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by athom 15y ago
Actually, you wouldn't want to do that. A lot of human cells actually rearrange their genome as part of their normal function. This is how lymphocytes come up with antibodies, for example. By selecting and rearranging several different codi
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by athom 15y ago
This is what your normal immune defenses already do. While some white blood cells (neutrophils, monocytes) fight bacteria by "eating" them, viruses are too small to be directly attacked this way. Instead, they cells they infect have to be d
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by athom 15y ago
Microbial mats look like one of the most promising candidates, and NASA has a team seriously exploring this possibility: http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/students/this_month/page6.cfm These mats tend to build up in layers, and often form structure
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by athom 15y ago
Only if someone checks his pockets very thoroughly after each shift.
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by athom 15y ago
No kidding! The best part is, it's all so unnecessary! When I saw the blank page, I decided to have a peek at the source, an lo and behold, there's the essay! Copy it to a text editor, turn on dynamic word wrap, and... enjoy?
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by athom 15y ago
Actually, yes. HIPAA -- the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act -- is the watchword in medical recordkeeping, these days, and cloud storage is a major point of failure if you don't do it right. Neither DrChrono nor the lin
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by athom 15y ago
Actually, the real win for whoever actually got such a patent would be the "no tagbacks" effect. Imagine for a moment that you were sued over a product or service another party claims infringes a patent of theirs. Then, you found out that s
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by athom 15y ago
That's very interesting, but I can't say I've heard of Glenn Beck touting Tellurium Exchange. Nor has anyone told my why now may be the best time ever to own tellurium, although your post is giving me a pretty good idea. I suspect rarity
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by athom 15y ago
Oh, wow... Okay, I just spent the better part of an hour working on a comment on this (hey, I just passed a hematology course, sooo... ;), and then, as I finally got around to checking out the website, I catch this line in the video (emph
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by athom 15y ago
My favorite part: l_anonymous_functions_name Sorry, I just like the irony.
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by athom 15y ago
I'd like to know what kinda coffee is carbonated, myself. Then again, I've heard of some interesting soda flavors. There may be more of those than of ice cream.
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by athom 15y ago
Reminds me a little of a Mycon podship: http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Podship
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by athom 15y ago
I find the "gather" functionality especially intriguing. APL and J have "transpose" instructions that let you rearrange the dimensions of a multidimensional array. I figured out awhile back how that could be done without having to move all
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by athom 15y ago
Don't quit() the daily job.
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by athom 15y ago
Maybe you could put it in yet another container with a dessicant to draw the moisture?
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by athom 15y ago
And for just three-quarters of a billion dollars. It took me a second look to realized, but in today's dollars, quite the bargain!
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by athom 15y ago
Very this. I was just working today with a coagulation test machine (Coag-A-Mate: http://www.gmi-inc.com/BioMerieux-Coag-A-Mate-2210.html ) that can draw samples and reagents from an array of loaded vials. A "liquid-sipping robot" would ac
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by athom 15y ago
there's no reason to think that we started out with lots of phonemes and that these have been whittled away over time I suspect the reasoning is more along the lines of languages picking up more phonemes over time, such that older langu
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by athom 15y ago
This is why most looping structurues can be replaced with recursion. It's also why you hear of "unrolling" tail-recursive calls into more traditional looping structures. They're equivalent.
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by athom 15y ago
Actually, this is not correct. While recursion is typically implemented in the form of a function which calls itself, that is not exactly what recursion means. In fact, "recursion" derives from "recur", which simply means to repeat, or
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by athom 16y ago
This reminds me of a guy at the last place I worked. It wasn't bonuses he was on about (though we had that issue come up, too), but performance appraisal. He was always trying to figure out just how much he needed to do to "far exceed exp
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by athom 16y ago
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." -- Mark Twain I was having a look at Terabyte drives in Best Buy yesterday, and while wondering how well a model might work with Linux, I realized, now the display computers actually have intern
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by athom 16y ago
What we really need for electric cars is battery swapout. Just pull into the nearest station, trade out the drained battery for a fresh one, and you're off! Meanwhile, the station sets the drained battery on the charging array, and in a few
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by athom 16y ago
Next on the horizon: peril-sensitive sunglasses!
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by athom 16y ago
So we need to come up with one that looks like a contract, maybe? If I weren't trying to get away and do WBC differentials...
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by athom 16y ago
Well, if you want to talk about that sort of thing, I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to trust anything an applicant for this sort of job might say about his criminal record. Or anything else.
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by athom 16y ago
Well, if you reason it out, which applicant is less likely to get the company in trouble? The one who gets caught, or the one who doesn't?
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by athom 16y ago
Actually, I'm surprised no one else touched on this part yet: See, experience is cheap. All it takes is time. Skill is harder, but really only requires hard work — a lot of people can get that. But attitude. You either have it, or you
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by athom 16y ago
Apparently, so they can beat up everyone else's programmers. Exactly what that contributes to programming or expense reports is anyone's guess.
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by athom 16y ago
I like this part: One respondent, the heir to an enormous fortune, says that what matters most to him is his Christianity, and that his greatest aspiration is “to love the Lord, my family, and my friends.” He also reports that he wouldn’t

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