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by abakker 12y ago
Except that that aggregated data frequently aggregate useless info into a very reductive score. If I go to a $ restaurant, I don't value a poor review which bases itself on poor service. If I'm paying $10 a plate, I can handle alm
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by abakker 12y ago
Of the 3 books Sanderson is credited as having written, he wrote more of the first two than the final volume. A Memory of Light had significant scenes written by RJ himself. Sanderson had to contribute heavily to the first 2 he wrote to get
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by abakker 12y ago
I'll do the obligatory chime in to say that final books of WoT make the series worth it. Not the most perfectly executed series, but a good read, nonetheless. Mostly, its quite a bit of fun. books 7-10 are tough, but if you are a fast
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by abakker 12y ago
+1 for Malazan Book of the Fallen. Totally fantastic. Audiobooks are quite good, too, if you're into that. I like it on kindle since the books are so huge.
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by abakker 12y ago
As someone who does quite a bit of survey work, this looks great for lightweight stuff. I'm biased, but a key part of almost all survey work I do involves cross tabulation, which requires an ability to manipulate the collected data. Do
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by abakker 12y ago
The RX is based on the Camry. AFAIK, the only small SUVs based on truck frames are the Xterra (Nissan Frontier frame) and the FJCruiser (toyota Tacoma)
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by abakker 12y ago
I'm a bit skeptical of the claim that Apple has more Datacenter capacity than IBM. Can anyone validate that? IBM owns Softlayer, and had significant datacenter footprint before that acquisition available through SmartCloud (deprecated)
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by abakker 12y ago
It is, though pointing out that obesity is a high cost problem hardly suggests that it is we on Hacker News that need to make that money. If we help people lose weight in any way, we're going to save the country a lot of money in healt
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by abakker 12y ago
Even further than just the Overjustification Effect, it is important to point out that as soon as you introduce the concept of work-as-game, you turn work into a competition, where you are specifying a successful outcome. Then the players(e
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by abakker 12y ago
I've used MTurk to have interviews transcribed several times, and almost always had flawless results. (sometimes jargon or names trips them up.) I've always been incredibly impressed at the speed they get done, which is substantia
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by abakker 12y ago
I believe that Softlayer - Now Acquired by IBM also has this capability.