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Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by orbitur »

exelius wrote: post #23

Aah, so it sounds like one of the big reasons you sold was because of imposter syndrome? I don't mean that negatively -- I feel one of the things that comes with experience is you realize that nobody knows what they are doing. This dispels the impostor syndrome pretty quickly. Once you think you know how a business or industry works, you develop patterns to solve it. This can sometimes work against you because it can…

> I feel one of the things that comes with experience is you realize that nobody knows what they are doing. This dispels the impostor syndrome pretty quickly.

True, not many actually know what they're doing, but it's done nothing to dispel my concerns of being an imposter. Most people don't know what they're doing, but they seem to be much better at improvising than I am, so I feel like an imposter all over again.

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by steveklabnik »

gamblor956 wrote: post #119
pjlegato wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

American here. Nobody I know would ever call McDonald's a "restaurant."

American here. Everyone I know calls McDonald's a restaurant. They may choose not to eat there for health or ideological reasons, but everyone agrees that it is a restaurant, and has been a restaurant since its inception decades ago.

The industry calls them "quick serve restaurants" as well.

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by danneu »

learc83 wrote: post #115
s73v3r wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is a terrible thing, because those things are so bad for you.

Each ramen packet has about 400 calories, add in a few vegetables and a little meat and you've got a 500-600 calorie meal. Nothing in instant ramen is inherently bad for you (unless you have high blood pressure and are sensitive to sodium intake--and even then, just eat less of the seasoning). Sure living off of nothing but instant ramen isn't great, but neither is living off of nothing but broccoli.

    > Nothing in instant ramen is inherently bad for you
Hydrogenated oil is inherently bad for you, for one.

I'd be astonished if nothing else on this list is inherently bad for you: http://i.imgur.com/sHJldVY.jpg

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by SCHiM »

goatforce5 wrote: post #93
rogerbinns wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also the portions are large (which everyone already knows). But it is also culturally normal to take a doggie bag of the leftovers home with you, to supply additional meals. ie one restaurant meal is good for more than one meal. This arose because the easiest way for a restaurant to increase revenue is to increase portion sizes and hence the price.

I've eaten at places in the US where they're straight up confused/offended if you don't doggie bag your leftovers. "What? Was there something wrong?" "No, i'm in a hotel and don't really have anywhere to store or reheat it." "Yeah, but... Are you sure you want it?"

Haha, yes. A friend of mine went to live in the states for a while. The first time he saw people taking their unfinished meals with them he thought he was eating in some kind of restaurant/food shelter combination. Needless to say, he quickly caught on to the trend and now actively advocates it over the European system.

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by danielweber »

danneu wrote: post #123
learc83 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Each ramen packet has about 400 calories, add in a few vegetables and a little meat and you've got a 500-600 calorie meal. Nothing in instant ramen is inherently bad for you (unless you have high blood pressure and are sensitive to sodium intake--and even then, just eat less of the seasoning). Sure living off of nothing but instant ramen isn't great, but neither is living off of nothing but broccoli.

> Nothing in instant ramen is inherently bad for you Hydrogenated oil is inherently bad for you, for one. I'd be astonished if nothing else on this list is inherently bad for you: http://i.imgur.com/sHJldVY.jpg

Looking at that picture made me hungry for ramen.

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by myth_buster »

nkohari wrote: post #18
sg_gabriel wrote: post #11

Hi Nate, thanks for sharing your story. I think it's interesting because my co-founder is also my wife. And it's an interesting dynamic to say the least. If you don't mind me asking, what are the roles that you play individually? Just curious ;) For myself, I'm the backend engineer and devops, while my wife does the design and front-end engineering.

Roughly speaking, with Zen (and now again with our new startup TaskTorch), I was in charge of the technical side of the business, and she was in charge of anything non-technical (finance, marketing, support, etc.) Niki is an industrial-organizational psychologist, so her viewpoint is completely different from mine as a software engineer. As a developer it can be hard for me to see past the software sometimes, and Nik…

You also seem to have a knack for writing. Reading the beginning, I got the

  The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
feel.

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by myth_buster »

Rainymood wrote: post #63

Thank you for this article. I loved it :) >It was January, and the weather was fucking bleak. I was hooked from the first sentence. Please keep doing more of these.

I posted this above before I read yours.

  You also seem to have a knack for writing. Reading the beginning, I got the

    The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

  feel.

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by learc83 »

danneu wrote: post #123
learc83 wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Each ramen packet has about 400 calories, add in a few vegetables and a little meat and you've got a 500-600 calorie meal. Nothing in instant ramen is inherently bad for you (unless you have high blood pressure and are sensitive to sodium intake--and even then, just eat less of the seasoning). Sure living off of nothing but instant ramen isn't great, but neither is living off of nothing but broccoli.

> Nothing in instant ramen is inherently bad for you Hydrogenated oil is inherently bad for you, for one. I'd be astonished if nothing else on this list is inherently bad for you: http://i.imgur.com/sHJldVY.jpg

Edit: That package is old, they no longer contain hydrogenated oil.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81iUkR2HDYL._SL1500_.j...

Until recently almost everyone was eating trans fats because they were promoted as a healthier alternative, you can't single out Ramen here.

Top Ramen doesn't (which is what I was going on), they removed trans fats several years ago. Also nothing else on that list is inherently bad for you.

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by myth_buster »

michael_h wrote: post #77
kpennell wrote: post #52

What made you not want to move to Colorado?

If you're trying to escape the cold, Colorado is not the place to go.

Boulder gets around 300 days of sunshine. Also it's not wet cold and hence you don't feel the cold much. But the sub-zero overcast days is a different story.

I got the impression that they moved to NC.

  We weren't keen on moving to Colorado, but strangely enough, 
  they had an office in Raleigh, NC, where we already had several friends. 
  It felt like serendipity.

Re: Take the Money and Run

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Post by brandonmenc »

nkohari wrote: post #24
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #6

I'm probably being petulant or don't understand American culture, but: > To avoid spending money, we'd been subsisting on a diet consisting largely of soup. [...] But now, we'd gradually started to feel like we might be able to afford to eat at restaurants again. No middle ground?

I was being hyperbolic -- we did eat quite a bit of soup because it was cheap, but we ate other things also. I didn't mean for the word largely to be taken literally.

It's impossible to exaggerate for effect, even slightly, on HN. Otherwise, you end up talking about soup for half the thread.
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