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by polytap 10y ago
I couldn't upvote this enough. The lack of objective comparison in comments is astounding, and it fits a pattern.
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by polytap 10y ago
This story reflects most poorly on the author himself.
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by polytap 10y ago
The strange barb at music synthesizers was uncalled for.
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by polytap 10y ago
Compared to many other institutions, Stanford does a good job of dealing with that issue. 85% of students receive some form of financial aid. There is no family financial burden for incomes $60k/year and lower.
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by polytap 10y ago
Taller, flexible buildings are much better at distributing shock waves.
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by polytap 11y ago
You might want to consider naming your pricing plans differently. There is a plan offering standard definition streaming called "Basic", and a plan offering high definition streaming called "Standard". Those two words ar
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by polytap 11y ago
Yeah, they really seem to have taken it up a notch this year. I was presented with a refund that was only possible if I purchased a small business plan. When I declined, the UI reduced my refund by $2k and also said I'd have to re-ente
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by polytap 11y ago
Here's a little taste of how things have turned out since SCE and SDGE decided to give up fixing and maintaining San Onofre: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/aug/03/counting-customer-costs...
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by polytap 11y ago
There are more than 2 million "farms" in the U.S. Snag "One in Three" of those as paying customers (at nearly $1k/year) and it's very unlikely you'd need to use TechCrunch as a marketing and PR platform.
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by polytap 11y ago
You have a strange way of congratulating someone who achieved what they consider to be happiness.
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by polytap 11y ago
If search optimization is what you're after, why not just use "local"
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by polytap 12y ago
Great idea and gesture to the community. Does any of your land receive irrigation? I'd like to send you several surface and subsoil sensors to deploy that will communicate back to me via GPRS. Just a couple of minutes is needed to depl
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by polytap 12y ago
SoCal. The professional/industrial environmental sensor market sucks. Pretty much any sensor offering high precision is sold exclusively through authorized resellers that in turn hold the logged data captive and liberate it manually th
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by polytap 12y ago
There are not, though I am building such a thing. RF-equipped sensors (315 or 433 Mhz) transmitting to a GPRS or WiFi enabled hub would be best. A fairly affordable foundation for that in Arduino-land would be the Fio or the LilyPad USB --