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by roadnottaken 12y ago
Part of what makes keyboard + mouse so efficient is that you're sitting at a desk while using it. I've never been quite sure how a phone + keyboard/mouse is supposed to work. And if you plug it into a screen and sit at a de
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
It's going to be a long time before keyboards and mice are replaced for things like spreadsheets, graphic design, coding, or writing. If all you're doing is texting or facebook, sure -- tablets are great. But any sort of precisi
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
I wasn't trying to pretend. As I said, I went into science because I like science. If I wanted to get paid as much as possible I would've done something else.
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
I made approximately $30k as a grad student (5 yrs) and ~$50k as a post-doc (2.5 yrs). I probably could've made more in a different industry, but it was plenty to live on at the time. It would've been a different story if I&#x27
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
I have never heard of a professor "forgoing their own salary" to keep the lights on. I'd be surprised if this was allowed, actually. Also, for what it's worth, I did a PhD and a post-doc and have a nice biotech job that
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
Cygwin
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
That's like saying "a transporter would allow you to instantly teleport an object from one place to another". You're describing something that has no basis in existing technology. Currently nanomachines are simple mech
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
Yes, you're missing a lot. Your response is basically science fiction. Take a look at these statistics [1] showing cancer mortality rates over the last few decades and you'll see that we are not, in fact, making rapid advances o
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
Clinical trials are essential not just for safety, but to show efficacy. Most drugs fail in expensive clinical trials due to lack of efficacy. The reason the number is so large is because Pharma companies have to pay for all the drugs tha
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
Battery life?
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
WHO'S TAKING THAT PICTURE??
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
I agree. I hate how certain programs (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite) feel the need to re-invent UX paradigms in every new version. I 99% don't care how an app looks if it's useful.
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
"a college in the suburbs of Boston" love this
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
This guy is so talented it's actually depressing!
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
Must be nice to have a choice of ISPs...
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by roadnottaken 12y ago
Can anyone else comment on the viability of this option? It seems pretty nice, from the website, but I'd like to hear more about it's reputation in the security community.
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Y Combinator Gets Into Biotech(corante.com)
2 points by roadnottaken 12y ago|0 comments
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by roadnottaken 13y ago
Both.
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by roadnottaken 13y ago
Love this, thanks!
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by roadnottaken 13y ago
My dad finds sites like Reddit/Digg/HN totally overwhelming, and I doubt he's alone. It's generational. Sites like NYT use standard design techniques to direct your attention (font size, etc) that work really well for
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by roadnottaken 13y ago
I frequently use emacs when SSHed into remote servers where terminal mode is the only option. When I run it locally I still prefer terminal mode out of familiarity, I guess. Also, I'm usually working on shell scripts or the like. And
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by roadnottaken 13y ago
A primary use of Perl is graphics programming??
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by roadnottaken 14y ago
It's called PLOS: http://www.plos.org/
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by roadnottaken 14y ago
This is debatable, but IMHO your job as a post-doc is to learn new things about biology and publish papers on what you've learned. If you can document your code along the way, that's great. But if it's taking up a bunch of your time then
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Pentagon Expanding Cybersecurity Force(nytimes.com)
2 points by roadnottaken 14y ago|0 comments
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by roadnottaken 14y ago
Half the people in my office leave their laptop display at about 50% brightness all day. It drives me crazy -- I always want to go over and turn it all the way up. I like my monitors BRIGHT, but others say it bothers their eyes. You migh
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by roadnottaken 14y ago
My favorite is the rule of 7 : You're ready to graduate when the number of first-author publications you've published, plus the number of years you've been in grad school, equals 7. Tongue-in-cheek, obviously, but not a bad guideline.
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Tor operator charged for child porn transmitted over his servers(arstechnica.com)
51 points by roadnottaken 14y ago|54 comments
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by roadnottaken 14y ago
Not trolling. I work in biotech. This industry lives and dies on IP. It literally costs hundreds of millions of dollars to run clinical trials and most of them fail. If someone else can come along and make a knock-off of your product an
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by roadnottaken 14y ago
As someone who works in the biopharmaceutical industry, I couldn't disagree with you more.

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