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by zackhall 12y ago
Agreed - nothing more annoying than a product that wants my credentials before I can even try it out, see a screenshot, or anything else that might make me want it. le sigh
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Death to the Stock Photo(deathtothestockphoto.com)
1 points by zackhall 13y ago|0 comments
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by zackhall 13y ago
Very cool site -- I've long thought about setting something like this up as a side project that'd be fun to build!
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Ask HN: What are some good free resources to learn Ruby (not Rails)?
2 points by zackhall 13y ago|2 comments
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by zackhall 13y ago
I think that I'm going to try out a self hosted solution for a while. For no other reason than just the fact that it seems fun. Here's one that was posted to HN recently: https://github.com/swanson/stringer
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Ask HN: What's the best way to look for an apartment?
2 points by zackhall 14y ago|7 comments
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by zackhall 14y ago
"Facebook has been the gateway drug to the internet." I have never thought of it put that way, but it is such a true and insightful statement. When I began high school, almost none of my adult family members were on the internet (less one a
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by zackhall 14y ago
That's a very good point. I made that statement out of my perceived, and very naive, "closeness" to other cultures.
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by zackhall 14y ago
Can anyone shed any light on how Japan seems to be doing so well in this metric when all of the other countries that they are close to geographically and culturally are doing very poorly?
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by zackhall 14y ago
Am I the only one who initially read this as "Don't Eat Fortune Cookies," and didn't realize my mistake until going back to read the rest of the title? Anyhow, it was a very great and inspiring read.