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by JunkDNA 16y ago
My work evenly splits between biomedicine and software development. I have spent lots of time around really smart scientists who were trying to do things like develop cures for cancer or new antibiotics. One of the things I learned early on
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
It was so great to read this post. It's a bit like an old friend moving back home after living far away for a while. I was always a little disappointed when I would see his blog title dimmed out in my RSS reader as I scrolled on to read thi
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is brilliant. There are many times where I would like an unbiased opinion from someone outside our immediate team. I can't help but think there is a major startup idea in here somewhere.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Can you speak to the additional time commitment? I have been considering ditching the Fusion for a Merkur, but I'm worried about adding more time to my AM routine. Are we talking double the amount of time? Triple? The thought of getting up
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is what is so sad about MS. At some point they forgot they are a software company, and started thinking they were a Windows company. They are imposing a requirement on themselves that competitors don't have.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
My gut reaction to this article is that it mistakes a short-term trend for a long-term one. It seems to me that apps are a response to two factors: 1) Current browsers are not able to make use of all the added hardware going into mobile dev
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Closing the Digital Frontier(theatlantic.com)
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
One issue I can think of is that this exposes your users to email phishing attacks by training them to click a URL in an email. I know Facebook has had this effect on me. I have come close to clicking on phishing URLs because I get so many
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I don't know about this particular study, but many of these cell phone radiation studies are statistically flawed in that they start with cancer patients and then ask them about cell phone use. If you do that, you are almost guaranteed to
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I think the iPad is in exactly the situation that the first generation iPhone was in. When it came out, you knew that Jobs would be on stage in a year talking up the 3G version with full GPS. Some people could not wait and were willing to
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is entertaining. I have never been able to figure out why there was so much faux wood on seemingly everything made in the '70's. Why did everyone feel compelled to use it?
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Not to nitpick, but this sounds a tad revisionist: "Sun’s invention of Java could be seen as an attempt to introduce sideways compatibility between its shrinking server market and its competitors (Windows, Linux) by introducing a new, cross
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Chrome automagically updates itself all the time without any end-user intervention at all. IMHO, that's the surest way to keep everyone current. The problem is that corporate IT shops would never go for that because they have too many britt
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Where is the profit center for such services for google? Can they really get enough revenue by putting ads on voicemail?
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Damn 96 well trays will get you every time.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Hire a professional. You have the money now so you can afford one. So you don't get taken, I would ask around for suggestions. You could also call up Vanguard they offer financial planning for people with that amount of money. With them, yo
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
One thing that came to mind when reading this is that I think most (all?) railroad locomotives make use of "dead man" switches that force someone to perform an activity on a regular basis. I'm not sure if this would be effective in the case
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This is solid advice. I recently returned to vim after using TextMate for a while. The strategy of noticing when you are doing something that might benefit from automation (vs trying to learn every single command) is a good one. It takes a
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Well, the lack of support for DRM is always going to be an issue as long as content producers insist on having DRM. I know we've all been 'round this tree before, but I continue to be genuinely perplexed that they still insist on DRM. Netwo
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I find this interesting from a historical perspective. You can really see the thought process that led to the design decisions on the iPhone and iPad: Get desktop sync right, optimize for user consumption of data, avoid handwriting recognit
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
From what I have read, There are serious technical difficulties getting voice working properly over LTE. So, any near-term rollout is going to likely include CDMA for voice and LTE for data. As for testing, now that the iPhone is on the mar
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
>Ever heard of the iTunes music store? That was the whole point of my post. Lots of companies would be tempted to operate something like the iTunes music store at a loss, since it would be seen as driving sales (a marketing expense if y
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I have wondered if this was in the cards for a while now. I have had trouble reconciling it with a few things though. On one hand, from a competition standpoint, there is an argument to be made that google is providing free cloud-based sync
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
About 10 years ago the journal Science had a cover story review article called "The soft science of dietary fat". It's likely still behind a paywall, but that was the single best summary on this topic I have ever seen. I remember it went on
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
This article mentions other standards that are managed in a way similar to H.264 such as bluetooth, USB, Wifi, etc... As far as I can recall, there hasn't been much consternation about whether or not to support any of these in Linux. Can an
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
The one issue I see with this line of reasoning is that Apple might make a convincing argument that with a jailbroken phone, users could somehow disable the hardware protection software that prevents the phone from being damaged when used i
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
Perhaps I was a bit too terse, but I was essentially making the same point as you. You and I are in violent agreement. I'm not at all surprised courier isn't going anywhere. The leaks were all about trying to assure pundits and tech decisio
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-doesnt-have-to-worry-ab... They are going to wait until the Palm deal closes. My guess is that HP wants more control over their platforms than a commodity Windows mobile provides. WebOS is just the tic
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
The courier did its job. That and the news of the HP slate (on indefinite hold) were timed to try and get some free press out of the pre-iPad hype. The fact that no actual product was close to shipping didn't matter.
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by JunkDNA 16y ago
I don't know what the developers expect to get out of this. Do they think that it hasn't occurred to Apple's engineers that this might be convenient? I think, as with copy/paste and background apps, the issue has been how to implement somet

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