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by ben1040 13y ago
I am honestly questioning the utility of LinkedIn in general. It seems to be a sink for recruiter messages when people don't know how to otherwise contact me. I know when someone is hiring bioinformatics developers locally, because within
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Nest Acquires MyEnergy(nest.com)
4 points by ben1040 13y ago|0 comments
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by ben1040 13y ago
The HGP reference genome is pretty much essential to the "whole genome" analysis done on humans and that's the big direction in research right now. I work in cancer and disease genomics doing data analysis software and all of the analysis
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by ben1040 13y ago
You're either pressing a capture button on the device, or using a voice command to take a picture or video. So it's designed to send a social signal to others that you're doing it. When a video is being recorded, the image appears in the s
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by ben1040 13y ago
Here's something from the news last year. Without the reference genome this wouldn't be possible. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/health/in-gene-sequencing-... This was just one person, sure, but there are a lot of smart people working
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by ben1040 13y ago
>the scroll buttons are at the same end of the scroll bar. Which was also the case in OS X, up through 10.3.
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by ben1040 13y ago
I've paid for one over the weekend, and am now just waiting for them to get around to ship it to me so I can start digging in with it.
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by ben1040 13y ago
If you don't own Glass, Google currently will not let you have an API key. However, this guy has been working on trying to replicate the API as closely as he can though for those who cannot get at the real deal. https://github.com/Scarygam
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Unlocking the bootloader just allows you to have access to boot an unsigned system image. He points out in the article that you'd still need an image to boot. With an unlocked bootloader, you could boot something that then messed with the
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by ben1040 13y ago
If it was anything like when my child was born, my wife's company gives a base 8 weeks of parental leave to both men and women. The extra 8 was paid for by the company's short term disability insurance policy, for a total of 16 weeks. Chil
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StampedeCon - Big Data Conference, St Louis July 30-31(stampedecon.com)
1 points by ben1040 13y ago|0 comments
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Last year at I/O, one of their big keynote announcements was Chrome for iOS.
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On Android, it often kicks off notifications when things are relevant to your situation. For example, it learns where home & work are (based on where I spend time during day or night). When travel time back home at rush hour is bad, i
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by ben1040 14y ago
That's iOS 6, not iOS 5. The original iPad is EOL'd on iOS 5. The list you were replying to was the list of devices from 2008 and earlier that are end-of-lifed on iOS 4. That is also the list of devices that you basically have to abandon
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by ben1040 14y ago
> - If you have a loyalty card, your free refill appear the same to them as if you bought something, so don't feel bad there. The way Starbucks structures their loyalty program really says a lot about what behavior they want out of th
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by ben1040 14y ago
>Sprint uses SIM cards for LTE Well, yes and no. Their LTE implementation uses SIM cards, but their devices don't have a physical SIM slot and instead just have an internal chip that isn't user-accessible. The only exception to this t
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by ben1040 14y ago
They at least care enough about it to integrate it with Glass. https://support.google.com/glass/answer/3086044?hl=en If you're using Google Voice, the SMS will be sent from your Google Voice number. Otherwise, outbound SMS messages will
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by ben1040 14y ago
This is important enough to me that I have left money on the table so as to not work at a place that requires my signature on an invention assignment agreement. What I do for fun or profit on my own time is my own business, and the fact tha
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by ben1040 14y ago
Maybe more so going forward now that the free option is gone, but there are still a lot of us who are using grandfathered free Google Apps accounts so we can have custom domains.
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Checkout is still around; they just renamed it Wallet to coincide with their mobile app.
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by ben1040 14y ago
>Did Google do the political work here and leave the door open for competition? Incidentally, AT&T did a lot of similar political work for others years ago when they were starting their U-Verse rollout. They lobbied in numerous stat
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AT&T Announces Intent to Build 1 Gigabit Fiber Network in Austin(att.com)
144 points by ben1040 14y ago|151 comments
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Unlocking the Motorola Bootloader(blog.azimuthsecurity.com)
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>I don't understand though - why the fingerprint? Disney first started using the biometric turnstiles about 10 years back to stop people from sharing season passes, and then a few years later they added it for plain old multi-day ticket
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by ben1040 14y ago
If a cafe served real food (not just treats), even prepackaged, and sported a printer (charging per copy), I'd never leave. There's a cafe near me that has good food, coffee, and beer and wine. They also have taken over the space next do
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by ben1040 14y ago
Personally, if I am not buying something at least every 90 minutes-2 hours, I feel like I am a freeloader and I get out. I hate it when I go to a coffee shop and every seat is taken by someone on a laptop with no evidence they have spent m
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by ben1040 14y ago
>I assume that LevelUp must batch credit card transactions in order to make the fees cheap for them, Interestingly enough it was only this past week that they mentioned they were going to start doing this (at least going off the email I
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by ben1040 14y ago
I hope things go well for your daughter. And I hope in the future you might have an opportunity to to sign on with that employer later -- it sounds like if they're understanding while you tried to sort out the insurance questions, then they
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by ben1040 14y ago
I've used LevelUp a few times when it seemed novel to me, but that's about it. Just last week I got an email from them offering me a $2 credit to a frozen yogurt shop near my office, and I figured I'll stop in for a froyo for next-to-nothi
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by ben1040 14y ago
My allergist charged a "rack rate" of $24 per injection, just under the $25 line that the insurance company said was UCR. It turned out the insurance company's contract with the allergist said he could charge me no more than $18.50, but the

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