marcusbooster

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by marcusbooster 16y ago
1900 wasn't that long ago. Many people in American cities live in homes built then. You'd have the wealth and social standing to pick and choose practically any mate you'd like. Plus it was an interesting time, the birth of the modern wor
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Autism rates are 3 times more likely in males than females, which I see as an extreme symptom of a more general trait. This is what I chalk up the math and science gender gap to, though I have absolutely no scientific data to back that up.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Overcrowding is the most tangible effect the voting public cares about, because everyone understands there are limited resources and at some point you have to make a decision who you want to keep in jail and who you don't. I would say most
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
When campaign money is considered free speech, then yes, some people have more than others. Opinions are more valuable when they can influence others. You can go door-to-door and reason with everyone you meet, or you can buy advertising spa
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
This is what a police state looks like.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
The most important thing I've learned is that every (good) typeface is designed for a specific reason, otherwise they would have used an existing one. That reason may be overcoming a technical limitation of the time, or there is a quality i
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
One of the problems with Journalism (capital J) as it's practiced is that the stories are created at the editor's desk and a reporter is simply dispatched to the scene to provide supporting evidence. There is room for a certain level of con
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
If you do it often just make an alias for it in the browser.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
FF3 does not attempt to support the ES5 standard, FF4 does* - maybe you can try that one. * http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
A programmer is not a mathematician, physicist, or surgeon - and yet a programmer would put himself on that list.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
What's that saying? - If it's free, then you're the one being sold. They make their money by selling to small business. From the website: Groupon for Businesses With an unparalleled ability to drive hundreds - even thousands - of c
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
But this is exactly what a small business is buying from Groupon. If the quality of their lot is worse than other advertising, then more the reason not to partner with them.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
What about the eyelid surgery that is all the rage?
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At least I know he's focused on his work. As opposed to say writing an Ask HN about it.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Police don't care about guilt or innocence, they care about clearing their cases - and they rationalize this by shifting that responsibility to the courts. Their goal is accountability, not in the moral sense, but because it makes their job
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Even in current JavaScript engines, drawing with canvas is still pretty slow for the types Flash applications they'd like to promote. Maybe they'll port things in the future but it doesn't seem ready for prime-time now.
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Why are so many people in their 60's not retired? Why are so many people in their 70's not dead?
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
You can read all about Michael Fleischer and his "re-building" of Iraq by removing government subsidies to state owned businesses: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2004/jan/17/weekend7.w... He's a neo-con of the highest order, so tak
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426429
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
I've lived in a number of cities and surprisingly the Internet looks the same in all of them.
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This was posted recently, using point thresholds: http://jmillerinc.com/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-over...
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
They have some powerful lobbyists which you can be certain will push for more licenses to keep their jobs in the country. But that's largely just serving their own interests. It's this kind of tech that really could provide cheaper health c
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
You may be on to something. I always thought navigating the StackOverflow interface was like using phpMyAdmin.
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Prototype iPad Applications Using Apple Keynote(blog.amirkhella.com)
2 points by marcusbooster 16y ago|0 comments
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
Experimental Jetset is a pretty well known graphic design studio (at least in the design world) so this project is probably best viewed through an aesthetic lens. There's always the Computer History Museum if you're interested in such gory
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
I wanted to learn a Lisp so I started with Clojure thinking it would be the more practical choice. Unfortunately, I found that for every 1 part lisp I was learning I had to learn 2 parts Java, which kinda defeated the purpose of my goal of
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
And I like to think they'd respond, "Look Jun8, in 12 years we've built a company worth upwards of 150 billion dollars, and you've amassed roughly 844 karma points."
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by marcusbooster 16y ago
It provides the url for each library.
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I find this page more convenient: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/index.htm...
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France Calls Google a Monopoly(nytimes.com)
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