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by apathy 19y ago
wonkette.com (during election season), reddit, aldaily.com, sciencedaily.com It seems like there used to be more stuff worth reading on the web, but that's probably just my mental facilities going to hell as I get old (x > 30)
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by apathy 19y ago
It's more than that, though -- if you look at this in the context of generic data projection and 'intelligence amplification' software, some (perhaps positive) aspects of the subprime boom were logical outgrowths of more powerful tools for
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by apathy 19y ago
please RTFA before commenting; it's a good article and the creator of the software contributes a particularly arch comment at the end. Automated unstructured information processing is the wave of the future, and it always will be ;-) (as us
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by apathy 19y ago
they probably bought RTM... I've been using Remember the Milk as a GMail add-in and it's fantastic. Why reinvent the wheel? Especially when it's already damn near perfect.
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by apathy 19y ago
Huh? The NYtimes is completely free with a login. Use BugMeNot if you have to. They quit charging for TimesSelect some time ago; now all of their archives for 150+ years are freely available online.
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by apathy 19y ago
God forbid that Google attempt to conduct its US datacenter operations in locations with adequate local cooling sources, with white foam roofs to reduce internal heat buildup, in an underpopulated area with existing hydroelectric power. Bui
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by apathy 19y ago
Like with Betamax?
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by apathy 19y ago
Collapsing DIVs solved this problem a long time ago, and they don't break tabbing or require ugly hacks.
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by apathy 19y ago
You do realize that loose tea is very inexpensive, yes?
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by apathy 19y ago
I'm thinking the latter. Hopefully that IP routes to Yahoo HR. golf clap
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by apathy 19y ago
The trouble with business school is that some students mistake the classes for... well, for anything other than an opportunity to network. If you want to learn about finance, work for a fucking bank! If you want to make contacts, you coul
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by apathy 19y ago
When I worked at Cornell, we had a habit of naming pairs or groups of machines that were related (eg. as failovers, or multimasters, or whatever) so that the grouping was obvious enough to stick. Hack/slash, itchy/scratchy, homer/bart/marg
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by apathy 19y ago
sweet, some Ruby programmer must have stumbled across XDebug :-) one of the only truly beautiful things ever to come out of PHP
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by apathy 19y ago
god bless Andreesen. As someone who actually used to use Mosaic, I feel vaguely vindicated that he is not, in fact, a dumbass. Disney, in particular, looks to be set to go on a rampage. Internally it's pretty clear that some dead weight n
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by apathy 19y ago
> they're going to have to figure it out Or be acquired by someone who has. This is not rocket surgery.
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by apathy 19y ago
> If Arc was only for him, then why release it to the world? To get people to stop pestering him?
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by apathy 19y ago
The new site design is awesome beyond compare. I think I've found a new messiah.
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by apathy 19y ago
> efforts such as PigLatin and Sawzall appear to be promising steps in this direction. Sawzall is a parallel logfile analyzer. It takes logfiles stored into GFS and MapReduces them for reliable billing (which used to be a nightmarish,
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by apathy 19y ago
You honestly think that the focus and commitment to do something as unpopular as shunning meat in the NFL would serve him ill in a startup? Execution matters -- and he did finish out the season by setting a new NFL record. And shunning t
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by apathy 19y ago
I forgot to include explicitly in my anti-23andMe rant that deletions, repeat polymorphisms, and the like were not included in their product's results. Thanks for reminding me :-)
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by apathy 19y ago
In the Castro I could see it becoming a huge hit... hell my old hairdresser could probably make a mint pushing these.
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by apathy 19y ago
Fix the "Huntingdon's disease" typo, for heaven's sake. You're asking people to view your company as an authority on the topic. Typos detract from that credibility.
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by apathy 19y ago
It's not their responsibility to do much of anything. But they're uniquely well positioned to push a lot of these things along, and it's a bit disappointing that they opt not to. Plus, selling genomic information from your customers, in ag
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by apathy 19y ago
Cool, time to teach myself a little about Django and recreate good ol' RemindMe (one of the many things I miss about ars digita)
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by apathy 19y ago
Not sure that it matters -- if you have a less accurate chip, you just resequence (run it) to greater depth. (If you can afford to, that is... and in all likelihood, they can) That's effectively what Helicos et al. are doing anyways. Thei
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by apathy 19y ago
Ah, you are correct. 23andMe is using Illumina, Navigenics is using Affy. I have my doubts as to whether either approach is truly useful at this point in time to non-researchers, but I could be quite wrong. My objection to 23andMe and Na
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by apathy 19y ago
This company bothers me immensely. They take your $1000 and a buccal swab, and run it against an 550K SNP chip (beadarray, actually). That's all. The data which is generated effectively tells you what base your cellular DNA has at points
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by apathy 19y ago
Burrows-Wheeler Transform maybe? One of the coolest compression algorithms evar...
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by apathy 19y ago
> Were you at work during the dotcom boom? You don't sound like someone with firsthand knowledge of the bubble environment. Just FYI -- I was working in San Francisco during the craziest days of the bubble, at a company that WAS profi
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by apathy 19y ago
They brought it on themselves. A well-conceived and well-run company which fell prey to greed and was destroyed by it. The VCs would never have destroyed anything if the original vision had remained in place and expansion proceeded apace w

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