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by sachmanb 17y ago
I posted this for the people who found the DIY biohacking to be interesting, and might be toying with bioinformatics as a hobby. I've been messing with bioinformatics on and off for some time now, and a friend of mine is heavily involved (
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DNA structure and not only sequence is important(wired.com)
6 points by sachmanb 17y ago|2 comments
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by sachmanb 17y ago
Something mentioned here that I hadn't been already thinking about was "The biggest myth online is the notion that having a credit card means you are over 18." Perhaps this can be solved by the terms your lawyer writes up, but definitely s
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Specialists discuss what they believe are the biggest myths of the web(netmag.co.uk)
1 points by sachmanb 17y ago|1 comments
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by sachmanb 17y ago
Chances are that you just very intelligent, and public education such as high schools are designed to intentionally destroy your creativity, no exaggeration, you can look into this -- the goal is to make you a good worker, and if you make i
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by sachmanb 17y ago
Like it, bookmarked it. You could try and make it simpler (be careful....) but it does exactly what it's supposed to really well. I like the combobox usage as opposed to a dropdown.
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by sachmanb 17y ago
definitely sensationalist, that's why i googled for another source but found nothing at the time
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by sachmanb 17y ago
that cap is only going forward, it doesn't apply.
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by sachmanb 17y ago
seems as if he has a problem with introverts
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MS debuts Vine, an app for real-time community coordinating(seattletimes.nwsource.com)
9 points by sachmanb 17y ago|3 comments
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by sachmanb 17y ago
huffington post aside, the excerpt from the study discussed was interesting from a cognitive studies perspective. link to study: http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/2/212 I noticed while writing this reply (was trying to get b
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The influence of political ideology on perceptions(hij.sagepub.com)
5 points by sachmanb 17y ago|0 comments
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by sachmanb 17y ago
The newer browsers (Chrome, Firefox 3.5 and such) use JIT JavaScript VMs. For that reason, I think it's not worth investing the effort of avoiding jQuery and going through all this effort for performance gains. It is highly likely that th
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by sachmanb 17y ago
the wikipedia environmental psychology page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_psychology#Densit...
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by sachmanb 17y ago
Thanks nimbix and dr_strangelove, I'm going to take that out of my backup routine, but being that I don't like to 'remember to do things' - add it to a once every three months routine.
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by sachmanb 17y ago
My databases in Postgresql have not exceeded approximately 10GB, so for larger databases you may want additional information. With AutoVacuum enabled, and adding "VACUUM FULL" to the end of my nightly backup routine, I have found Postgresql
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by sachmanb 17y ago
everything sounded good about moving past 960 until i saw your comment and synthesized it with the knowledge that i do this very frequently. the other problem with this and fluid designs on wide screens is that it becomes difficult to read
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by sachmanb 17y ago
For substance, a little more than in this article, check the Wikipedia page on Environmental Psychology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_psychology#Densit...
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by sachmanb 18y ago
Quick information filtering tip for people dealing with information overload and lots of useless information coming in from feeds: * make an excel sheet, with the following headers "name","total posts","interesting","assets","valuable","sig
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by sachmanb 18y ago
A media studies professor told me that the problem with the Internet was (1) people don't understand how it works so it depowers them further (2) there are a lot of hidden environmental costs (3) quality of information is questionable becau
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by sachmanb 18y ago
no
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by sachmanb 18y ago
i am frequently reorganizing my folder structures
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by sachmanb 18y ago
this is great - especially the history of truth PDF which is linked to within the article. thanks a lot.
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by sachmanb 18y ago
i hope it remains at least as easy as it is now for poor people to make it through school without worrying too much about this.
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by sachmanb 18y ago
What does this have to do with hacking? I have political feeds as well, There's a whole internet full of what you're looking for. Putting everything everywhere just makes a mess.
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by sachmanb 18y ago
Whenever I come across articles discussing development estimation, I am reminded of the study discussed in Peopleware, the one in which the team that had no estimations finished first. Book summary with a table of some data from Michael Law