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by pvnick 13y ago
Could I bother you for a couple of specifics for why you left the field? As I mentioned earlier I'm exploring bioinformatics, and I've previously spoken to JunkDNA at length about his own experience, so it would be nice to hear an
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by pvnick 13y ago
Very relevant xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/1217/
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by pvnick 13y ago
I actually agree with you regarding bioinformatics, and the subject you describe is one which I'm exploring as a career path. I was describing an indictment of classification schemes, not bioinformatics, and it seems there are plenty o
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by pvnick 13y ago
You seem to have allowed the intricacies of the subject to distract you from my meaning. All of that is true, and there are obvious macrostructures, such as those you mentioned, which are credible. However, the worship of phylogenetic class
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by pvnick 13y ago
I agree, and that's why I said "Modern classification schemes." The current system doesn't work, and bioinformatics is blasting it away at such a speed that it can't seem to keep up. The current response seems to be
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by pvnick 13y ago
Are you asking "how do you define life?" or "how do you separate organisms from each other?"? Regarding either question, I don't think anybody has a good answer, and that's what's so fascinating, because i
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by pvnick 13y ago
As I study biology and microbiology in college, the more I realize that taxonomy and phylogeny classification schemes are essentially bullshit. Bioinformatics and evolution research have shown "life" to be much more ambiguous and
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There was even an impressive security vulnerability shared between Windows and WINE [1]! The bug was a particularly nasty failure of the file specification and allowed you to jump to and start executing an arbitrary memory adress by design
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My brother, a great guy, is starting his degree in civil engineering and is seriously considering one day working for the government to help develop systems that deliver water to people whom would otherwise not have enough water to survive.
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by pvnick 13y ago
Wow. Bad move, Anon (and I'm the last person who would normally say that). This was a really crappy thing to do to innocent folks just trying to make an honest career, many of whom probably use the same credentials for their online ban
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by pvnick 13y ago
I actually agree. The submissions regarding the outcome of the zimmerman case were rightfully flagged to prevent them being on the front page. I'm surprised this hasn't suffered the same fate.
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm surprised to see a NR post on the front page here. While I was once a frequent reader, I've found their overly caustic partisan style and embarrassing illogical treatment of the NSA scandal - "dragnet surveillance is OK,
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by pvnick 13y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful response!
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I thought it was a well-humored, insightful post and that your personal attack was completely uncalled for.
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For the following reasons: 1) assume that the HN readership satisfactorily correlates to the startup demographic at large 2) the majority of the respondants answered 26-30, as was also the case in the poll that tptacek referenced elsewhere
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by pvnick 13y ago
Have you encountered any agism in your line of work? Do you work with "trendy" languages and technologies or do you stick with tried-and-true, enterprisey type of stuff? Have you considered moving into management or have you alway
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by pvnick 13y ago
Yes, thank you, I didn't feel like digging around for it.
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by pvnick 13y ago
There was an article on here yesterday that said something along the lines of "if you're older than 23 most startups won't even give you the time of day" or some tripe of the sort. I find that to be a negative, untrue st
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by pvnick 13y ago
While this program seems interesting, valuable, and a step in the right direction, the minute I read the $60,000 price tag I nearly choked on my gum and quickly pressed the back button. Coursera classes for me at least in the near future, h
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by pvnick 13y ago
Love it! Very useful, bookmarked (bkmrkt?) Slightly offtopic, but what's with startups and one-off projects just taking a word and removing all the vowels? Seems edgy I guess. Or agile, like we write fast and break words .
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by pvnick 13y ago
I have nothing to add, just wanted to thank you for joining in on the Restore the Fourth protests. We all had a lot of fun that day!
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Your statement is completely nonsensical. The whole point is we have primary documents supporting what he says. His personality has nothing to do with those claims. Greenwald and Snowden have a 100% accuracy rate regarding these leaks, and
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The Creepy, Long-Standing Practice of Undersea Cable Tapping(theatlantic.com)
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"Further, no intelligence service - not even our own - has the capacity to compromise the secrets I continue to protect. While it has not been reported in the media, one of my specializations was to teach our people at DIA how to keep
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by pvnick 13y ago
I agree, it seems the EFF has learned from previous quasi-legal justifications for having their cases dismissed, so they want to have all their bases covered and approach from different angles.
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Incredible work, this is great. These are exactly the kinds of projects we need to advance technology on the web.
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You didn't specify the effect you're talking about, you were very hand-wavey and just said "matters," which is so broad and general that you could be literally anything. I'm talking about calories. Whether you drink
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by pvnick 13y ago
Please don't insult me like that without at least reading the article I posted, which directly supports the statement "it's impossible because of the laws of thermodynamics"
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by pvnick 13y ago
I think you pretty much restated the point of the article in slightly more condensed terms. Eat sugar in moderation and you'll be fine. Eat too much and you'll run into problems. The point you added is that sugar -> less full -
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by pvnick 13y ago
Your statement is only marginally correct, but mostly misleading to the point of being practically wrong. Depending on what you eat, your body absorbs 80%-97% of calories according to the following (simplified) equation: Energy in = Energy

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