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by jboggan 14y ago
I like snip.it's design and content fairly well, and it works quite simply. The only thing wrong with it right now is a relative lack of breadth of topics represented on the front page due to the proclivities of early adopters. That will i
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How Not To Be A Bioinformatician(scfbm.org)
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by jboggan 14y ago
It works really well about half of the time for me. A really nice effort, but I do notice the other snake "moonwalking" sometimes and reversing several steps before retracing their route. Sometimes I am able to kill them while being sever
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by jboggan 14y ago
I would say Snip.it would be a good alternative to this, especially since I already use it a fair amount for sharing and finding web content. I'm interested in signing up to see the difference though.
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by jboggan 14y ago
Yes, it is still a great glue for large projects. Right now I'm building a custom public health database with data from many different sources - some of them PDFs and other files with really irregular formatting that require single-use scr
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by jboggan 14y ago
This is a welcome and timely article since I'm about to pull up stakes in Georgia and move to SF in late July (cue Otis Redding). I am planning on couch-surfing with friends for the first few weeks while I find a good sublet for a few mont
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by jboggan 14y ago
What's the record for the ratio of VC funding to days since the original weekend project appeared on HN?
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by jboggan 15y ago
I miss the old-old UI, from before the HTML and CSS lessons were added.
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by jboggan 15y ago
I agree with this, but I think we're closer to Pharaonic Egypt than the Enlightenment in terms of code literacy. We're going to be the scribes for a long, long time.
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by jboggan 15y ago
On the other hand, the current MacBook Pro line is quite mature which translates to stability and lack of grievous hardware or firmware issues. I'm still wary of buying a first generation Mac product after my experience purchasing a newly-
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by jboggan 15y ago
Is it possible to bootstrap this process by capturing low mass asteroids crossing near LEO? A small tug device paired with a separate crude ore processing unit with 3-D printing capabilities seems like a minimum viable unit. A few of the
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by jboggan 15y ago
I don't know what exactly to call this corner of the world, but this is exactly why I love it.
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by jboggan 15y ago
(former bioinformatician here) I agree, the totality of the interactions for a single cell is so many orders of magnitude above what we are capable of currently modeling that I fear these computational approaches are dangerously over-hyped.
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by jboggan 15y ago
How about Cameron announcing a fleet of miniature mining robots running off a 16-bit processor? We can use 0x10c to crowdsource space exploration. But seriously, this would be a great development in human exploration. We finally might hav
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by jboggan 15y ago
Will the following installations address the role of high frequency trading in flash crashes? Although high frequency trading seems like a very good strategy when arrayed against human opponents I have to wonder what happens when all the i
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by jboggan 15y ago
Opposing your assertion, I will note I went to a VC party two weeks ago and I did not see a single ice sculpture. They did however have popcorn infused with truffle oil.
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by jboggan 15y ago
I'm not qualified to opine whether there is a bubble or not, but having recently visited the tech start-up scene in SF & SV from my economically depressed corner of the country it definitely feels unworldly. The rest of the country is
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by jboggan 15y ago
That's a remarkably concise and honest address. Having spent some time "making a living" as a field technician I can completely agree with what the speaker said about killing yourself day by day, all the while pretending you are saving up f
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by jboggan 15y ago
A few years ago I did an analysis on common chromosomal deletions in ovarian cancers. I was hoping to find some sort of "required" genetic or metabolic structure retained by the various cell lines. Nada. It was just a big unrelated mess
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by jboggan 15y ago
Coming from a computationally intensive discipline in academia it is astounding how difficult it can be for researchers to reproduce their own results. The tendency is to write enough code to generate an impressive diagram for a journal il