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Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by jppope »

dangus wrote: post #24
jppope wrote: post #3

Recipes w/ calories, pricing to my favorite grocery stores (Trader Joes, Sprouts, Whole foods), and food prep instructions (sunday night prep) I can tell you if you're looking to make this a startup idea, its a shitty one. Bad Market, Hard problem. With that said, I'd pay >$100 a year for it.

At some point if you want to cook you have to get off your ass and do it. Recipes are just recipes on recipe web sites. NYT Cooking is a nice one. Food prep is just...making the recipes and putting the food in your fridge. As far as easy meals literally hundreds of services exist for this. I recommend finding one that's local so that you aren't dealing with wasteful packaging and shipping. IMO the ones that fully pre…

My problem is that I cook A LOT. I would like to optimize the activity because it is a non-trivial cost in both time and money. I hear your solutions but each is a trade off...

As a wise software developer once said... "Good, Cheap, Fast... you may only have two"

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by hbcondo714 »

somenewaccount1 wrote: post #26
dangus wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is an app appropriate for this? Have you looked into speech therapists? It sounds like you need a professional who is trained for this sort of thing. Not everything can be handed off to an app.

Oh, yes, he has therapy - but therapist can't do everything either - a lot of reinforcement has to happen at home. Also, is been known that using apps like this (in addition to the therapy) can make a difference in when they learn to talk. It also gives them a voice while speaking is under development, and that in turn presents a lot more interaction and learning. The app would be just one of the tools in use though.

> a lot of reinforcement has to happen at home

No app, parents and caregivers have to become the therapist. Depends on your child's age but these are the resources we used:

https://teachmetotalk.com/ https://www.hanen.org/

> The closest app is $200 just to show him flashcards and says an audio clip

Could you please provide the app(s)? We use this one every now and then:

https://speechblubs.com/

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by JonChesterfield »

JohnHaugeland wrote: post #21
JonChesterfield wrote: post #10

I want an implicitly parallel programming language. Write code that looks single threaded, doesn't have any mutex/spawn/channel stuff in it, that runs on one core locally or the nearby cluster with the same behaviour and lower wall clock time.

this is called "erlang"

Not so much. Erlang does the one machine or many feature but only by writing your program as a bunch of objects communicating by message passing. Elixer seems to be the same. I'm thinking more along the lines of Id or parallel Haskell.

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by wnkrshm »

markus_zhang wrote: post #8

I need to focus on one learning objective and dump a few months at least. I simply cannot focus for that long.

What worked for me (diagnosed with ADHD) is to stream my desktop to a friend and have 1.5h work periods with 1h pause inbetween.

Being watched by someone who knows you're supposed to be doing one thing and one thing only can be a great help in refocusing even if one strays a little.

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by pqs »

tinktank wrote: post #2

Not sure about startup but -- I'm unable to retain minutia in my brain for long (weeks, months, years) periods but the industry I work in requires it. Examples include: How many queues does X have? How many are write-only queues? How many can be reconfigured to become wider queues? What are the protocols supported by Y? Which version of the protocols are supported? I would like a tool, - accessible at my fingertips (…

Evernote, Obsidian, ...

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by DarrenDev »

Renting a monitor, keyboard and office chair and desk when I go to the sun for a few months in the winter. I've had this issue 4 times in the past 3 years, in Southern Spain and in the Canary islands. No one rents office gear to remote workers.

I want to be able to go to a website, check a box beside each item I want, choose a delivery time, and have someone in a white van come and set up everything in my rental apartment or villa, then collect the day before my flight home.

I'd easily pay 50% of the cost of the items for this just for the convenience, and I know I'm not the only one. The target market is NOT nomad or budget travellers - it's professionals on high incomes.

I mentioned this in the 'other idea' section of a recent YC application, but they didn't bite.

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by soueuls »

DarrenDev wrote: post #36

Renting a monitor, keyboard and office chair and desk when I go to the sun for a few months in the winter. I've had this issue 4 times in the past 3 years, in Southern Spain and in the Canary islands. No one rents office gear to remote workers. I want to be able to go to a website, check a box beside each item I want, choose a delivery time, and have someone in a white van come and set up everything in my rental apar…

I fully agree with this and I wish the same. I alternative solution I have found so far is

1. I mostly travel to lower income countries in South-East Asia. 2. My income is fairly high even for US standards 3. I usually travel for 3-6 months at the minimum. 4. I will just buy the nice monitor, keyboard, etc 5. I just go to the nearby university, find a random professor working in IT and ask him "Do you have a promising student in one your class, who you can tell is lacking some money to get a good equipment?"

And I just give it all.

It's a pricey strategy, I am probably forking 700-1000$ every 6 months but I don't really care. Last time I have see a young Thai girl cry because I gave her something should could have never afforded before finishing university. Was well worth the price.

And I am not compromising anymore with my own setup, so I have to buy at least 1-2 monitor.

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by mdrzn »

soueuls wrote: post #37
DarrenDev wrote: post #36

Renting a monitor, keyboard and office chair and desk when I go to the sun for a few months in the winter. I've had this issue 4 times in the past 3 years, in Southern Spain and in the Canary islands. No one rents office gear to remote workers. I want to be able to go to a website, check a box beside each item I want, choose a delivery time, and have someone in a white van come and set up everything in my rental apar…

I fully agree with this and I wish the same. I alternative solution I have found so far is 1. I mostly travel to lower income countries in South-East Asia. 2. My income is fairly high even for US standards 3. I usually travel for 3-6 months at the minimum. 4. I will just buy the nice monitor, keyboard, etc 5. I just go to the nearby university, find a random professor working in IT and ask him "Do you have a promisin…

This seems the best way to act about it.

If you're a professional on high income and living in a low-income country, this might help others more than you will ever realise.

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by DarrenDev »

soueuls wrote: post #37
DarrenDev wrote: post #36

Renting a monitor, keyboard and office chair and desk when I go to the sun for a few months in the winter. I've had this issue 4 times in the past 3 years, in Southern Spain and in the Canary islands. No one rents office gear to remote workers. I want to be able to go to a website, check a box beside each item I want, choose a delivery time, and have someone in a white van come and set up everything in my rental apar…

I fully agree with this and I wish the same. I alternative solution I have found so far is 1. I mostly travel to lower income countries in South-East Asia. 2. My income is fairly high even for US standards 3. I usually travel for 3-6 months at the minimum. 4. I will just buy the nice monitor, keyboard, etc 5. I just go to the nearby university, find a random professor working in IT and ask him "Do you have a promisin…

We did something similar a couple of times, but ended up selling it all and giving away what was left on a local Facebook group. The sales all went to expats or travellers with the same problem we had; the giveaways went to locals. (We didn't plan it that way.)

The biggest problem we had was buying the stuff to begin with, as we needed a car rental to carry it all and a day trip to the nearest city with an Ikea and a big box store to source it. (And we couldn't find a UK keyboard anywhere!) Most of those we sold it all to didn't have a car to begin with.

I think Covid and WFH have changed the need here, as what might once have been a week's working holiday has now morphed into a 4 month working break.

I don't see a contender popping up anytime soon, as the business would probably thrive best in a location that doesn't attract startups. Costa del Sol rather than Silicon Valley.

Re: Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?

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Post by dangus »

jppope wrote: post #31
dangus wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At some point if you want to cook you have to get off your ass and do it. Recipes are just recipes on recipe web sites. NYT Cooking is a nice one. Food prep is just...making the recipes and putting the food in your fridge. As far as easy meals literally hundreds of services exist for this. I recommend finding one that's local so that you aren't dealing with wasteful packaging and shipping. IMO the ones that fully pre…

My problem is that I cook A LOT. I would like to optimize the activity because it is a non-trivial cost in both time and money. I hear your solutions but each is a trade off... As a wise software developer once said... "Good, Cheap, Fast... you may only have two"

Yes, that's true. I don't know that a perfect solution will ever exist.

We collectively spend a lot of time and money on food, but the good news is that it's one of the joys of life.

Interesting little link: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/november/average-s...

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