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Over the past couple of weeks I have ordered an inappropriate number of Buckyballs. Why? Because A) they are really, really fun, and B) they were just unceremoniously banned by the US government, so they are stopping production and having a clearance sale. What are Buckyballs? Buckyballs (not these) are spherical rare earth magnets that…
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While working on Feedhound, we ran into an unexpected problem where we were having trouble loading the Facebook SDK from our extension onto the target page. Since our app depends on being able to run custom social searches based on the users’ feeds, needless to say this was a deal breaker. The first hurdle was…
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Since Obama just won (congrats btw), we have some time to accept that America just made a resounding endorsement of Keynesianism. This is not a good thing. I can only assume that most Americans don’t understand the danger of government spending, or that Mitt Romney was an exceptionally bad messenger for liberalization. The latter is…
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This was a fun coding project. Using Bootstrap.js and some simple PHP, I coded an anagrammer that performs much, much faster than existing anagram sites. I don’t know what they are using to anagram (or de-anagram), but execution is taking forever with sites like wordsmith.org and anagrammer.com; in addition, sites like wineverygame.com have a 12-character…
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Barack Obama won. I won’t be enthusiastic, but I won’t be hateful, either. He was a better candidate with a better argument. The voters chose. Mitt Romney was an awful alternative. And, truth be told, I didn’t vote for either one. Quite clearly, my cynicism has evolved greatly since 2008. Where do we go from…
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Note: I sent this email today in response to the news that the City of Chicago’s “consumer protection” bureau is about to shut down the Uber black car service in Chicago. I hope someone in Chicago reads it! Dear Mayor Emanuel, Rosemary Krimbel, Michelle Smith and the City of Chicago, I was disheartened to hear…
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Ok, girls and boys, time for some venting about the state of the internet today. Let’s look at some problems that we all face on a regular basis–dare I say first world problems?–and maybe some ways they can be fixed. 1. Facebook Grammar This has been a problem from the beginning. Nothing gets my…
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Today I had some extra time to peruse the two massive voter information packets I received from California and San Francisco about the ballot measures in the November general election. This is my first time voting in a California general, so this was really my first intimate encounter with California state politics. The guides are…
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