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What’s funny (and ironic) is that Medium bombarded me with both app banner and sign up banner as soon as I opened this link. I had to scramble to close all the pop ups before I could even start reading. sigh

I'd happily buy one for city commutes when they become available.

Interesting. I haven't personally faced the recipe link box typing issue. Could you tell me which device and OS you're using so I can attempt to reproduce the issue?

It appears to me that the website you linked doesn't use schema.org/Recipe to tag it's data. Hence, the parser didn't work. If it's any consolation, it has nothing to do with it being a UK recipe.

Oh also, thanks for taking the time to try it out! Appreciate the feedback :)

Why did I make this?

User Story #1: You have some leftover apples at home, last you counted it was 7. You find a recipe that you like but it's for 16 apples. Typically you would have to do a lot of mental math to scale all the ingredients of the recipe down. But thanks to Recipe Scaler, all you have to do is copy paste the link in the box and hit Parse. Now you can scale apples down to 7 and voila! Every other ingredient is proportionally scaled down.

User Story #2: You have a party at your place tonight. You plan to make this famous chilli recipe you found on a blog. But alas, her recipe makes just enough for a family of 4, not 20! But thanks to Recipe Scaler - you easily scale the recipe from 4 to 20 servings.

Truth be told both of these have happened to me. I have been using my own product a lot lately, so if nothing else, I'm glad I got something out of it.

Behind the scenes I have also written an API that is able to take any website link with a recipe in it and parse it into a well structured format.

Any advice or suggestion in general is welcome!

Best, Za

Is this the same company that at one point was making social networks for celebrities?

https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/03/backplane/

Great photos!

What DOES "federated" mean in this context?

Are you trying to access it through company VPN? I get similar issues when I do that from mine.

Is there anything like this but for Android? Thanks.

Internships are probably the best job interviews.

The author makes some good points. But, I wish they had offered some ways to test the dimensions they speak of: courage, attitude etc.

The face reminds me of my 4 year old cousins coloring back. It's an explosion of incoherent colors.

WTF. I have been using and loving (for the most part) Inbox since they launched it. I had to work so hard to bring down my Inbox to zero. sigh I guess with Google, I should have expected as much.

My life is complete.

Rain is my favorite. Certainly the biggest thing I miss since moving out of Seattle. Rain is so peaceful and refreshing. Also, watching it rain through a window in a dark room, wrapped in a blanket, is possibly coziest thing in the world :)

Wow this is really cool. I am wondering what the applications for this could be irl.

What a horrendously condescending reply. If you want to do any one any good, the least you can do is elaborate.

I understand your point. I guess I am trying to highlight the fact that most sexism/racism these days are systematic. The people aren't probably less/more sexist than everyone else. But, they can build a culture that is less sexist.

You don't have to be sexist to attract women in leadership. Women engineers aren't rare by absolute numbers, but rare as a % portion of total engineering leaders.

If they promise and deliver on a culture where women in leadership can thrive and attempt to recruit smart women, then more women will join. Success breeds success.

2nd sentence of the article - "Chris Latner is their creator when he has only 25 years old". Should be he was. I know what you mean.

By far the most unique take on learning English

Does anyone know what kind of violations they reported (and which companies)?

I got an email from them no longer than a month ago that they were expanding like crazy and opening a new office in Seattle. I don't completely understand their situation.

I can completely see this happening. I have interned at small startups in the past where practice like this was rampant.

Inspiring. Maybe I'll have the guts to become an indie dev someday.

Is there a protocol for warning people if an out-of-control satellite crash is imminent in a populated area?

Who is responsible for covering damages caused by this satellite?

Sounds like it. I think Cloudflare's edge (no pun intended) is going to be their 110+ locations to host this. As opposed to Amazon's 93 I believe? (If all cloudfront spots support lambda@edge that is) https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/details/

I guess I'll be the unpopular opinion and say I enjoyed reading the few stories that caught my attention. They weren't as in depth as I had hoped, but it's still interesting to see how managers deal with situations. The airplane and kite bit had me cringing a little but I see what he was going for there.

It's funny. Anyone following the NBA right now would tell you it's a league with just two teams :P

Then they are just as good/bad as bloggers today :)