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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Friday June 25, 2021 @09:59AM (#27630847)
Very cool! How did you get the idea?
Hi George, I'm joining you in this curiosity. Also a bunch of software developers here, interested in the same topic.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2016) on Monday August 01, 2016 @01:29PM (#12204256)
SEEKING WORK - Washington, DC + Remote - Full-stack distributed team

Vitamin Software is the vitamin shot for your startup. Trusted by companies from YCombinator and TechStars, we accelerate your iterations in the right direction.

Our team includes 2 previous CTOs, an art director and 2 PhDs. Experience:

  * design/UI/UX, copywriting
  * web dev (Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java)
  * backend (latest sample of work: custom HTTP proxy in C++/boost supporting 1500 transactions per second, with persistent connections)
  * distributed systems (worked on fleets of 150+ servers, glued together with RabbitMQ, Kestrel and REST APIs)
  * DBs (MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Oracle DB)
  * provisioning (Ansible, Puppet; we like AWS!)
e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.vitaminsoftware.com Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2016) on Friday July 01, 2016 @11:19AM (#12016779)
SEEKING WORK - Washington, DC + Remote - Full-stack distributed team

Vitamin Software is the vitamin shot for your startup. We accelerate your iterations in the right direction and help your team gain focus.

We're a team of 6 full-time consultants, including 2 previous CTOs, 2 PhDs, a team leader and an art director.

Relevant experience:

* web development (Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java). Latest sample in React.js + Redux + Node.js: http://www.directimo.ro

* design/UI/UX: check http://www.directimo.ro

* databases (MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Oracle DB)

* distributed systems (worked on fleets of 150+ servers, glued together with RabbitMQ, Kestrel and REST APIs)

* backend (latest sample of work: custom HTTP proxy in C++/boost supporting 1500 transactions per second, with persistent connections)

* provisioning (we like AWS, but we can easily adapt to anything - experience with Ansible and Puppet)

Oh, and we have plenty of startup experience:

* one of the partners has been an Engineering Manager at uberVU (acquired by Hootsuite), leading big enterprise releases

* we have clients from YCombinator and TechStars

e-mail: [email protected]

website: http://www.vitaminsoftware.com

Thank you!

My primary dev machine is MacOS. I'm using generally VMWare or VirtualBox to virtualize Linux machines. I'm really frustrated with what they offer :)
Re:Storklancer.io FeedBack on Monday November 02, 2015 @06:14AM (#10491214)
Feedback link in the upper band does not work.

Putting in real project offers instead of lorem ipsum certainly would help. Most people are using websites like this to look for work. So why would they visit if there's no work in there, regardless of the features they find?

Good luck w/ your project!

Ask HN: What would you like to see in a booklet helping programmers get fitter?

I'm Andrei, the man behind www.ProgrammerFitness.com. Having worked with tens of customers in the past year to help them lose weight and lead a healthier lifestyle, I want to write a booklet about what I've learned so far.What would you like to see in it?I'm frustrated by the fact that there is only generic advice floating around, that assumes we all have a 9-to-5 schedule and time to do...

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Re:Quitting Caffeine and Measuring Impact on Sleep on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @07:19AM (#8486805)
Thanks! For me it's indeed a social activity :) Just as dining was (before I went on to practice intermittent fasting). Oh well :)
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? on Friday October 17, 2014 @01:07AM (#8469496)
Which moment of the day do you use to log your food(s)? How did you learn to eyeball your food?
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? on Thursday October 16, 2014 @11:28AM (#8465414)
I actually burn more than that (I average somewhere above 3000kcal), but the 2600 that I mentioned is from mostly passive activities. Did you know that Nelson Mandela walked 7 miles in his cell every day? I don't think working at home should stop us from being more active.
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:25AM (#8464505)
Using http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator, it seems that "by default I burn around" 1.9kcal per day. However I've found it quite easy to hack 700 of them into a day just by exercising for 10 minutes and having more walking meetings. In your case, do you consider walking exercising?
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:22AM (#8464499)
Very interesting! I've noticed that some people can just "keep it in their head" (including snacks) for 1-2 days. I guess their memory is much better than ours, heh! I enter it immediately after eating as well. But I use the mobile phone since I don't snack that much.

Why did you care about other people noticing the notebook?

Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? on Thursday October 16, 2014 @01:11AM (#8463470)
So you prefer not to exercise to eating more and exercising?
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? on Thursday October 16, 2014 @01:10AM (#8463467)
Apparently that one was replaced by https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/default.aspx. So what is your daily routine around that? When do you log your food?
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? on Thursday October 16, 2014 @01:06AM (#8463454)
What do you do when labels are not available? (e.g. eating out)
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @12:03PM (#8459151)
I personally use MyFitnessPal + some techniques to do food logging and get the calories burned from BodyMedia. How do you get your own calories burned?

Ask HN: How and when do you log your food?

Hi HN,I'm a quantified self geek. I have been logging my food for 7 months now (almost daily), and I would like to hear more about your experience doing that.How are you logging the food? When do you log your food? How do you manage through weekends or vacations? What about estimating the quantity of food?

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Ask HN: Weight loss challenges for geeks?

Hi HN!I'm a geek that used a totally unconventional method to lose 50 pounds in 6 months. After being overweight for most of my life, let's say that I had quite a bit of skepticism around me. And you know what, it wasn't that hard.I started from the following key questions:* why do I use data in my job but not on my body?* how do I make my weight loss sustainable? What are the foods that I like...

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