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by 21echoes 12y ago
you're totally right -- I was talking about the jr. high and high school levels. Occasionally you'll see exceptions and some kids will be allowed up a grade or two in elementary, but it's not embedded in the process the way i
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Coming from Delaware, most every school, public and private, that I know of partitions students into math courses based on achievement level. They typically don't let students go "out of grade" by more than a year, but that&#
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> takes seconds to appear on my rMBP seconds is far too long... That you're even trying to argue that autocomplete is more powerful in XCode than AS shows you haven't used AS for more than maybe a minute. I've used both si
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> xCode-like realtime autocomplete and documentation XCode's autocomplete is a joke compared to Android Studio's -- a strongly typed & non-dynamic language does wonders for how efficiently & accurately an IDE can fill i
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> Atheistic Buddhist is an oxymoron No, it is not. To be an athiest has nothing to do with religious inclination, it has to do with lack of belief in god(s) . It's right there in the word: a-: lack of; -theist: one who believes i
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> Buddhist friend from Japan claims otherwise. Many Gods in Buddhism > For Jesus Christ we have Marxist priests. How they connect the two, I don't know > Not sure if bddhism has anything on money standards or economics. For s
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> That certainly happened here. E.g., that (say) 2^(4/12) is pretty close to 5/4 is an interesting fact that requires no knowledge of music terminology to grasp. That we call a pair of notes whose frequencies are roughly in thi
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by 21echoes 12y ago
This system of open intent handling (for purposes other than sharing to social-media-network-du-jour) is decent on Android devices, but is all but non-existent on iOS devices. In other words: no, that solution is not currently the better op
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by 21echoes 12y ago
1) Is "the chain that follows this output" pulling the data, or is the data being pushed to it? If you used a pull model rather than a push model, then inputs 1 and 2 could change a million times but no computation would be execut
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by 21echoes 12y ago
i think you're flipping the script here: the web isn't "shackled", it's a virtual machine that almost everyone and their grandmother has chosen to install. tell me how one could, in 1996, get any computer made in th
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Yup! Credit card integration is in the works, but until then ACH linking is totally free (& faster than most, as we don't use the 3-day delay "challenge amounts" system most competitors use except as a fallback)
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by 21echoes 12y ago
one can always dream.... but seriously, you're totally right.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Hey, Clinkle engineer here. We know Josh personally from our time together at Stanford. He really dislikes the company, and hopefully it was quite clear that the article was biased, rushed, and overall pretty unprofessional.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Mmm, we haven't pivoted at all! Prepaid card with rewards program has been in the works since 2012 and was part of the pitch to investors. Rumors in the press really lead the public astray tho :(
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by 21echoes 12y ago
where "well documented in the press" here means "rumors blogged about in the press". we've been working on Clinkle as a pre-paid card program with rewards since 2012.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Hey! Engineer from Clinkle here. "Upgrade your card" is about how there are next to no debit cards with rewards programs, free p2p, and budgeting/payments alerts. Treats are indeed effectively rewards, and yes they are meant
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by 21echoes 12y ago
The press went ape-shit about our funding round announcement a year ago. The site's actually been live for a week now, but we didn't want any attention on it until we were further along in our roll-out :(
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Hey! Engineering manager here. We have to date never charged someone a fee, and in most app usage you most certainly will not encounter them. We are, however, often charged heavy fees by the ATM and Credit Card companies (for unloading your
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> It's pretty disengenious to generalize libertarians as having a low group instinct. Either that, or you are incredibly niave. Many successful entrepreneurs who have built incredible companies have a libertarian bent because of the
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by 21echoes 12y ago
that's the payment experience, sure, but there's all those moments before and after your payment. say, adding a card, managing which cards you want to use at which locations, etc. there was plenty of footage in the live stream thi
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Sure, I totally agree that Google Wallet was basically a business failure. I'd also say that the only thing that may stop Apple Pay from being a business failure is that it's Apple doing it this time (even tho, frankly, their UI
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by 21echoes 12y ago
> Apple Pay marks the first time a popular operating system is making payments a platform service for real-world, non-digital-good transactions, in a broad, inclusive manner that is compatible with the mainstream payments processing indu
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by 21echoes 12y ago
literally the third sentence: "For the desperate and adventurous there are the JVM alternatives like Scala and Groovy, but using them with Android is expensive: importing a language means importing the whole runtime, which is a nightma
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by 21echoes 12y ago
that's the fee , but BTC prints money out of thin air every time a transaction is processed. If you compare transaction volume to payout volume, the effective transaction fee is on the order of 5% or $30, as explained in the original
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by 21echoes 12y ago
Sure, but chargeback rates are low enough (somewhere between 0.2% and 0.4% of revenue for online merchants, much much lower for brick-and-mortar) that it's inconsequential when comparing it to flat rate $30. Additionally, 3% is about a
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by 21echoes 12y ago
but nowhere near competitive with the credit card network, or the money transfer systems in every developed country other than the US (most of which do real-time transfers for less than pennies on the dollar). Even in the US, I guarantee
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by 21echoes 12y ago
I've been saying this for over a year now -- BitCoin will not succeed because it simply cannot offer competitive transaction fees. Merchants are upset enough by the ~3% they're paying to VISA or AmEx on every swipe, they're n
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by 21echoes 12y ago
The road from theoretical physics to engineering is a very long one, so it's very hard to predict exactly what this would buy us. Relativity, for instance, spent a long time with no concrete engineering benefit, but now it allows GPS t
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by 21echoes 12y ago
you and the author are both just running on anecdotes. I'd love to see a larger data set of satisfaction, working hours, hourly wage, etc.
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by 21echoes 12y ago
instead, vote for a government that is powerless to rein in the natural power of capital

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