pzaich | 8 years ago | on: Launch HN: Airship (YC W18) – Controlled rollouts of new features
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pzaich | 8 years ago | on: Lever (YC S12) Raises $30M for Effort to Transform Hiring
Hi Nate,
Wanted to give you a heads up that I'm seeing a blank screen your "Our story" page. Chrome. No console errors. There is markup in source. https://www.lever.co/our-story
pzaich | 9 years ago | on: StarCraft Remastered
Total Annihilation was great. The big difference for me that made Starcraft superior was the uniquely balanced set of races to choose from. The two factions in TA were essentially mirror images of each other. Starcraft always felt like it had another layer of depth to strategy as a result of the various matchups between races.
pzaich | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
I recently switched my old VPS-hosted Wordpress blog to a static site generated by Middleman[1] hosted on Github pages[2]. It's been a really nice way to maintain flexibility of design with a huge boost to performance and improved development/writing workflow. I use markdown so I can even write my articles in a markdown editor if I want to.
pzaich | 9 years ago | on: How We Designed Our Interview Process
The presence of an itinerary for the interviewee should be a requirement. Sadly it's not. I've taken two interviews in the past week where I was in the dark as to what my visit would look like.
pzaich | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: DocRipper – Scrape .doc|.docx|.pdf|.txt|.sketch with 1 command
Interesting! I started this project a long while ago and I gradually introduced additional features and formats over time after running into performance issues with other file parsers (not Tika). Tika looks like a great solution if you don't mind the Java dependency.
Here's a JRuby wrapper: https://github.com/ricn/rika
pzaich | 10 years ago | on: PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS
I'm also in a similar position where I'd like to store approximately 560k records / user / year. My understanding is that Cassandra doesn't support some useful queries that would be useful when business logic is less clear (like group by)[1]. I'm leaning towards using PostgreSQL with a dedicated write DB until performance becomes an issue.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17342176/max-distinct-and...
pzaich | 10 years ago | on: San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings
Google Sunroof proves this theory to be mostly false. Check out 2nd street roofs for example: https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#a=2nd%20Street%2C%20San%2...
pzaich | 10 years ago | on: How I Built a Side Project
I have done the same for my side projects and used cost as excuse to force myself to learn basic devOps.
pzaich | 10 years ago | on: Three Years as a One-Man Startup
You might want to look at structuring your pricing in a similar manner to gym memberships given that the product has a similar usage pattern. There was an interesting Planet Money[1] podcast recently that noted that many gym memberships are structured to be yearly contracts ... because people like that idea of putting money down so that they feel committed. You might be able to tap into some of the same psychology.
1 http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/12/17/371463435/episo...
pzaich | 10 years ago | on: From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth
I think the same could be said for all public domain images published by the government. There must be a tremendous wealth of high quality photos that are hidden away on various agency websites. I've been thinking about creating an aggregation service for this similar to unsplash.com.
pzaich | 10 years ago | on: The performance and physics of the fish kick
This was exactly my reaction after looking at the article. Mastering underwater dolphin kick has been critical to success at the national and international level since the late 1990s.
pzaich | 10 years ago | on: Why We Age, Part III: Can We Live Forever?
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_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomor...). What would a future look like where there is very little room for young people to grow?
pzaich | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: What project are you working on?
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
pzaich | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Startup Timelines
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.h...
pzaich | 11 years ago | on: Microsoft Band
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.
pzaich | 11 years ago | on: Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition
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 probably isn't critical at that point. The tutorial made a lot more sense to me after someone recommended ignoring the tests the first time through.
pzaich | 11 years ago | on: Being a new dad while working at a startup
As a soon-to-be dad (in the next few weeks), thanks for posting and sharing!
pzaich | 11 years ago | on: A brand new Foursquare, with a brand new logo and look
I found Foursquare to have by far the best meta-data (compared to Google maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor) when living abroad in Asia.
pzaich | 11 years ago | on: New York’s Shadow Transit
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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