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How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by taejo »

nikanj wrote: post #111
cloudjacker wrote: post #89

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I'm working on a chrome extension to kill exit intents, I'll share it

Killing everything with position:absolute would work pretty good. Would take away annoying top/bottom bars too, and actually let me use my screen real estate for content instead of quick links to social sharing.

The Chrome extension "Fix Fixed" adds a button which removes all fixed-position content. It doesn't solve the lightbox problem (because you still have to click a button) but it's a big help with real estate.

Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by ulrikrasmussen »

thomasjudge wrote: post #57

How did priceonomics become a thing.. this seems like a clickbait site for the more intellectual crowd, less trashy than say buzzfeed, but ultimately not really delivering much in the way of genuine insight. It probably doesn't hurt that the name recalls "freakonomics", another brand which, while occasionally interesting, is far past its pull date as well..

What would you categorize as "genuine insight", then? I found the article pretty good, well written, and it actually taught something about the history of cereals in America that I didn't know (the fact that Kellogg had purely moral reasons for inventing what later evolved into the sugary Kellogg's that we know today was pretty interesting!)

Articles that can be called "clickbait" are generally not very well written, misrepresents information, and leave you with a feeling of not getting what the headline promised. That is not the case here, at all.

Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by dTal »

tagrun wrote: post #99
fenomas wrote: post #98

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It would be nice if HN as a community could agree to take bike-shed issues like this "as read", and not quite so often re-argue them in the top comment spot. Sure, annoying things are annoying, but maybe the site has their reasons, but maybe those reasons are misguided, but then again maybe not, etc. That's all a great discussion to have, but let's have it in the comments on an article that's actually about such issu…

Maybe that's a hint that links from such sites aren't mostly welcome here?

I think there's something in this. Constant complaint discussions are a way of applying social pressure.

If every discussion on an article with an egregious anti-pattern gets hijacked, people might tend to submit such articles less, or find alternate sources that don't have those anti-patterns. This costs page views for the sites that do them, and rewards the sites that don't.

Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by dTal »

anonyfox wrote: post #108
bbarn wrote: post #65

I started to read this with some interest, as someone who's spent many hours thinking about and trying different metabolic strategies, diets, etc.. Then about 30 seconds in my reading got disrupted by a fucking light-box asking me to sign up or log in or god knows what.. my instinct to close tab won out over my curiosity. Please stop this pattern. If you really think your content is worth having to (whatever)wall fro…

Before Reading any article, just hit the "reading mode" Button of safari/firefox. This eliminates every Source of frustration very effectively and removes distractions alltogether.

It's a pain to do, not always available, and doesn't always work properly when it is available (it's all heuristic based).

Far better if sites were readable to begin with.

Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by oarsinsync »

agumonkey wrote: post #125
bbarn wrote: post #65

I started to read this with some interest, as someone who's spent many hours thinking about and trying different metabolic strategies, diets, etc.. Then about 30 seconds in my reading got disrupted by a fucking light-box asking me to sign up or log in or god knows what.. my instinct to close tab won out over my curiosity. Please stop this pattern. If you really think your content is worth having to (whatever)wall fro…

My best friend is printfriendly.com (Chrome even support url query generation from the url bar http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?source=homepage&url=http... )

Beautiful, thank you. I've added it to my bookmarks bar next to my Google it! bookmarklet.

  javascript:(function(){location.replace('http://www.printfriendly.com/print/?source=homepage&url='+document.URL)})()

Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by Keats »

hyperchase wrote: post #53

I need to eat around 3000 calories per day to support my powerlifting training, and if I don't eat something first thing in the morning with a shitload of carbs -- usually something like rolled oats, berries, and a few bananas -- then I'm usually gassed and feeling like crap by 10. A few friends of mine fast intermittently and train in the morning before eating but it's beyond me how that is not just pure torture.

> A few friends of mine fast intermittently and train in the morning before eating but it's beyond me how that is not just pure torture.

It's just habit. I stopped eating breakfast in primary school and always preferred doing sports in the morning. Currently doing fasted weightlifting/cardio 5x a week first thing in the morning.

I'm currently doing only one big meal a day for lunch so technically that's fasting since 2pm the previous day.

Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by 98qz99191 »

solipsism wrote: post #80
edanm wrote: post #76

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This company produces great, great content. You agree that it's interesting, from what you've read. And yet apparently the most popular comment on their effort is that you don't want to spare the all-of-2 seconds it takes to click your mouse to close a pop-up? On a site that isn't plastered with ads, btw, and is generally very accessible? I don't mean to take out my frustration on you, and I get where you're coming f…

Ve specifically said ve didn't mind a pay wall. Ve found the the mid-read interruption rude, which I think is totally fair.

I had to google this "ve". At first I thought that you were mimicking a German accent, which did not make sense here.

Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by vixen99 »

fasteo wrote: post #127
visakanv wrote: post #124

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I think if there's one big idea about nutrition, it should be that there are no one-size-fits-all answers. I skipped breakfast for most of my childhood, and I had no idea why I was so lethargic all the time. I was typically anxious from undone schoolwork, etc and had no appetite in the morning. I'd self-medicate with cigarettes. I started forcing myself to eat breakfast about a year ago and my mind is so much clearer…

That was also my case as an adult. Solved by eating much more at night, carbs included. I was just not consuming enough calories. So, another myth - carbs are bad at night - that did not apply to me.

To which you might add 'at this period in my life'. Your requirements may well change. For many older people, 'carbs are bad at night' is not a myth.

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Post by sleepychu »

bbarn wrote: post #65

I started to read this with some interest, as someone who's spent many hours thinking about and trying different metabolic strategies, diets, etc.. Then about 30 seconds in my reading got disrupted by a fucking light-box asking me to sign up or log in or god knows what.. my instinct to close tab won out over my curiosity. Please stop this pattern. If you really think your content is worth having to (whatever)wall fro…

Firefox article reader mode kills pretty much all of that s*. It also makes articles much nicer to read, IMO.

Re: How Breakfast Became a Thing

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Post by icebraining »

jasonkester wrote: post #114
bbarn wrote: post #65

I started to read this with some interest, as someone who's spent many hours thinking about and trying different metabolic strategies, diets, etc.. Then about 30 seconds in my reading got disrupted by a fucking light-box asking me to sign up or log in or god knows what.. my instinct to close tab won out over my curiosity. Please stop this pattern. If you really think your content is worth having to (whatever)wall fro…

This is the digital equivalent of giving me a magazine to read, waiting until you're sure I've got my eyes on it, then shoving a business card in my field of vision This is an ironic analogy to choose, seeing as how magazines do in fact do exactly that. I know it's been a while since anybody read one, but if you cast your mind back, you'll recall that every dozen pages or so they will have stuck in a subscription car…

I don't remember any magazine with that crap, but maybe it's a regional thing, I'm not from the US. Which ones are you thinking of?
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