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   by bbgm 16y ago

   All the time. Typically switching between safari, iPod, mail, iCal, twitter and Evernote
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   Engineering at BankSimple(banksimple.com)

   16 points by bbgm 16y ago|3 comments
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   by bbgm 16y ago

   To be a scientist, you need to be deeply curious about the how and the why. That often requires going into the uncharted, but most of the time requires fixing the charts you have today (which is a whole lot of fun but also a little less gl
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   by bbgm 16y ago

   It's a beautiful country. You should definitely visit. I lived there in the 80's and driving from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi and back was quite a fabulous journey
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   by bbgm 16y ago

   Second the book recommendation. A must read for anyone interested in this story
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   by bbgm 16y ago

   the changelog: http://thechangelog.com/ Ruby5: http://ruby5.envylabs.com/ Java Posse: http://javaposse.com/
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   by bbgm 16y ago

   While Quora is my favorite web destination today, and the one that I enjoy spending time on more than others, I think Robert's getting way ahead of himself. It's useful to drive ideas to blog about, and have interesting discussions, but to
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   by bbgm 16y ago

   Direct link to application: http://pmretract.heroku.com/
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   Monitoring PubMed retractions: a Heroku-hosted Sinatra application (nsaunders.wordpress.com)

   1 points by bbgm 16y ago|1 comments
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    Open Research Computation. An ordinary journal with extraordinary aims(cameronneylon.net)

    24 points by bbgm 16y ago|4 comments
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    Delicious and Flickr.
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    Notational Velocity + Simplenote perhaps? That combination works really well for me
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    Why should post-publication peer review be limited to working through Science. That will happen in due course (e.g. Rosie Redfield has already written a letter), but it is perfectly fine for scientists to dispute the paper via their blogs,
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    Rosie Redfield: No convincing evidence that As has been incorporated into DNA(rrresearch.blogspot.com)

    59 points by bbgm 16y ago|23 comments
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    Iddo Friedberg has a great analysis of the paper: http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2010/12/02/a-new-life-form-...
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    I would argue that one should do it. It's a great path to understanding a little about genotyping, SNPs, etc. The new information is pretty good (the curation team there is particularly strong). The controversies are good ones and a great
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    Except that I do 50% of my emails and know many others who do exactly the same or more (and these are not short emails) from their iPhones. People who lived on their blackberries live on their iPhones or Android touchscreen phones. While
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    Any specific types of projects you are interested in? Like bendmorris says, this is a very vast field. Some pointers that might help Genomics: Take a look at work that Mike Schatz is doing at CSHL: http://schatzlab.cshl.edu/ Or you can
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    As a musician I set up a MySpace page, but disliked the site so much, I shut it down. Soundcloud on the other hand ... that I really like and the API makes it much easier to incorporate into your site, something MySpace never really figur
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    Also, with GPUs, because of the additional compute power on the server, the network quickly becomes a bottleneck.
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    Thanks. That is correct. Most of my "network" are researchers in various universities and academic institutions. I went straight from graduate school to a startup, which is not the norm in my circles. "circles" above is mostly the life sc
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    I tend to be the card carrying non-academic in my circles, but there are certain problems you cannot solve outside of academia, and to this day, much of the approach I take to solve business problems draws upon lessons learned at that time
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    And we have peering arrangements with several R&E networks and more coming.
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    That split of where the money goes comes directly from calculations and a spreadsheet that James Hamilton has developed. You should check out his Velocity talk for more (about 5 minutes in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHW-ayt_Urk The
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    The Heroku docs are great. Michael Hartl's http://www.railstutorial.org Chapter 1.4 also covers that well
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    I don't know how good the new Office for Mac is. It does look a lot better and early feedback has been positive. Having said that I run Windows 7 on a VM for one and only one reason, Excel.
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    So very true . I live in the US, and my close friends are distributed around the world. My parents live in Africa, my brother is currently in Europe, cousins in Israel, UK, etc, and former colleagues around the world as well. We all mana
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    I don't get it either. I tried it out a month or two ago and to me it's just not that useful and doesn't give me anything that delicious, or custom Google search doesn't give me. Or maybe I am just the wrong audience.
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    The cost and inflexibility of datacenter networks(perspectives.mvdirona.com)

    2 points by bbgm 16y ago|0 comments
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    by bbgm 16y ago

    I partly agree. The design on MacBook Pros was not sufficient to make me switch, although it was very tempting. It was the combination of hardware and software that did the trick. However, I think you are underestimating their hardware pro