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by gerbal 12y ago
Cost can be prohibitive for scaling an app from a proof of concept to a working prototype. Especially for something that can't or won't be commercialized later. For instance, I'm working on a web app to visualize a particular
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by gerbal 12y ago
Even if that kid had Ebola (which is not respiratory intensive), the number 'about two' would still hold true on average.
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by gerbal 12y ago
Students have their own gmail accounts vs having accounts issued by the school, who is then responsible for them in some capacity. There is also a cost per-account in Google Apps for Education.
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by gerbal 12y ago
It costs more and introduces additional complexity. It would be far useful to allow any arbitrary Google Account to join any arbitrary classroom, and trust that Teachers can do a decent job figuring out who is in their classes.
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by gerbal 12y ago
The problem with open source software in academia and education is the price. The cost of hiring a developer to maintain and support a piece of software is more often than not far more than the cost of a software license from a company that
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by gerbal 12y ago
Google has quite a good history of keeping private information private. Unless I'm mistaken. In anycase, Chromebooks are quite popular in education, and the efficient integration of services at a low (or free) cost outweighs any unsubs
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by gerbal 12y ago
> it is imagination what separates losers from winners! :) Imagination and lucrative government contracts.
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by gerbal 12y ago
The K810 is quite a nice keyboard, IMO better than the Apple bluetooth keyboard in terms of feel. It appears to be functionally identical to this new K480 and would appear to have the exact same physical keyboard.
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by gerbal 12y ago
It appears to be the drivers who will be fined.
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by gerbal 12y ago
The decline in laptop sales has slowed [1]. IMO a big part of the decline in tablet sales may have to do with Chromebooks. They have hit a niche in the lower end that tablets supposedly killed 4 years ago. That combined with a saturated mar
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by gerbal 12y ago
A Chromebook might be what you are looking for. Powerful enough to run full Ubuntu on, built in keyboard, built in ssh client and an easy to access terminal.
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by gerbal 12y ago
>15" tablets with wireless keyboards/mice and robust remote management capabilities you just described a chromebook. And at 1/3 the price of a tablet, Chromebooks are plenty appealing in ways a tablet just isn't
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by gerbal 12y ago
4) Chromebooks have also exploded on the low end of the market (5 million+ sales in 2014). The bullshit "super tablet" the techcrunch article describes sounds more like a $250 chromebook/netbook than a $800 'super table
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by gerbal 12y ago
>Once people can use their smartphones with a full size keyboard/mouse/monitor, it's game over for tablets and PCs. You already can do that. You've been able to do that for the past few years. You can connect a blueto
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by gerbal 12y ago
I'd expect it's a question of volume. The USPS and Customs do inspect international mail, however there is probably just so much of it that most contraband sneaks under the radar.
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by gerbal 12y ago
Pygal has been ported to Javascript[1] and can be embedded in arbitrary web pages. I don't know quite what to make of that. Though the implementation in trinket.io[2] is pretty cool [1] https://github.com/trinketapp&#x2
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by gerbal 12y ago
Also being available everywhere. I like Text Mate quite a bit, but being single platform makes it harder to recommend.
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by gerbal 12y ago
Instead of using income as a proxy for affordability, using actual cost of rent by census tract would be way better. The ACS data he used includes Rent values and property values, both of which are a much better measure of affordability tha
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by gerbal 12y ago
Basic income might make it reasonable to eliminate TANF, some portion of SNAP, and some unemployment, but it doesn't eliminate the core need for Medicare and Medicaid. In the basic income scenario outlined, the poor and the elderly wi
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by gerbal 12y ago
Commuter rail is also a much smaller, cheaper target to reach for. And it would have a much greater impact on the quality of life in urban and suburban areas. However, the barriers to commuter rail in much of the country are stupid and entr
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by gerbal 12y ago
> Uber and Lyft are in trouble because they wanted to be exit strategy profitable rather than simply profitable. I think this gets at one of the key problems with the current psychology of startups. Everything is build around creating an
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by gerbal 12y ago
Similar thing happened in the south. We used to have reasonably good, popular and well used bus services in most of or cities. But then the civil rights movement happened and state and local governments cut funding and dismantled bus system
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by gerbal 12y ago
Open source clone, rather. For Linux, which Cathode does not support.
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by gerbal 12y ago
NPR is not a public broadcaster in the sense of other nation's public broadcasters. It was founded, initially, with funding from congress, as an independent, non-profit broadcaster. Currently, NPR receives very little to no funding fro
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by gerbal 12y ago
Sculpteo[1] and Shapeways[2] seem to be the two largest printers. According to what I have read[3], they are priced roughly in line with the costs of materials, plus some overhead. You may just want to find a maker space somewhere near you[
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by gerbal 12y ago
I'm being sarcastic. Also some departments use different self-signed certs than the university at large. Not a great situation.
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by gerbal 12y ago
The university I work for uses Self-signed certs for everything but ssl. Apparently setting up properly signed certs is too expensive. And it's more effective to have the IT staff spend an inordinate amount of time convincing end-users
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by gerbal 12y ago
Those are too abstracted, it's hard to figure out what they are icons for. For instance, the Adobe suite icons are impossible to decipher.
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by gerbal 12y ago
It's a personal preference, but I think the term "growth hacker" is fairly silly. It sound like an unskilled oncologist.
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by gerbal 12y ago
I think it's one of those roles startups don't know they need until it's a little too late.

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