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by marcusbooster 16y ago
If the evangelists from the article say html5 will overtake native in 2 years, then is the likelihood more along 5 years? And who's to say it'll use the web for distribution? Consumers aren't using Google to find apps, they're using the App
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
So something that could be done by anyone with a paper, pen, and the technical know-how to operate a ruler, is now replaced by someone with a specialized domain knowledge that is creating something that will need to be maintained and likely
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
I really thought I'd miss Flash for certain sites, but it turns out that if it can't be done with html5 then there's usually "an app for that".
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Which is fine in private, but I would hope that you—as a true friend—would also defend them against unwarranted personal attacks from strangers.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
We should be looking at ways to decrease autism rates.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
This exact same comment and link appears on the TechCrunch post. I'll attribute it to bad form instead of blogspam.
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Senators to Debate Patent Bill(nytimes.com)
54 points by marcusbooster 16y ago|21 comments
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
From the guidelines: "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"
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HTML5 Spec for Web Developers(developers.whatwg.org)
12 points by marcusbooster 16y ago|0 comments
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
mr doob did this originally as a chrome experiment: http://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google_sphere/
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Typically things with major, and potentially changing, fiscal impact include a sunset provision.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Groupon seems to have a real public relations problem.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Passports are easy, plane tickets are expensive. The average American does not have the resources to plan out a luxury, multi-continental vacation. I can only hope my European friends don't take it personally.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
I was taught to write the first draft for yourself, then revise for your audience.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
JavaScript with a double-arrow drop in 2010?
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Minor correction: Beowolf was designed by Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland. It was written in Postscript and was the first typeface to dynamically change every time it printed.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
To me, genius is more a particular point in time where someone has the intelligence, aptitude, drive, and time to put something together of staggering importance. Any of those qualities could recede just as quickly as they were brought on.
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Lisp Conversation with Gábor Melis, Google AI Contest Winner(franz.com)
68 points by marcusbooster 16y ago|8 comments
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
> Oh well. Thank goodness for PBS. For now, but the new Republican controlled House is already calling for an end to its funding.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
I have no idea where you're inferring my support of the kids actions based on his target, but please don't that get in the way of your political tangent.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
There's so such thing as being "dinged" with a felony. He will wear that albatross around his neck for the rest of his life. It's not an "injustice of a cosmic scale" so it may not rise to your threshold of caring, but he's still a young ma
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U.S. Subpoenas Twitter Account, WikiLeaks Says(nytimes.com)
2 points by marcusbooster 16y ago|0 comments
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
I agree with the author's characterization of rhetoric in the 1990's, though I wonder if the reexamining of the whole "communicating boundaries" thing is a result of these women now raising boys of their own, or a more general societal tren
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The "Shield" Bill, A Clear Danger to Free Speech(nytimes.com)
26 points by marcusbooster 16y ago|18 comments
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
A valid point. As scientists rely more on the tools created by others, how can they be certain they're measuring the subjects and not the tools themselves. The article repeatedly refers to "a computer" in these experiments as if it's some d
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
One of the factors that created this market is the unreasonable phone systems currently in place at correctional facilities. They are excessively overpriced and that cost is largely passed on to friends/family on the outside. In the long ru
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
I agree, they're not my lawyer, they're my hosting company. If there's a legal conflict then it should use the court system that has been established to handle such disputes. If Amazon is a de facto agent of the complainant then to answer t
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Their arguments in that statement are: 1) copyright infringement, 2) putting innocent people in danger. The first point is debatable, does that mean the NY Times is unable to use their service? As an ISP will they roll over at the first cea
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
This is a pretty lazy foray into minimalism. It should be about breaking the product down to it's most basic components, not just removing the background layers of a psd.
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C.I.A. Launches WikiLeaks Task Force, WTF(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by marcusbooster 16y ago|0 comments

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