murbard2

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by murbard2 12y ago
Touché :) I've recommended the software to my consultant wife (since her company would be paying), but I'm cheap. How does the pricing work if I want to do revisions to a document? Say it goes through a lot of editing, does each e
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by murbard2 12y ago
The right comparison would be: how much do you need to pay a designer to produce a latex template. After that, it's only a matter of running pandoc.
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by murbard2 12y ago
It's sold as SaaS because you make more money selling it as such, you get a recurring source of revenue without having to sell updates which can be costly to push. That said, as a personal user, I find the pricing very steep. I'm
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by murbard2 12y ago
Likewise. I was preparing to cringe, but municipal level utilities actually make sense. That scale is large enough to solve the inherent coordination problems, but small enough to be responsive to the preferences of the residents and subjec
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by murbard2 12y ago
Kayak does this when looking for flights. The results are instant, but by taking more time, it's giving the impression that it's trying really hard.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Compared to the smartphones currently on the market, I agree. My argument is that the form factor / functionality of the smartphone is very compelling. I am not going to buy this Intel product, but I would if it were a smartphone.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Now imagine if this were wireless, so that you didn't have to connect it to a TV? And while we're at it, add a screen, so that you can use it when you're not around a monitor. And... it's a smartphone with chromecast.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Because they are not much worse than their competition, and the suckiness is largely a consequence of the regulations that they are subject to.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Polya's "How to solve it" is pretty good in that respect. I asked this question on math.stackexchange.com a while ago but haven't received many answers yet http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/104
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by murbard2 12y ago
"How to solve it", by Polya.
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by murbard2 12y ago
"How to solve it", by Polya.
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by murbard2 12y ago
"How to solve it" is a good book in this direction, by Polya.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Regarding Dijkstra's quote: our brains are wired to model people with internal desires... sometimes it can lead to some errors, like animism, but if used correctly, it can be a powerful technique. I've designed concurrent systems
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by murbard2 12y ago
The graph I linked to plots the PDF. It's not exponential. It indicates something is getting worse over time.
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by murbard2 12y ago
I'm replying to the question as to why there isn't selective breeding of raccoon to make them suitable as pets. A likely reason is that they have a very strong and unpleasant musky odor. Though I suppose that could be bred out too
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by murbard2 12y ago
Anal glands. I suspect the domesticated silver fox has the same problem.
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by murbard2 12y ago
No it doesn't. The exponential distribution p.d.f. is decreasing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_distribution#mediav...
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by murbard2 12y ago
Here's a curve that represents the rate of cancer diagnosis by age in the UK. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats/inci... If cancer were only about a mutation happening randomly, you&#x27
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by murbard2 12y ago
Shouldn't matter so much: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579346/0001193125144... Creation/Redemption means that if the price of the shares diverges from the true price of Bitcoin, you
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by murbard2 12y ago
It's not about the liquidity. It's not about shorting. It's not about leveraging. It's a little bit about ease of investing. It's a lot about the fact that once this is available, hordes of brokers can make commis
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by murbard2 12y ago
The part about E.Coli in burger reminds me of a very unfortunate state of affair. I like my burgers rare, they just taste much better this way. I eat them that way because at my age (32) the risk isn't too great. There is a way to make
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by murbard2 12y ago
Police officers can, and should, use their conscience to decide whether or not to enforce certain laws. If you want a legal precedent, the Nuremberg trials somewhat settled that question.
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by murbard2 12y ago
You mean in 2002 when he was advocating a welfare payment equivalent to the minimum wage to all parents and heavy tariffs?
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by murbard2 12y ago
People have different definitions of what capitalism is, but they all share one characteristic: it's an absolute description, not one that depends on your policies relative to other countries. Pointing out that the US has a more capita
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by murbard2 12y ago
If it's important and your algorithm can handle it, then it's data, not missing data, and there's no need to be concerned with the underlying representation. If it's not important or your algorithm can't handle it,
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by murbard2 12y ago
So much wrong. - Regarding missing values, if you have a special number in your survey to indicate it, then preprocess your data to replace it with an NA. - Regarding 80 bit doubles. Adding a few bits of precision may be just all you need i
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by murbard2 12y ago
The FN has a brief foray in economic liberalism in the 80's which was primarily an opportunistic way to capitalize on the shock of having the socialists in power. It didn't last and the success you allude too came after they turne
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by murbard2 12y ago
The French extreme right wing takes its root in Poujadism. The closest equivalent would be something like Peronism. It's basically a mix of protectionist ideas mixed with a lot of welfare programs. It tend to be reactionary on many soc
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by murbard2 12y ago
Nope. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouvernement_provisoire_de_la_R... Also the PCF had 27% of the seats in the Assemblee Constituante of the 4th republic.
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by murbard2 12y ago
The optimism moved out. I spent the first 23 years of my life in Paris, before happily moving to NY about 10 years ago. My parents both vote for the Socialist party and pretty much everyone I interacted with growing up was heavily left wing

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