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I accidentally got New Coke, I poured it down the drain.

I couldn't upvote this enough. The lack of objective comparison in comments is astounding, and it fits a pattern.

This story reflects most poorly on the author himself.

The strange barb at music synthesizers was uncalled for.

Compared to many other institutions, Stanford does a good job of dealing with that issue. 85% of students receive some form of financial aid. There is no family financial burden for incomes $60k/year and lower.

Taller, flexible buildings are much better at distributing shock waves.

You might want to consider naming your pricing plans differently.

There is a plan offering standard definition streaming called "Basic", and a plan offering high definition streaming called "Standard".

Those two words are often synonymous.

Yeah, they really seem to have taken it up a notch this year.

I was presented with a refund that was only possible if I purchased a small business plan. When I declined, the UI reduced my refund by $2k and also said I'd have to re-enter my personal information it had saved from last year, basically penalizing me.

Curious, I went to H&R Block and began to file my current-year taxes from scratch. Lo and behold, HRB's basic service level calculated my full refund.

Here's a little taste of how things have turned out since SCE and SDGE decided to give up fixing and maintaining San Onofre:

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/aug/03/counting-customer-costs...

There are more than 2 million "farms" in the U.S. Snag "One in Three" of those as paying customers (at nearly $1k/year) and it's very unlikely you'd need to use TechCrunch as a marketing and PR platform.

You have a strange way of congratulating someone who achieved what they consider to be happiness.

If search optimization is what you're after, why not just use "local"

Great idea and gesture to the community.

Does any of your land receive irrigation?

I'd like to send you several surface and subsoil sensors to deploy that will communicate back to me via GPRS. Just a couple of minutes is needed to deploy each sensor.

And it would be very helpful if you could send back a soil sample at my expense.

Does this sound practical?

SoCal.

The professional/industrial environmental sensor market sucks.

Pretty much any sensor offering high precision is sold exclusively through authorized resellers that in turn hold the logged data captive and liberate it manually through what amount to expensive professional services contracts.

I'd like to smash that.

There are not, though I am building such a thing.

RF-equipped sensors (315 or 433 Mhz) transmitting to a GPRS or WiFi enabled hub would be best.

A fairly affordable foundation for that in Arduino-land would be the Fio or the LilyPad USB -- both of which have the LiPo charger.