster

1 cup frozen mango, blueberries, etc.

1 kiwi

spices (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!
If anyone liked the idea, but not as a joke, there is itty:

http://github.com/toastdriven/itty/

It's a self-described "little-experiment" based on Sinatra.
>> Yes. Like including free X-Code with every single copy of OS X. You don't even have to download it: it is there on the DVD.

Microsoft, since at least Windows XP (and perhaps before, I'm too lazy to look), hasn't shipped a programming language with their operating system. Apple ships what, 6 or 7? Python, Ruby, Perl, C, AppleScript, and probably a few others. Those don't require the $99 developer license at all. Apple is the only hacker-friendly PC and OS manufacturer remaining.
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Amen.

Cooking is an investment. The more you cook, the better you get at it; the faster and tastier the results. And the more you cook, the healthier you will eat overall (at least if you're living in North America).

As for hacks, here's one. Take semi-prepared food, like macaroni & cheese in-the-box-with-the-faux-cheese-powder-in-the-paper-pouch, and augment it. The basic recipe is written on the box and fool-proof. Add something else to it like chopped-up left-over chicken that you warm up in the oven until sizzling.
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Every place I've ever worked had people working on Saturdays. I'm sure there are statistics on this somewhere, though.
Unfortunately it doesn't work nearly as well as Google for some foreign language queries.
At the above link, you can comment on this draft even if you're not a member of an ISO national body. Herb Sutter's post: http://herbsutter.com/2010/04/02/how-anyone-can-comment-on-t...
You'll eventually poison yourself, Frazzydee. There are simple steps you can take to limit bacterial growth.

If you have a fridge, you probably have a freezer. Invest 20$ in dollar-store tupperware, and freeze your food in single-servings.

Try to keep your food either frozen or at least as hot as boiling.
That was a pretty commonly heard perspective from lecturers and tutors when I was studying Comp Sci in ~85 or so - that kids who'd learnt a bit of basic at school (or on their AppleII or ZX81) needed to "unlearn" all their bad habits before they could understand a _proper_ language like Pascal...
Arrington bullish on iPad - would "pay $1,000 for a chained to the desk iPad"
I never get this part "The pain inflicted by blatant UI flaws such as black background color"

Why is black background color bad? I love using sites and tools with a black background color. I have far less eyestrain than with a white background.
Yes, yes, yes, to all of these GUI ideas in the next version of whatever GUI toolkit I'm using.
Apple is the only hacker-friendly PC and OS manufacturer remaining.

Every Linux distribution includes dozens of programming languages.