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It currently applies to international students, but will apply to everyone starting on April 1, 2016.

As a programmer, my dream service is an API that lets me code against all of the financial institutions/businesses that I deal with. Not a read-only thing like Mint uses, but somet…

How vulnerable would this nanoscale etching be to damage? Would a scratch or abrasion ruin its hydrophobic properties?

This is true, but as a cyclist, often the sound of my own tires on the road, plus the wind in my ears and sometimes even my own breathing, masks the road noise of an oncoming elect…

The problem with ratemyprofessor (and virtually any 3rd-party "review" platform) is the potential for participation bias. Students only participate when they 1. Know about the plat…

The things you've listed are all "skills." Learning new skills is great, and you should do it for the rest of your life. Don't limit your 'trying things' to just new skills, howeve…

Thanks! I've been doing this since 2002. It's a fun project and a very interesting business to be in.

I built and sell a collection of plugins for the Delphi IDE at http://www.twodesk.com . (Yes, people still use Delphi), for a consistent single-digit multiple of $1K each month.

FYI, I just tried to send you a message via the "Contact Us" link on your site, and clicking "Send" results in a classic Ruby on Rails "We're sorry, something went wrong" error pag…

I can't speak for the church or any particular mission, but from my experience as a Mormon missionary over a decade ago, backpacks 1) Make missionaries look like students, when the…

This is pretty cool. How far do you intend to take it? Here's a "use case"/feature request: In addition to being a developer/entrepreneur, I moonlight as a high school marching ban…

I read that as 'eliminate stupid parents' and got just a little excited. But eliminating stupid patents is a good cause too.

As someone who sells software online, the most horrifying thing about this scenario is that the user is very unlikely to ever tell me why they moved on, and so I'm terrifyingly unl…