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jenningsjasonon Show HN: Daily price tracking for Trader Joe's

The founder of "Trader Joe's" Joe Coulombe, wrote a memoir. One of the better business books you'll read:

https://www.harpercollinsleadership.com/9781400225422/becomi...

jenningsjasonon The Missing Semester of CS Education

Similar concept, but targeted towards non CS majors

jenningsjasonon The Cord-Cutting Fantasy

Sports is how cable (and satellite) empires are built. Take, for example, the NFL Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. The NFL has sold exclusive rights, in the US at least, to DirecTV. Hardcore NFL fans, and there are a lot of us, wouldn't even consider cable, let alone cord cutting, until NFL Sunday Ticket is available through some other distribution network.

The same is true in the UK for Premiership Soccer, and I'm sure it's true for other sports in other countries.

jenningsjasonon How to Easily Convert Any Bookmarklet to Chrome Extension (+ source code)

Does something like this exist for Safari or Firefox?

jenningsjasonon Google Reader: Play

feels like a faster, less relevant version of StumbleUpon

jenningsjasonon The New Cavemen Lifestyle

"Average" life expectancy is deceiving. Much of the gains in human life expectancy have come from reductions in infant and childhood mortality, which alters the average substantially.