thronemonkey

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by thronemonkey 14y ago
>almost mystical state of oneness with the task at hand awesome
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
To me Apple is in a weird place also as far as Mac sales go because Macs fill two niches: (1) people like you (and me) who like to run OSX because its the most stable way to run a modern UNIX system, and (2) people who want a computer that
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I find it really messy and difficult to navigate as well, no idea why I should want to spend time there.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I'm still hunkered down with 10.6.8 but I'm feeling more and more like its time to try 10.8 by the day.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Also keep in mind there are fields besides CS/CE in which teaching yourself is all but impossible because the materials with which to do so are not cheaply available to anyone the way computers are (I'm thinking specifically about bioscienc
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
This is a near perfect summary of my problems with the tech business (particular the startup scene) and why I wouldn't want to get into it. People are so focused on making things that I find to be totally trivial and banal. How many more no
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
How are people who might struggle to afford to go to college supposed to afford to just "travel" as you put it?
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
The sneakernet returns! I predict that this trend will only increase with time.
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I've been a lifelong user of apple OSs and I honestly think Snow Leopard was the peak of OS design. I'm planning to stick with it as long as possible as well :( Although I wish people would stop being so dramatic about the demise of general
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
If this is in my city, I will be so upset. I just signed up for a year of comcast :(
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Keep in mind that academic science includes fields other than CS ;)
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
I can back this up. I took a course last year from a guy who's one an expert on the history of IP law ( http://www.adrianjohns.com/ ). The patent system in its modern form grew out of the statute of monopolies ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
The problem with that view is that a human cell is vastly more complex than a bacterial cell. Let's take transcription as an example. Transcription in bacterial systems is well understood at the chemical level, can be reconstituted in vit
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Hire someone part-time who's still enrolled in uni and use their subscription :P
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by thronemonkey 14y ago
Coming from someone who works in it, the whole biosciences field is woefully out of touch with good technology practices. People demand MS office documents for things that could easily be pdfs or txts all the time ><