Ask HN: What annoys you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by emily37 » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:43 PM UTC

SandB0x wrote: post #89

Food. I miss the healthy, affordable, sociable dining halls from university. There are people who cook better than I do, and who should be able to make great food at a reasonable price by buying fresh ingredients in bulk. My options for eating are * Cook it myself [1]. Cheap but takes time and effort to make good food. * Restaurant. Good food but expensive and takes time. I don't always want table service and small p…

I have the opposite complaint. My school's dining hall meal plan works out to $8+/meal and it's infuriating. I now spend almost half as much by shopping at Trader Joe's and cooking.

What do you count as good food? I find that it doesn't take me that much longer to make something good and healthy (maybe not gourmet delicious) than it would to wait in line at a cafeteria.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by liedra » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:44 PM UTC

mrduncan wrote: post #11

Airlines - They are nearly all just a pain in the ass to deal with. When was the last time you heard someone tell you how they had a great experience with an airline?

I had a great experience with Brussels Airlines during the volcanic ash thing - unlike a lot of crappy airlines, they put me (and the rest of my flight) up in a hotel in Barcelona for 2 nights, then organised a coach for everyone to drive back to Brussels. The only slight quibble was the dropping us at the destination airport at 2am with no other transport connections (apart from taxis) running, but that was small potatoes against what a lot of others suffered during that period. Still, their customer service was top notch, and they were quick with getting information out.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by Timothee » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:44 PM UTC

bemmu wrote: post #129

daleharvey wrote: post #3

Payments - I am tired of entering 20 things every time I want to pay for something, paypal has been problematic with cancelling accounts and generally being untrustworthy.

Also I'd love to get email notifications from my bank when someone pays me, so I don't have to constantly poll their clunky website.

One work-around for that is services like Mint.com which will do the polling for you and alert you based on your own criteria.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by Kisil » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:47 PM UTC

tansey wrote: post #72

Finding people to work on short, proof-of-concept projects with. I have a list of more than 25 items that I would love to work on, but have little motivation without someone willing to help out. I don't necessarily want to form a startup on these ideas, just get the ball rolling and see where it leads. I would like a site that enables me to find others and create prototype apps in a matter of days, almost like a flas…

Not to recurse on your comment, but can we build a web app for this some weekend?

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by himmel » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:49 PM UTC

bemmu wrote: post #132

loewenskind wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Systems like Password1 solve this for me, with the added benefit that if someone manages to hack one of these sites and capture my password for it they'll have a bunch of random characters that wont work for anything else I have. Personally I don't like OpenID for this reason among others.

I recently switched to 1Password. Now I realize that I'm basically unable to use any sites that require login with my phone, since I don't know my own passwords.

1Password has an application for the iPhone

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by pfarrell » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:53 PM UTC

SandB0x wrote: post #89

Food. I miss the healthy, affordable, sociable dining halls from university. There are people who cook better than I do, and who should be able to make great food at a reasonable price by buying fresh ingredients in bulk. My options for eating are * Cook it myself [1]. Cheap but takes time and effort to make good food. * Restaurant. Good food but expensive and takes time. I don't always want table service and small p…

Former poet laureate of the US, Charles Simic says, the secret to happiness begins with learning how to cook.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/magazine/03wwln-q4-t.html

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by ramy_d » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:54 PM UTC

it annoys me when people come up to me to tell i shouldn't be using c++ for project X. Like I don't know exactly what I'm doing or exactly what C++ is for.

I mainly do game development, but if you've made a game you know how time consuming it is to actually get something usable/playable/fun at the end.

Between projects I like to take brakes and work on other smaller applications. some of those applications are in c++ so I have some testing grounds to come back to so I don't loose my edge - and too often I get some grade-A BOZO telling me I'm using the "wrong" language and the falling into his diarrhea diatribe about his favorite language X and how it's SOOOOOO COOL and SSSOOOO HIP and SSSOOO EXPRESSIVE as if those are things I care about.

it's such a handicap being a c++ coder in an environment like that, it's like I'm not eligible to hang out with the hip kids/zealots because they have some religious animosity against something they never use. what a joke of a culture that becomes.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by wazoox » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 4:58 PM UTC

tjr wrote: post #21

Informal music notation. Existing systems are fine enough for formal classical notation, but if you want to make a quick rough sketch (e.g., lead sheets in The Real Book ) it's pretty cumbersome, and the amount of time & effort it takes doesn't seem commensurate with the sort of document desired. I've been pondering this off and on for years; I think it might require a pretty fundamental switch in how the data is ent…

What do you want to jot down? only chords, chords + melody?

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by postfuturist » Fri, Jul 30, 2010, 5:01 PM UTC

joshfraser wrote: post #178

going to the grocery store. why doesn't food just show up at my house automatically by now?

All you have to do is sign up. There are a number of services that deliver groceries, at least there are in Portland, OR. Some even specialize in local/sustainable produce.