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mralvar | 9 years ago | on: Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill

So the cost should be pushed onto me instead? I understand the struggles of adjuncts and grad-students as they were most of my friends in Undergrad because I came into school older. But not one of them used Top Hat or a clone equivalent.

mralvar | 9 years ago | on: Top Hat Raises $22M to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill

I absolutely hated Top Hat during my undergrad. It was just another thing I had to buy that teachers used as an excuse to be lazy because it was ~interactive~. You were so tied to a device for all your classes that if multiple teachers used it it wound up becoming a pain.

I noticed it was mostly instructors who taught one-off elective/strictly credit classes that used it in almost a punitive way to make sure you paid attention to them.

edit - another ironic thing regarding the title of the article, is that the instructors would upload the Pearson, McGraw, etc provided slides with the textbook to tophat.

mralvar | 10 years ago | on: Fish shell 2.2

You want the web server to be an add-on so you can feel more hardcore?

mralvar | 11 years ago | on: Yahoo Hacked

Then he wouldn't bring attention to his consultancy firm. "Gee, these guys sure did show the Yahoo CEO! We need to hire them!" Says the MBA.

mralvar | 11 years ago | on: Circle opens doors to global audience

I don't think one sentence is too much to ask, I hit the back button because I couldn't figure out what their product did within a short amount of time.
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