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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I'll just mention for those unaware that the author of the post is one of the founders of PLOS, which is an umbrella organization under which a number of journals (including PLOS ONE) are published.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
The point about having an outlet to destress is a really good one; its something I struggle with (feeling guilty about "wasting time" even though I know some amount of relaxation is necessary to stay productive). Tangentially rela
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I think Julia has the potential to be a contender in this space as well. The advantage over Rust or Go is that you get a dynamic language (with a REPL and everything), and still can have C-like performance. You also get metaprogramming and
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
That would be awesome, I've found the existing Django tutorial rather wanting.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Sure, but it provides similar concurrency semantics (putting things on and taking things off of channels), which is what I think David is really trying to emphasize.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Meshnets don't scale well anyway so perhaps strength in numbers applies here: if there are so many small meshnets that getting a mole in each one is totally impractical, spying on meshers en masse becomes totally impractical.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
In my experience D3 is very much like that. Before you wrap your head around the way its data binding model works it seems totally arcane (esp. if you are like me coming from using other visualization tools, like matplotlib, where the hello
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I (and I'm guessing some of the people involved with Julia) would argue that regardless of how good the numerical programming tools are, you'll never get the average working scientist to use Haskell. That sounds like an interestin
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Spot on. We are laughably far away from being able to do the kinds of things with living systems that the author suggests. An analogous claim would be that because the Wright Brothers just invented the airplane, we will soon have cheap fast
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I'm acutally playing with Clojure and Julia right now and I'm running into the same problem. Never used Java and a lot of the Clojure material assumes you're coming with at least a little bit of Java background. That said Clo
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I had the same experience when I stopped using Opera and didn't have the RSS reader anymore. I do miss reading webcomics regularly, but the productivity gain is nice.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
This plugin infrastructure uses Perl, so they definitely haven't moved away from it entirely http://duckduckhack.com/
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Nitpick, but its worth pointing out that Hacker School as a program and an institution is a very different beast than App Academy, Dev Bootcamp, etc. and is somewhat mischaracterized in the article.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Thank you for writing this so that I didn't have to.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I think what the GP is arguing is that if you want to be really fast you should forget using Java arrays and just wrap BLAS, LAPACK, etc., which are written in "close to the metal" languages, optimized within an inch of their life
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Nah, onion routing just bounces HTTP requests/responses around before sending them on to their final destination (which is still a just a server somewhere). What the GP is talking about sounds something more like freenet or cryptospher
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
There are also a number of extenuating differences between his Baltimore example and PRISM, the most critical being that the recording of data in Baltimore was limited both in time and scope by the case it was being collected for. Presumabl
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Hey I'm a bit late on this but I figured I'd chime in. I'm part of the current batch and I left school two weeks early to attend, so its possible even if your schedules don't line up. That said, I was only a part time st
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Patrick is right, I know people who are essentially one person companies doing exactly this and they do pretty well for themselves.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
To me this seems like the root of the issue. Politicians give the voters what the want; If most are willing to trade civil liberties for security (or at least the illusion of security) than that's the way it will be :(
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Awesome! A really cool version of this would let the user write their own algorithm and then have users compete against each other for whose algorithm can evolve the best car.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Saying that Myriad was the first to discover BRCA1 is somewhat disingenuous; other labs did it independently at roughly the same time. Moreover, deciding when a gene was "discovered" is a minefield. What constitues discovery? Iden
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
just use a long, randomly generated passphrase and write it down on paper. you'd be surprised how quickly muscle memory sets in after you type it a few times, and if you forget you always have the paper backup (keep it in you wallet or
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Thank you for bringing some sanity to the discussion. "our country has weathered worse" is true and an excellent way of putting all this shit in perspective.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I 100% agree; I don't see how anyone can ask for a more blatant and firm statement than that.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
No. That chain ends at the second step "digital genome sequence". In principle, we could synthesize a bunch of DNA strands corresponding to the genomic sequences and ligate them all together (although it would be absurdly expensive and labo
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Yes please, very interested!
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
Interestingly, if you beat the game it repeats but with a search for "Galápagos Islands". Is this a reference to something?
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I think it would really, really help to have a few example images of what the damn thing actually looks like on a webpage. People are inherently visual creatures and imho this would go a long way.
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by jamesjporter 13y ago
I've done this sort of microscopy and can verify everything polyfractal says. EDIT: sadly, I can also verify that there are no jobs in science :(

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