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by 2arrs2ells 8y ago
Agreed. I never would have thought that the problem that motivated Persona would have been solved this way... but the combination of TouchID/Face ID and 1Password has made account setup/maintenance sufficiently frictionless.
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by 2arrs2ells 8y ago
3 UR points per $ with the sapphire reserve
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MIT PhD Wants to Replace America's Voting Machines with Open Source Software(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by 2arrs2ells 8y ago|0 comments
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by 2arrs2ells 8y ago
YC is much closer to an index fund than typical VC (or even other accelerators - due to YC's much larger scale), but there's a big difference as index funds don't use any "gut instincts" - the criteria for a stock t
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How the startup mentality failed kids in San Francisco(wired.com)
4 points by 2arrs2ells 8y ago|0 comments
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
It's not hard to find examples of inefficient spending in education (the depiction of Newark Public Schools in "The Prize" is particularly poignant), nor is it hard to find examples of dramatic underfunding (just ask any teac
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Postmortem on Last Week’s Outages (Clever – S12)(medium.com)
2 points by 2arrs2ells 9y ago|0 comments
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
Dan Meyer (math blogger extraordinaire) has some commentary here: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2018/must-read-larry-bergers-confess...
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A Confession and a Question on Personalized Learning(blogs.edweek.org)
2 points by 2arrs2ells 9y ago|1 comments
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
When I went through YC, one of the things the partners beat into our heads was "more employees ≠ success." I don't think that's changed. I see the headcount guidelines for YC Growth not as a belief that "headcount =
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
Makes me so happy to see teachers on hacker news! (I was an 8th grade science teacher & then tech director before Clever).
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
For launch, we built our own API. It's very simple. Post a JSON list of students with two attributes - the cumulative time they've spent on the program, and the cumulative "progress" they've made ("progress&quo
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
Hey hacker news - I'm one of the founders of Clever & have been working on Goals for the past year. I'd love to answer any questions you might have about the product!
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
Clever co-founder here - I’ve spent the past year working on Goals would love to answer any questions people have.
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Good Luck Spending Your Kodakcoins(bloomberg.com)
2 points by 2arrs2ells 9y ago|0 comments
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Standard Practice: Building an OpenAPI 2.0 Spec for the Slack Web API(medium.com)
4 points by 2arrs2ells 9y ago|0 comments
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Is Y Combinator for me?(avnipatelthompson.com)
1 points by 2arrs2ells 9y ago|0 comments
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
ClassDojo and Remind are both alumni of ImagineK12/YC Education!
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Brash investor tries to blow up the ipo as his partners quit(wired.com)
1 points by 2arrs2ells 9y ago|0 comments
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Driving for Lyft in Sacramento(cockeyed.com)
3 points by 2arrs2ells 9y ago|1 comments
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
KPCB, I believe. ("The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis is a great retelling of Jim Clark's adventures)
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by 2arrs2ells 9y ago
> When they checked the login being used, they discovered an employee's credentials were being used on days he wasn't scheduled to work.
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by 2arrs2ells 10y ago
No - Garry was talking about investors claiming to "skip" YC Demo Day who were never invited in the first place.
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by 2arrs2ells 10y ago
I got my start in Scratch! And so did everyone else whose first programming experience was CS50 ( http://cs50.tv/2016/fall/ ). Don't want to threadcrap too much, but I deeply believe that most programming in
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by 2arrs2ells 10y ago
Well, ChromeOS is based on the Linux kernel...
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by 2arrs2ells 10y ago
Not sure what grandparent means by local management software, but Google's built a cloud device management console ( https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/featu... ) and there ar
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by 2arrs2ells 10y ago
Have you been able to try the multiple user features launched in iOS 9.3? https://appadvice.com/appnn/2016/01/apples-ios-9-3-features-...
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by 2arrs2ells 10y ago
A cloud IDE like Cloud9 ( https://c9.io/ ) works well on a Chromebook. If I were teaching programming today, I'd probably start with something like GoMix ( https://gomix.com ) or Scratch ( https://scr
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Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms(nytimes.com)
423 points by 2arrs2ells 10y ago|320 comments
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by 2arrs2ells 10y ago
Apple's AirPod design (while more sleek than playful) is quite opinionated and beautiful IMO. It also shifts charging responsibility to the case.

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