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by noname123 10y ago
This is what I use to get rid of Facebook timeline; and use FB strictly as a Messenger. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat... Occasionally, I get curious and log onto my phone's Fire
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by noname123 10y ago
>If a company took this to the logical extreme - making the employees the consumers of the product/service - then it would cease to be "work", and would instead be a "hobby/internship/volunteer/educatio
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by noname123 10y ago
Yes. I'll start a thread to acknowledge the Bioinformatics programmer heroes of genomics, people who write the workhorse programs that biologists use everyday to assemble and analyze the data to come up with the biological results) BLA
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by noname123 10y ago
Not a proficient musician by any stretch of metrics/imagination. But adding onto learning new pieces, what worked for me personally is hearing the parts in the original recording, and singing the melody with my voice if it's melod
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by noname123 11y ago
Thanks Pieter for following up. I'm humbled by your words. Your reply made my day. Although I've never got the pleasure of meeting you in person, your open-source work (and yes, the zeromq User Guide too!) has made an big impact o
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by noname123 11y ago
Don't really know Pieter. But zmq really played a important role in my life. I was burned out with programming two years ago and took a long extended break. Then in the depth of my lull, I took a look at zmq and really took to its mini
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by noname123 11y ago
http://nypost.com/2015/01/26/the-1000-parka-that-quietly-too... Sure it is a fashionable jacket that you see a lot of people wear on the streets and subways of NYC/Boston that cost about $750-$1200 (a co
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by noname123 11y ago
Hi phd514, in reading your comment, you are absolutely right; my comment did paint a broad brush. In reconsidering my response, I'd retract what I said about MIT culture and say my remarks really says more about me and my own cynicism&
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by noname123 11y ago
FWIW, I never went to MIT (went to a small liberal arts college); but I work at an MIT affiliate, so by virtue of proximity and affiliation, go to talks given on campus, eat at their cafeteria, have audited classes and play basketball at th
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by noname123 11y ago
In the same vein of startup-like enclave within a large institutions but in the Boston area, Shell has a startup/incubator space in Cambridge that do innovation on drilling and exploration. http://www.shell.com/energy-a
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by noname123 11y ago
“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it. Things that are too small to see with the naked eye, suc
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by noname123 11y ago
Thanks for posting this clip; it is surprisingly universal and applies to a lot of things outside of acting.
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by noname123 11y ago
Well, for the record, I am a programmer working at the Broad, a genomics center that is mired in the current CRISPR patent dispute (although I don't work with CRISPR at all). The answerer I believe is a MD/PhD at Mass General Hosp
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by noname123 11y ago
Reading the methods section, it looks the T-cells infected with HIV-1 that are used for targeted for gene editing came from a cell line and incubated in a cultured medium. For people who are involved in dealing with CRISPR/Cas9, what i
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by noname123 11y ago
I attended a really good guest lecture by Dr.David Reich (with additional work also by Dr.Nick Patterson) on analyzing ancient DNA. "Massive migration from the [Anatolian] steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe"
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by noname123 11y ago
>It's brilliant, I'd never want to work for a corporate company! We have regular parties, play table tennis daily, beers on Friday. It just makes work so much more enjoyable. When you leave or a bunch of your friends who used t
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by noname123 11y ago
Hello, just want to chime in and say that you shouldn't have to feel anxious about falling behind potentially if something new comes along. Life is too short to worry about things that can't ultimately care about you (weird thing
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by noname123 11y ago
"No widely accepted cognitive theory explains savants' combination of talent and deficit. It has been suggested that individuals with autism are biased towards detail-focused processing and that this cognitive style predisposes in
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by noname123 11y ago
Thanks nl for your thoughtful feedback! I'll follow up to all your reply threads here. I think you pointed out my negligence in not dealing with "communication problems" on my team, "weak leadership" for not putting
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by noname123 11y ago
Thanks lr4444lr for highlighting and aligning the various principles the Agile manifesto with the minutiae details of the project I described. I definitely see your point (which I interpret as Agile is not a set of rigid techniques but one
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by noname123 11y ago
Thanks RandallBrown for teaching me the distinction. SCRUM is the methodology of morning standup's, poker playing cards while Agile is the ideal to which the techniques aspire to achieve.
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by noname123 11y ago
Thanks julian_ for your explanation of the purpose behind morning standup and how they improve people's work life. I have to respectfully respond that I've not experienced such successful implementation of morning standup's (
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by noname123 11y ago
>Another former employee said that he decided to leave IS&T when he realized “the organization would never truly be able to adopt agile practices such as Scrum.” I am curious if anyone in software/IT has successfully lobbied ma
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by noname123 11y ago
Honestly I wish there was a "SV Vacation Party package" kinda of like what they have for college Springbreakers to Montreal, NYC or Cancun. Stripping away from all of the BS and being honest, I don't want to do any coding at
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by noname123 11y ago
IMHO, STEM careers not sure about now, but before the mid-90's were considered more prestigious in China than medicine and law. Back then, lawyers never really had a spotlight in Chinese commerce or politics given Chinese Community Par
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by noname123 11y ago
No I am not Alan. My commentary is just how reading the author's explanation; he came off as so many people I've known previously at liberal arts colleges and then later at parties/cafes college towns. The "conscientious
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by noname123 11y ago
My feelings as well. tl;dr, I am sorry I can't read your unsolicited manuscript because I am a humble writer with a humble background with a duties to my humble college students in creative writing class. Let me mention all of my frien
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by noname123 11y ago
This article made me really nostalgic for a interview on Q that really stood out to me. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-thursday-august-6-201... This may seem really random but I honestly feel the NYT Magaz
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by noname123 11y ago
Re:how a comedian (Seinfeld) responds to telemarketer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hllDWSbuDsQ
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by noname123 11y ago
Curious what you guys think, I always thought coding is like scribing in the 13th century where a large percentage of population is illiterate and scribers are relegated to imperial quarters to take note of the empire's history and acc

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