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16y ago
There's a huge difference between releasing his fully sequenced dna and the data from a genotyping chip.... I went to the github site expecting to see several large fasta files for each chromosome.
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16y ago
rsync.net might still be around...
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16y ago
But, if that's what you specialize in, you can pretty much dictate your compensation, since so few EE's go for power engineering...
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16y ago
Actually, the reason for Office never being ported came down to two things: different byte order and lots of x86 assembly mixed in the office code for performance reasons. Office was never 'portable'.
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16y ago
NT originally ran on MIPS, before it ever ran on 386.
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16y ago
Earthquake along the New Madrid fault. Almost nothing in the midwest is built with earth quakes in mind.
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17y ago
That's still not the raw data. I'd probably have to pick thru the papers and such before I'd have the full dataset.
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17y ago
It would be nice if links to the data used for the visualizations was available. It would be interesting to play with.
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17y ago
>If that's the case, why can't they drop OS X and iPhone and simply make clones, just clones with polish and attention to detail? Because OS X and the iPhone are part of that polish and attention to detail.
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17y ago
For acme - 'apt-get install wily' - wily is an acme work-alike. For sam - 'apt-get install sam'.
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18y ago
I'd be interested if it would run on my slug/NSLU2, though I suspect the RAM requirements are a bit too much... edit: I take that back: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/ARM/NSLU2
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18y ago
I could always imagine the solaris code base being dumped on a group like ISC or something...
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18y ago
>this prevents the otherwise unprosecuted patents from becoming unenforceable at a later time because they were neglected or not tended. You're thinking of trademarks. Patents can't become unenforceable thru neglect... trademarks, tho
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18y ago
Maybe money is the wrong motivator in this case...
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18y ago
>I once requested my FBI record (I'm British). There was no file on me. Congratulations. There is now. They start a file on you when you request information from them.
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18y ago
I will miss it too - lifehacker suggested evernote as an alternative...
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18y ago
That sounds more appropriate for twitter...
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18y ago
the BLS labor statistics only count people actively looking for work, and leave out 'discouraged' workers.
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18y ago
The irony of that is that NeXT served as the basis for Mac OS X.
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18y ago
your pusillanimous attitude towards expletives is copulatively ridiculous.
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18y ago
I wouldn't class alcohol as a stimulant. Stimulants are things like speed, meth, etc. Alcohol is a depressant.
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18y ago
> severing the relationship with these dealers. That's actually hard to do - there's a myriad of state and federal laws that make this all but impossible. It cost about a billion dollars for GM to deep six the oldsmobile brand, buying
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18y ago
Angela Merkel, the chancellor in Germany is a physicist.
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18y ago
1.)Slice up the company into smaller companies, based on make (Pontiac, Saturn, Saab, Hummer[!]), and let those fight on. 2.) Any government funds come with strings attached. Things like developing fuel/energy efficient vehicles(say, didn'
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18y ago
Out of curiosity, could you elucidate why?
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18y ago
>He mentioned that Python 2.x is will be supported for a very long time. I know of shops that still use 1.5/1.6...
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18y ago
Ask city councils that set minimum square footage restrictions for new housing.
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18y ago
if you are writing brainfuck code, I doubt you are going to use emacs as your environment. More likely ed or cat...
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18y ago
Selling gas by itself isn't profitable (10 cents or less profit per gallon). Hence most gas stations are either glued to carwashes, or have convience stores as a side, with a few outliers that dabble in car repair.
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18y ago
I think part of the problem is that the way the schools are set up they only encourage doing enough to get by, and don't encourage learning for learning's sake. What concerned me about the article is the author's espousal of some sort of u
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