joncrane

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by joncrane 8y ago
>Keyboard lacked home, end, page up and page down keys. Thank you! At my desk at work I plug in an old HP keyboard and map those keys so that they do roughly the equivalent.
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by joncrane 8y ago
I love iFixit. I used them extensively when I used to run a cell phone repair shop. I don't read them much any more, but they stick to their principles and provide amazing insight. Since the iPhone 3GS, one of Apple's priorities
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by joncrane 8y ago
It might be a racket, like the software/hardware market. Intel and OS/Software manufacturers are in cahoots to constantly design apps that require beefier hardware so that people have to constantly upgrade. The same might go for
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by joncrane 8y ago
There are people who are in a position to do better when the population is intellectually compromised.
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by joncrane 8y ago
What's more likely: - other countries ramp up their cheap, robust manufacturing capacity to compete with China - design and prototyping moves to other high knowledge worker, high innovation countries without a 25% import tariff on Chin
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by joncrane 8y ago
She had some strange mannerisms, right? And she had very wide eyes.
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by joncrane 8y ago
I'd like to think that this research will lead to insurance covering or subsidizing using a personal trainer, or for special programs to be put into place where an appointment can be made to go work out at the gym, in the same way you
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by joncrane 8y ago
This fleet maintenance outfit would be a perfect candidate to pivot to driverless car sharing when the technology becomes available.
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by joncrane 8y ago
It seemed highly likely to me because Medicaid's reimbursement rates are very low.
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by joncrane 8y ago
I read that a big part of this sentiment was because it was all ground up, shell, guts, and all, when served.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Seems like this guy hedged his bets every step of the way: - kept his day job while working on startup - did fake campaign on FB to gauge demand - got friends to try product - croudfunded the first batch This is a really risk averse guy who
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by joncrane 8y ago
The difference is children. Children LOVE coins from other countries. If you are likely to run into kids, keeping the strange coins is a plus. It's like keeping a seashell you found on the beach.
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by joncrane 8y ago
You nailed it. When a company lives or dies by advertising revenue, they are going to optimize for maximum advertising revenue. The pattern with TV is a good case study. I wonder if there will eventually be guidelines about how many ads y
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by joncrane 8y ago
That's super cool, and also VERY Scandinavian (culturally).
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by joncrane 8y ago
I think a lot of people think Ellison/Jobs are in one category and Jobs/Musk are in the other.
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by joncrane 8y ago
>The big company is in the later phases of a snowball effect. It's a huge thing that rolls by itself and can't really be redirected, stopped or sped up by anyone. A CEO knows that. He's mostly concerned about internal poli
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by joncrane 8y ago
It wasn't the CEO who wanted the picture, it was the PR person. So s/he suggests it to the CEO and he said "sure." But when it came time to make it happen, the way to get the person on board as quickly as possible is to
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by joncrane 8y ago
Shouldn't it be "); DROP TABLE Employees;-- ?
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by joncrane 8y ago
Got a higher res version?
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by joncrane 8y ago
Uber has the ability to learn from it's mistakes, I hope.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Aren't flywheels used in datacenters to cover the split second between when the power goes out and the generators kick on?
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by joncrane 8y ago
I almost exclusively use my computer to view video content (in my case, mostly streaming sports but some Netflix as well). About 70% of the time, the thing I'm watching can be "cast" via Chromecast onto my TV. So I'd a
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by joncrane 8y ago
Was this basically the Enterprise Version of "el paquete?" (The Cuban sneakernet)
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by joncrane 8y ago
It's because users of opiates can build up a really high tolerance. Like an order of magnitude more than would knock a non-user off his rocker will be barely enough to feel anything. And heroin is really expensive. So imagine someone
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by joncrane 8y ago
I think you've nailed the way Richard Fairbanks (CEO of Capital One) thinks with this part: >it has consumer banks shaking in their boots, because there's no way they can outcompete those companies in tech. So instead they focu
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by joncrane 8y ago
Wow I've never seen it so dead before...and in broad daylight! Guess it's about 5:45 am there.
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by joncrane 8y ago
Well put.
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by joncrane 8y ago
In college I bought one of those antennas that lights up whenever I got a call or a text. Didn't those lights work on the same principle?
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by joncrane 8y ago
There have been a couple (or more) guys throughout the years that designed and implemented their own extra cushioning on their helmets, like this: http://www.helmethut.com/DrDelrye/Dr102808a.jpg The extra foam was alw
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by joncrane 8y ago
Would you have to try instances in multiple availability zones until you get the one with the shortest round trip time? Surely they load balance across AZs though so results may change...

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