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When AI can handle the content, teachers get to focus on motivation, values and emotions.

I started my career as a teacher and spent > 8 hrs a day lesson planning, delivering content & grading. If I could have handed that off to a great program like Bloomy, I could have built far better relationships & my students would have been so much better off.

+1 to the book, it's great
Re:We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed 189 bugs on Monday November 24, 2025 @09:44AM (#46034676)
This is a great example... except I think the right answer to "what exactly would you do in this case?" doesn't support your argument.

I'd document that mobile Opera with Javascript disabled is an unsupported config, and ask a team to make a help center doc asking mobile Opera users to enable JS.

Re:The National Design Studio is a scam on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @10:39PM (#45047733)
This has changed - at least for me, in the US, Airbnb shows all-in pricing.
Re:How to start a school with your friends on Thursday May 08, 2025 @09:52PM (#43933124)
You’re spot on. Bootstrapping a reputation is really hard (and expensive), and the very painful accreditation process makes it much harder (need students to get accredited, can’t offer degree to students without accreditation).

Two good colleges who’ve overcome the challenges recently are Olin (engineering school in Boston) and Minerva (globally distributed college).

Re:New iMac with M4 on Monday October 28, 2024 @12:29PM (#41973021)
I bought an M2 iMac for my parents. It’ll last at least five years for them - likely closer to 10. At that point, I’m happy to recycle or donate it and get them a new iMac - likely with some major updates (form factor? Display? Etc?) that wouldn’t get with a RAM / CPU upgrade.

Spending ~$150-$300/year for them to have an easy to use & fast computer feels very worth it for me.

All that said - I would love for the machine to be upgradeable as well! Just explaining why it’s not a dealbreaker.

Congrats on the launch! Curious how you fit into the landscape of award travel tolls like point.me and seats.aero. What are you doing differently & who’s your target user?
Re:Why is it so hard to build an airport? on Friday March 22, 2024 @04:54PM (#39794760)
Have heard similar things from friends, who were then able to get access via AWS
Re:Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:59PM (#37439343)
The chili & other crockpot recipes were still going strong in S12 ("crockpots scale linearly with number of startups") - but pg was no longer cooking.

Batch dinners are catered these days and have been for a while.

Re:Procreate Dreams on Friday September 08, 2023 @02:47PM (#37437711)
If you back up the iPad locally, will it back up Procreate data? I would expect it to...
Re:Show HN: Litnerd (YC S21) – Kids Book Club Meets Gaming on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:48AM (#36507259)
I remember loving the "Wishbone" shows on PBS as a kid... this reminds me of that but 100x better (kids are reading along with the movie, not having the movie replace the book). Love it!
Re:Jessica Livingston on Friday June 23, 2023 @02:32PM (#36450589)
This podcast is wonderful – I'd recommend starting with the Paul Graham espisode.
Re:Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records on Saturday January 21, 2023 @09:16AM (#34466557)
All sorts of things. Therapy. Psilocibin. A girlfriend (now wife) with a wildly different worldview than my own. Retreats. Meditation. ‘Conscious community”. Workshops. Yoga.
Re:Someone stole my car and now I own hundreds of vinyl records on Thursday January 19, 2023 @01:04AM (#34437211)
The best part is you can. Not saying it’s easy (and certainly far easier for some people than others), but how you react to events is one of the very few things that’s actually under your control.

Some of the most useful self-work I’ve done, for sure.

For Harvard, that's not true – financial aid covers the cost of room and board.

(There is a student contribution of ~$3,000/year, which is fairly easily met through on campus jobs).

Re:Product Market Fit on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:39PM (#33311372)
Making an app you spend significant time in every day more useful & powerful can be a path to PMF (see Slack vs Hipchat, for example)

I’d argue Superhuman does have PMF - just in a smaller market of email power users.

Re:Product Market Fit on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:34PM (#33311341)
Your argument is a “unique insight” isn’t enough to provide an enduring competitive advantage (or “moat”). But that’s not what the OP is talking about.

A unique insight (and great timing / market) is often enough to get to early PMF (and - like you mention - to Series A).

Re:What’s going on with security at PayPal? on Saturday August 27, 2022 @02:04AM (#32616207)
I’ve seen sim swaps to get desirable instagram handles. I have to believe it’s easier to extract money from a PayPal account takeover than insta.
Re:What’s going on with security at PayPal? on Saturday August 27, 2022 @02:01AM (#32616189)
FB engineer explained they always rolled features out to New Zealand first - similar user behavior as the US but outside the eye of the tech press & smaller market (so less risk).
Re:Life is not short on Sunday June 26, 2022 @01:43PM (#31886063)
<nit> The philosophy behind hospice is that you are *not* hooked up to all sorts of medical equipment. Rather, you only receive the minimal treatment needed to make yourself comfortable as you let your illness run its course. </nit>
Re:How San Francisco became a failed city on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:08AM (#31667576)
It’s not that bad. It’s normal to have your car window broken overnight or to see people shoplifting openly at the pharmacy or grocery store. In certain parts of the city there’s fairly open drug dealing & use. And the homelessness is heartbreaking.

Violent crime / theft happens - but not at a noticeably different rate than other large cities.

Still the most beautiful city in the US (imo) and the natural beauty 30 min outside the city in any direction is insane.

That looks like holdings for their public equities fund. The article is about their venture fund, a separate vehicle.
At Clever we include this in our privacy policy. It caused no problems when we sold our company last year:

> In the event of a change of control: If we sell, divest or transfer our business, we will not transfer personal information of our customers unless the new owner intends to maintain and provide the Service as a going concern, and provided that the new owner has agreed to data privacy standards no less stringent than our own. In such case we will provide you with notice and an opportunity to opt-out of the transfer of personally identifiable Student Data.

This might be the individuals clicking to request edit access on the Doc: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6239515?hl=en&co=GENI...
Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:28PM (#30365960)
Gas powered leaf blowers are horrible - noise and air pollution. Electric ones aren't bad.

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