Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup • Hacker News Board

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by semanticist » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 8:38 AM UTC

ladon86 wrote: post #113

patio11 wrote: post #99

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You might not know me as well as you think you do.

You support the British National Party? :)

Putting the BNP alongside the US Republican Party is a bit controversial. I'm not sure American politics permits a fair comparison to the BNP (a party that were taken to court before the last general election because their rules essentially didn't permit black people to join) - the Klan are essentially a terrorist/paramilitary organisation. Is there an American Nazi political party?

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by freakwit » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 8:39 AM UTC

vaksel wrote: post #78

patio11 wrote: post #50

Relatedly: I hate, hate, hate going to the gym. However, it is the most productive use of one hour a day I can think of. I have more energy and get more done when I go, and the benefits appear to compound in those months when I'm very consistent about going. (Can one of you guys invent a way for this to suck less? I'll pay you money. At the moment I just give myself EpicWin points for going, trying to trigger the WoW…

workout at home just get a pull up bar and some weights and do it at home. You'll save like an extra hour in the process by not having to go to/from the gym.

got any recommendations for a pull up bar?

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by jonah » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 8:40 AM UTC

vaksel wrote: post #78

patio11 wrote: post #50

Relatedly: I hate, hate, hate going to the gym. However, it is the most productive use of one hour a day I can think of. I have more energy and get more done when I go, and the benefits appear to compound in those months when I'm very consistent about going. (Can one of you guys invent a way for this to suck less? I'll pay you money. At the moment I just give myself EpicWin points for going, trying to trigger the WoW…

workout at home just get a pull up bar and some weights and do it at home. You'll save like an extra hour in the process by not having to go to/from the gym.

And check out what Gain Fitness [1] is doing. Some nice tailored workouts with varied amounts of "equipment" required.

[1] http://gainfitness.com/

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by alnayyir » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 8:48 AM UTC

burgerbrain wrote: post #47

dholowiski wrote: post #21

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Sure, if you like eating microwaved mush

Chilli man. You can mess it up, it tastes great, and you can freeze it forever.

You'd find YC hospitable.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by astrange » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 8:54 AM UTC

tzs wrote: post #107

What's wrong with pizza? It's essentially bread + toppings. Bread can be a fine healthy food, and if you pick healthy toppings, you can have a healthy pizza. I think this would be better advice. First, spend a weekend reading "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. The take away from that is the healthy eating is a systematic thing, not a matter of individual ingredients. Second, watch a lot of episodes of "Good Eats…

Ordering pizza gets you tons of cheese and a crust with a lot of sugar in it. Making your own is fine…though I can't remember what's in the frozen pizza crusts, or how good they are.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by robryan » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 8:59 AM UTC

dholowiski wrote: post #21

wnoise wrote: post #13

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Yes, it does, but you can get a lot more mileage out of it by preparing in large batches and freezing most of it.

Sure, if you like eating microwaved mush

What I do is make a pasta sauce from a jar based sauce and add mince and vegetables, one that's way bigger than what I'm going to eat in the one meal. Then I just chuck it in the fridge and depending on time the next day I'll microwave it, or put it back in the pan and add a bit more sauce to it.

Since you cooking the pasta fresh it will be just as good the next day. I do basically the same thing with sauce for Indian and recook the rice.

Much of the time I enjoy cooking for 1/2 rather than more, lets you prepare things for multiple days and save time/money.

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by rue » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 9:12 AM UTC

kondro wrote: post #87

awolf wrote: post #52

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Most plant-derrived protein sources have an incomplete profile of amino acids. Humans have eight essential amino acids (amino acids that we must get from the diet as we cannot synthesize them) that are plentiful in animal sources and lacking to various degrees in plant sources. Plant sources of protein, even when combined to provide all the essential amino acids, are too heavy in carbohydrate, irritate the gut, and s…

Hence why the only semi-healthy vegans I know are those that cheat.

I wonder if naturally occurring animal deaths would be sufficient to provide meat for the planet otherwise living on a vegan diet?

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by patio11 » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 9:29 AM UTC

Dylanlacey wrote: post #114

patio11 wrote: post #106

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Money is empirically less effective at motivating me than magic purple pixels. Seriously, the subjective experience of being offered $X00,000 was a lot less fun than most WoW loot upgrades. Offering me $10 of my own money won't get me to go to the gym.

What about getting someone to change your WoW password unless you exercise 4 out of 7 days?

I quit WoW a while ago, and restarting WoW to get me to go to the gym more often sounds like it will be as effective as addressing tooth decay with an icepick. But if you can capture the magic of "Ding! Gratz!" for me when I'm at the gym, I'd pay you a substantial portion of the hmm $6k I have spent at my gym.

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Post by pyre » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 9:32 AM UTC

Dylanlacey wrote: post #62

lukeschlather wrote: post #56

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Then use the range. Though the microwave is a misunderstood device. It's fantastic at defrosting frozen items, but it should usually be an intermediate step used to ensure that thawed items are at room temperature when they go into the pan. It's also fantastic at a variety of simple one-step things. Melting butter, baking potatoes, melting cheese, and other things like that. Used properly, it speeds up and even impro…

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes. The best way to use the microwave is for meals that will benefit from being steamed, like vegetables. Failing that, regular stirring and occasionally protecting some thinner bits with foil are the way to go.

Foil? In the microwave?

Re: Pizza And Ramen Are Hurting Your Startup

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Post by zeemonkee » Thu, Jan 06, 2011, 9:42 AM UTC

cletus wrote: post #53

This is a tough one but I have several thoughts: 1. Fact is, in your teens and early 20s your body can digest pretty much anything. Eat a bowl of cereal in the morning (and I mean something like oatmeal or raisin bran rather than some sugary crap) and it barely matters what else you eat (other than calorific content); 2. Eating the same thing every day gets real old real fast; 3. There is an investment required in co…

A startup won't have the means for a cafeteria, but I've worked in several "startup hub" type buildings where a cafeteria can be shared between several startups. It's more economical than a local restaurant for employers and employees alike. As an added benefit it provided a good networking space for people in different startups to mix.