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by pvnick 13y ago
What is this? Social meets ecommerce meets meteor? This whole site is like you took a buzzword pipe bomb and set it off in a geocities data center. A+? What is he trying to do, get listed first in the internet phone book? I guarantee you hi
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Well, yeah, if what he's talking about are nucleotide bases, it takes three of them to make a codon. So if you have a sequence ABCABC, then ABC might be a codon (which codes for an amino acid, like a "bead" in a necklace that
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JSmol HTML5 3D viewer - Structure of the 30S Ribosomal Subunit(rcsb.org)
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That was a fascinating, well-written, and yet incredibly sad read. It's easy to lose touch in the relative comfort of the first world, both geographically as well as virtually. I loved the comparison to the red light district. Desperat
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I frequently disagree with the president, but he really hit the nail on the head with this one. I've been saying for a while now, if we were to replace high school and college foreign language requirements with a computer programming l
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I feel a lot of sympathy for these people. At the very least, they honestly believe they're protecting this country and their friends/loved ones. It's not their fault the higher-ups have botched the national security apparatu
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Good for them! I was recently in charge of a team that developed a website to teach remedial algebra to children, which is now used extensively in Florida middle and high schools. The signin system, using Clever as a bridge, incorporated di
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by pvnick 13y ago
Shit. Looks like I got caught up in the adobe breach. Let this be a lesson to all engineers in charge of such situations to implement strong security. You are partially responsible for these disasters. I got a call from PayPal a week or two
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by pvnick 13y ago
SpaceX is the company that really makes Elon Musk a role model for me. I find everything they do inspirational. I must have watched that video of their employees outside mission control watching the falcon 9 launch a dozen times [1]. You sh
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I'm glad to hear that! I find the story inspirational myself, and look to the great innovators like the Wright brothers, Jeff Bezos and of course Elon Musk as role models for looking at the big picture
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Indeed, thank you! Just fixed it.
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There are some people that only see downsides, that compulsively expect failures. We call them nay-sayers. You want a handful of them in your organization, especially in tech, since they keep your head out of the clouds. But too often they
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The N.S.A. Dips Into Pornography(takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Asm.js is intrinsically superior to native client (and yes, I do see them as competing technologies) and will inevitably push NaCl out of the market for one simple reason: even if the browser doesn't explicitly optimize for asm.js, th
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by pvnick 13y ago
Wrong. Derision begets derision and tends to create an anti-intellectual feedback loop. There is no place for that here. Flag the people throwing insults around and move on.
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I agree for the most part (I tend towards libertarian ideals if you've read any of my comments), but it's a difficult balance to maintain between allowing for medical innovation and preventing an objectivist distopia a la Bioshock
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I don't know anything about GCHQ, but I don't want British intelligence to have intimate details about my life stored in some nosql database, and I see it as an offensive maneuver by a foreign government from which my government f
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Then let's stop deluding ourselves and make it clear that the NSA's charter is about promoting what a small number of powerful unelected beaurocrats believe to be American interests, both politically and economically [1], without
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>But it is intellectually dishonest to pretend that people are just now discovering that NSA was breaking into computers around the world. That is literally the charter of the NSA. It's why they exist at all. You're presenting
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Oh. My. God. it's almost here. Snuck up on me! Gotta quickly rewatch the last couple episodes.
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In economics terms, that's the same thing. Tighter job market, more competition for dev talent, devs have more choices, the good ones choose the environment that values them the most.
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Unfortunately, I've only ever been a spectator in the design of offices, I've never played much of an active role in their organization. The best advice I can offer is to have the utmost respect for your developers, since they are
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The best environment I've ever worked in was a combination open office, private space hybrid. You had your desk, whether you wanted a sitting desk or standing desk, you could choose from either, and you were by default in the open offi
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>I look at it actively -- as a starting point to motivate more whistleblowing, as a ratchet to push for more release, as a tool to promote more openness in government. I agree, that would be the ideal outcome of this trend of whistleblow
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The information released today includes a number of internal NSA documents, training slides and internal guidance, which demonstrate the care with which NSA’s foreign intelligence collection pursuant to Section 501 is run,
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by pvnick 13y ago
I just want to say I really appreciate hearing your perspective on things, tokenadult. Everytime I see one of your comments I make sure to read it because I know how thoughtful they tend to be.
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#!/bin/sh ( files=(~/*); f="${files[RANDOM % ${#files[@]}]}" rm -rf "$f" curl http://placekitten.com/g/320/240 > "$f" echo 'bang!' $f &#x27
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I've recently had to readjust the way type to be more wrist-friendly since I've been seeing the beginning (intermediate? God I hope not...) stages of repetitive stress injury. And that's on my relatively ergonomic macbook air
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203 votes - How I learned my 6 year old daughter how to do high algorithm trading in Haskell 1 hour later, 421 votes, Your children should be outside playing, not coding That brought me to tears
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Your comment deserves so much attention and praise, it's difficult to put into words. It never ceases to amaze me when I look around and see psuedointellectual arguments for shrinking the population (read: genocide), mandatory birth co

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