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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
Great post, but "data genetics"? It would be nice if they didn't misuse the word genetics — this site has nothing to do with genetics.
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
I was a long time emacs user, and switched to Vim due to typing pain. Even with Evil, I can't see moving back. Vim + Tmux + YouCompleteMe > Emacs. There's just no comparison. No Emacs shell will ever be as good as zsh, and ther
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For One Baby, Life Begins with Genome Revealed(technologyreview.com)
4 points by vsbuffalo 12y ago|0 comments
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
I use vim (after years of being a happy emacs user — switched due to RSI), but I've never liked its help system. Compared to emacs, it's incredibly hard to navigate and it just doesn't have anything as powerful as C-h k (what
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
This looks neat, but is the method open? Is there a command line version? I'd argue that while open source is a desirable feature in most software, it's a necessary feature in scientific software. When our results depend on runn
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Shelling Out Sucks (2012)(julialang.org)
1 points by vsbuffalo 12y ago|0 comments
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
> But thanks to fracking and the shale revolution, peak oil and gas have been postponed. They will run out one day, but only in the sense that you will run out of Atlantic Ocean one day if you take a rowboat west out of a harbor in Irela
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
Neat changes, but I'm still going to stick with tmux. Tmux not only works better, it's changed the way I develop. Everything is done in a Tmux window with Vim and shell. Tmux is how you can create a shell-based IDE with splits and
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
TeX reminds me of GCC — huge, complex codebase, unhelpful error messages, and designed to just be a compiler/typesetter. I wish someone were to rewrite an LLVM-like TeX system. Simpler code, could be used to write libraries to do live
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by vsbuffalo 12y ago
Agree, I switched all my domains. Turned out to be much easier than I thought. I'm not endorsed by them either, just a very happy customer.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
A really nice comparison of just C/C++ hash libraries is http://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/comparison-o... Good discussion too. khash.h uses macros for C templating, but is quite fast.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
This is a terrific idea. The better-blast[1] idea is a terrific example — an interesting problem, and one where a better solution would drastically affect biology (since BLAST is a common bottleneck). [1] https://solvers.io/
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
This has given me a new appreciation for (competent) managers. A good manager that's put time in as a programmer can truly be a master metaprogrammer, with people as their tool, not programming languages.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
Funny, this title is the same as a recent thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7331791
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Matrix Singular Value Decomposition Film (1976)(youtube.com)
2 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|0 comments
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
> Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused. It's our natural state of being, and it's okay to keep going and take what insights you can. This needs to be emphasized more in learning maths. Once I got over this fact and
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
Yea, I agree. I love C and was a C purist and flat-out refused to learn C++ well and use it in practice. This recently changed and now I quite enjoy C++. Destructors are one reason why. The whole idea of resource-managing classes and RAII i
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
We use a format called Tabix[1] frequently in bioinformatics. It doesn't have a full query language, but is optimized for extracting regions from a text file and supports compression. It's pretty clever — it's based on a bloc
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Harvard RSI Action: Preventing RSI(rsi.deas.harvard.edu)
2 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|0 comments
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Tools for Reproducible Research(kbroman.github.io)
1 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|0 comments
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An Open Letter to Hobbyists — Bill Gates (1976)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Will we be using Unix derived OS's for the next 50 years?
11 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|13 comments
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The iniquities of the Unix shell (2011)(madhadron.com)
2 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|0 comments
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
As a long time emacs user (and lover) I wish RMS and other emacs developers would take his quote to heart more in emacs development. Emacs is shipped with too many things. Emacs finally has a really nice package manager, so I'd love to
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Want Speed? Pass by Value (2009/C++)(cpp-next.com)
1 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|0 comments
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
Not the sun, which could be a confounder.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
This is a well-known hoax: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/648998/is-c-a-waste-of-ti... Personally, I still found it enjoyable to read. It raises some real problems with C++.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
This seems like surprising behavior because we expect compilers will make wise choices. Beginning programmers do the same: for example I've seen something like: for x in stuff_list: print other_list_of_stuff.count(x) T
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
I hope Notability takes advantage of this. I'm a scientist and I use my iPad and Notability to take notes on research articles. I would love to use Pencil's features for this. On a separate note, I can't believe the poor qual
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Heap-free and lock-free parallelized C "for" loops(attractivechaos.wordpress.com)
7 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|0 comments

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