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by pzaich 11y ago
I've always found the social issues surrounding extending life to be chilling after reading Kurt Vonnegut's take on it in "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_a
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Text-only NPR(thin.npr.org)
96 points by pzaich 11y ago|33 comments
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by pzaich 11y ago
I'm writing an abstraction layer in Ruby for scrapping text from documents without the overhead of requiring LibreOffice or Ghostscript. https://github.com/pzaich/doc_ripper
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Encapsulation patterns in AngularJS(paulzaich.com)
1 points by pzaich 11y ago|0 comments
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by pzaich 11y ago
I had the same initial reaction until I realized that you can click through on the gifs and reach a scrollable list. Here's AirBnB's for example: http://bakztfuture.github.io/startuptimelines/airbnb/index
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Rails 4.2.1 and 4.1.10 have been released(weblog.rubyonrails.org)
1 points by pzaich 12y ago|0 comments
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Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?(nytimes.com)
69 points by pzaich 12y ago|99 comments
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by pzaich 12y ago
This looks like the perfect form-factor for a more powerful wearable swim watch. Most of the other options are bulkier or too limited in their feature set. Unfortunately it looks like it's only splash resistant.
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Qattara Depression Project(en.wikipedia.org)
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WEBrick and Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup: A Tale in Two Acts(vais.github.io)
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I didn't realize this was a valid method name(imgur.com)
5 points by pzaich 12y ago|0 comments
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NASA's commercial crew transportation live announcement(nasa.gov)
22 points by pzaich 12y ago|10 comments
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by pzaich 12y ago
Very encouraging to see tests used more sparingly. I was a novice developer when I first tried this tutorial and found myself lost in the weeds when I tried to follow along with rspec. Understanding the difference between rspec and cucumber
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Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012)(blogs.msdn.com)
230 points by pzaich 12y ago|67 comments
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Ask HN: Historical data sets available online?
9 points by pzaich 12y ago|3 comments
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by pzaich 12y ago
As a soon-to-be dad (in the next few weeks), thanks for posting and sharing!
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by pzaich 12y ago
I found Foursquare to have by far the best meta-data (compared to Google maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor) when living abroad in Asia.
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Why classic rock isn't what it used to be(fivethirtyeight.com)
5 points by pzaich 12y ago|0 comments
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by pzaich 12y ago
This sounds very similar to what Chariot ( https://chariotsf.com/ ) is trying to do in SF. Filling a gap between MUNI and taxi/uber/lyft?
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Which Supreme Court Justices Vote Together Most and Least Often(nytimes.com)
1 points by pzaich 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: SEO beginners (similar to Hartl for Rails) guide for engineers?
10 points by pzaich 12y ago|3 comments
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Do users understand the browser back button?(ux.stackexchange.com)
7 points by pzaich 12y ago|2 comments
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by pzaich 12y ago
Stanford tree!
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by pzaich 12y ago
>>>`A lot of people are homeless. Every year I visit it’s increasing. Maybe I am using the wrong streets. I am surprised there’s no startup to fix this.` https://handup.us/ is tackling the challenge of direct donat
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by pzaich 12y ago
I lived in Seoul 2012-2013. Generally I think this post is accurate. Here are some general observations from my time there: - there's a small but growing startup community growing there who were very welcoming to foreigners. - you only
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Most Americans Make It To The Top 20 Percent (At Least For A While)(npr.org)
9 points by pzaich 12y ago|0 comments
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A map of Baseball Nation(nytimes.com)
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Before Git(thenextweb.com)
2 points by pzaich 12y ago|1 comments
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by pzaich 12y ago
I wonder how much the financial services industry effects san Francisco's median since a lot of people have to get in prior to the market opening at 6:30 PST.
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NASA discovers Earth-sized planet in habitable zone(cnn.com)
3 points by pzaich 12y ago|0 comments

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