LifeIsBio

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Buttonwood Agreement(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by LifeIsBio 4y ago|0 comments
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
I recently came across the concept of Gambler’s Ruin in Taleb’s “Skin in the Game”. It’s… definitely written in Taleb’s style, but I’ve noticed myself relating all sorts of things back to the book recent. Worthwhile, overall. https:/&
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
You and 4 other people have been added :)
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
I've got all the data pulled down now, so if you have any specific ideas for additional questions, feel free to share!
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
Some of the links are definitely down. If one link in a profile was active and "interesting", I just included all their links.
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
In [1]: html.unescape(users_table.find_one(name="graderjs")["about"]) Out [2]: ' https://github.com/crisdosyago<p>cris@dosycorp.com ' It looks like your about changed more recently than my
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
I actually tried to do that about two years ago, and ran out of steam about 20% of the way through. It was a lot. Even this shorten list took a surprising amount of time!
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
If at least one site was active, I included all the sites scraped from the bio.
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
Ah, I didn't search for .net I'll do that and update!
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
The underlying intent was to look for new/different websites. Twitter is fine, but I wanted to track down people's personal sites, hobby projects, etc.
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by LifeIsBio 4y ago
It looks like this profile is the current winner for most negative: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Proven
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Famous HNers and their sites(jessimekirk.com)
335 points by LifeIsBio 4y ago|189 comments
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by LifeIsBio 5y ago
I just tried the exercise by looking around my office: Backpack, Wallet, Notebook, Desk, Armrests, Storage cubes, Phone charger, Clothes protector, Blanket And of course, my Macbook and Iphone.
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20 Things I learned in my 20s(jessimekirk.com)
2 points by LifeIsBio 5y ago|0 comments
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by LifeIsBio 5y ago
You’re correct that sequencing RNA/DNA is currently much cheaper and easier than directly sequencing proteins in a cell. But, knowing the sequence of a biomolecule is only a first step in understanding it’s function. By-and-large, we’v
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by LifeIsBio 5y ago
Ha, I was just playing around with that last night. I was bummed to realize that the api and the zip file only expose the top name for any color at one time. It’d be cool to have access to all the data.
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by LifeIsBio 5y ago
Hey all! I had some free time today because of a delayed flight, and decided to play with Stripe Playment Links ( https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links ) which I've been meaning to test out. This whole no-code t
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Playing with Stripe Payment Links(buy.stripe.com)
2 points by LifeIsBio 5y ago|1 comments
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by LifeIsBio 5y ago
Rails is definitely too low level. Look into no- or low- code solutions.
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Get Your First Git Contribution(jessimekirk.com)
2 points by LifeIsBio 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
362 points by LifeIsBio 5y ago|306 comments
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Interview Frustrations(jessimekirk.com)
131 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|144 comments
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
It’s fine, you can just nest stuff by having a tsv in which one of the columns has an arbitrary number of values separated by commas. One of those values might even be some map structure with pairs indicated with equals and pairs separated
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Loving this so far! One tiny typo that threw me for a loop for a second was: > when apples are a fruit, then bananas or applies implies bananas or fruits which should be: > when apples are a fruit, then bananas or apples implies banan
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ChuckSort(jessimekirk.com)
2 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|0 comments
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
Ah, for sure. Thanks! Too bad the editing window is past.
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
When I was growing up my brother and I used to spend a week each summer at our cousins' house. They had a copy of Monkey Island and each summer we would tell ourselves, "This is the year we're going to beat Monkey Island.&quo
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The road ahead in genetics and genomics(nature.com)
1 points by LifeIsBio 6y ago|0 comments
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
It's also worth pointing out the inherent utility of forcing yourself to write out a well-thought-out question. The number of times I've made it 3/4 of the way through a stackoverflow question before finding out what the prob
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by LifeIsBio 6y ago
There was a period of a few months when I was first learning about web apps where I saw "i18n" multiple times. The first time I came across it, I tried to sound it out: i18n -> I-one-eight-n -> iwonation I was already a coup

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