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by davi 17y ago
Yup. I voted three times. My microscope & downstream processing tools use Windows Server 2003, XP Pro x64, XP Pro, Ubuntu, and OS X. MacGyver hacker, here.... and yes, I use them all every day.
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by davi 17y ago
Hulu ...offered higher-quality video and used content from its backers, NBC and Fox 'nuff said. The rest is a laundry list.
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by davi 17y ago
Unfortunately this question, at this time in our understanding of neuroscience, is so ill-posed that the only response [1] this neuroscientist-in-training can give (in the 2 minutes I have allotted to the task) is to agree with Joshu [2] an
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Cholesterol to statins (translational science takes time)(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
10 points by davi 17y ago|4 comments
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by davi 17y ago
The background check was probably necessary to get TSA to let people cut in line.
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by davi 17y ago
Somehow I agree w/ you & the GP at the same time.
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by davi 17y ago
Good question. http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll (Dunno if it still has a karma threshold)
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Transparency(davibock.net)
26 points by davi 17y ago|9 comments
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by davi 17y ago
article focuses on differential activity of thalumus under anesthetic; this immediately brings to mind Francis Crick's searchlight hypothesis: http://www.pnas.org/content/81/14/4586.abstract
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by davi 17y ago
"Have you chosen a church yet at which to worship Crom? There are some who claim, sir, that you are the Kwisatz Hederach." OK, maybe a little fluffy for HN. But I laughed out loud, which I rarely do when looking at my computer. Enjoy, or
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by davi 17y ago
No. I didn't say anything about the quality of USENET, old or new, in my post.
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by davi 17y ago
The OP is not looking for an explanation of why USENET declined, he's looking for suggestions for where the new best places are. Old USENET is just an example of what he considers 'good' to be.
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by davi 17y ago
The biggest companies take a lot more than that Seems like in this case, the founders can "exit" into the new, big company that grew out of the seed they germinated and nurtured during their two years of insane coding and sacrifice. The s
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by davi 17y ago
those reasons are ultimately selfish I don't know if that's right. There can be altruism in medical work, for example; and great scientific discoveries and artistic accomplishments have a pan-human, almost spiritual significance, at leas
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by davi 17y ago
when you’re gone would you rather have your gravestone say, “He never missed a meeting.” Or one that said, “He was a great father.” A lot of good stuff in this article, but what a weak ending! "He never missed a meeting" is a straw man, h
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by davi 17y ago
"ok, now you've made it big - tell us about the times you didn't" That's better than the "Founders that almost made it" idea. Knowing that they had it in them to succeed makes their failures more instructive. It also lends some credibilit
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by davi 17y ago
in the end everyone needs to admit that email is still the way most people go I think this is right. For us, it's collaboration tool and email, not collaboration tool or email. We're using email + Google Docs -- pretty barebones, but
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by davi 17y ago
Agreed. I'm a biologist, but my project has a lot in common with a startup. Back in the Startup News and early Hacker News days, I felt I had something in common with the community, and I derived inspiration and consolation from it. I sti
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by davi 17y ago
Nice links, thanks. From New Scientist article: "We have some indication from very old literature that an unrelated plant might have the same adaptation," says Cornelissen. "If that can be confirmed, then snow roots have evolved at least tw
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by davi 17y ago
more/links?
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by davi 17y ago
I'm once again struck by how poorly the steepness of a grassy hill is conveyed by 2 dimensional images.
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by davi 17y ago
A little more info, in English: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/spyuge/20090511/1242053498
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by davi 17y ago
Along these lines: I found Infrastructure by Brian Hayes to be a great book & recommend it to anyone on HN who agrees w/ above comment (or really, just about anyone on HN). http://www.amazon.com/Infrastructure-Field-Guide-Industrial-
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by davi 17y ago
"It’s a compliment when you are asked to skip the slides and just do the demo. Really." Back in 1999 I was at the bottom of the hierarchy of a 2000-person company, presenting to the CFO. After two slides she said, "OK, what's your recom
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by davi 17y ago
Accepting the premise, I think the most interesting question is: how do non-farmers learn enough about farmers' problems to solve one? Generally, how do non-specialists find enough out about a specialized world to solve a problem from that
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by davi 17y ago
Numerate romantics seek sanity check?
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by davi 17y ago
(not free, but cheap) taskpaper http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/taskpaper scrivener http://www.literatureandlatte.com/trial.html curio + small pen tablet http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/ , http://www.wacom.com/bambootable
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by davi 17y ago
And the context you choose to iterate in. (Academia, startup, big business, garage, etc.) For rapid growth & discovery, find/build an environment that lets you iterate a lot . Advantage we have over Incas is we (people educated &
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by davi 17y ago
"Disposable Soma" theory of aging: in species subject to high levels of predation or death due to other random events, it may be more adaptive to pump energy into reproducing rather than fighting cancer and otherwise maintaining the body.
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by davi 17y ago
Probably no one is ever going to see this, but a cool idea just occurred to me: what if your ability to attend is stochastic? I play basketball too, and have had 'hot' nights and crummy nights -- and subjectively, on the few really good n

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