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by JunkDNA 13y ago
>It'd be equivalent to Oracle releasing their DB server for Linux way back in the day I think Microsoft should look less to Apple and Google for inspiration and more to Oracle. There are a lot of similarities between the two compani
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Not unit tests, but a fair bit of in-line verification that the correct base has been added. There are numerous DNA proofreading mechanisms to prevent errors. If they didn't exist, we would be riddled with mutations.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I'll second this. Gabriel is an extremely nice guy. I approached him over 5 years ago for info about the Philly startup scene and he wrote me a huge, detailed email that I'm sure he didn't really have the time to write. I swi
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Yes, but I'm one of the fortunate ones with really fast FIOS and an actual choice between Verizon and Comcast. I wasn't necessarily making this point from the perspective of someone who wants Google Fiber. I was more saying that i
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I agree, especially where I live I actually have a choice between Verizon and Comcast. I have FIOS and love it. Best internet service I've ever had. So fast you can almost hear the bits as they blast out of the pipe. But my point wasn&
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I know it would be painful, and the local politics certifiably insane, but if Google wanted draw attention to the dysfunctional monopoly of the cable industry, there would be no better place to wire than Philly. Take the competition right i
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5G Service On Your 4G Phone?(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by JunkDNA 13y ago|0 comments
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I first became aware of it when I was fresh out of school. I was talking to a more senior PhD researcher and we were having a conversation about other people in our department and he said something to the effect of, "Do you know Bob? I
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Remember though: doctors are the ones who bring the dollars into medical centers. It is very easy to draw a line from an individual "rockstar" surgeon to the revenue they bring in. It is also the core mission of a healthcare organ
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
In most organizations, the people at the top intuitively understand that you need to pay management and legal people market rates because that is part of running a successful enterprise. They are less clear about what it is all these "
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Your tone is incredibly rude and uncalled for. Where in my post did I ask anyone to intervene? You are imputing motives that I did not state. Furthermore you are interpreting my last comment in a way that I did not mean. I meant that there
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This thread is both illuminating and depressing for me. I hire engineers at an academic medical center who work on really tough biomedical problems. Let's just say that I would have to move heaven and earth to get annual percentage rai
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
At the risk of painting all of HN with a very broad brush, I find the calls in this thread to support iOS 6 at 13% usage amusing, given the countless times I've seen arguments here to drop support for old IE versions with similar adopt
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
They talk about this in one of their news articles. Looks like they got burned on Android previously and were trying to get to an MVP: "It was also evident that the touch and audio latency on iOS were much faster than we could get with
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Beer Delivery Drone Grounded by FAA(cnn.com)
1 points by JunkDNA 13y ago|0 comments
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I have two daughters (1.5 and 3.5 years old). Every kid is different, but from what I've observed, you can't do what you want directly at this age. But that really doesn't matter at all. Buy her tons of books. Make her love b
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
As another poster says, there was not ever a substantive "debate" with regard to ordinary stem cells, only ones derived from fetal tissues and discarded fertilized embryos from IVF. One of the things about the embryonic stem cell
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Oculus Is Awesome for Games, But It’s the Future of Movies(wired.com)
57 points by JunkDNA 13y ago|66 comments
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Thanks for sharing this link. As a lifelong Catholic, as well as a biologist and software developer, I have often thought my background in this particlar area was not what it should be.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
For me personally it was a book about William Pasteur and his development of the rabies vaccine. That book lit a fire in my mind for molecular biology (though that was not a well known "thing" at the time). To this day I can vivid
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
This is wonderful. I think some of the commenters here are missing the point by insisting that how they learned to code is how everyone should learn. If we're going to get to a point where coding is a basic type of literacy like math o
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Instead of just down voting this post, it would be helpful to know what specific parts of it are incorrect. This is the first I've heard of these objections.
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I'm working in the genomics space as well. We have an open source interface for filtering and examining variants for clinical diagnostics called Varify. We presented a poster at ASHG and are trying to get the open source code we have o
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
The transformation won't be complete until they make it so F5 clears your credentials and logs you out of Facebook. That was always my favorite Lotus Notes feature. Nothing like trying to refresh your email in a hurry when someone has
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Agree with this completely. My father died when I was 23. Being a digital packrat, I have every personal email I've ever sent or received. He wrote me quite regularly throughout college and I have all of those emails. All the life less
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I suspect it's tied to metabolic limitations. It's likely difficult for the brain to provide enough energy to support higher order functions and also do this cleanup efficiently at the same time.
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Why drugs are expensive: It’s the science, stupid(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
2 points by JunkDNA 13y ago|0 comments
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
Reminds me of this recent editorial (which is hopefully not paywalled) in the Wall Street Journal about "the Good Intentions Paving Co": http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230402070...
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NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption(washingtonpost.com)
156 points by JunkDNA 13y ago|106 comments
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by JunkDNA 13y ago
I learned a long time ago from Edward Tufte to be wary of the two axis graph, especially when different scales are used. One can manufacture just about any point using one of these and still be telling the truth.

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