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by bbgm 13y ago
I was wondering about that. I can control my Nest with my Revolv hub so there had to be something in place.
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The "Four Hamiltons" framework for mitigating faults in the cloud(highscalability.com)
1 points by bbgm 13y ago|0 comments
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by bbgm 13y ago
In the days before smart phones, the lady in front of me in an immigration line in London had her cell taken away from her till she cleared immigration, cause she insisted on using her cell (she had been told not to do so and there was sign
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by bbgm 13y ago
I am pretty certain that Kollman would have got it if he were alive, especially given some of PBSA/GBSA work he did towards the end.
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by bbgm 13y ago
The beauty of CHARMM (at the time) was that it was the first practical combination of a forcefield and MD engine, that made it practical to simulation proteins. While other packages have left it behind on perf and capability, the forcefiel
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by bbgm 13y ago
Yes, but I am also not surprised given this is pretty fundamental work, even if it hasn't quite hit the sort of revolutionary goals many of us hoped for. If Peter Kollman had been alive, I suspect he would have shared this Nobel. This
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by bbgm 13y ago
FaceTime has convinced pretty much everyone in our globally distributed family to buy iPads (for the most part). These are all people familiar with Skype but the FaceTime experience is a huge win. More recently some of us have tried hangou
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by bbgm 13y ago
At my little biotech/bioinformatics startup (this was 13 years ago), pretty much everyone had a PhD. What made us somewhat different was that only a few of us had done any postdoctoral work.
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by bbgm 13y ago
Or 10 since I was writing a ton of code in F77
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by bbgm 13y ago
One of my biggest uses for the ipad is as a control surface for synthesizers (via Lemur). You need a high precision screen. There is a reason iOS devices are popular as control surfaces and synthesizers. And just for those who care, Rheyn
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Fix Bugs and Climb the Apple App Store Ranks(appurify.com)
12 points by bbgm 13y ago|4 comments
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by bbgm 13y ago
I am a native English speaker from India (for all practical purposes I am monolingual). I also have what you would probably term as a "neutral" accent, but it's definitely Indian. The tips above are not unique to non-native
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by bbgm 13y ago
I am Indian, but a native English speaker. When I went to Northern Ireland, I took a long cab drive to meet a customer. For the first 15 minutes of that drive, the driver and I were trying to calibrate accents. I certainly couldn't
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by bbgm 13y ago
Chef 11 support was announced recently: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/07/aws-opsworks-update-custo...
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by bbgm 13y ago
Especially given that where it made the most difference was in third world countries. If cost had become an issue, this would not have been the case.
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by bbgm 13y ago
Reductionism is fundamental to science. There are places where it shows it limits, but I've always equated being reductionist with being clever, with taking a complex question and re-casting it in terms that can be measured/studi
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A collection of small study projects which teach basic systems coding in Python(github.com)
145 points by bbgm 13y ago|12 comments
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by bbgm 13y ago
Excellent summary. The lack of quality couple with the large number of essentially rehashed discussions is what makes things particularly bad. I've started using the "new" tab a lot more than before as good submissions aren
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by bbgm 13y ago
The only ads I've ever clicked on (and actually ended up buying something from the App Store) are Facebook mobile ads. Just a couple of times but they were good ones.
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by bbgm 13y ago
Likewise. Did a double take before I saw the "l". Probably going to be a common mistake.
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by bbgm 13y ago
(My team owns product management for the Amazon EC2 instance platform) I wanted to clear up all the confusion on this topic and am cross-posting on other threads where this has come up recently. All the hardware underlying Amazon EC2 uses E
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by bbgm 13y ago
After having a baby, I started using Amazon Fresh heavily. 5 am deliveries are awesome, and the costs are < PCC or Whole Foods, and you occasionally get some pretty interesting stuff. It's not perfect, but it has replaced pretty much
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by bbgm 13y ago
Amazon Web Services - Seattle and Dresden, Germany And if I can add on. We have a number of open positions for Xen and Linux kernel engineers in Seattle and Dresden, Germany [1]. These positions are on the core EC2 instance platform devel
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by bbgm 13y ago
That is absolutely false. We cannot reliably design drugs computationally, and that doesn't even take into account the tremendously difficult problem of predicting efficacy and toxicity. Drug interactions are very complex, poorly understoo
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by bbgm 13y ago
As noted this article is from 2004. Unfortunately such errors are still around, as noted by Neil Saunders in a recent blog post[1]. 1. http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/gene-name-errors-a...
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Security reporter tells about hacked 911 call that sent SWAT team to his house(arstechnica.com)
42 points by bbgm 14y ago|50 comments
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by bbgm 14y ago
I can rattle of examples 1. Field guide for birding 2. Field guide for astronomy 3. Omnifocus 4. Mobile fitness regime 5. Taking notes in class (my wife who lives on her 15" MBPS) used one for a class with iAnnotate. Worked like a dream. 6
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by bbgm 14y ago
While we are on the subject of excel and bioinformatics http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/gene-name-errors-a... http://dontuseexcel.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/dont-use-excel-... I like Excel for what it is supposed to be used for,
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by bbgm 14y ago
Much the music software I use is German Ableton Live Native Instruments Steinberg (since superceded by Ableton) There's a pretty large body of German music software developers, both large and indie. If I recall Logic (now Apple) was also Ge
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by bbgm 14y ago
It is a huge reason, as well is the small populations. Doesn't mean that one shouldn't commend them though. There are other parts of the world with small, homogeneous populations and they havent' done the same.

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