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tsuresh | 6 years ago | on: Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says

This has been mentioned on HN before and is a good place to start IMO - What can a technologist do about climate change? http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

tsuresh | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it

Radiolab did an episode[0] last year where they talked to Facebook content moderators.

[0]: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil

tsuresh | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Podflix – Like Netflix for Podcasts

There is Stitcher Premium[0] that does exactly this.

[0]: https://www.stitcher.com/premium

tsuresh | 7 years ago | on: Poka-yoke

With a similar intention, Toyota also came up with the Andon cord - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)

tsuresh | 7 years ago | on: EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time

Well, I have to post this here now: So you want to abolish time zones ttps://qntm.org/abolish

tsuresh | 8 years ago | on: A Classic Extension Reborn: Tree Style Tab

He doesn’t want to accept donations. See - https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/761

tsuresh | 9 years ago | on: Under Fire, Theranos CEO Stifled Bad News

Click the web button on the post and open any of the search results links.

tsuresh | 9 years ago | on: Docker was unavailable in Ubuntu/Debian repos

From the GitHub issue thread, I see a lot of people being angry for their production deployments failing. If you directly point to an external repo in your production environment deployments, you better not be surprised when it goes down. Because shit always happens.

If you want your deployments to be independent of the outside world, design them that way!

tsuresh | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: An interactive comparison of 100 laptops with matte screens

This is amazing! Is there a site like this for desktop monitors?

tsuresh | 10 years ago | on: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

GitHub wiki is a repo and can be cloned locally. Searching through a local files is trivial.

tsuresh | 11 years ago | on: Zop

Candy Crush: Minimalistic version

tsuresh | 11 years ago | on: A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building

Reminds me of the film Snowpiercer.