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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
I wrote a post about this a while back, which may be of some help to some. http://vincebuffalo.com/2013/08/08/the-mighty-named-pipe.htm...
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
Neat point, thanks for pointing it out. I love C (even more so after recently learning and using C++), but one minor thing is that frustrating is how hard it is to both (1) get really good at C and (2) the lack of great books on high-level
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What's Wrong with Jeremy Seifert's OMG GMO(newyorker.com)
2 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|1 comments
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
Isn't it more reasonable to say "never work on master if you're collaborating". If I use Git to manage a single script that only I work on, I don't see the need to create a branch.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
My point wasn't that genetic diversity isn't useful — if you see above, I give an example of how having a genetically diverse germplasm is quite useful for breeding. But having a field full of different crops is not useful. It wou
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
You didn't really address any of my points, and you continue to make rather dubious claims. > We're breeding out genetic diversity. There's nothing magical about having a genetically diverse crop. Most mutations that have
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
> But the genetic specialization has weakened the previous genetic diversity of food. This is indeed true, but all crops we eat have lost diversity. Domestication implies selection on domestication traits, which means that there will be
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
I just ordered an ergodox. There is one day left on the Massdrop: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox I went a bit keyboard crazy, and think the ergodox is the best modern option. As far as I know, it's the only
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
It appears to be incorrect with oddities like ps aux, which isn't the same as ps -a -u -x since -u expects a user list (and then reads in -x as a user). But this is a weird case because of backward compatibility.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
Sure, this might work with manual labor sectors of the economy, but for driven people in science or the software world, a boss being an asshole will soon see himself surrounded by bad people. The good people go elsewhere and be productive.
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GNU Parallel – The command line power tool(slideshare.net)
106 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|28 comments
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
<(blah) runs the command blah, and pipes its standard output to a file descriptor (/dev/fd/63) above. You shell replaces the <(blah) with a path to the this file descriptor, so here, echo is just printing the file descr
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
I completely agree. I work in plant sciences (as a bioinformatician) but my background is in econ, pol sci, and stats. Unless things have changed since I switched fields, most global food security problems are market related. There's m
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
I am unsure this book's claims are correct, and I still remain skeptical. But one epiphany I had in dealing with my recent RSI is that it does make me worry — quite a bit in fact. Programming is not only how I make a living, and also a
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How I Cured my RSI Pain (2010)(aaroniba.net)
106 points by vsbuffalo 13y ago|79 comments
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A Liberal's Defense of GMOs(medium.com)
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
As someone headed into academia, I ponder how the tenure-track process filters out folks. Simply put, I think many of the best scientists have been nerds, and many smart nerds really don't see the utility in playing the political tenur
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DIY Matrix bullet time slice rig with fan and GoPro(jeremiahwarren.com)
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
It's very simple: there would be mass panic if they showed how successful they've been. If they take down a terrorist plot every 8 months, this means that there'd be a continual cycle of racial profiling and panic if made pub
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
So? 1/10,100 isn't bad at all. Suppose you have many independent tests, each creating watchlists. Suddenly you have the intersection of individuals hitting each of these, and the number of "interesting" individuals narrows. This is not a un
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
Cool idea, but don't pollute Github's UI with this feature. Developers rely on Github to have a consistent UI — I think we all hate when it changes a bit. Another website managing this would be nice. It could tie into Github's API and offer
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
These are two different problems. I believe your complaint is people are under-specialized in useful skills. For example, if someone was highly-specialized in middle eastern poetry during a small 30 year period, they would likely still not
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
We felt a small earthquake in Davis, CA earlier tonight. Active day for our earth! I quite like earthly events like this — they really make one realize how minuscule we are.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
See Github's setup tip on configuring a fake email address: https://help.github.com/articles/keeping-your-email-address-...
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
I work in bioinformatics and git is my most frequently used command. I wish this was more often the case in science.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
Can functional programming languages guarantee software regression never happens? No? Then I'd argue they still need unit testing. Side-effects create additional problems, but functional programming doesn't solve all problems inherent in pr
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
> At Wabash College in Indiana, 28 percent of students receive Pell Grants, and low-income students pay an average of $15,480. Yet 12 percent of its freshmen get merit aid, averaging $15,393 each. At Case Western Reserve, one of the bet
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
So that your ~/.profile loading doesn't hang when your network does. Nothing more frustrating then wanting to get something done quickly in the shell and having it stall.
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
> by my reading list you'd think I was university-trained but I'm not. Sadly, this may be the cause more than anything else. Degrees are a very quick signal. The author may be doing as equally well as candidates with degrees, but the d
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by vsbuffalo 13y ago
For your ~/.profile (or whatever): curl --connect-timeout 1 http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt

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