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by bbgm 18y ago
Our understanding of the physics of protein folding and protein design is still so limited that I continue to be amazed at the results that David Baker (and some others) can get. I am still skeptical about how general these methods are, wh
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by bbgm 18y ago
I still think that what Yahoo did with del.icio.us (or rather didn't do) borders on criminal. At the time, del.icio.us had the opportunity to be taken to a different scale as an information discovery tool. It remains my most used web serv
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by bbgm 18y ago
When I first tried out Textmate, my immediate reaction was "is it me, or is Textmate modeled after emacs?". There is a lot to be said about the emacs (or vim) model of lightweight editor + macros. For those of us with *nix backgrounds, I
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by bbgm 18y ago
Don't know about the majority, but I've always been paid a bit more than industry average
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by bbgm 18y ago
I can't speak for CS, where the coverage isn't as good, but pretty much all scientific PhDs work in labs that are NIH funded. In most cases, students (foreign or otherwise) end up doing a TA for 2-3 years and then get funded by their PI's
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by bbgm 18y ago
I believe 23andme uses the Illumina marker panel + some additional custom markers. First of all a diagnostic array will almost never be a high throughput array. Illumina doesn't market its 550K or 1M chips for diagnostics. The diagnostic
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by bbgm 18y ago
Unfortunately, Steve has it all wrong. I appreciate his point of view, but his proposed solutions are just not right. To me, this move smells of lobbyists. I like Tom Goetz' response http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/attention-
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by bbgm 18y ago
I've interviewed people a bit. While I might wear jeans and t-shirts to work, if an interviewee does not have the decency to dress smartly (maybe not a suit, but at least business casual) for an interview, here is the question that would c
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by bbgm 18y ago
I am conflicted on this issue. On the one hand, I believe in a situation where perseverance and risk taking is rewarded. On the other, it is true that many people with bright ideas do not go the startup route because they have family resp
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by bbgm 18y ago
I don't read Techcrunch unless someone points me to a story that sounds like it might be interesting which is rare. However, people seem to read, and their traffic hasn't suffered, so I doubt that the site is going to change anything soon.
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by bbgm 18y ago
That makes a lot of sense and fits in with some of the experiences I've had. In fact a lot of large companies don't want to be in the business of code development if they can help it. It's just not their core business. What they would wa
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by bbgm 18y ago
The key is not to remember that Open Source should not be a central business model. It can be part of a broader strategic platform. To make open source work, you need to either (a) believe that opening up source is not a big competitive di
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Automated sciences news using various machine learning techniques(esciencenews.com)
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by bbgm 18y ago
We have a room there for life scientists that's ended up being one of the best sources of info out there. None of us have ever found any use for Digg (and to a lesser extent Reddit). The best part, people really not into Twitter, etc have
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by bbgm 18y ago
To each his own I suppose. The reason I was drawn to friendfeed was it's look n feel. Can't think of too many that I like more. Probably why none of the desktop or other versions have had any appeal
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by bbgm 18y ago
I don't always agree with them, and they can certainly get irritating, but they've built a business whose services I both use and enjoy. Their philosophy might not be for everyone, but it has served many well. In other words, you don't ha
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by bbgm 18y ago
One reason I never even considered moving to Europe, but the US is getting really hard to get into. I am glad I moved here 12 years ago. Others are having a tough time and are often hostage to their companies since they can't change jobs
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by bbgm 18y ago
JCV is not the only big gun in the synbio field. Jay Keasling has started more than one company (e.g. Amyris).
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by bbgm 18y ago
I am very curious. A synthetic biologist on Hacker News :)
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by bbgm 18y ago
Brian's article is one of the best I've read on this subject in a long time. We seem to have lost that sense of wonder and curiousity somewhere along the line. There's one reason that I became a scientist. I wanted to answer one question
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by bbgm 18y ago
If you are in biotech, Cambridge is at par with the bay area when it comes to startups. As a life scientist, walking around Kendall square is sheer energy
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by bbgm 18y ago
I really like what the NY Times is up to. They're already one of the poster children for Amazon EC2 and the new silverlight reader is pretty sweet.
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by bbgm 18y ago
Another vote for github.com if you want a proper code repository. It's well designed and easy to use. If you just want to archive/backup your code, you could also take a look at jungledisk, which provides you a layer on top of Amazon S3,
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by bbgm 18y ago
I don't have a CS degree, but all else being equal a good education trumps not having one. The same person with a degree and without a degree will be more effective with one, especially if the degree is a meaningful one (i.e. not just to ge
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by bbgm 18y ago
Music is art and creative, but you can't ignore what it takes to get there. I forget who said this but upon being asked if he practiced everyday, some famous musician said something along the lines of If I don't practice for a day, I notic
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by bbgm 18y ago
Second the Seth Godin recommendation. Best books there are on marketing. I also really like "The Big Dip"
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by bbgm 18y ago
We should start a movement for watrcooler. Love the design, especially the keyboard nav
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by bbgm 18y ago
I wouldn't use the word "useful" per se. Social Networking does fill a need and is useful to a bunch of people. What I'd like to see is more incentive and recognition to those who push boundaries, whether it's in what the application does
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by bbgm 18y ago
I thought it had something to do with the stock price. Keeping with the double meaning vein, the author is either really naive or really clever.
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by bbgm 18y ago
Like the idea, but agree about the black

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