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by shiven 13y ago
Ah! Ye Olde 'Them Mexicans Are Stealin Our Jobs' argument. How about the actual Americans be ready to do the jobs at the wages the sly immigrants are doing them? Oh wait, first you'd need actually qualified Americans to do them. Unfortunate
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by shiven 13y ago
Greater programmers don't waste key clicks writing snide remarks on HN. They are too busy writing code. ;)
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by shiven 14y ago
You forgot the </ sarcasm> tag.
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by shiven 14y ago
Great to see so many structural biologists and crystallographers on HN! PyMOL has been progressing leaps and bounds over the last few years under Jason Vertrees guidance at Schrodinger LLC. So do give it a look if you are excited about this
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by shiven 14y ago
Wow! I am speechless. I was so willing let her get away with the way overblown Internet meltdown, but this proves without any doubt that Adria has a pattern of such public misbehavior. Hope all her potential future employers read this one l
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by shiven 14y ago
Overhyped synthetic-milk or what. Another misguided 'engineer' thinking he can 'hack' a system, which modern science is still figuring out, and that too without any controls or rigorous monitoring... I'll check back in 5 years and see how h
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by shiven 14y ago
Gumption is what I remember the most about ZMM. The way I read it, the concept of Gumption felt like the backbone on which the rest of the book is built. That and "Kulturbearer". :-)
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by shiven 14y ago
I don't see any specific comparison or illustrations in the two links jgj posted. Do you? Those tweets sound like classic whining in face of collective pitchfork stabbing.
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by shiven 14y ago
Sounds like a non-reply reply lacking specific/concrete examples of what was infringed that they needed to issue a DMCA takedown. LayerVault needs to illustrate their case with clear-cut examples or else they are coming across as ye olde IP
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by shiven 14y ago
Wow! By this metric if you can't find my life's story on Google, I must be fake . And, pari passu , anything you find about me on Google must be not fake. Unless, of course, your post was an attempt at trolling... In which case, I must
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by shiven 14y ago
Why add any of your data to FB? Why not just use it like an idiot box where you never create content but only consume it? I rarely, if ever, upload/update anything on FB, using it only to view updates/uploads from FB friends. No likes, co
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by shiven 14y ago
HIV, being a retrovirus, acts by inserting its genome into the infected cell's nuclear DNA. The infected cell is unable to distinguish it from its own 'native' DNA. This is a fundamental aspect of how the cellular machinery is hijacked by t
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by shiven 14y ago
Actual citation: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=23298160 The full-text article is behind a paywall :-( The protein these guys are 'mutating' is Tat or 'Trans-Activator of Transcription' [0], required in the HIV life-cycle for exp
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by shiven 14y ago
... and just how or why does all of that justify 35 yrs in jail and 10^6 USD in fines?
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by shiven 14y ago
getting one prosecutor fired won't change anything Maybe it will. Maybe it won't. But de-throning that one prosecutor will, in her own words, serve as a message [0] to others of her kind that reckless, power-drunk actions have real-worl
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by shiven 14y ago
Just like this is, actually. No, so not like this, actually. How many software engineers or their professional peers have been nudged, pushed or shoved into committing suicide because of a broken build? No, really? When a person in positi
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by shiven 14y ago
Like Aaron said, shouting at the gears isn't going to fix the machine. But excising the broken, unfit, insidiously malicious gear from the machine will make said machine one gear short of harming the innocent-until-proven-guilty.
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by shiven 14y ago
legislation that limits interest rates charged by payday loan shops If the government were a payday loan shop and gouging thousands of independent companies everyday, your analogy would hold water. Till then, this is merely a straw-ma
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by shiven 14y ago
Just as you having less formal education but more authority in a given situation does not entitle you to behave like a dictator. Easy to be righteous when you are not the one who was wronged.
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by shiven 14y ago
... as opposed to how you are compassionately honest and direct with people who can ruin your life-as-you-know-it based on which brand of bigotry pill they ingested that morning? (Clearly, this applies to many other aspects of life, not jus
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by shiven 14y ago
... lost me at Microsoft Excel.
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by shiven 14y ago
Care to elaborate? I am missing context here. Do you mean a Google Flights employee is that hacker? Or is X.25 accessible to anyone with an Internet connection and knowledge of ye olde software running on green phosphorescent screens?
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by shiven 14y ago
Looks like their servers have had a meltdown ... Clearly they underestimated the planet-wide morphic resonance across software developers for pre-apocalypse deep discounts on IDEs :)
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by shiven 14y ago
Love Open Fonts! Wrote my doctoral thesis[0] in LaTeX, typeset in Gentium Plus and other Open SIL fonts[1]. [0] http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_diss/562/ [1] http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium
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by shiven 14y ago
You nailed it. I clearly do not understand the American (edit: and now spreading wider) obsession with glorifying everything Mom-&-Pop or conflating small-business with 'good' and big-business with 'evil' all the time! Walmart is probab
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by shiven 14y ago
Now, that's personal information... :-P
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by shiven 14y ago
Welcome to CAPITALISM 101. All ethics are mere shades of grey. What is bad today will be good tomorrow, the villains will be heroes, the heroes will be losers who could have done more and every starry-eyed sucker aspiring to "make it" will
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by shiven 14y ago
Great Blender skills, even if nothing else! Kudos!!
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by shiven 14y ago
Precisely my biggest problem with HN. There needs to be a way to repeal HellBanning, some sort of an appeal mechanism or a time-based auto-repeal that kicks in after say 4 weeks of good behavior such as 25 upvoted (albeit dead) comments fro
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by shiven 14y ago
The OP's (parody) comment is not about using dishwashers, but rather about dishwashing without using any detergent despite knowing that detergent is to dishwashing as SSL Certs is to https ... and FTR, I did not grow up knowing

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