crander

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by crander 11y ago
Yeah. And I thought this experiment was too stupid. I can't beleive how petty Hacker News has gotten to mark me down on this. Unsubscribe.
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by crander 11y ago
Are we really still at the point in "Landscape and Urban Planning" research that we need to verify that walking in the woods chills you out and helps you focus more than walking down a busy street?
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by crander 12y ago
The only upgrade Intel cares about is the purchase of a new system. That is why Intel is taking a revenue hit.
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by crander 12y ago
Yes, a repeated game like Iterated PD is a different game with a different solution. The Grim strategy for example.
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by crander 12y ago
Cooperating is strongly dominated by defecting in Prisoners Dilemma. This is an obvious and very basic game theory result. Game Theory models strategic situations and doesn't offer insight outside what is modeled. If you think there sh
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by crander 12y ago
Not insightful. Offers a 60 year old argument about symbol systems and the need for more computational power (alone). I suggest reading Andy Clark's Mindware for a critical view of various approaches to this problem.
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by crander 12y ago
Ninja.
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by crander 13y ago
I really like the Dover book Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline. It adds historical perspective, makes you think, and teaches basic and understandable proofs.
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by crander 13y ago
I have a Samsung Captivate, an iPhone 4 and a Nexus S (developer phone) all purchased in Q4 2010. Nexus S updated until 4.1, iPhone is still current with iOS 7 and the Captivate got ONE update (manually via USB) from 2.1 to 2.2... the Soft
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by crander 13y ago
That's called retreating 'upmarket' and it usually (historically) fails. IBM is the exception. As clichéd as the Innovator's Dilemma is now, I find very few folks who have actually read it and processed all the strategi
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by crander 14y ago
FYI: Krugman is a Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who is quite otherwise famous.
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by crander 14y ago
No, they hoped it wouldn't mater. Unless they've perfected the ability to predict the future they and everyone else won't know for quite some time.
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by crander 14y ago
$80 in 1956 is roughly $675 dollars today as calculated by CPI: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2480%20in%201956%20in%...
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by crander 14y ago
Accountability is what school offers you. You are forced to work the homework problems and then you really learn. You can do this on your own but without the social motivation it is much less likely. Udacity, etc. are solving this proble
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by crander 14y ago
What is really means is that the supply of workers at $15/hour greatly outnumbers the demand for workers at $15/hour.
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by crander 14y ago
Example: I was hired at the end of the dot-com bubble into a technology mega-corporation at the age I should have just finished college. I dropped out of state after studying German and whatever to make money in the technology boom, and I
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by crander 14y ago
The hardware is that much better. 2x the cost but you don't have to carry a damn crap-top around that weighs 4 or more pounds and blows a fan when you move a window.
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by crander 15y ago
>Siri and the iPhone 4s is nothing new, Apple simply tied a lot of things together The original iPhone was nothing new component-wise but something wonderful is summation. This has been Apple's gift. Lots of folks can dream up and wri
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by crander 15y ago
I like to believe I own myself. I am not interested in any legal procedure where an official of the medical establishment can declare my personal ownership no longer valid and harvest 2 million dollars revenue from my still warm body. The
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by crander 15y ago
While this article didn't show anything, the mainstream argument about minimum wage causing labor surpluses is well enough explained on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Economics_of_the_m...
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by crander 15y ago
Programmers here are discussing if they choose to work unpaid extra hours or not. You don't make a country great by forbidding extra work regardless of the employee desires. You make a country great by allowing employers and employees to
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by crander 15y ago
I prefer web services that link software on various apps across various devices which cache and sync content. The best example is probably Kindle which has a hardware device, various mobile apps and web based reader.
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by crander 15y ago
It doesn't work for me at least. Part of the value of note taking is to flip through the book quickly and see the notes and then recall the most interesting parts. This seems lost.
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by crander 15y ago
As a hybrid user who reads many books in both physical and digital forms, I have found that my preference for Kindle is directly related to how much I have traveled in the last month or two.
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by crander 15y ago
I bought the first kindle and took it on a month long trip to Africa and re-read the Baroque Cycle on it. I jave a a few new Kindles since. I love most the platform aspect of Kindle and I rarely buy novels or computer tech books in any ot
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by crander 15y ago
One of the things a free-market education system would offer is competition on reputation - allowing customers to choose schools before ever going there based on short feedback loops of many individual customers attending and reporting. Th
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by crander 15y ago
The workstation Xeons support dual (separate physical packages) processor configurations. These are for real workstations and how you get to 12 or 16 cores. Of course just about no one needs a real workstation anymore and a six or eight c
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by crander 15y ago
Raising the standard of living for all - just like all the other technologies from the wheel (putting people who haul things on their backs out of work) to the loom, to the Ditch Witch and so on.
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by crander 15y ago
If you are comparing a T series with a MacBook Air I can tell you have never actually touched or picked up a MacBook. You should really visit one of the stores and check them out.
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by crander 15y ago
The biggest concern Intel has is that moving down market, shrinking products and lowering margins almost never works in any industry when a disruptive competitor is moving upmarket into the same space (Innovator's Delimma). If Intel could m

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