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The Open Source Cookbook?
InspectorPraline asks: "I'm currently working on a cookbook that is intended to provide good food at a reasonable price - the kind of stuff you'd make before sitting down for a long coding session, with the occasional idea that would feed a LAN party. I've got some ideas I can put down, but the book would be quite thin, so I thought I'd put the call for submissions to Slashdot. I'm calling it 'The Open Source Cookbook,' and I'd release it under the GFDL, in PDF, ASCII text, and Word formats. Of course, I'd take submissions as comments here or via email. I'd 'publish' the book via the web once I got enough submissions to make the book at least about 40-50 pages in length or 30 recipes (whichever comes last), and as submissions came in I'd update the book. Anyway, I'm asking for submissions for the book, which could be recipes for dinners, lunches, even drinks. Two webpages that will serve as temporary homes for the project can be found here and here, and those addresses list my email as well as some submission guidelines. So, any ideas, folks?" Hey, if you ever wanted to share your favorite dishes with geeks around the world, this might be the way to do it. What great dishes have you prepared?
As someone who has spent a good deal of time studying cooking and who cooks at home quite a bit, I'm a little fuzzy on the intent of this proposal. I do NOT want to troll this post and I'm not trying to put it down at all. But this is a bit like asking the community, "Hey everyone, I'm writing some software and I'd like you all just to throw in some lines of code that you really like."
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Fact is, great cookbooks are like great software of any kind. They're focused, they have recipes that frequently complement each other, they have a specific problem or series of related problems they're trying to address and they have a specific audience: Beginners, grillers, southwestern interests, Chinese, French, quick chicken dishes, etc. So far as I can read I'm still not getting a clear picture and it's not that one wasn't attempted. But what exactly is the sort of thing that would go really well after four hours coding? Various cheese dishes? One coder's caviar is another coder's grease I'm afraid.
Also, judging from some of the posts already, there's something that truly gifted cooks and truly powerful coders have in common: They're rare
1. Clean yourself up.
2. Get a girlfriend (or boyfriend?).
3. Talk her (him?) into cooking you food.
4. Repeat step 3 as necessary.
Jake
Dating: while( 1 ){ call_girl(); get_rejected(); drink_40(); } return 0;
Personally, i prefer:
Bachelor Chow! Now with flavor!
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En DOS FIL med CLI. ^_^
/.Mattsson - My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)
- one recipe based on nothing but 3 cans of various potato soup.
- another that starts with a big Mac or somesuch.
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Have you ever heard of fresh products ? You know, basic things that you can use to make a real recipe, just like computer instructions that you put together to write a full program...?Anyway, there are already plenty of recipe website everywhere. I even have one big help file with 10 thousand recipes. And it's freeware, so no need to reinvent the wheel. Only catch: it's all in French...
Non-Linux Penguins ?