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   by pramodbiligiri 15y ago

   We're trying to do something like this, i.e, let the user build more complex queries (than a free text search) for their specialization without having them write actual SQL ;) We've started off with Biotech - http://www.distilbio.com
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   by pramodbiligiri 15y ago

   Good catch! We added a fancy "Searching" when transitioning to the SERP and that broke the back button :|Will find a better solution.
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   by pramodbiligiri 15y ago

   Right now, most of the data is publicly available databases well known to people in the bioinformatics domain (entrez, drugbank...). Our tech stack is a mixture of Java/Scala, off-the-shelf frameworks and homegrown components. Our job ad fr
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   Show HN: (Our startup) DistilBio, a search engine for life sciences data

   14 points by pramodbiligiri 15y ago|6 comments
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   by pramodbiligiri 15y ago

   I wouldn't advise buying that. It covers extremely basic issues and approaches. Probably suitable for someone in their final years of college, or one who's just getting into some scripting for the first time in life.
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   PlanetYC: A planet site for the blogs (and tweets) of all YC companies(planetyc.com)

   2 points by pramodbiligiri 16y ago|0 comments
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   by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

   Did anyone else read that as Rand Paul?
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   by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

   Attend the BarCamp, in November I think.
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   by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

   Absolutely! It's a shame that students never learn how "science" evolves.
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    I'd recommend Discrete Math, Economics, History of Science.
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    http://www.applibase.com - Almost entirely a Java based startup.
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    Not as much as I used to. programming.reddit and news.yc have replaced it almost entirely. Whenever I check Slashdot nowadays I feel the stories are too political and trollish. Is it just me or has the comments quality on Slashdot actually
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    http://www.mizpee.com/ might gain a sizable audience among women.
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Raymond: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/
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    Ask pg:How about weekly tarballs of news.yc? We'll learn from how u develop

    1 points by pramodbiligiri 19y ago|0 comments
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    I just read about <a href=" http://madkast.com ">MadKast</a> on TechCrunch..you should definitely look at that to put a "Share this" widget! :) It's beautiful.
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    Wow, nice idea and executed excellently. One week? I gather you are a webdev in your day job then? XHTML Strict, jquery etc... A couple of suggestions: For about 20 secs I couldn't figure out what this site was. Maybe a helpful tagline clos
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    Ah! I had missed that. Thanks for the tip.
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    Feature Req: Some UI indication for news.yc internal posts (like this one)?

    2 points by pramodbiligiri 19y ago|6 comments
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    "building things is FUN" Start with that point. In fact turn it around and say "Let's have some FUN..and also happen to build things" The other points are too abstract for 7th graders. For example, 2) is strongly empirical, partly circula
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    What You'll Wish You'd Known: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    Also add Yahoo Browser Based Auth.
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    by pramodbiligiri 19y ago

    OpenId Integration, definitely.