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by JunkDNA 17y ago
For pure data visualization, Tufte is absolutely the brilliant and helps you avoid a whole raft of bad behavior that leads to sloppy, hard to understand graphics. I can't second your suggestion enough. I would add that his one day course is
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I had originally written that they were "cut from the same cloth". In retrospect that's probably a better characterization. I imagine Jobs smiling to himself that he had clearly picked the right guy for the job.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
That doesn't necessarily mean anything. As a kid, I built a model that was supposed to be the "super secret stealth fighter" before people knew what it looked like. It was based on all the leaked reports of what the aircraft might look like
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Jobs on Rand: “I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people.’” Wow, talk about a
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I have been reading about the pending helium shortage for the last 10 years (for example: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.08/helium.html ). That WIRED article gave us 10 - 25 years. The Seed article gives us 10 - 15 from today. I neve
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I think the most appropriate thing is to just mark as [April Fools].
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I know I'm not in the majority here, but as a person who commutes to work via a 40 minute train ride each way, the iPad would be very attractive in addition to a laptop. I'm pretty much glued to my iPhone during the entire ride. The small s
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
As a developer of a small, in-house specialized data warehouse for medical research purposes (built with 100% open source), I would be curious to hear more thoughts on this. The flexibility angle is certainly a huge win. My issue is that I
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I completely do not understand this sort of thinking. It's like saying, "All you people driving motor vehicles: trains are better". It's a meaningless comparison. NoSQL systems are really great for certain things. RDBMS systems are really g
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
This article is pretty interesting. One point he makes is one that I have long wondered about: why on earth do airlines not treat baggage the same way UPS and FedEx treat packages? Going one step further, I'm not sure what the logistics wou
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
As a Philly and HN denizen, I'm doubly proud! So neat to see this happening.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I almost skipped this article assuming it was one of these "hacks that's not a hack" kind of things. This is a pretty major security issue, especially since the hack is claimed to potentially expose email as well. The Exchange server integr
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Looks interesting from the video... but is it really as compelling in person?
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Every time I read about one of these things, it scares the crap out of me as a user and as a programmer. As a user, I always worry that zero day exploits are like cockroaches: if you see one, it's likely there are thousands more you can't s
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
The problem with most types of tax scenarios like you describe, is that the truly wealthy will always find some place else to reside where they can escape the taxes. They are the ones with the means to do it. Tax systems that target "the
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I'm not trying to be snarky, but has the EFF given the same treatment to the PS3 and Nintendo Wii agreements? Xbox 360? Also, there is a bit of showmanship on the EFF's part here by going the FOIA route. You have to be able to read the cont
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
You're right that Perforce has little to do with the actual exploit, but "human error" and "user stupidity" don't explain all of it. First, if you're in a corporate environment, your default browser is often chosen for you, even as a develo
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
This is a very reasoned, well-written article. While I like the idea that the NoSQL movement is questioning some core database assumptions, I have often been uncomfortable with the meme that "SQL doesn't scale". Scalability is always a func
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I would love this. Many times there are articles that would be more appropriate for that kind of forum, but I post them here to catch the hacker/biotech crossover crowd.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Drug companies do sell or give away IP from time to time. But even in the scenario you suggest, with finite resources, why put money into antibiotics development? Why not just fund cancer research at a higher level? I think most pharmas wou
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
You've hit the nail on the head. I spent several years in one of the biggest antibiotics research centers in big pharma. I watched as they systematically disbanded it. The business folks had decided that there was no money in antibiotics. T
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
This is not surprising given that the game is made by the creators of Bejeweled. It's pretty clear that they have lots of experience in what makes a highly addictive casual game.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I used a hosting provider who had this turned on for a while and it often had odd behavior. There are a ton of email servers that are not configured properly or are configured in complex ways. The worst case I saw was with a large corporate
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
For anyone with access to Nature, I found the Editor's summary considerably more readable than the actual research article (since I'm not all that well-versed in quantum mechanics and biophysics): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
There are isolated cases where clinical decision support can work well. The best example of this are the ones that analyze prescriptions for dangerous combinations or mistaken quantities (too much for age, weight, etc...). The reason they h
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I am well aware of the allegations by these groups. The difference here is that there is actual evidence that there is substance to the allegations. Especialy when it's clear data was being withheld. That combination is very different fro
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I'm not so sure they're as analgous as you might think. In this case, a central part of the controversy surrounds allegations (based on the leaked emails) that the researchers at East Anglia were attempting to manipulate the peer review pro
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Biology By the Numbers(pipeline.corante.com)
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Found a PDF of the filing itself: http://craphound.com/robbins17.pdf It's hard for me to imagine how anyone could think this was an OK idea.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
You are quite correct that certain aspects need to be accepted. I'll use your example to describe a little about how I go through the process of self-investigation. The Trinity is an excellent example of something I have questioned at vario

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