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Detroit As Ayn Rand Novel

a: Detroit ~
b: seeing 'Atlas Shrugged' in real life

What: "Detroit is like seeing 'Atlas Shrugged' in real life. The unions drove away the business, and the blacks drove away the whites. So basically all the productive people left, and now the only professionals left are the criminals. Bing is a good mayor, but it's too little too late. Only Robocop can save Detroit now."

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Writer: DilipJ
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Date: Jun 9 2012 5:40 PM



a: Citizen Kane ~
b: Mahler symphony

What:

"Citizen Kane is filled with wonderful hints that we shouldn't take the conventional reading of the story as gospel truth. It is simply a matter of the audience picking up on the hints(and it took me numerous viewings before I began to catch on). I've always said Citizen Kane is like Mahler symphony. You discover something new every time you experience it."


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Writer: PW43
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Date: Jan 16 2014 12:40 PM


Document Object Standard

a: Document Object Model ~
b: coding style

What:

"These are all specified in DOM model. So in this way, javascript code to visit pages are standardized. We cannot create our own style to visit the elements. In this sense, DOM is like a coding style."

It's not just "a coding style", it is a mandated coding style with a mandated hierarchy. You MUST write the html as the convention specifies so that when Javacript is used on a page, it can interpret the page correctly. It could be call the Document Object Convention.


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Writer: Junji Zhi
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Date: Sep 22 2014 7:41 PM



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