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Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by papa_bear »

noonespecial wrote: post #164

The idea didn't really seem that exciting to me, but the execution of this is very impressive indeed. I'm going to be using this to demonstrate what I mean by an effective user interface. The abstraction of complexity until the very moment its needed is masterful here. Its simple right up until you need it to be complicated. Hat is off.

Hah, thanks! I'm flattered. You're right that the idea isn't for everyone - it takes a special level of laziness to want to be told what to make for every meal.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by papa_bear »

tcdowney wrote: post #74
papa_bear wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It started out as Swole.me ( http://www.swole.me ) a little over two years ago, and then I rebranded it once the algorithm was good enough to suggest things a normal, well adjusted person might eat (as opposed to a meal of 2 tbsp peanut butter + 1 chicken breast). My guess is that the idea and execution was novel enough to get it a decent amount of attention.

Wow, I was just thinking about swole.me the other day while I was mirin my gainz at the gym. Cool to see it become something more!

Going to the gym and running into buff dudes who were talking about swole.me was one of my proudest moments.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by saraid216 »

tekromancr wrote: post #202
TkTech wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least the USDA provides database dumps ( http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12354500/Data/SR2... ). Unfortunately, it comes with a 128 page guide on how to actually parse it into something useful.

That's been my experiance with pretty much every govt DB that I have used. Especially the Education Stats. Fuck that.

1) It's so much better than not providing it at all.

2) People have been working to improve that stuff since forever, and are continuing to work on improving it. Especially now that Big Data is The Thing and a lot of groups are looking into making government data accessible.

Re: Show HN: Automatic weekly meal planner, also plans your leftovers

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Post by saraid216 »

lemming wrote: post #92
GuiA wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're misinterpreting my comment. My culture and upbringing have given me broad indications on what consists "eating healthily"; here I am seeing a tool made by a citizen of another culture, that claims it will produce healthy meal recommendations. But the recommendations it gives me are wildly different from my cultural expectations. All I'm trying to do is understand why there is this discrepancy.

This is a pretty interesting question IMO. I spent 8 years living in Spain where people are convinced that their diet is the healthiest in the world, but by any "modern" standard is a nutritionist's nightmare: often no breakfast and fatty/sugary if you do eat it, tons of coffee, generally extremely high levels of fat including saturated animal fats, very high in salt and alcohol. Nearly all carbs are white and proces…

It's also likely that different environments (sun exposure; humidity; food availability; water availability) have contributed to cultural traditions. That may or may not factor into genetic traits.

Because you didn't have enough confounding variables already. :P

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