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by akharris 16y ago
The certification question is a really interesting one. We looked at a lot of other sites focused on various kinds of tutoring while building. We found that the ones that offered online "tests" for certification were producing false positiv
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by akharris 16y ago
The requirements are a direct function of our ongoing customer dev work. You're gist is absolutely right - there are a ton of great tutors out there who have never taught a class. However, when you look at the overall hitrate of good tutors
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by akharris 16y ago
feel free to drop me a line: aaron at tutorspree dot com
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by akharris 16y ago
You should definitely sign up. You'll notice a lot of high quality grad students with TA experience in our community. We use our requirements as guidelines for making decisions - not intransigent rules - and we're always refining them and m
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by akharris 16y ago
Great feedback. Consider it added to our stack.
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by akharris 16y ago
Thats a great idea. We've had thoughts in the same direction. Stick with us.
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by akharris 16y ago
Agreed. We're going to focus heavily on the problems we understand and solve them before moving on. We like Ann Arbor. You could be our first tutor out there - that's a nice market share.
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by akharris 16y ago
I wrote a post about it here: http://www.aaronkharris.com/post/1000816766/wehaveactoandsoc... I kept meaning to post that to HN, but never actually got around to it. Always happy to answer more questions.
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by akharris 16y ago
We'd love to help out as soon as we get to Durham! Sign up for our mailing list, and when we show up, you'll know.
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That's what parents and tutors kept telling us, and they sounded unhappy. We decided to try to make them happier by building something for them.
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by akharris 16y ago
Not much. My last real coding experience was C++ back in AP CS. I started teaching myself python at the same time we were doing full time customer development. I had a couple of friends pitch in some time to help us do some early stage stuf
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by akharris 16y ago
It's a question we keep playing around with. Our customer dev work said that the subject matter market was, far and away, the most underserved/archaic - so that's where we decided to focus. But, we don't want to restrict our tutors. They de
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by akharris 16y ago
Thanks! Looking forward to having your tutor. The "jumping" problem you point out is one of the long term questions for us. You're absolutely right that the ratings system is the biggest carrot to keep tutors in. As you collect feedback, yo
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by akharris 16y ago
Sure: Josh and I have known each other for years through mutual friends. We started working on the idea that would become Tutorspree at the beginning of the summer, and as we realized we were onto something, started figuring out how to roun
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by akharris 16y ago
I think your massively overstating the importance of a name to the success of a company. Unless a name is straight up awful and suggests something unpleasant - it won't have an impact on the success/failure of a company. People thought goog
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by akharris 16y ago
I think that's what dangoldin was saying. Poorer communities will be jammed with cheap software and computers rather than great teachers. The software teaching method definitely has merit, but it's not a solution to "we have overcrowded cla
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Florida schools replacing teachers with computers(nytimes.com)
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A hemisphere of the sun erupts in a giant chain reaction(science.nasa.gov)
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by akharris 16y ago
Fairly interesting, but a bit surprised that he missed one of the most surprising elements of Napolean's innovations: canned food. Modern war is largely a question of logistics, and canned goods (over foraging) gave them the ability to keep
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by akharris 16y ago
Agreed. more than that, though, what you need is a series of very successful exits to create entrepreneurs/early funders with the cash to fund the next generation. We're getting there, in NYC, but the numbers are still tiny compared to the
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by akharris 16y ago
Two weeks ago, CERN made the announcement that they had contained antimatter long enough (at LHC) to study it properly. First time it's ever been done that well. Pretty stunning accomplishment.
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by akharris 16y ago
Two weeks ago: antimatter contained long enough to be studied. This week: life without phosphorous. Next week: flying skateboards?
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FCC commish taking another stab at net neutrality regulation(nytimes.com)
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Google bidding up to $6B for Groupon(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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Breaking anonymity to fight trolls(nytimes.com)
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by akharris 16y ago
Had an ex-gf who was a teacher and had to do just that - comments on every single student in addition to their grades. It was incredibly time consuming, but, I'm guessing incredibly useful for parents and students. The problem is that, in o
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by akharris 16y ago
Your proof is not logically sound. The same failure would confront a total brown-noser who quite literally failed every exam. I know a guy who essentially failed out of high school, didn't do college, and then got into one of the country's
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by akharris 16y ago
Agree that the question comes down to the purpose of school, and I think that's part of the problem. There's tension around what the actual ask is for students. Is school a force for teaching socialization and competence in the real world,
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by akharris 16y ago
I, for one, am just glad that CERN didn't create a black hole or otherwise destroy spacetime before they managed to do the kind of thing we normally have to turn to science fiction to read about.
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by akharris 16y ago
The post makes a muddled point by creating the scene as strawman for folks who do nothing but self-aggrandize within their own echo chamber. I agree with how dangerous that is, but how concrete a thing is it? The good and bad of networking

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