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by azarias 10y ago
HP just agreed to buy Samsung's printing business. https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/12/hp-is-buying-samsungs-prin...
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by azarias 10y ago
Can confirm, this happened to our HP 6830 printer on September 13. Extremely annoyed because we only bought this printer in June, and was working fine with a replacement ink. I was actually researching legal precedents to this, and learned
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Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have comment collapse, like Reddit?
14 points by azarias 10y ago|4 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
This is awesome. Been procrastinating to add this functionality!
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by azarias 14y ago
I think they also addressed the performance issue in addition to saying it is not documented: "...evolving away from the global backlog concept in order to provide better support for different concurrency models"
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by azarias 14y ago
It seems to me that Heroku has chosen to be dishonest: Heroku's blog response: "but until this week, we failed to see a common thread among these reports." vs. Adam's response to Tim Watson, a year ago: "You're correct, the routing mesh doe
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by azarias 14y ago
The Asus Zenbook is great, and fits within your budget (a number of options starting from $700-$1200). One of the first ultrabooks to support Ubuntu well. We use these at work.
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by azarias 14y ago
I also found this section interesting...and I didn't know about it before: "Per amendments in the new “fiscal cliff” law, if you started or invested in a QSB between September 28, 2010 and January 1, 2013 and ultimately sell stock under the
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by azarias 14y ago
I once built an app on their API for a hackday, and I had to film the demo because I could never get the devices to connect via a bump. It would happen like once every 5 tries. Just installed it again to see the mobile to pc bump, and altho
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Twitter as a smart todo list(blog.meritful.com)
24 points by azarias 14y ago|10 comments
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Columbia’s Gang Scholar Lives on the Edge(nytimes.com)
3 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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Google using CAPTCHA for streetview(gizmodo.com)
1 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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Timeline chart for the movie Primer(unrealitymag.com)
2 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
As an aside, I am amazed how much conversation CNN's story has fueled and continues to fuel...and it has been so many years! Whether it was a good representation or not, it was one of the first to really discuss the topic, and there is a lo
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Technology and Development(economist.com)
1 points by azarias 14y ago|0 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
You make an important point. We obviously have a lot of testing and refining to do. Thank you for taking the time to investigate our claim :)
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by azarias 14y ago
We actually looked at using MailChimp for this, but we didn't want to go outside of the TOS. So, we ended up merging the mail locally using Thunderbird and sending it from our personal accounts. I am sure there is more to be said about the
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by azarias 14y ago
Pasting in the emails was going to make the post very long, but to summarize, we presented Meritful as a tool for students to build a positive web presence, as a tool for teachers and mentors to run projects and give feedback to students, a
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by azarias 14y ago
That makes sense...that was why we wanted to point out relative performance rather than absolute numbers. It is also probably fair to point out that the content and tone of our messaging differed quite a bit, which explains some of the diff
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A/B testing our friends(blog.meritful.com)
8 points by azarias 14y ago|11 comments
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by azarias 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Designer Meritful ( http://www.meritful.com ) is looking for a freelance web designer to help us with some projects. We really appreciate clean and modern web design and love creatives at Meritful. It would be great if
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by azarias 14y ago
I know about the DC taxi commission a little bit...they will go anywhere, and do anything to protect their bottom line.
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by azarias 14y ago
This will always be free for schools and students. College admissions (especially the not top-50 colleges) spend a lot of money convincing students to come to their school. We hope to give them a very targeted avenue to reach out and recrui
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by azarias 14y ago
Thank you for your feedback. The goal is to eventually give college admissions counselors a very targeted way to reach out to and recruit high school students. All along, students can use their Meritful profile as part of the package they p
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by azarias 14y ago
SaaS is a very good way to go about it, and we have got inquiries for 'mass signups' from a couple schools we talked to. We were hesitant because we thought it would result in a bunch of phantom accounts, but like you say, I think many orga
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by azarias 14y ago
University admissions counselors make the Meritful better for students, and we are talking to those people. But teachers have a lot of face time with students, and can be a vehicle for students to learn about Meritful. If a teacher has a cl
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by azarias 14y ago
Thank you for your feedback...I think they can use it...but a lot of the experiences that high school students are not work experiences...instead projects and activities...which can be better described using visual ways a la a portfolio...w
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by azarias 14y ago
The main reason we wanted to do this is that LinkedIn is designed to highlight one key currency...work experience. In contrast, this is not necessarily the most important experience in high school. So the idea was to create a platform where
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by azarias 14y ago
Awesome, thank you so much for the kind words! We're definitely thinking about ways of transitioning students, and that is one great idea.
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by azarias 14y ago
Thank you...coming soon. An artist friend is making really nice sketches for us. The girl in the middle was supposed to be the one. One theory we are testing is that initial distribution will primarily come from adults/teachers/parents who

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