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I was lucky enough to attend classes by Susan Eggers and Hank Levy in UW's professional master's program back in 2002. Not only amazing researchers but also great teachers.

I just signed up for the $29/mo plan. I appreciate that I immediately received the June and July newsletters. In the July one, there is a good idea that is very relevant to my wife…

Congrats, Arango! We recently ported a large rethinkdb app to arango and it has been a joy to use. AQL is awesome.

In my view Florida would be better served by deregulating their electricity markets (as 16 other states/territories have done) and allow 3rd party suppliers to compete for business…

Hi HN--remember us? We were one of the finalists in the ApplyHN runoff back in April, a couple weeks after we first came up with the idea for Utiliz. Now we're live (launched last …

Lately I've just been throwing everything behind Caddy (caddyserver.com) in reverse proxy mode. This is all you need in your Caddyfile to get automatic TLS. It's genius. { tls prox…

Chatmasta, you are 100% correct. There may be times where the best rate we can find is publicly available but the service aspect will retain customers in this case, especially as w…

Hi chatmasta, Kevin from Utiliz here. How did your business do? Splitting savings is always a hard pricing model to sell. Our unique angle is that we don't just switch customers to…

This is a good idea, I think we will do it. It looks straightforward with Twilio but let me know if you know of another good MMS API provider. Thanks!

Great question. The answer is ‘it depends’. For example right now in CT the incumbent rate is 9.55 cents per kilowatt hour with Eversource. But you can get 5.99 c/kWh with Public P…

About the co-founders: Kevin (me) and Tom met in 2010 while working at Bridgewater (a large hedge fund) as a senior developer and technology manager respectively. As well as becomi…

Electricity deregulation is awesome, boring, confusing and hard. Over the last decade 14 states have deregulated utilities so consumers get a choice of suppliers. Power comes from …