marcusbooster

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   I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door(kalman.blogs.nytimes.com)

   4 points by marcusbooster 17y ago|0 comments
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   by marcusbooster 17y ago

   Absolutely, that's why they get a second source. But you can run with a single leak as long as it's positioned as such and you give the other party a chance to respond. I don't recall how it was mentioned in the original article.
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   by marcusbooster 17y ago

   It seemed to work fine for Haskell.
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   by marcusbooster 17y ago

   He's right about the Mexican food in NYC, just horrible. But then all the Mexican stands are run by Chinese because the Latinos run the pizza parlors.
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   by marcusbooster 17y ago

   Is there a start-up scene in China? I would think doing a web based company would be limiting if you have to deal with the government's internet policies.
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   by marcusbooster 17y ago

   Yeah, which makes some sense. I think Clojure's strength is that it makes inroads with Java developers (as opposed to Common Lisp guys jumping over). If he can get the same excitement out of some .NET'ers it could double his user base.
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   by marcusbooster 17y ago

   Buffalo, New York
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   The Failure of ActionScript 3 ?(ncannasse.fr)

   4 points by marcusbooster 17y ago|1 comments
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   by marcusbooster 17y ago

   I read an article that discussed the CEO's vision of having completely free flights... by turning the plane into a flying casino.
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    Mozilla, Google, and Opera announce support for built-in 3D graphics(venturebeat.com)

    25 points by marcusbooster 17y ago|18 comments
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    But it's a horrible free throw percentage. So I guess it all depends on your sports analogy.
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    Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale(vimeo.com)

    210 points by marcusbooster 17y ago|48 comments
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    I see they went with ole' "glowing marble set in Copperplate eclipsing some kind of quasar." For the client looking for the random Gimp filter.
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    From what I've read, Facebook has a completely different vision of search than Google - and possible competitor in a number of areas. They want you to be able to query your contacts as you would in "real life". A more humanistic search vers
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    I don't think anyone is claiming recovery until the jobs start coming back, which they haven't.
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    In the many years I spent in Virginia, I've never been accused of living in the Northwest.
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    JFK: "We choose to go to the Moon"(youtube.com)

    2 points by marcusbooster 17y ago|0 comments
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    Eh, I could do it in a weekend. (I'm so sorry)
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    If they consider themselves a "news organization" then they have an obligation to their readers to publish "news". I don't know how much of the documents they're gonna publish (3 of 400?), but hopefully they'll have reasonable judgement; ie
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    I'd guess the answer to the isolation problem is increased reliance on virtual worlds and online interaction. Though the lag might be dreadful when communicating with the Earthlings.
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    Well you're wrong on one account, they are on Facebook all day.
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    Depends who your target is. The channels you listed require a bit of tech savvy, my mom is not going to file a bug report.
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    The "We don’t do focus groups" statement from that article is referring to how Apple decides what products to build, not how they are built.
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    Doesn't do focus groups on products designed and designed again from the bottom to the top? They even say so in their jobs faq: Apple hires quality assurance engineers for internal product testing...We also create focus groups to provide f
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    I think knowing your own hourly rate is necessary to benchmark your own tasks and priorities. But yeah, in my experience clients generally want an estimate up front so my rate is more of an internal tool. The art of it all comes from being
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    It's not uncommon to get corrections/clarifications from the subject when writing an article about them. That it's so explicit in this article I don't necessarily take as objectivity, but as more stylistic choice to show Mr. Schmidt in a ce
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    While I haven't done an exhaustive search of every appearing Google logo, all the ones I have seen have "Google" in a distinct alternating color pattern: b, r, y, b, g, r The pattern in this alleged screenshot is: y, r, b, g, b, r
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    Those crazy kids are a fickle bunch, and throughout history they've wanted to not be where their parents hang out. But it looks like Facebook is trying to grow past it's original niche into the online identity provider for all. Which mean
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    Girls and business ideas come and go all the time, but the good ones rarely come at all. What's the chance this one will be better than the next? (for both)
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    by marcusbooster 17y ago

    Reiterating common sense is not scholarship, systematically measuring it is.