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by possibilistic 12y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. Methods associated with mutation should raise exceptions. If errors aren't eagerly generated, assumptions about behaviour might be made. Not to mention this will make testing harder. Readability is impacted as w
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by possibilistic 12y ago
What kind of job are you looking for right now?
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Yeah, you have to change this right away. It's unfortunate that you have to white wash your appearance, but you have to realize that any negative signal will be interpreted by HR. Sometimes it's actually a pretty good filter regar
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I've never done any Windows development, so I'm curious as to why C# might be considered superior to Java (especially Java 8). Is it simply better language features ( typing, generics, etc.?), or does the argument also include .NE
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I don't know why the GP poster is being downvoted. For most of the world's population, $500 is not cheap. I find it difficult to categorize the desk, a tool for productivity, as a luxury. I know that's just personal bias spea
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by possibilistic 12y ago
This is an incredibly biased op-ed piece by a member of the FCC. I personally think that this research is fascinating and will lead to mathematical insight on how political memes and outcomes are influenced by social media astroturfing. Ed
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by possibilistic 12y ago
The paper was fantastic! The discussion section is a must-read for seeing where this is going. The calcium ion flux response to glucose challenge was neat. Demonstrates the signaling mechanics being as expected.
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by possibilistic 12y ago
The mice were SCID mice. They have no adaptive immune system to speak of. I made another post in this thread and included some links. This is a very incredible result though. Even if immunosuppressants are required, think of all the non-pat
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by possibilistic 12y ago
The mice used in the protocol were SCID mice [1]. They do not produce B or T lymphocytes (and thus no Ig either). Pretty much no adaptive immune system to speak of. These are a mainstay of murine study. The discussion section referred to th
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by possibilistic 12y ago
This is really awesome, and at its core a powerful concept. After checking the diva out, a thought occurred to me: any new language revision should come with an officially supported tool from the authors to translate changes backwards . Co
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by possibilistic 12y ago
This is just my personal experience, but once you try to do certain things with Django, you start to butt heads with it. Django relies far too much on convention, and it shoehorns you into their tooling patterns. I think the most exciting
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I think it's incredibly interesting that Apple is one of but a handful of companies that seems to enjoy a steady proliferation and preservation of its past company lore, both in the popular media and amongst technologists. People take
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by possibilistic 12y ago
If a first-class, distributed VR world became a thing, I could get lost in such a world forever. I would stay logging in for work, hobbies, friends, adventure, and romance. Perhaps I would log off a few times a day for food, sleep, hygiene,
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Don't forget mtDNA. That's maternal. Edit: usually. As for nuclear DNA, keep in mind all of the weird crossover failures that are rather common in a large population. These typically result in gene dosing problems and can lead to
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Any chance you'll put this on github? It would be amazing to use this style of retro-futuristic UI to control my laser hardware in realtime. Plus it's Star Wars. :) Great work! It looks fantastic.
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Is semantic web tech being reliably employed to solve any big problems? (RDF, RDFa, OWL, SPARQL, triple stores, graph dbs...?) Is it fast?
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I've always been curious--what's the use case for the backlit keyboard? At the surface, backlighting seems largely aesthetic to me; I have muscle memory of my keyboard layout and do not need to reference the keys at all while in t
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I accidentally downvoted you when attempting to pinch-zoom on my phone. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make that mistake. I wish we had the feature to undo things like that.
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by possibilistic 12y ago
To both parent and GP: Please don't comment on HN like you would on Reddit. If you don't have questions or information to add to the thread, you should probably use that as a cue to refrain from posting. Joke posts might not seem
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Sometimes RAM is cheaper than engineer salaries. Sometimes it isn't. It depends on problem domain, scale, and what you're tying to optimize for. Debating this just seems pointless. In any case, the number one evaluation criterion
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by possibilistic 12y ago
How is it the handheld console of today when there are so few good games on the platform? I personally find the touchscreen a terrible input device for most game genres and play styles. I can't imagine Smash Bros. on a phone. Not unles
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Do you think this harms new engineering students in China when they don't have access to tools and knowledge that the rest of the world does? I can't imagine having Github blocked. Does there seem to be a pattern to the blocks? Or
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I used Janeway's Immunobiology in undergrad. It's not bad and has great figures, but the text is a little dry. This is purely anecdotal; sample size of one. For what it's worth we relied solely upon the primary literature as
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I had no idea people could become allergic to cockroach antigens. That surprised me. It makes sense that they would act as an immunological adjuvant in the presence of the bacteria the cockroaches carry. If you activate the immune system de
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I was thinking of putting together a crude hack to implement just a subset of what this offers. I cannot thank the authors enough. I'm trying this out the moment I get home. I feel as though we should have had first-class support for p
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Is the universe inherently nihilist?
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I think this is going to catch on.
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Blaming skepticism is an interesting point and makes me wonder. What about the publishing culture? Does it map more closely to incrementalism, or is it just that the surface area of the problem space has grown too vast for the human mind to
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by possibilistic 12y ago
Not to detract from the flow of the conversation, but do any of us Atlanta-area hackers have any formal events or get-togethers? I'd love to meet some of you and hack on stuff.
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by possibilistic 12y ago
I have to differ. All of life on earth operates using mostly the same biochemistry. While there are countless differences and exceptions (eg. different codons, different genome architecture, metabolic and gene product differences), they are

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